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Show LIVING Warren Poster's VOL. 4 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FRIDAY, AUGUST AN OPPORTUNE SERMON. BY THE EDITOR. Test: The lend dull nut be told forever ; for the land f wine." Levitin u sxv, L The above quotation is from the law of Moses. If the praachers are correct in their conclusions, it is safe to say that it was the voice of God speaking through Moses. In short, it is one of God's own laws. Being such, it is not subject to alteratioc, amendment or repeal, and, by way of parenthesis, we would like to call the attention of Rev. Dr. Wishrrd particularly to the fact that it has not been repealed and, if his reasonings on capital punishment be sound, that the Utah legislature at its earliest possible con- Paper. Successor lo THE 5. 189S think so? Well, dont you know it? Certainly you do. Lyman Gage would mighty quick give God to understand that he is an old fossil and by no means up to the times. In the second part of our text the Lord declares, without qualifying it in any way, that the land is mine. Was it his? Did he mean it? If it was his, then whose is it now? When did he lose possession? Did he mortgage it to some Wall Street gang and find himself unable to pay the interest? Has he signed a deed conveying it? If so, when? And to whom? What did he get for it, if anything, when he sold it? Now, as most of our hearers profess to believe in the God of the Bible and in the inspiration of the book, we shall insist that they answer the above questions. Most of you own a piece of land, with deed and abstract which purposes to give you a clear title to your possessions. Will you kindly look it over when you go home? If it is a perfect title it will certainly show that at some time in the past that God, either by himself or attorney, for a certain consideration conveyed the land to some one? It not, your title is not perfect. You claim that the Lord created the earth and, as you claim to believe that wealth lelongs to him who creates it, you will not deny that the land originally belonged to. God, and, if he hasnt sold it or given it away it certainly belongs to him yet. And, g if it belongs to him it certainly does not to you! Again, note the first clause in our text: The land shall not be sold Note that word "forever. If you will only stop to think, that means a long time! Is the time up? If so, when? How long a time is forever? Do you think it less than six thousand years? Yes? How much less? Tell us, if you know, and we will then proceed. We see a number of preachers present, and we will give you ten minutes to get your dates fixed, during which time tke congregation will ilease join in singing the 24th psalm of David: INTER-MOUNTAI- av ADVOCATF N NO. 30. Ifthianum. .r is on the label conTHE WAY OUT. had better your name, you taining as that Is the People who are either too ignorant or too number of renew issue. quick, the nextmighty lazy to think for themselves are eternally raising the howl that reform papers always tear down but do not build up. This is partly true and partly not true. It is a fact that the work of destroying the present system has occupied the mind of the true reformer for some years, much more than how to build up a new one; but such is necessary. People do not send for a doctor till they are sick. They do not take medicine until they feel that they need it. People do not build a new house on a certain site until they have torn the old one away. People do not build better houses until after they tire of the old one. It is all right to draw the plans and specifications for the new house before you start in to tear down the old one, but you do not want to begin building on the new one until the old one is torn down and the rubbish all hauled away. The facts are that about of the people of this nation still cling to the delusion that everything is about all right; that conditions are about as God intended they should be and that it is therefore their Christian duty to quietly acquiesce in whatever is and drift along with the current. They ask no change, for they want none. They want none because they do not know that a better condition of things could exist. If you want to get people out of a burning building make them realize first that it is not safe. Show a man that the building is on fire and he will soon seek a way out. If there be no way out, he will die trying to make one. There will be no difficulty in finding the remedy as soon as the people decide that As soon as the people ascertain that their voice in the government is ignored and unheard, then, and not till then, will they apply the remedy. Self-Relianc- e. The public mind is fully taken possession Strange, isnt it, how easy it is to interest the people in a subject in which of by the war. they have, and can have, no interest? Every dollar that is spent in war is so much lost, and must be replaced at some time by the sweat of somebody's face. This is true, and there is no way of getting around it. the above clause venience should Utah it of the statutes. make a and part It is now decided by Mr. McKinley that While we have but little patience with it will take at least 100,000 bayonets to pin some of the laws of Moses, such as those the fragments of this nation together. He against witches, favoring the death penalty, will find that it will require more than that and the selling of spoiled meat to strangers, before the thing is through with. we are willing to give Moses full credit for all the good things he said and did. One of The idea of public ownership of public these good things was the effort he put forth utilities is fast gaining ground. Little towns to secure homes for every member of the and large cities all over the world are catchJewish race. ing the contagion. Sooner or later every A careful perusal of his writings evinces railroad in the world will be owned in the the fact that Moses considered the question same way. of a home for man too sacred to be invaded Utah has one blot on its statute book by tee claims of anybody. The man was that should be removed at the next session entitled by nature and by natures god to a of the legislature. We refer to the law reright to a piece of land, which was inalienspecting capital punishment. Let our young able and which over-rod- e every other right. State come up abreast with civilization by It then, as now, involved the very question changing it. of life itself, which carried with it the right to an opportunity to supply the wants of life. On the question of county clerk the In the event that misfortune should overdefeat of D. C. Dunbar ought to be the take a man and he should lose his land, the paramount consideration. There are two reathey want one. hold it had after he had no to sons for it: (1) Salt Lake county ought to right buyer been tendered the sum of money equal to have a good officer, and (2) it ought to get a PATRIOTS VS. PIRATES. the debt by any of the unfortunate mans rid of a bad one. It ought to do both th: 9' 7 Those actively engaged in the war with. talL v kin. But if neither the man himself nor his v' divided be into'' classes, Spain eight the then the may redeem able to were kin land, What the Democratic platform of 1900 namely: till the year of hold could it only purchaser will contain is unknown, and will depend (1) Real patriots; men who love justice jubilee, when the former possessor could solely on what the Republicans put in theirs. The earth is the Lords, and the fullness and hate oppression ; men who are willing to Democrats again return to it. No mortgage, deed, inalways take what is left The denture or other evidence of claim held thereof; the world and they that dwell dare and to do anything for suffering huonly hope that the Democratic party will therein. manity. . good after the year of jubilee. The man be right upon any subject rests ever he hat1' founded it upon the seas, For upon (2) Those whose bump of curiosity is simply returned to his possession, money or and established it upon the floods all other parties may at the that possibility for the who to war go no money. Who shall ascend into the hill of the abnormally developed, some time get wrong. it whose make-uin men excitement affords; There are no exception to this rule any- Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure there is a sort of cowardly cruelty. Peofle are fast learning that one good where given. The only apparent exception who hath not lifted up his soul unto (3) The regulation $13 patriot is found in the 29th and 30th verses of this heart; nor sworn way to make a man honest is to keep things deceitfully. vanity, who is too lazy to work. in house he might steal out of his reach. That that a to same chapter, relating dwelling He shall receive the blessing from the who enlist because it is the only Those (4) is why so many at this time are beginning to a walled city. In this case one year is given Lord, and righteousness from the God of his avenue of from starvation; because it escape salvation. redeemed If favor Direct Legislation. They are discovernot redeem it. which to in beloved is the only opportunity that their of is that seek the them This generation in within that time, then the house that is ing that the best way to prevent your reprehim, that seek thy face, O Jack. Selah. country offers them to make a living. forever established sentatives from selling them out is to give shall be walled the city Lift up your heads. O ye gates; and be (5) Those who seek glory and distinction them his gen- ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the nothing to sell. to him that bought it, throughout for themselves through deeds of valor on eration; it shall not go out in the jubilee. King of glory shall come in. 'Who is this King of glory? The Lord the battlefield. George Gould is getting out of paying Let us note, however, that this applies only for what they can steal. taxes on the who Those in and Lord (6) the go mighty mighty, strong $5,000,000 his father gave him, to dwelling houses in walled cities. Noth- battle. distinction who seek Those (7) political on the grounds that it was not a gift but a ing is said about land. It is plain in this case 'Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift and office in return. expect salary of $800,000 per year for ten yean. that the land actually occupied by the house them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King hose who profit by every calamity How I (8) nicely an income tax would fit Georges was too small in area to cut any figure. But of glory shall come in. that befalls the people the speculators, the case is of Lord of this Who The glory? land of King the just now! But the Supreme Court was a monopoly in the agricultural monthe the is the King of glory. Selah. he hosts, loaking after such as he. George Gould and country was effectually estopped by the laws and of shade kind, degree, opolists every Got your dates ready? And you really Judge Shiras are great friends, no doubt. pertaining to the lands outside of walled which comprises the Wall Street gang of busthink that God is out of the real estate cities in the next verses. It says: the Carnegies, the Rockybaptists, It is pretty hard for one who knows the iness? One would naturally think so, judg- pirates, But the houses of the villages which have real cussedness of the last bond issue to and so the the Clevelands, on; Morgans, no wall round about them sha'l be counted ing by some of the acts of those who are in men who scruple at nothing, from bankrupt- speak of it and use decent language. We as the fields of the country; they may be re- the business now, we fully agree. a nation to stealing acorns from a blind feel that a man ought to be excused if he Now to the facts: God never intended to ing deemed, and they shall go out in the jubilee Notwithstanding the dlies of the Levites, create a man and send him forth a homeless hog. The proportion of real patriots to those says that every man who voted for the issue d thief, .nd that Bill McKinley is of the seven other grades stands about 1 to is a d nnd the houses of the cities of their posses wanderer on the earth, and when you ree No man ought to be censured for better. no sion, may the Levites redeem at any time. 1,000 And if a man purchase of the Levites, such abroad you may rest assured that there speaking the truth, even though he embelthen the house that was sold, and the city of is something wrong. By the term God we While our American patriots are shout- lishes it with a few expletives. his possession, shall go out in the year of mean eternal justice. You may have your ing the battle cry, Remember the Maine, of cities the of the houses for the jubilee; own ideas of what God is. He may be a they ought to let their ponderous intellect Please remember that we said at the start Levites are their possession among the chil-dre- n God we dont absorb that heroes of the Maine sleep in that an issue of bonds was ora God, spiritual personal of Israel. unnecessary, and But the field of the suburbs of their cities car what your peculiar notion may be of an unmarked grave in the sands of Key West, that all interest paid upon same is stolen may not be sold; for it is their perpetual pos him. We only ask you to deal with material and, while we went to war to avenge them, from the people; and note further that we are session. (Leviticus xxv, 31 34.) facts, and one of these awful facts is that this great and glorious government did not sticking to it, and no man with the brains there are thousands of people on earth today care enough for them to give them a decent of an the words will dare We call particular attention to it. We cant oyster dispute in the last verse who are homeless, and always will be under funeral, but buried them in pine boxes in a excuse President McKinley on the grounds perpetual possession mean? Does it the present system. It is wrong, awfully sand lot, without so much as a $2 headstone of ignorance, for he knows it now and knew quoted. What does that mean what it says? Or were God and Moses wrong, indescribably, and will always be to record their names. While you Remem- it then just as well as we do. talk?. If that wrong until it is changed. Man is barn with ber the Maine, please remember also that only talking to hear themselves The city of San Francisco leads off in was good law for the Israelites, is it not good an inalienable right to live on the earth when the other day a poor oid woman, the mother neceslaw cle- - the ohee and the it makes who was Has not? un the here, the Maine's of of one If tht sailors, not, why right direction by adopting the Initiative law for today? him for for the to to ask another of and discovered Referendum. A petition to that effect her right sary pendent upon the meagre support changeable God changed? Has he dicsons smill pay, died in New York from lack signed by 15 per cent, of the voters requires that he was mistaken in his ideas on land? stay here, or gives another the power to him he to which tate the terms should God if may of food and was buried in the potters field. that an ordinance must be submitted to a upon attempt Dont you think that is destrucin We were very indignant over the spectacle popular vote before it becomes law, and can principle and to have such a law as that passed now that stay here, wrong hearin tive if and kind Godthe and of practice; you, my starving Cubans that's why we went to be repealed in the same way only. Street Mark Hanna would oppose it, ers for it this see cannot would veto it war wiili Spain. Starvation at home doesnt car line franchises are to be granted for wrong, any remedy living, God fearing McKinley is high time that you were seeking one. interest us at all. We arc an extremely smart twenty-fivyears only, after which the on the grounds that it would disturb finan bed tracks and become the property of the arc So cute, Tne land shall not be sold forever, for people, we Americans. ces" and drive capital out of the country Hurrah for San Francisco! I city. The Coming Era. You say you the land is mine, saith the Lord. Amen. confidence? by destroying re-ena- ct be-on- for-ev- erl two-third- s p per-mon- bond-thieve- s, stock-gambler- th s, e |