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Show THE REPUBLIC OR THE DESPOTISM, WHICH? In one hundred and fifteen years our country has advanced from a fringe of settlements along the Atlantic coast to the front place among the nations of the earth, why? It has been solely because be-cause it has been "a government of the people, by the people, and for the people." The stock of men who headed this onward march was precisely the same as that north of the St Lawrence and the lakes, but the young men and women of the Dominion Do-minion have made a steady, increasing procession, across the line to the United States through all those one hundred and fifteen years, because over their old homes has been, all the time, the shadow of a throne, behind the throne a standing army and the rule of a king beyond the Atlantic. On the south is Mexico, a fairer, richer land than ours, it was settled by as brave a race as ever drew sword, but up to twenty-five years ago, there was increasing squalor, ignorance, brutality, crime and a steady national decay because there had been the despotism of kings and the tyranny of a priesthood priest-hood that had become so corrupted that they used the forms of a church to the more effectually degrade, de-grade, debase and impoverish the people, until man's integrity and woman's virtue became themes for jest. fcj c5 t5 Our land has prospered as no land ever did before, be-fore, solely because all men have stood on an equality before the law, eveiy man's mind has been free to speak, write and vote as he pleased, to worship God as he pleased, to do any legitimate legiti-mate thing unhampered by any friction of the laws. The opportunities for acquiring wealth or winning honors and promotion have been open to all alike, to the humble poor as well the more favored fa-vored rich and of all the Presidents of the Itepub. lie, from Washington to Roosevelt, every one sprang from the ranks of the common people, some of them from abject povtrty, and worked their own way to honor and fame. Utah has just elected a United States Senator. Sen-ator. His brother fanatics in a delirium of joy supported him. Perhaps they are not to blame. It is only twelve years since the wisest of them began to study the principles on which our government govern-ment was founded, or to read the history of the events which make up American history, or to try to comprehend how, through peace and war, our flag has been kept "full hfgh advanced," without one stain upon its shining folds; how all the time the hopes of the people have been kept exultant. All the time a superstitious fear has been upon the souls of the majority in Utah that ha3 be- ' numbed their higher selves, that has blinded their eyes to the fact that the aim of those who keep their minds in thralldom and who rob them of their earnings without an accounting, is to insidiously in-sidiously disintegrate the foundations on which this Republic rests, this government of the people, peo-ple, and to substitute in its stead such a government govern-ment as has kept Western Asia at war, in ignorance ignor-ance and poverty and shame since a thousand years before the tragedy of Calvary. J & & But Gentiles voted to make this man Smoot Senator; some through personal friendship, some through the hope of bettering their business affairs, af-fairs, some through nursing the delusive hope that possibly the vote would eventuate in bringing bring-ing honors to themselves. But we ask all such, now that the work is done, to reflect what the result would be were twenty two more states to follow their example. The real government of tho United States would not be in Washington, but would be on the corner of South Temple and State streets, in this city, where the American Pope holds hia Court, for while the man they v ted for is now Senator-elect and an Apostle, he dare not disobey an order made by the President of the Kingdom to which he has, with terrible oaths, given his only real allegiance Then would follow the boycott and persecution persecu-tion of all who did not Subscribe to that rule; pro-motions pro-motions would only be through the Church; tho vote of the people would be a unit as commanded by the head of the Church; polygamy would be given the authority of a national statute for the revelation stands as binding as ever and the practice prac-tice has only been partially suspended. No one claims that it has been abolished! No pledge from those in power would be any more binding than was that given by the then President of the Church and the present President that there should be no interference by the High Priests with the politics of the people; the old reign of terror immensely intensified would be re-introduced. Then would begin the dry rot of the nation na-tion which never fails when a people are so enthralled; en-thralled; every purpose of the immortals who framed our government would be defeated or civil war would rage in every state. Every Gentile who voted tor Reed Smoot voted for this change. It is said that Reed Smoot is an amiable man and good business man. Granted. It is not on this account that he is opposed; it was not for those qualities or qualifications that he was elected. He was elected solely because of his priestly office in the kingdom, hostile in every attribute to the government of the United States. It is for that reason that he is opposed and should be denied de-nied a seat in the senate, for not only is his fealty all to another government, but he is a slave to a master that can absolutely control his mind, his soul and, if admitted, his voice and votes' in the senate of the United States. |