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Show DAILY UTAH STATE JOURNAL, SATURDAY, had been aroused which spread as far as the Mormon missions reached. Missionaries were OGDEN, UTAH. mobbed and insulted; in many instances doors and hearts were closed to their message FRANK J. CANNON, EDITOR. which otherwise might have been opened. And now there is witnessed a repetition of COST OF. GOVERNMENT. these things as a result of Senator Smoots case. , in the closing Congressman Hemenway, It may be answered that mobocracy and hours of the session just expired, promulgated opposition cannot destroy the truth. That is the proposition that thisgovernment is the most a fact. But it is also a fact that the political economically administered of any in the civil- aspirations of Moses Thatcher, Brigham H. ized world. lie presented a tabulated ex- Roberts and Reed Smoot were not necessary penditure of the various nations to demo- to a demonstration of truth nor any aid to its nstrate his statement; and because the figures named by promulgation. No one of them was calls he for the United States are the lowest, In anrevelation to run for political office. the argument conclusive. cient times men were called from worldly occuto His statement, however, is still open pation to be consecrate to the apostleship. not and be true relatively question. It may There has been no authoritative utterance to Mr. see: us Let Hemenway absolutely. apostles indicate that Heaven desires latter-da- y of shows the per capita annual expenditure to fight work to call themselves from the divine with the New Zealand to be $34.38 highest; for worldly honors. the lowest; be to of nation our $7.97 that The net result of all these ambitions of with the expenses of other countries ranging high ecclesiasts for political office seems to acto between these two amounts. Merely have been trouble at home and trouble abroad; a and a as bald the finality and proof figures cept surely, Utah has had trouble enough.. without further scrutiny Vvould be as foolish There is no disrespect to the dignity and and arbitrary a method of unreason as to say rights of the ecclesiastical leaders of a maeconomical more one man was that necessarily of Utahs people, iu the foregoing rethan another simply because he spent less jority cital. On the contrary many of their most money than the other without taking into devoted followers coincide with these stateaccount their different circumstances, condiments, and more earnestly because of their tions, income and purposes. tender respect; entertaining, as they do, the Without attempting to detail the inherited faith that their leaders are chosen from all the costs of monarchy, the cost of vast civil pen- world for religious labor; and, knowing as sions, the maintenance of war power, the they do, that those apostles are best loved debts, the operation of telegragh and railway and most influential in their ministrations, who lines in many other , countries, there is one are neither candidates for office nor ardent fact which alone throws all of Congressman partisans of any political organization. Hemenway s calculations into the scrap heap - of worthlessness. This nation is composed THE REMEDY. of forty-fiv- e states in addition to its terri IT DOES NOT APPROVE tories; and by far the greater part of the exhas heard The Louisville Courier-Journ- al pense of government is borne within the states and does not in any way appear in the that there is an intention upon the part of statistics of the national treasury. Any com- Mormons to make an aggressive movement It has also pilation of figures for the purpose of making against polygamous practice. to an additional heard that end has that agency comparison with the expenditures of other countries which ignores this important point, been enlisted in the form of Christian science. while approvEvidently the Courier-Journa- l, is at once misleading and absurd. ing of the first, does not accept the second remedy. It states that this Christian science ANOTHER PHASE OF THE CASE. proposition seems very like the application of the theory which has of late been put into The statement made by the Salt 'Lake of getting rid of Herald that Mormon missionaries in Great practice by bacteriologists one pest by the introduction of a parasite Britain have been of late meeting with serious which will eliminate the offensive object withand determined opposition, and in some cases out injury to its own vitality. It becomes a vigorous persecution and mobbings have been serious question whether society would be experienced; and that the movement against the substitution. . The vagaries their propaganda is a direct result of the improved by of Christian science, while not open to the Smoot investigation: brings directly home moral objections of the Mormon faith, have to a majority of the people of Utah another not the positive elements of practical adminphase of this celebrated case. istration to commend the system as the conSetting aside the mere political opposition influence of a state. to the candidacy of Apostle Reed Smoot for trolling the senatorship, it is probably quite within the Senator Chauncey Depew is now sevfacts that as an original proposition a maof age and stoutly declares that he deplored his am- enty years jority of his fellow-believe- rs bition. Such feeling on their part was no will deliver an after dinner speech on his one hundredth birthday. Thats all right, disrespect to him, but because of their exalted if won't deliver any in the Chauncey, you regard for his sacred office and their affection meantime. for him as a man and an ecclesiastical leader, and their fear of injury to the cause abroad. Among If this seedless apple business goes on, his closest associates were many who foresaw how will be able to find out the difficulty for the entire people if he should suc- number ofyoung people before their marriage? Mr years cessfully insist upon and pursue his candiand his partners should seriously dacy. These men had been observers of re- Roylance cent events. They well knew that the politi- ponder upon the consequences of their procal aspiration of every high ecclesiast since posed reform. statehood had come to shocking disaster. Moses Under the heading of Thatcher, who was regarded as one of the votes with public money most brilliant apostles that the church had New York Sun is making war upon the ever produced, in seeking the place now held by Roosevelt pension policy. It shows clearly Reed Smoot, lost both apostleship and senator-shithat the recent executive order is illegal. and, as he piteously said to the committee in Washington, he is probably the only It is safe to predict that even if Col. man in the Mormon church who is absolutely Henry Watterson does not receive the nomwithout priesthood. Brigham H. Roberts, ination at St. Louis, he will net bolt the ticket. the strongest controversialist of his generation Furthermore he has a broadside ready for any in the church; was defeated for congress big man who does bolt. while in opposition to his leaders; was comf pelled to recant his avowed doctrine of perThere are twenty reasons why Democsonal political independence; was subsequentracy should sweep the country this fall. One ly elected to congress; but, notwithstanding is because the people want the rascals turned the splendor of his speech in his own defence out and we dont need to tell the other ninebefore the house, was not even permitted to teen. take the oath office. Where magnetic Moses Thatcher had come to wreck, where brave Tiie way President Roosevelt hangs on Brigham H. Roberts had utterly failed; small to that man Crum is a reminder of the bull wonder that thoughtful men among his asso- that bucked the locomotive. He had ciates should have viewed with doubt and fear grit but mighty poor judgment. 1 the candidacy of Reed Smoot. It is true that Man About Town has returned to the all of the cases contain marked dissimilarities from each other; but there is enough of mu Tribune, presumably under a promise from tual resemblance (and this is proved by the the Herald that he will not be used as a mop by the witty Breakfast Food Man. event) to justify the doubt and fear. Fur 4 thermore, and beyond the effect within the Oliver Wendell Holmes said that he church at home, it had been observed that in would rather be a young man at eighty than the Roberts case notably, an external storm an old man at forty. UTAH STATE JOURNAL i.PRII-- 30, 1904. KEPT GOING WEST. Three Crooke Arreeted Yesterday Re- leased on Bail. Julm Brown and hla alleged wife, For the week commencing April 25th: Mr. Ray Hrown, and C. E. 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