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Show CHURCH AND STATE. It is an unfortunate difference that has arisen between France and the Pope. But the determination deter-mination of the President of Fiance that there thail be no union of church and state in his country will be sustained by the French people, though France is the strongest Roman Catholic country in the world, for through centuries of bitter and bloody experience Franco has learned that a so-called union of church and state means priestly domination and that men trained in the priesthood are not, as a rule, prepared to conduct con-duct civil Governments successfully; that moreover, more-over, with them the civil is always made subordinate sub-ordinate to the ecclesiastical rule. The effect is been particularly in Spain, and France will have none of it. The convention which iramed the constitution of the United States saw the trouble and determined deter-mined that it should never afflict the United States, so while drawing every protection around men's religious beliefs, made It imperative that under no possible pretense should the old Asiatic Asi-atic and European tyranny of priestly rule usurp civil power in this country. This determination lo neutralize or violate the constitution in thin togard has made Utah a storm center for fifty years. It should cease. It is in the hands of the Smoot investigation committee to stop It. Statehood State-hood was gained through priestly pledges made with the determination that they should be broken so soon as Statehood should be obtained. We do not think that the United States can, In any manner short of war, disturb the integrity of the State of Utah, but it can put such a ban on priestly rule that those In authority here will hasten to revise and surrender the ruling tenet ot the Mormon faith that the head of the Mormon Mor-mon church has a divine right to degrade the American ballot and to openly violate the con. stltutlon of the United States. It is time foi do- ! cislve action, such action as will remove this Mormon menace to free Government and if the committee is alive to the real situation it will be done In a way to give to Utah such tranquility tran-quility as it has never known. |
