| Show AN IMPORTANT INTERVIEW WE REPRINT from aroln toe the salt lake times the report of an interview with presidents wilford woodruff and george Q cannon in relation to the questions ions of the hour it makes good reading the reasons for seeking the interview are given and it appears the questions were formulated by the times people and replied to by the gentlemen named we believe their unreserved and straightforward statements will have the effect of satisfying who are undecided as to the political attitude of the leaders leaden of the cmor mormon church although there has not been the slig slightest hest evidence that they either controlled or claimed the right to control the people of utah in the exercise of the voting power yet the charge that they did so has been reiterated so much that it has been taken by many as an undisputed fact students of the mormon faith will find nothing in its accepted standards to warrant this idea and the perfect freedom of the people to vote for whom they pleased has been evident to all who see with their own eyes without the colored spectacles of liberal distortion true 11 mormonism to is a perfect law of liberty by that we do not mean lawlessness the freedom of all is impossible without some individual restraint and it is the common consent which to is recognized recognize d in Mormon ninn lemI as an the regulating power the presidency of the church jo do not assume to exercise any authority by way of compulsion neither do they presume to tell any man how or for whom he shall vote or with which party he shall affiliate if they did their dictation would not be mormonism which in its spirit and letter is utterly opposed to the bondage of humanity of course the declarations of presidents woodruff and cannon will not be satisfactory to the liberal faction for they sweep away the refuge of lies liea which its organ has relied upon as a covert for its assaults upon the movement for the political emancipation of utah but the rational and just of all parties and creeds creeda will weigh well the plain and important utterances of the mormon 1 1 leaders and much prejudice and misapprehension will be thereby removed the times has shown commendable enterprise and fairness in obtain obtaining i ng and publishing this important interview |
