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Show JtiiATioN; ChfirKN-KlIis Lectures In the Opera House Last XiiIit. He iSXS9 Liberal Party No Mercy, ?ft?,9f Vay to KiU the Hydra- HeacTda 4Ji.onster. There was a very huge and attentive uidienee at the Theatre last evenin- t listen to Mr. Clonics Ellis, of Sab Lake city, on ' The Political Situation in l tah to-day." A f.-w minutes after 8 o dock the lecturer appeared before the -uidienee. and at once started on his lecture. After a few preliminaries the gen'leman said: We all agree on one point, whether we be Libera! Republican, Re-publican, Democrat, Mormon, infidel r other, and that is, if we 1 e in C tan we desire that our fair Territory shallniake progress; it is therefore legitimate to consider what, u-m i;,... about this progress and prosperity. We I want to consider the past. The ' Con-'stitution Con-'stitution of the I'nited States savs , there shall be no taxation without re'n- reseiitation ; there shall be no national (priesthood. Why did our forefathers say this? Because the history of Europe was before them, where 'men! hail been persecuted for opinion's sake-and sake-and they did not want a repetition ot these outrages on this continent Some Baptist, who had been persecute.! lu Nirgima, went to Washington amp asked for additional protection, and this was the cause of the amendment proNidmg for the freedom of rdiginn. Ihere was no persecution for fifty eais. Then a new sect the Mormons Mor-mons made their . T.n... r. ...... mm.:. sect believed in the Bible, in common with other sects, and yet it had a be-het be-het in a personal and leal God. Thi was something different to what the sects believed in. Thev sai I He was a being without body, parts and passions: pas-sions: and what is that but a hole in a drum? Our Republican friends sav the Democrats denied, the Mormons protection; because President, V;m Burensaid: "Your cause is just but I can do nothing tor you." This is not true. It was Van Buren's coward ce which refused them protection and he happened to be a Democrat. But :f Jackson had been pres'dent I believe he wodd hUe hung the ringleader ring-leader of the Mormon uiobbers. so our Republican friends must in-t lav too much stress on this point. The Tribune says the Mormons were exiled from Mi-souri Mi-souri for theirtheocracy.This is not true. Hie Trih. seldom comics near the truth when talking about Mormons The. people of Missouri did not know enough at that time to define theocracy. They thought the Mormons were aboiit'on-ists, aboiit'on-ists, and drove them out because they hated their enterprise and inde"-j inde"-j pendence. Thev reached these valleys, and while their enemies hoped they would die, rumors reached them thai they were more prosperous than ever. Then the wolves of persecution scaled the mountains to follow their prev. The cry now was Mormon nolviramv"" I and while the Mormon people believed ! this to be a religious dutv, their enemies ene-mies made it their war cry; and in bSU2 a law was pas-ed making "it a crime. The Mormons made up their mind to resis this law until they could get a decision de-cision from the Supreme Court, to which tribunal it was carried. This body decided against them, which put them in an awkward pcsition. Finally they saw their wav clear to relirioiiwli the practice and put themselves in i harmony with the demand of the coun-! coun-! try. But thi did not satisfy the Liberals, Lib-erals, who reallv never wished the Mormons Mor-mons to do anything of the kind. 1 believe polygamy would have been settled long ago if its opponents had not been so mean. The young men of 10-day are more interested in makiru' money than in raising children. It y" .Kmmmi C()sts s mTfTnTore to keeTfvJ.T.Te now than it did forty vents But ' I said, the anti-Mon,,,,,! Ziiv wLh An 1 why Bcvause it is the biggest in!l "! struck. They Ie-,iate e and beg money for the poor 1g! k :AIor," and they beg old T rt-th" vht naIed children t LUh. But I never heard of a -Mormon boy getting a pair of pants from that source ie Tne founders of the Liberal partv i t "ft auded by the TribuJn IfVv-thmg IfVv-thmg but quarrelsome men. N.I-hey N.I-hey are angels, who have straved away-back away-back ''r:;1 can,"jt w Z back. Rut the only decent men if. he pa, ty were Mormons who had left! he church because they w' Jd t(, breakdown Bright, Younl. men like . h,, llarriHon fr?"r, 7 a V"1" f'-t that all .sect Ltah are protectd except the Mormon Mor-mon 2hurth. But now that they them as for other cimK ZZ coming in now who are not tilled with the old hatred to the people, and Thev will join in this demand. I vlu i, is getting in its work also here, a d bv ami by he old monster of hatred will die ana be buried, as it should hi Liberals includes the apostates ofUtah' the majority or whom delight ; ing bad things of the churches and but it was he and not Jeffer-son Jeffer-son who ,-ounseled the taking ,p from England. The speaker then took i2ti t?iur of t,,e - "f it" hi ii Uetence of a corrupt and aoost .t . priesthooit. n.omas 1 Pay nc i-ii I ,e turtheredthe claim f 5'. " l.hi - doni in the constitution; which the evangelical churches of 'to-da - Ting to nulbfy. I ay, shame o, "eve - -ree thinker who wdl assist them ' these may claim to be free, but thev U ' not do much thinking. -Ihe lecturer spoke nearly an hor a!ieX.IUe,,t,,ap'',au1 |