Show A LIBERAL conclusion IT is frequently claimed by scribes who are are abt influenced by bk eions pf af honor hono and veracity that the mormon lormon people are obliged to vote under priestly dictation and that their ballots are ar e virtually v the votes of a I 1 very few individuals the protection of the absolutely secret ballot in utah to the voter who desires to act without reference ae to any advice or attempted compulsion is never alluded to in this connection by the knaves who make the charge of 01 priestly coercion they assume that the people are under corn conn compulsion pulson and rave on that hypothesis without reason or any citation cita tion tiou of facts their conclusion too is as ag inconsistent and ridiculous as their untruthful allegation it is this the mormons cormons Mor mons are charged with being bein gunden under gunder the control of favery a very few individuals in colb affairs therefore tiley they ought to have no voice in politics it Is claim ed that they vote as direct directed edby by thir their priests therefore they liht not to be permitted to vou 6 all that is the argument in brief use exercise just as much power over the class of citizens who dissent from the views of the 11 mormons cormons Mor mons as they claim is exercised by the 43 mormon lormon leaders aders le indeed they use stronger language and much more coercion than is ever heard pr seen in the management of politics among amon the 11 mormon people bul but bulot ot cour course se that is quite a different thing liberal plotters may inay do anything they please to gain liberal votes buano but no mormon aly all leader must roust open his head about political matters to induce others to support his views or his candidate we were led to reflect on the fallacy of the anti antl I 1 mormon a argument while reading read ing ins an a n editors editorial edi toral I 1 in harpers weekly of nov ath in which the following appears in regard to new york yore election I 1 61 the innocent citizen goes gues to the poll and takes his bis party ticket and votes it and is proud mohave done his duty as a good foo goo cl party pa arty mail man but crt he h e knows nothing of the valid candidates izates and all that he has done is ao tto serve as a pawn and dummy and makeweight make weight for his party boss who made th the edeal deal 1 I 1 now here is a charge against the intelligent voters in one of the areat great centres bentres of christian civilization as broad as any that has been heen made against the average mormon and it is so palpably true as to remain undisputed but does any one have the hardihood to call for legislation to disfranchise these new nov york volk pali political dummies cummi s Is there any cry for acevo lution in a the affairs of the state ao 0 as s to destroy the voting power of qi the A make makeweights weights 11 why not call for the abolition of the stiff suffrage rae rao ra e in new york as well as for its des destruction tri action in utah the argument of the advocates of a legislative commission and the disfranchisement of this entire territory is the cormons mormons Mor mons vote as they are aro told by their leadin leading men therefore utah citizens ou ought ht not to vo vote te at all well then these new york political pawns 1 I 1 vote as they are told by their party leaders therefore ther eore new york citizens ought not to vote at all the rule ought to work both ways no doubt in new york the then republicans would like it to apply to those who ivilo vote as the democratic bosses dictate and the democrats to the republicans who ai are e led by tile the nose in the same way ivay but here the bases who want to regulate utah affairs through congress contend for general disfranchisement because they claim craim that the 11 mor mons follow their leaders in politics S should bould those acute reasoner sl abe classed with mills and spencer and have their names enshrined in the catalogue of tame came ame with those of locke and bacon baconi As a matter of fact no influence but that of advice from men of experience is used in the regulation of political affairs among amona the mormons cormons Mor mons and the proof that ahat the people are wise enough to follow good co counsel tinsel of their own free will and choice is evinced in the largeness lar eness of election returns since b t the he passage of the unmarked ballot allot law as compared with those of earlier elections and the charge bf undue influence upon them hae hak has s not a leg to stand upon in any ever evert t influence cannot be regulated by law and unless coer coercion clon cion can be shown it t is f fhe the lie lle hig hiest t of folly to assume it if ant feliy could no fur therso 0 than the nonsensical deduction of diberal fi liberal beral scribes that universal disfranchise se ment maent isa necessity in utah because it is alleged that some ai mormons cormons Mor Alor mons vote as their leaders give directions |