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Show DAILY PAGE FOUR UTAH Utah State Journal DENOUNCES SMITH (Continued from paga 1.) policy-Mormo- ns themselves, to spe;(k flhr themselves and to Insist that even their leaders shall be honest, upright, faithful to the doctrines believed to have been revealed to their earlier prophets, and true Americans, keeping Inviolate the pledges made to America. The parting' of the ways has come. These two great classes are growing farther apart Either one muat conquer and convince and thereafter absorb the other or the breech will widen until the one church ahall become two. Up to this time only two men of standing and influence have openly burst the bonds binding them to the Smith tyranny, but hundreds of other members of the church in good standing and earnest in belief are of one mind with those two men. tvnen there comes the supreme test they will speak their minds. Mr. Sniurthwaite charges President Smith with using church office for think fOr business' gain and cites the salt business as evidencs. He reminds Bishop Woolley that the bishop himself had expressed a similar sentiment He recalls the fact, shown by President Smiths testimony in Washington, that the head of the church is living in continuous violation of the law of the state of Utah.. He even concedes that President Smith may have been sincere, which in the light of President Smith's evasive and contradictory and defiant statements, is among the gravest of the charges preferred. lie asserts that he will not live a lie by accepting the words of President Smith as the words of God. He proves by President Smiths own public 'utters nee that the president has repudiated the doctrine of revelation, aa expounded by Joseph Smith, the prophet. He shows that the president is misusing the church, perhaps conscientiously. He demands liberty to think, act and apeak and proves that such liberty is denied the masses of the Mormon people. He demonstrates cism of the leaders- that honest criti- could not injure them or the church if they were in the right and makes the deduction that their prohibition of criticism proves them in the wrong. He declares that the leader should rule either by revelation or common consent and that President Smith does - neither. lie Insists that Mormons should obey the laws of their land. He shows that pledges to the country have been broken. He demands that the church unhand the politics of the state and retire from Its commercialism. He asks for an accounting of tithes. He warns the church that for following a false leader its members must be scourged unless a reform la effected. And for that Charles Smurthwalte will be dubbed an apostate and - - Ogden generally will rejoice as much as the winner of the case when the Hamcr-llowe- ll contest is ended, It is too great a strain on the public to keep posted, and yet the public feels thul'r its duty. 15, 1905. Grand OpeFaHou . Direction Northwestern xlKR- WEDNESDAY NIGHT, MARCH This department of the Utah State Journal is opon to all tha pooplo, when they may present thoir views in relotion to mstters of public concern. e must in all oases be signed with the name of reepenoible in order to insure attention. It rfiould bo understood that tho editor of the State Journal will not assume or be responsible for sontimento expressed by individual writers for thio department. evidence and the laws of the church governing such matters. Bishop. AAltoN G. MAW, Clerk. Mr. Smurthwaite's Latter. maintains that a prophet of that hli testimony at (ind. Washington of his continued past and continuous present violations of the l:i w of the state of Utah respecting polygamous cohabitation is lndefen sible from the viewpoint of a cltlaen Saint. and a Latter-da- y Every member of the church, in Mr. Mr. Joseph Smurthwaiie F. Smith Is not should be Judgment, free to discuss the doctrines and criticise, if need be, the leaders, and the church can not Justly oust him for I hat reason. President Smith Is excoriated for his declaration that "the church haa had no revelation for many yeara and I hope to God He will give no more revelations until we learn to live that which He has already given. The letters closes as follows: "Having offered these views, J Insist upon a recognition by the governing body of the churrh of the folow-In- g propositions (if they will not these principles, which I indoctrines of the sist are church, I ask the body of the church them and insist upon them): to an-ep- t "1. No man can lead this church except by revelation; or, in the absence of revelation, the strict application of the doctrine of common consent. When he does attempt to lead without both these qualifications, he is without authority. and leads astray. 3. No man leading astray should be followed. S. The members of the church muat obey the lawa of the land in Let no man break which they 11 va the laws of the land, for he that keep-et- h the laws of God hath no need to break the laws of the land. Revelation to the prophet, Joseph Smith. August 1st, 1831 prior to any revelation on any point of present difference. "4. Utah waa admitted to the Union upon a pledge of the leaders, made for the peoplf, that he would not continue to be inimical to the general government and the Institutions general in the republic. This pledge was not alone asserted specifically in the formal documents, but was afforded by the attitude which our people had assumed and by the expectations of the general officials and the people of the United States. What they expected, we agreed to, or we would never have received statehood. 5. I demand that the church retire from ita domination of the etate. At present the Mormon leadership does dominate the affairs of the state. It Is more powerful than all political parties and all civic officials put together. '6. I demand that the church retire It cannot from its commercialism: serve both God and Mammon. "7. I demand that the tithes be accounted for in detail, beginning at next April conference, and twice each year from that time forward at general conferences; that a list of all property holdings of the church, and of the leaders of the church, acquired since he became president, be read at each general conference. 8. 1 demand the right of free speech from the pulpits of the church. If any man accepts the faith as promulgated he should havers the right to any point out to his departure from that faith. If he he mistaken, his mistakes will soon be shown; If he is right, his warning la necessary to prevent the body of the church from being misled. I hold and assert that desertion of the truth does not come originally by or from the body of the church, but by and from the leaders We declare that the gospel was lost because after Christ had left the earth the church changed the ordinances and broke the everlasting covenant. This must of necessity have originated with the leaders or teachers of the church. If the people had been warned and had refused to follow the false leaders, that great general departure from the truth might have been averted. I insist that if the leaders anciently misled the people, and that dread apostasy and long darkness followed. It Is quite possible that the leaders now or at any time may move into the same darkness, and unless checked, the people may go Ith them, never to return to the light of God's revelation. 9. I maintain that this church I never more to be thrown down nor given to another people. Such being the case, the duty of checking the errors. and deposing leaders who have gone astray, rest with the people of God in whom he has reposed his power. Therefore, unless God's word is to fail, as it cannot, prophets who have ceased to tie prophets, and men who never were prophets, must come from their high place of power, and those who do the will of God from day to day. as he will speak it to his elect, must lead his people. in. It has been proved by history that when God's people go too far in following the false leader, they are scourged Uaek to their duty by some great power of earth; and I believe this nation, which God haa upraised to be the hmne of his church, will scourge hack to our duty all of us who shall violate that commandment, given especially to us. which Is to obey the laws of the government under which we live. "Maint-ilninthese views, I consider it my duty to give the widest possible publicity to them at this time, and therefore I shall send a copy of thla communication to the official organ of Deseret News and to the church--th- e other newspapers of the state. "1 ask all of those who have written me. or w Ith whom I have talked on the subject, and all others, meinhera of the church, who agree with the views which I have expressed, to write to me; ami let us seek, in all humility, yet with the strength of truth, to establish the Smurthw-alte- s ze self-provi- semi-annual- scratched characters resembling an MARGARET ANGLIN ns-tr- ay and AND A NOTABLE CAST INCLUDING Frank Worthington, W. Hitchcock, Walter Allen Thomas Whiffon, Blanche Stoddart, Eleanor tale, The Sagas mention this expedition to old In- waa his Vinland, a part of which I take the liberty to quote, as It must be of some Interest to Scandinavia ns living here; After Lief, son of Erik, .hud Introduced Christianity into Greenland, hla next step was to extend the Norse civilisation within the American continent. News had reached him of a land with a level coast, lying nine days sailing southwest of Greenland. Picking 35 men. Lief started for further exploration. One part of the new country waa barren and rocky; therefore Lief named it Hellulund (atone land), which appears to have been Newfoundland. Farther south they found a sandy shore, backed by a level forest country, which Lief named Markland (Woodland), identified with Nova Scotia. After two days' sail, having landed and explored the new continent along the banka of a river, they resolved to win ter there.! In one of the explorations a German named Tyrker found some grapes and brought a specimen for the admiration of Leif and hin party. Thla country was therefore called Vinland and la Identified with New England, part of Rhode Island and Massachusetts. A Greenland poet thus refers to A MODERN EMOTIONAL FROM AN LOWER J scription. Aamot next day took' the parchment with him to Grand FDrka and showed it to Prof. Thlea at the university and to others of the faculty, but none could read it until It came to Prof. Almy, ho is learned in old languages. He pronounced it Old Runer and Old Norwegian, and stated his belief that he could decipher and translate moat of It. A free translation of Prof. Almy ) Norwegian version here follows; The writing was done by one ' Joii Gitturson In the year 1008. The letter states (hat four years prior to that time he came to Vinland with another Nor- weglan named Thorvald, son of Eric the Red, and that he waa taken pris- oner by the Skvallinger (Indians), nd by them taken many days' Journey' Leifs landing: Into the forests. The savages refused Vinland the glad discoverer called that ' shore. to let him go back to his people, 'and t he tidings of its riches bore. forced him to travel with them for And .hack ' ' three summers, over great lakes 'and But soon returned with colohixing I i ; , j through vast forests many thousands of miles to the west, until after many bottles with men and beasts they ar man. "CHARLES A. SMURTHWAITE;. "Ogden, Utah."1 Peculiar Diaappaaranea. ! bands. V WANTED. The city council will meet In special session tonight. The mntter to be taken up is the application for a franchise by B. H- - Mahler for a right of way through the city, and it is possible that the present street car line will be used in connection with the system proposed by Mr. MahMr. Mahler's ler and his associates. line will run from here to Logan, I A cablegram received last night from Thomas D. Dee by Mrs. Dee stated that he and his party hud reacned non- ' At the Theaters TEA The indulgence in tea is so very slight, that the pleasure escapes attention, unless one waits a bit. Writs for or- CsPsy, tu - Knowkde Krancuca, i ksk. A Schilling ft PHILADELPHIA METHODIST EPISCOPAL CONFERENCE Fa.. March 15. ALLENTOWN, Many clerical and lay delegates are here for the annual session of the Philadelphia conference of the M. E. church, which will be in session during the next few days, with Bishop O. C. McCabe presiding. More than ordinary Interest Is manifested In the ministerial appointments, as It Is expected the number of changes among pastors will be larger than usual. What Time Proves. i lace rn 3 3 HC U $0 13th. CHARLES DeGRAU, Comedian. GARRITY SISTERS, Song and Dance Artlsta WHARTON AND LeROY, White and Black Face Comedlana BENT VINCENT, Baritone. COMING MARCH 20th The Okabe Japanese Company EDISON MOVING PICTURES. I0 ADMISSION ft ROSES Rose By the Largest Exclusive Growers in the world Several Thousand to Arrive Sjaturday, March '15 part of lot 8 in block 24 of plat of Ogden city survey, beginning 18 Cents and Up 5. and running thence east 55 feet, thence west 65 feet more or less to west line aid lot. thence north 130 feet to beginning. W. 1 In block 33 of plat Ogden City survey, beginning at a point 150 feet wetxof the S. E. corner of said lot 1, and running thence 140 feet, thence east 15 feet more or less, thence south 140 feet to beginning. All of lots 1 nnd 10 In block 01, plat "(T of Ogden City survey. By order of the Ilonrd of Trustees. EUGENE II. SMITH, part of lot 14th. 1905. - CLAUDE FEELEY, The Plroutte King. OTTO FIECHTL8' QUARTETTE, Tyrloean Warblers. vey. Dated March etn- Week Commencing Monday, March east corner Twenty-fourt- h street and Grant avenue. Ogden, Utah, for the purpose of considering, voting upon and determining the question of selling. disposing of and conveying all Interest of the Church of tha Good Shepherd In and to the following described parcels of real estate in Ogden City, Weber county, Vtah: The east 132 feet of lots 1 and 10 in block 41 of plat A" of Ogden City sur- A A. ana J. H. YOUNG, Manager. Meeting of Members of tho Church of Good Shephor. A meeting of the members In good standing of the Church of Good Shepherd. 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OPENING OF New Shirt Waists 999H999999Hm99999M9t i S FRANCHISE , . leadership of Gods prophet in the church rather than the leadership' of ly fellow-believe- rived at a great plain, where he taken sick. There he wrote this tory. hoping some one might find read it." While this may seem a queer there la nothing improbable in It Napoleon Olsen, a correspondent at Buxton, North Dakota, writing to the Politlken, a Norwegian paper in Minneapolis, says: "In this locality we have found someJho would bething to talk about, lieve that there was a Norwegian who died here about 900 years ago? Such Is the rase. A find haa been made that brings to light an almost incredible history. "Nila Aamot, who Uvea at Hawk River, Clayton township, together with his hired man, Andera Platen, Vm working a few days ago excav&tlpg a cellar under the house, where the, encountered a human skeleton and also a roll of dried skin, on which were 15 FRANK L. PERLEY PRESENTS Find Brings to Lirfht An Almost Incredible History. K. T. WTIOOLLF.Y, -'A4J THE DRAMATIC EVENT OF THf citi-zon- CHARLES A. SMURTHWAITE, riMrli'K A. tiinurtliwaltes letter to Bishop K T. Woolley rings true und Whatever h's enemies and honest. opponents may say in critii'ism they cannot rliurgc itislieerity. Hi earnest words come straight from his grieved heart. In them can be found no taint of sophistry or guile. The dominant church seem to have come abruptly to a parting of the way. One wing composes members to whom Joseph F. Smith Is the ehurch. Their religion means to them 11 blind obedience and abject following of that one man, who to them is Ood's representative here on earth. To doubt his omnipotence is sin. To open their eyes to flHgraut contradictions in his speech, to abandonment by him of doctrines long established in his creed, to his defiant announcement that he lives in violation of the law of his church and country that is apostasy. They, too, are honest In such belief. 'With them, us hangers-o- n and camp followers, are and, most a host of despicuble of all, Gentiles wbo fawn and truckle for the crumbs of material favor that are swept from tne tables of those in authority. ' The best available example of that sort of groveling Gentile la the owner of that Ogden paper whose every Issue prints abuse of such men as Cannon and 8murthwaile only because It hopes thereby to gain favor with those high In power, wnoin they have offended. The other branch of the Mormon church is made up of men wno are sticklers for the original creed, who claim for themselves the right to WEDNESDAY, MARCH JOURNAL, The Open Forum Ogden, Utah. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE PEOPLE STATE w7 BROWNING 2747 Adams Avenue THE JOURNAL Secretary. By Carrier, One Month, 60c. One By Mail. , |