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Show ' W To Go Under Young Utah v;j( Try t0 think of things in Utah as they are. -MM Try to think what is right, what should be to I III make Utah an honored state in the Union and iH-' you a nanPy People. There is no liberty worth Rl ' H f'Ma'' tnG name saVG tlie lll)erty tliat accepts the con- iH 1 'US ' tro1 of rIshteous laws. That you shall make that iH'i'' '- surrender is all that is asked of you; it is all sHr ,'ffil j tllat lias ever eQn asked of your people, and the H, 'Vim, refusal to accept that has made all youh trouble, Vi j'l'lliffl) : even from the inception of your system. Look ' around you. No law holds its heavy hand upon B' ''Hw you A11 tliIs land ls opcn to you A11 Its oppor" Hr ":.,. 'nm' tunities, all its honors. The only limitations up- , on you are within yourselves. If the highest B Vjjf places are not reached by you it is not because B '''si vernment discriminates against you, it is ' V; because you either have not the courage to try, B ' ' ''KM tllc tonaclty to 1101,1 on or tlie capacity to grasp K i ' i what is within your reach. But this you must do w i' j! i legally, and if the laws are in your eyes in any v l! 'sBr' way defective you must, by legal and civilized Hi jjjjUji methods, have them amended or repealed. R jlfi' rajf What other land gives its people such oppor B jljjjflj ; tunities? But gentle as this government is, it, V l' 'Mm ! J nevertheless is exacting. It will not bear any Hp ;!;Vrjffi j divided sovereignty, and the one thing that it H j.v-jj?' m I insists upon above all others is, hat those who H , Mjj hKP . claim its protection, that share in n.g bounties and H JP! j claim the privilege to cast its ballot, shall in re- BHjBifflljj turn give to it full allegiance. The work or your H .ijjjS f priests, playing upon your superstitious fears, to H ' '''''' toach you that your first allegiance is to the temporal as well as spiritual kingdom which your president claims to be the sovereign of, is what 'has made the trouble for your people in Missouri, in Illinois, and what has churned Utah with unrest and bitterness, and loss of both property and standing most of the time since you were born. And it will be the same or worse until either you will assert yourselves and insist that your so-called so-called shepherds shall cause this so-called church, like all other churches in this country, to conform con-form itself to the mild demands of this government, govern-ment, or the government will lay its heavy hand upon you and compel obedience to. its constitution and its laws. You can begin the work next Tuesday. And you need do nothing that your president did not long ago say you should through all time have the full right to do, namely, to think as you please and vote as you please. If on the other hand, you vote as A. Milton Musser has requested you to do, and vote be-cause be-cause you understand that Musser's recommendation recommenda-tion is really a command of Joseph F. Smith's; then you are not any true citizens of the United States and deserve to have the ballot stricken from your unworthy hands. ' And that is what it will come to at last, for not always will this Republic Re-public permit that its ballot shall be handled by alien hands. You who are married and have children, before you go to the polls on Tuesday next, look in the faces of your wives and into the cradles where your children are sleeping and then ask yourselves if you want any stronger incentive in-centive than their welfare to compel you to perform per-form a simple duty. |