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Show I THAT UNYIBLDING RULE. I J Hon. Frank Cannon has been a Senator of the I jl United States. Ho knows what real citizenship in I: ;1 this country means. He knows the kind o rule I ! that is seeking to debase and make serfs of every I I Mormon voter in Utah on Tuesday next, but he Hj J has not the strength to denounce it and to call II 1 1 upon other young men like himself to assert their II manhood at the polls and rebuke this usurpation j of power on the part of the chiefs of the dominant I creed in Utah. We suspect his reason is that he I ' "" 1 does not wish to jeopardise the influence and 1 standing that he now has among Mormons, know- fllfl 1 ng kw rigid and unyielding that priestly des- I 1 potism is. That fact ought to be a notice to the United 1 States Senate of what this Utah system really ! 1 means, and what a menace it is to free govern- j I ment, and ought to prepare that body to look I: If I closely into the political and personal status of B . H 1 Apostle Reed Smoot when he presents himself at i 1 i the Senate door bearing a commission as Senator, I. m 8 a commission voted for by servile voters and : m ,il signed by a Governor whose official acts are sub- ! :p I ject to orders from the head of a church, which ' jlf 1 is moreover a temporal kingdom, in direct oppo- ' m ,9 sition to the spirit of our institutions, and which in 1 1 1 lacks only the power to openly deride and defy the m I laws of the United States. Apostle Smoot really m I has no more place in the Senate of the United i! ,i States than would have the sword-bearer of the 1 1 : 8 Sultan of Turkey. |