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Show IS IT NOT TIME? If It is true, as President Joseph F. Smith says, . that he makes no mistakes, that God rules hero through him ; then it must have been God who inspired in-spired his mendacity before the Senate investigation investiga-tion committee. How do good Saints like that kind of logic? It must have been the same power that made Judge King fumble so in the Tabernacle on Sunday Sun-day last. Tho same inspiration must have been behind some of tho Gentile witnesses before tho committee. The same inspiration must have caused tho original Joseph Smith to leave Kirtland, Ohio, between two days, must havo caused those single-minded Basha Bazouks to run the Saints out of Missouri; the same that inspired the men of Illinois to kill the prophets, and to hurl the Mormon Mor-mon people out desolate upon the breast of tho wilderness; the same that caused them unceasing unceas-ing and constantly increasing distresses in Utah until the chiefs of the church agreed to come in under the laws of this Republic? Have not the people suffered enough? Did the seating of Joseph F. Smith as President give him any added wisdom? Has any devout Saint made any discovery of that increased wisdom? Have his methods changed in the least, except that his avarice for money has taken on a larger presentation, and his det Ation to execute M temporal rule inexorably, bum made more manl- M fest? H Conference will be on next week. Are there M not a few Mormons brave enough to rise in that j conference and to demand that the church shall be made subject to the generous and righteous M laws to this Republic? Tho first Joseph Smith jH always declared that the men who founded this lH Government were inspired. Has the later Joseph !H Smith any authority to say: "Never mind that, iH in spite of those inspired fathers, in spite of that ifl sacred Constitution and the Courts and Congress H that it authorized, we will be a law unto our- M selves?" fl For your own sakes, for the sake of the State ;H whioh is yours, more especially for your children 'jH have you not tho courage to do what you know 9 is right? fl |