Show CLERICAL POTHOUSE POT HOUSE politicians IT may be news to the people ot of utah outside of Sali pete county that a conclave of methodist preachers and teachers hired aired to lead idad away mormon children from the faith of their par pai ants lias been holding a esloa at mount M aunt pleasant this would be entirely without interest interra I 1 to us and our readers but aroca the met that re resolutions la refe reference ence to utah were eie passed which will be sent east and a od used as hlub they were of considerable importance it is customary when those preachers for pay assemble in conference to resolve certain statements agal against t the which usually contain gross aroa and 0 intentional falsehoods or and distortions of truth that amount to the same earne things the reb clat clatious ions this ibis time are chiefly in regard to statehood ot of course thes very christian people are oppose opposed to g likely to prove berie beneficial fidi to taw la majority of the people of utah tab and equally sure it is that while ile the they ottell olten enounce the 11 mormon or on church on the bare suspicion that it in iut t in poll politics bics tics they tacitly assume the light of the methodist church to interfere in P politics goliti d s with without out limit but then we do not look for fairness fair vess or consistency in Meth Aleth ortist Lolist priests when discussing anything per latniak to the A lormans Mor mons 1 iti in on the state of affairs in letiah bah after declaring in favor of Is a rigorous bri enforcement of of the laws and the prosecution of 91 au offend era they say we enter our unqualified protest against the efforts now being made by tte mormons cormons to secure statehood for uati relieving beli evina the tion to be a well devised instrument to blind the people of this nation to atie zeal real object in view viz the nation or 01 the evil itself was framed by a convention of delegates appointed appoint eo by mass mett lugs compe composed sed exclusively vei y of mormons cormons Mor mons all ah ane di delegates legates were mormons cormons Mor mons and their action was entirely without the f auction or coop co op aeration of the fion mornion mormon pirt ol of our population and therefore was not in harmony with our republican ideals t tf of f representative action they go on to urge a strong and ol of the people of the united slates through tb their depre bentaLl ves in the national congress ConR reya and the churches Ch in the east to raise their voices voiced in the same direction direct iou thus to us they endeavor to use cal influence on a matter purely political in other words to make the chuich attempt to dominate the state if I 1 the A mormon lormon church were to pass resolutions in reference to statehood these very solvers rc would cry ry ol of cauich and ana state and the anger of the nation would be invoked against it I 1 but bat let us look at the logic of these pious ministers in their officious meddling with political affairs the constitution they sij s ij is is designed tor for the perpetuation of the evil it I eit 11 they do not cot mention that evil but leave it to lo the public to guest guess what they mean grammatically and logically statehood Is the evil itself it it is the only antecedent in the sentence to 10 which the reference can be applied but what they no BO doubt intended to mean but bob had bad not the simple ability to make plain was polygamy well the new constitution provides heavy penalties against bigamy and polygamy and precludes the or of changing t them ll 11 em by act ot of toe the people t to 0 be affee te ted d thereby and this according to utah methodist logic is a well devised instrument to perpetuate them that to is to say a thoroughly guarded enactment against a given offense is an instrument for its perpetu adon legislators should cease providing penalties against infractions of laws and consults consul bi the sixth rate methodist itinerants I 1 who oppose statehood lor for utah and who combine the business of extraordinary statecraft with their ordinary occupation of plate passing the potent reason creaso offered for the united opposition ol 01 aud and the churches against the admission ot 01 ulan as a a state is that the convention convent iod which framed the was composed of delegates delegated chosen meetings attended exclusively my ay mormons cormons Mor mons the tall tail to state that those mass mails meetings were called for all ail the citizens in the te territory ari without distinction of creed or party thal thai it if none but mormons cormons Mor mons attended no fault could be attached to them that those who were present were there simply as citizens for a political purpose and that religious principles or conditions had nothing whatever to do with them Every citizen of this territory had bad an opportunity of taking part tot dr or against the proceedings it if soine of them chose not to participate is thau to invalidate all that the vast ast m maonie decided to do harmony with our republican ideals of representative senta tive action 11 for the immense majority of the voting citizens to take political action when the small minority choose to holds hold aloof loof bec became bebau aue ie too insignificant numerically to have their wa wai what sort of republican ideals have hae these few methodist preachers be set U up in a remote village of this terr territory why that laehr hostility to the wishes of many thousands of the law abiding citizens is to prevail and ana utah is 10 to be prevented from froin the enjoyment of 0 a republican form of gove government rement because the tew lew do not approve of a measure that they would not vote on either one way or the other if tenor gelbor fifteen thousand people take united political action alter after inviting the cooperation of all what they decide on must be jen rendered dered abortive ao ortive because a handful of dissidents declined to take part pan in it wonderful logic astonishing republicanism can ism it ls Is methodist preachers reasoning it lb its anti mormon politics we hope these resolutions will be widely scattered and closely scanned scan ced let the press of the can country road read them and learn lessons of si argument aument and statesmanship from the bakers dozen of eminent subscription cadgers hadgers congregated in sanpete San pete it would seem to an ordinary and unprejudiced mind ilind that the proper husi business neds of those persons hire crin the he fast east to come out here as methodist mini ministers stets would be to preach their gospel enlighten the mormons cormons Mor mons use their superior intelligence aig li gence e and show the alleged deluded lad d people people Is a more inore excellent way that when they urge the enforcement of pains and penalties against religious convictions of any kind they are out olit of place to say eay the least arid and that when they a mere handful of ob attempt to use their ministerial functions in endeavoring to thwart the will of the majority of tie he citizens freely expressed at the polls they are prostituting their clerical ca powers intruding into a domain doin over which they have no legi legitimate cimato au aar loo rity and degrading thel their profession to the level of the pothouse pot house poll bician ticla ift |