Show LIKE OIL AND WATER politics and religion reli 5 gioi are separate and distinct sciences it is hard to mix them and feel satisfied with nith results the average may improve the one but it never has the same sam effect upon the other it might be a good thing bior lor a politician to become a religionist but whenever a religious worker marker becomes a politician we are pained as a a rule at the transformation good and holy men have burgled on the armor time and again it is true to leai lead some charge against the citadels of tv tyranny ranny but whether in crimson war or civil strife engaged it is upon the justice of their cause and the honesty of their methods r rather ather than their power or of reputations rest the traditional experiment with oil arid and water will come to mind every time an attempt is made by any church catholic mormon M methodist eth odist or what not to exercise any iral ival control over its members religion deals inith ith holy things politics generally gece rilly has bas some other kind of a deal on religion should be kept sacred politics is exceedingly 0 profane reli religion ion should remain spotless politics is like the leopard religion has a big field to work in politics likes to s sit it on the fence and see it work religion is losing time ime when it climbs upon the fence with politics for politics will not get et into the field and work with religion the citizens of utah like ait citizens i of any true republic are not in n favor of the mixture e they art not in favor of merging 0 one ne into the other they are not in favor of a union of church ari and state neither by acknowledged wedlock nor by illicit relationship there may b be e a few men and women who know little and care less about american institutions who naturally expect to be led about politically but such cases are few and far between even those foreigners who have been brought up under more or less political restraint are in favor of the fullest political freedom and we feel safe cafe in saying that ninety per cent of the official ciale is of the church including its venerable president do not care to in fluence or control the political actions of those under them the tha desire to run politics in that way is confined to two or three men |