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Show UTAH'S UNREST. While the organ of the Mormon Church delights de-lights in saying that only some unprincipled politicians poli-ticians and preachers are assailing the integrity of Apostle Smoot's seat in the Senate of the United States, it is careful to conceal the fact that thousands thou-sands of Mormons in Utah openly express a hope that he may be turned down. This feeliug extends ex-tends all over Utah, but is especially bitter in Cache county. The general dissatisfaction Is shown by the question, "Why cannot our Apostles keep out of politics, as they promised to?" but up in Cache the question is, "If Apostle Smoot's answer an-swer is a fair statement, why was Moses Thatcher excommunicated?" "If it is not true, then what kind of a fix are we all left in?" Then thousands of honest and truthful Mormons Mor-mons are asking why it is necessary for their chiefs to always be clashing with the Government and people of the United States. They want to mix with the people of this country, to have equal opportunites with all other Americans to win promotion and preferment in all the honorable walks of life, but just as they gain a little self-confidence and are being met half way, something Is done by their priesthood to undo every advantage and make people look upon them with suspicion whenever they register their names in an eastern or western hotel. It is not the ministers and politicians poli-ticians that make the trouble; it is the determination determina-tion of this priesthood here to build up a political hierarchy right in the midst of this Republic that makes the trouble; a theocratic aristocracy where the few may rule and the masses carry wood and water and pay tithing, and this truth is so plain that the masses begin to see it and to giow tils satisfied. |