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Show H What The American Party Stands For ON Saturday last in convention, the American party reaffirmed the principles on which it EH was founded and nominated a full state B and county ticket. The ticket averages as high B as any ticket ever nominated in the state. The B party for the first time flung out its standard over H the whole state, and its appeal is one that every B ' man and woman in the state should heed, for it B asks what every man and woman should accept B without question, to-wit: that the constitution B and laws guarantee, an ' olute separation of H church and state, an unt .meled ballot, and the H exact equality of every citizen before the law. Until this becomes the accepted rule in Utah all other questions -are minor ones; for while any other party succeeds, no matter who may be elected, so far as Utah's influence extends, it but carries out the will of fifteen men here, not one of whom by education or training is prepared to advise ad-vise wisely on national questions. Moreover, they are by their environments bound in fealty to an alien kingdom, which they hold to be of more consequence con-sequence than a dozen republics like ours. As all the hope that any other than the American party has is through the favor of these men who blas-phemiously blas-phemiously claim the right to rule, while Utah remains as it is, it is but a subject state; its people peo-ple a subject people. It is this that has held Utah back so long; it is this that has made sneaks and liars of so many men, Mormon and Gentile; it is this that made their chiefs ratify a constitution which they all tho time intended to deride; it Is this that causes those who lean upon them to keep still when they see the constitution and laws trampled upon daily. Five years ago the American party obtained control of this city. It has made some mistakes; some of those who have been entrusted entrust-ed with power have been unfaithful or incompetent, incompe-tent, but behold the change. It has amounted to a transformation of the city. The reason is plain enough. The American party had stood for the right; it has proclaimed that all men before the law shall stand on even ground; that the vote of the humblest citizen, inasmuch in-asmuch as it counts as much as any other man's vote, should be the vote of the citizen's own choice, guided only by his own patriotism. The advance in the city is the reflex of tne principles behind the party in control; for those principles are an appeal to every man's patriotism and his sense of duty; duty to the city, the state, the country, to his own family. Locally this last is most essential for as Utah stands today it stands for the degradation of woman and the enslavement enslave-ment of the best faculties of man. At this coming com-ing election young Utah will have the opportunity opportu-nity to show how much it is still enthralled, and what kind of a legacy it desires to leave for the next generation in Utah. The American party draws its protecting arms around every religion, but at the same time it points to the constitution and the laws and says, hands off from them. The enlightenment of the ages has found after weary trials and bloody experiences that the law is the only thing that the people can look to through which to maintain their natural rights; while the unfoldings of a century make clear that when the fathers proclaimed the absolute separation of church and state, under God they performed the greatest service to their fellow men that had been rendered them since the coming of the Mesiah. It is up to the men and women of Utah to decide whether Utah shall remain a reproach, or whether it shall in truth become a free and imperial sovereign sov-ereign state. |