Show THE VOICE OF REASON it if the speakers and publicists who profess such confidence in the sincerity and integrity of the mormon people would but prove this coDil confidence dence by ceasing to conjure up and shiver lances lancea against spec tree they and all the rest or of us would be happier and better in the first place whether they express their real sentiments or not they have every reason fox for the confidence they talk about no mistake was wai made when the pledges of the mormons cormons were given none was made when they were accepted and none will be made in expecting that these pledges be fulfilled they have been fulfilled in every case we believe they will wil be just as consistently lived up to in the future of course individuals may express sentiments and take a course which political or other opponents midy may criticism criticise critic ise perhaps justly but speaking ot of the mormons cormons as a people we challenge the world to brini forth the first alist particle of evidence evi deooe that they have been untrue to their promises or that they expect to be it if they have made any error it at am all it Is as an we regard it JU in being too literal in the fulfillment of that which their former opponents have required of them in no other community we venture to say have bitter enemies of a recent day been so promptly forgiven and so generously rewarded with office and honor within the gift of the people as ha been witnessed here nothing that could be exacted as a proof that past pant conditions were buried has failed on the part of this loog long suffering and charitable but maligned people in politics way have stood by their party colors and candidates with unswerving fidelity and their votes have elevated to office some men whom they had no reason to love jove or respect in almost every election district in this state they have been truer than those with whom they have joined if we wanted to go into particulars we could fill a column with figures showing that in nearly every case it is the non con mormon candidates who have run ahead of their ticket ani and the mormon candidates who have run behind where there are excel gions it can be traced in each case to go the non mormon suffragists the switching and changing of votes so common in popular elections every where Is something to which they are strangers Gr angers they are steadfast reliable conservative and honest to in their political promises as well as in every other all this being not dot only true but conceded to be true by those who do not like the mormons cormons on general principles t it about time to stop this everlasting babble about threat ened dangers dangere and a return to old conditions di dit ions tiong vaso aa well as fantastic appeals to the people to assert their independence and nd beware of those among their lead ve era who want to rob them of their liberties does anybody know of the necessity tor for ruch puch warnings or we the basis for such fean beart it is the merest drivel decrepit hack writers and senile mouth warriors keep constantly clamoring about the Americ americanism antem to which they seem to think they have a sole right and the independence eq on go which they act as an though they had bad au exclusive patent A half dozen dotards do tio tards tarde mostly scribes harp burp on these few strings with a persistency that IF really feally pitiful when a 8 lucidity would convince them that there is not the least shadow of foundation for their silly seares and swelling perhaps we the texture of this community but our opinion to is that almost unanimously they are ready to squelch the only remaining feature of the old conditions the nightmare ravings of soured politicians tic ians the cruel petulance of narrow bigots the despicable of every mormons cormons Mor mons act for our own part with the ready determination to battle for or and aad carry out every promise the mormon people have ever made and to resist to the uttermost every infringement of the rights ot of man and every assault upon true americanism we shall henceforth take particular pleasure in tearing the mask from and exposing to the people here and the world elsewhere the hypocrisy and ana baseness ba eeness of the diseased few present course cannot be otherwise re carded than as a desire for discord disintegration and ruin |