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Show A won) with youhg utail Young Utahns ought not to forget that there are some duties which should be fulfilled by them. You celebrate Pioneer day every, year, and are proud to relate how brave and faithful and devoted .'your fathers were. ' ' "Well, another race will succeed you. "What will they say of you on the sacred days when they gather together to review the past of their people! Will you have it said that' when in Utah the laws were defied, when the attempt to make of no avail the command that in this country there shall be no union of church and state, you indorsed and supported those engaged in that work! That when the proof was direct that those whom you regard as the holiest of men broke faith with this Nation, this .great free Republic, you, by your actions, indorsed the fraud f There are people who would advise you to cure the "wrong by voting by stealth. "We would not do . that. "We would have you join together, a great company, com-pany, and have you take your courage in your hands and go directly to the heads of your church and say to them: "You are our advisers in all that concerns our spiritual welfare, but we are Americans; we mean to live within the laws, and we ask you to give us what you promised should be ours the right to think and vote as seems best to us." Were you to make that demand it would be conceded, con-ceded, for the justice of it as so apparent that you , ' would not be denied. With tnt done how would it stand against your names when, a half century hence, your children meet to honor the pioneers! , . Did you ever read in English history how away j back before there were schoolhouses or daily papers or telegraphs, some stern old barons in- England gathered around a sullen and stubborn King and wrung from him the great charter of liberty! Does not your heart beat faster when yotr-contemplate that act! Those were unlettered men; they knew little of the world's history; but they had" caught upon the truth that "all men are created equal and endowed with certain inalienable rights," and in their blunt, direct way they reasoned that if they had to pay the taxes, and fight the battles of the realm, they ought to help make its laws. Well, this Government of ours stretches its arms around you in protection. It gives you opportunities oppor-tunities that no other land would or could. Do you not owe it some duties! Have you any right to take its ballot, which was given you as a means of defense, de-fense, and cast it under the dictation of some man who calls himself a priest! Have you any right to 60 dishonor it and the sovereign power that gives it to you! Let us tell you a little history. Some forty-five years ago a great revolution was sprung upon this - country, The war lasted four years. It was one of the bloodiest in modern history. The rebellion was finally put down. Scores of those who had fought on the losing side expatriated themselves. They went to Mexico, to South America, to Europe, to Africa all around the world. But they almost every one returned. re-turned. The more the thought over the matter, the more they compared other lands with this, the lovelier love-lier seemed their old home. One by one they came creeping back. It would be the same way with, you were you to try any other country. Then is it not duty for you to be good citizens in the highest sense, by giving your full allegiance to this incomparable land! Think it over between now and election day. |