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Show TO GENTILES! I BE AMERICANS TODAY I j 1 j i BH !i H 1" AMERICAN PARTY TICKET AMERICAN PARTY TICKET AMERICAN PARTY TICKET I . THEy T0 theW to THt ro I f wayvote- wayvote wayMvote I ft r Since two years after Utah became a state the politics persued by Mormons has been but a raw t? confidence game on Gentiles. U Do you not believe it? See how Apostle Smoot became senator! ? See how Governor Cutler became governor! See how the legislatures have been controlled! t See how pretended Republican and Demo- i cratic Mormons in the city council have, forget- I ting their oaths, become mere church slaves! 1 See how one church slave was made to get off I his ticket after nomination, that the greater slave, Fernstrom, who had been repudiated in his ward, i ft might be given the place! f See the last attempt through an obscure f church sheet to notify the faithful to vote for i Lynch, the purpose to make Gentile Republicans i hopeful of victory and to vote their ticket, then see the Deseret News of last evening with the covert endorsement of Morris! Have you not played as long as you care to s at that confidence game? There is no sincere Mormon who gives his true fealty to the government and flag of the republic. I His real allegiance is to another power, there I is another standard more sacred to him than "Old I Glory." I When a sincere Mormon casts an American H free ballot he does it with the mental reservation H that what he does is subject to a higher power II which be i bound to obey on call. His act is in violation of the constitution, in derision of the laws, in contempt of free government, govern-ment, an insult to Gentiles, a dishonor to himself. him-self. Have you not had enough of it? Mayor Morris is a subject of this power. Chief Lynch expects, if elected, to be elected by the sufferance of this church power, and is thus handicapped from the start. Is it not time to shake off the disgrace and shame? - Is it not time that Salt Lake should have a government of the people, by the people and FOR the people? Every patriotic instinct appeals to you; every manly instinct appeals to you to be no longer the victims of this confidence game; every material interest appeals to you to take the weights off that are holding Salt Lake down and to give it a chance to expand. "And be these juggling fiends no more believed, be-lieved, that palter with us in a double sense; that keep the word of promise to our ear and break it to our hope." Keep in mind that no Gentiles are to blame for the present upheaval here. It has .all come from the broken faith and double dealing of the men who blasphemously call themselves the earthly mouthpieces of the infinite God. Keep in mind that this broken faith is not only to you, but to the government of the United States, that the pledges were made to one Repub- wA lican and one Democratic president; to one Demo- H cratic and one Republican congress, were in- IH tended as something that would work an insult to H those in highest stations who would be credulous H enough and generous enough to believe that the M Mormon church chiefs, who are the church, could M for once be sincere. M There are many good Mormons who deplore jH all this, but they have not the strength to de- H nounce it and to demaficr that justice sl&ll be H done. For their sakes Gentiles should determine H today to be true to themselves and their country. H Gentiles have most at stake in Salt Lake City. iH They pay largely more than half the taxes; the H city is just now in a position, which, in their m& hands, would soon expand into real progress. mM That progress would be a boon to Gentiles and H Mormons alike. Why should it not be en. H couraged? jH With Joseph F. Smith's and Apostle Lyman's iH testimony in Washington, with the endorsement M by a mighty conference of Smith and Lyman and M Taylor and Cowley, a notice was served on the j men and women of the United States that Utah M is no place for law-abiding men to come to, no M place in which to bring up families. M An American triumph will turn that impres- M sion down. Let us turn it down. M If you vote for either the so-called Republi- M can or the so-called Democratic ticket today, M you vote to continue the rule that has blasted and disgraced Salt L?ke for years, and kept the j city, despite its place and opportunities, merely drifting. Neither 3Mr Morris nor Mr. Lynch can be elected without, in part at least, binding themselves them-selves to this Juggernaut that grinds its slow way over advancement, progress and free thought. Have we not had enough of that? Remember, too, that it is not enough to elect Mr, Thompson. He must be supported by a city council made up of men great and true enough to do right though the heavens fall, -v No more Fernstroms, no more Hartensteins are wanted. There is no vengeance sought in all this, only justice and a desire to restore the good name of Salt Lake City and to start it on a career of pros- perity. It is, not a fight against any man's faith, it is simply a jight or justice and right, and to place Salt Lake City in line with other American cities. When the Liberals won their first victory here, in the first year of their administration the death ijate- of the city was reduced 62J4 per cent, because be-cause the "city was cleaned. 1 Another cleaning is needed now to reduce the nastiness of the city, in the estimation of the na-i na-i fion, another 62J per cent. ) We' have great industries for which Salt Lake is the clearing house, new railroads are coming l tliis way from both the east and the west, this t should be an American city to receive them on I their arrival. t So nearly as church dictation can make them i every Mormon vote will be cast to maintain the paralysis that is now upon business, the obloquy that is now on the good name of the city. The way to turn that result aside is for every Gentile to vote today and to vote for Gentiles only. It is the right thing to do. With Mormons in control of the city's public utilities, so long as they control the mayor and council, those utilities will be nursed, given more power and more and more will be removed the little protection which citizens now enjoy. 5 The allot is the American weapon of peace. Let all Americans wield it today. It is due to the pure women who were your mothers. It is due the trust that was handed down to you by the fathers. It is due the flag that through a hundred years, in peace and war, in triumph and in sorrow, has taken on new splendor through the years until it is now the hope of the world's oppressed, the symbol of a power before which the mightiest nations of the past seem, by comparison, weak and second rate which is the world's splendor today. Under its light, more than for any other reason, rea-son, the chains have melted from the wrists of the poor of Russia and they have been made sharers in their government; tl e same has been granted in Austria-Hungary; it shines, revered and triumphant over every land and sea .except in Utah. I it not time that it light should begin to bring benediction and grace and glory to Utah? |