Show THE MORMON CREED CREE THERE are certain officious persons in this community who swu to desire to regulate and control an a its affairs civil and religious ious 4 this city must be managed to suit their peculiar ideas and interests or chabe is to come members of the city council must resign unless they CAU can force the views of the minority into practical adoption the church must do as they say or it is to tio b be g crushed out of existence their impertinence and egotism are j ply immense and astounding V these persons have a stereotyped collection of phrases about union of church and state the control of civil affairs by ecclesias ste ts the american idea of the total y tion of religion and politics and so 00 forth these are rung in upon vari ous occasions opportune or I 1 nopporn v tune until they become and monotonous the folly of all this is seen in tho th J evident fact that the dominant church as they please to call it moves on quietly attending to its 10 0 in n business and not attempting to interfere with them or take any DO tice of them or do any ady of the terrible things which they attribute to it and now they want to dictate w what hat the church shall do as an ec t organization when ftp members meet in conference at is e to adopt a policy such as they d de fine it is to repudiate such of As doctrine doctrin ef as they designate it Is to conform to their notions of what church should be or the couse COBB are to be something dread 0 O effs j ful it is probable that the church WO A pay no attention to this Imper impertinent tinell t interference with its affairs by pera sons who are not in any way coll coir r necked with it and this is none the less likely because the C hurch church wib y never know anything abo about ut it or 01 about them they have neither the tb right nor the power to thrust their dictates upon its consideration A great outcry is raised again sta assumed control by the church of secular affairs and yet those who make the noise now demand that tbt the church shall plow in the very field which they claim it has no right to enter the latter day saints have the disposition to carty carry into practical effect one article w of their creed which says mind your you own business they have the dis position to let everybody else alses Is busi bus aas left alone tt if their would be dictators will A WOW follow their example in that respect there will be much more peace in the h land business affairs will flourish the country will be built up P the laws will be respected tile e rights of all will be maintained andall classes creeds and parties varl wa be free to attend to their own and unite on such ground as they hoy can meet upon in common for mutual advantage and the general Wo aut this attempted dictation and this te bombastic threatening of dire results ulta if it is not followed is en tryout te of place is an exhibition of t vaporous assumption and will have e no other effect than to ng agthen then the prejudices of the uninformed keep up the strife which they have fostered in the pa and make sensible people smile at the gall of the soi diodad papers of religious and civil polity to utah |