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Show interest of justice and peace, that these transgressions transgres-sions should cease. For all but two or three years since, that demand has been repeated. It will continue con-tinue to be repeated until it is answered in the right way. ' Notwithstanding that the lawbreakers have won some triumphs, and claim that when a man asks them to obey the laws of this free Republic he is making war on their religion, they will have to yield at last. Maybe not this year; maybe not nest year; maybe not for fifty years; maybe not until un-til they get control of two or three more . States, andvuntil the menace which they continually offer td free institutions becomes great enough for the United States to see what is going on : but then they will have -to surrender. Either surrender or get out, ought to be easy for'them. , ' . They ought to be, able to declare that their religion, re-ligion, like every other religion, is subject to the Constitution and the laws of this Republic, and that henceforth there shall be no question about it. But so long as these leaders proclaim that they are perfect per-fect citizens, and at the same time keep it possible for a man at tbe head of their institution to change the votes of thousands of them with a word, they are simply lying, and they ought to give that up, because it is bad morals and it is a bad lesson for men to put forth who claim that they are trying to restore the reign of mercy and of truth, which the Master inculcated upon his followers when he was on earth. ' . v - ELDER D0WIE AND OTHERS. An Eastern newspaper, in speaking of Dowie, says: .' "As a teacher, leader and autocrat, the late John Alexander Dowie was secure in the affections of the Christian Catholic Church of Zion until he pro-' pro-' claimed himself Elijah III, and assumed to be a disciple of God for the regeneration of the world. His congregation, which had progressed in a wonldly way, was willing to believe him divinely inspired, but drew the line at divinity in the man himself." There are others. "We have one right here who claims that by virtue of his office he cannofthelp but be divinely inspired, because he came in regular succession from Joseph, the prophet, and through the keys now stands precisely in the same place that Joseph stood, the mouthpiece of Omnipotence on earth.. . " It is a large assumption, considering the man himself. We once heard of a man who objected to congregational singing in church and who, when told that that kind of singing was acceptable in heaven, made the "jmark that, "If that is true, then God has an awfully poor ear for music." We think of that sometimes when contemplating the present . conditions in Utah. But no matter; the majority of the people here accept the situation, and we have no objection to that in the least, so long as it suits them. But the first Joseph taught that the Constitution of the United . States was an inspired instrument as much in spired as was his own claim as a prophet, seer and revelator and there is nowhere in hi3 teachings that he takes Tback that assertion obout the Constitution. Hence, it should be in full force among both Gentiles and Mormons. 'When a law is passed in the United States Congress Con-gress and approved by the Supreme court, it becomes just as binding as the Constitution itself. Hence, the natural conclusion of unprejudiced men is that the first authority in this land is the Constitution and ' laws, and the next is that no matter what a man's occupation may be, he is subject to that Constitution 'and those laws. We proclaim this to be an entirely free country, which it is. Any man can do any legitimate thing that he desires to do, but the test of whether what he docs is legitimate whether in business, in politics poli-tics or in religion is, does he subject himself to obedience to the Constitution and the laws! In business, busi-ness, in politics, and in religion, he must conform to the requirements of the law and of the Constitution. Then, every liberty that we enjoy in this "land of the free and the home of the brave" is liberty under the law, and we care not what a man's position may be or what his claims 'may be, he must come under that test, and if he does not, there will be irritation ir-ritation and friction and heartburnings until he does. -.' . ' More than two score j-ears ago there was a crowd of men here who insisted that a good deal was going on-which was outside the laws, and demanded; in the |