Show RAISING THE CRY AGAIN under a 1 scare heading fridays ogden standard contains the following the report has haa reached this office that high dignitaries of the church dominant in this state have begun a crusade for fusion that the bishops and the elders 1171 ders are even now three months prior to the election button holing the brethren and counseling them for fusion the statement is made by people of good standing in the church and in a position to know knof what te in going on the sinister minister pur pos in such diotis its as the foregoing is to raise the cry of church dictation for which there is not the El lightest foundation in any of the facts related it they are facts the church does not control a mans man political views it does not direct his political preferences its advice tv to him is to be a good and useful citizen in no way does that counsel interfere with his ha freedom freeti gm c of political action but bur rather upholds I 1 it I 1 because a person holds a high or a low position in the catir clinch b h inet ij fro from m exercising ame claing the privileges of citizenship although certain politicians to suit their own ends have sought to have a barrier raised in that regard any official or any member in the church to Is at full liberty if he chooses to exercise his privileges of catiz citizenship in 14 that regard to buttonhole others in III behalf of fuson fulon or against it unless he should make of himself a nuisance by being offensive offen alve or he may remain per factly auf quiet let on the subject and his action or the action of many citizens in elther either direction is in no sense an indication that the church dominant domina lit in this state is in in any degree con berned in a crusade one way or the other in these matters each man and woman acts as a citizen and whether convictions are divided as to political policy or whether the burden of public sentiment runs one way or the other as to blat political course is best to follow each citizen whether church off official iclal or not has full liberty to elect for himself or to counsel with and give to or accept the advice of his fellow citizens any attempt to close clo sethe the mouths of citizens by raising a church dieta dictation howl because those citizens happen to be church members anu amu was leiis to stifle freedom of speech is an outrage not only upon the church whose or officers axe are thus assailed but on the political liberty of american citizens as guaranteed by the constitution of the united states it is time for the general peace and goodwill that every well meaning person frowns down these attempts at antireligious persecutions whether directed against members of the dominant church or of any other |