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Show SUPPOSE! Suppose that Bishop' Scanlan was the President Presi-dent of two or three mining companies, that at every election Father Kieley, Father Morrissey and the other priests were all tmsy at the primaries, pri-maries, in the conventions, and were working to secure the election of a legislature that would In turn elect Father Murphy to the senate, and were saying that it was the Pope's will, what would the people say? Suppose Dr. McNiece was President Pres-ident of an Irrigation company, a sugar factory and a silk mJJl, that at primaries and in conven tions he was always insistent that all the high m officers should be saved for Presbyterians. What H would the people say? Suppose Dean Eddy was m wont to go about explaining that his church wag m the established church; that men who do not be- H long to it are not fitting persons to trust with H high political office, what would , the people say? H Suppose a new Dowle should drop in upon us and H claim that he was the original Isaiah reincar- nated, and that he was the only duly accredited H agent of Almighty God and the only one who had H a right to direct the people in temporal and pollt H leal matters, what would hapepn then? H Well, all these suppositions seem strange H merely because we are not accustomed to them H buti it is clear that should either of the above H suppositions become a fact, a great storm would H be raised. The tenor of it all is that there will H be repeated storms here which will disturb busl- H ness until the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- H day Saints gets itself and its chief priests out c! H politics: H |