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Show KEEP THE FAITH. H The other day the Tribune, in a fit of absent- f mindedness, admitted that some Gentiles had Jl sought the help of the Church in making their iil political deals. In the course of the' articl6 It says: H "It is well known shame it- is to them to say H it that Gentiles have miserably ' followed this flH fashion of truckling to the Mormon .Church, and by Q a servile fawning seeking of the Church dlgnitar- sH ies to get their favor and support, have compro- k raised their own manhood and trodden American H sentiment in the dust. lk It is well known that this base' truckling to M the Church leaders has put them on an eminence that most of them are nothing loth to occupy. M Some of them actually crave the power given them M by this evil servility, and a few go out1 of their M way to assume it." Coming from the source that it ddoa, Iwe take H it that the Tribune assumes high ground. Its H thought is, "If you want anything from $h$ Church H and offer to buy it, offer a good healthy sum, more JM than the blamed influence is really Worth, and jH then If you fail, and sea that you are gone, why Bf then roar, make tho biggest kind of a ftiojc and H start a revolution if necessary. And' if a presi- H dentlal and state election is on, an election on H the decision of which hangs the prosperity of H the Nation and tho control of the State, do not let H little things like thoBO stand In the way, but open B the roar, start the kick, and spring the revolu- H At the same time utilise the reputation which M a great journal made through troublous years of M earnest effort for the right, and bend all its in- B fluence to swell tho roar, glva Impetus to the kick H and launch the revolution. B Who said that the cry of "patriotism was the H last reiort of a scoundrel," or words to ihat ef- B toot? H Wo have not a word of criticism of the honest B souls that believe justice to Utah and to the flag H requires this upheaval, and who in the experiences B of years have taken on a belief that the trouble H in Utah overshadows all other evils in the United H States; that with that fixed, all the other evils H in the world can be adjusted. Wo do not blame H such a man as Frank Cannon, who for years has H been chafing under the pitiable environments in B x which he is enmeshed, and under the penalty H which followed when he gave up his judgment H and followed his impulses out where his ambition B was left to starve; we. do not blame Judge Hiles H or Colonel Ferry, both stiong partisans, for nurs- B ing the belief that an undue influence has been H brought tq bear to turn the youth of Utah away B from the principles they cherish, and, if necessary, H thiough an excitement to carry the people off their B feet and give their party a triumph, but that does H not in the least justify those who have seemed H to lie Republicans, in deliberately trying to turn H over a State and if needs be the Nation, to a party H whose principles they still affect to scorn and H deride. H . There is where the shame and sin of this busl- H nqss comes in, and hence we continue to -exhort B real Republicans to keep the faith and to see H to it that the State is saved; that the Legislature B elected will be one that will save to the party a B an. -w -Ifc- -K. k. h. .w . w - w. m - - Republican Senator, and that the vote for electors elec-tors will be such that on the ninth day of November Novem-ber the message can be sent to President RooBe-' volt, "Utah has kept the faith." |