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Show Published Every Saturday BY GOODWIN8 WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. JAMES P. CASEY Business Manager 8UB8CRIPTION PRICE: in United 8tates, Canada and Mexico $2.50 per year, the Including postage $1.50 for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal Union, $4.50 per year. f, p. GALLAGHER, Editor. , 8lngle copies, 10 cents. Payment should be made by Cheek, Money Order or Registered Letter, payable to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. i second-class at Salt Lake Postofflce Entered as matter, June 21, 1019, at the City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. 3 8alt Lake City, Utah. Ness Bldg. Phone Wasatch 5409. 311-121- WHEN COX DENO UNCED MORMONS AS TRAITORS . Mormon church stands first of all for Mormonism if, indeed the If Governor Cox of Ohio had risen in the rostrum at the faith does not embrace TREASON among its tenets. nacle and said It is the testimony of Witness Wallis, who has, he says, been THE MORMONS ARE TRAITORS, Republicans and DemoAnd yet the twenty times through the endowment house; that those who go crats would have been speechless with amazement. Democratic nominee is on record as having said that very thing. through this most secret of all Mormon ceremonies take an oath to avenge the blood of the prophet upon the nations of the earth What Mr. Cox did say at the tabernacle was quite different. As one .listened to his panegyric of the pioneers one fancied that he had fed and teach this to the remotest generation. jon the honeydews of paradise, so sweet and fullsome was his laudPalpably, this prophet to whom .the oath refers is Joseph Smith. And palpably, the nation upon which vengeance is to be visited is atory discourse. It was the happiest moment of his life, in this building, etc., etc., to pay homage to those marvelous men, etc., these United States. Such an oath enjoins upon Mormons who have letc. taken it vengeance for the manner of Smiths death. It is in nature Brigham Young himself had said, This is the place, etc., etc. The younger folk were captivated by this spellbinder from Ohio and essence a direct renunciation of allegiance to the government of the United States, in favor of the Mormon church. And if that does vho had so many pleasant things to say about the stalwart men in not spell treason then very wide latitude must be given the inter.jand the fearless women who, amid vicissitudes almost unparalleled pretation of that crime. jthe winning of the west, built up this great commonwealth of Utah. It matters little that Witness Wallis declared he looked upon J3ut some of the older folk were overcome with abhorrence at the speakers hypocrisy, for they remembered how, fifteen years before, this endowment house proceeding as a joke and subscribed to the lie had run a series of articles in his paper, The Dayton Daily News, oath with the understanding of what it imposed upon him. Were the leaders of Mormonism like Wallis the church, would be harmSaints church as traitors. landing the members of the Latter-da- y In those days Mr. Cox was not a candidate for president of the less. But there are men in the councils of Mormonism whose sagacity Jnited States. It is just possible that in that ambitious brain of and statecraft cannot be despised or underestimated. And every man iis the thought of being the nominee of a great party for president of them who took the oath to avenge the death of Prophet Smith iad taken root, but, if so, it did not occur to him in his wildest flights knew precisely what was imposed upon him as a Mormon. It is not Reed Smoot but the Mormon church, which is under ff imagination that he would ever covet the electoral vote of Utah. At any rate he did not try to hide his real views and feelings in those investigation at Washington. Smoot himself is of little consequence. But it is of the utmost concern .that any organization having its seat days. It is said that he wrote or, if he did not write, ordered to be of government in this nation shall not impose upon those who look to it for spiritual guidance THE DOCTRINE OF VENGEANCE AND written, as many as eighty editorials and articles against the TREASON. It will be seen that the writer of the foregoing editorial is not But when the day arrived that he must seek the suffrages of s sure that the faith embraces treason among its tenets, but tke people he had reviled he changed his tune. His whole talk was quite whether it does or not he is confident that the organization (Latter9ne f saccharine seductiveness. The very men whom he, as governor, foul wished to Saints church) imposes upon those who look to it for spiri-day expel from his state, he was now eulogizing as supertual guidance the doctrine of vengeance and treason. men. as heroes and as the best of Americans. That was what Governor Cox thought in 1905. When did he We will here quote as an example of the governors Mormon-eitin- g mind? Is there any record, prior to the tabernacle proclivities an editorial which appeared on page 4 of the issue change his. Qf lebruary 4, 1905. Perhaps the governor will recall that it was speech, that he had changed his mind? Here is an opportunity for Senator King and Congressman Wellheaded ing to explain. Instead of holding a debate on the League of Nations MORMONISM AND TREASON. Welling for and King against let the two explain to their people he editorial was as follows : what they think of the Democratic nominee and his denunciations MORMONISM AND TREASON. 1 Sonic things were said by witnesses in the Smoot inquiry at of the men and women of this state. W The Republican party has nominated as its candidate for governor flsbington which will strengthen the popular impression that the taber- won-jderf- ul . . ,lj I llllt |