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Show I: i; THE REASON WHY. fp A friend asks us why we are struggling to y'l array the Gentiles of Utah against the Mormons; : .pi if the Mormons are not good people, etc. ' Pi) We have tried to show more than once that 1 r this insistance on our part for Gentiles to vote r this year for none but Gentiles was to gratify no ) spite, to serve no private interest, to harm no !, j Mormons. The situation is dimply this: Mr. jtj.jf Morris is running for office as a Democrat, Mr. Lynch as a Republican. Those terms are mis-1 mis-1 ; nomers in Utah in this year of our Lord, be-' be-' j ' cause about half the voters in this city do not j J consider whether they are Republicans or Demo-:j Demo-:j crats, but are waiting for instructions from men j ' : ' whose souls are not done up in the majesty and wp glory of this great republic, but who are intent In,' upon building up a kingdom on this free soil No liN which is the very antipodes of free government as understood by the free men of this republic. ltf' These leaders, under the most solemn circum-jfjjj circum-jfjjj stances, promised that henceforth they would jj 1 keep their priestly hands out of politics and' that I 1 their people should thenceforth be free; free to i ' think and to vote as they pleased. They broke i that covenant; they betrayed the people their jj i own people and the Gentiles who trusted them and hurled so far as they could shame and dis-V dis-V 1 1 honor upon the government of the United States. ITij;! For years we have pointed out that such a state of affairs was intolerable; for years we have belli be-lli sought the Mormon masses to rouse themselves, ' mm to shake off this superstitious fear that enthralls j raw. . their lives, but all in vain. The leaders have nei-: nei-: 'MM i ther the ho.sty nor the sense of justice to re-P re-P iii ' treat from the position they hold, to renew their t ; j covenants and to release their people from a Mil degrading vassalage, and the people have not the 1 ' ; strength to break the chains in which their souls i'j: are bound. jgjjlj', Hence, it is a duty to sound a long, loud call I Itli to a Gentiles to this year, and for all future I !wtl years until this usurpation is given up, to vote for I w only Gentiles. To vote either of the other tickets I jipff is but to encourage these self-constituted leaders ; jiflffi to persevere in their tyranny. It is to degrade f H every Gentile who thinks he is serving this or ffil that party and to further degrade the Mormon jjittj voters who are in the coils of this commercial Pk and political power that calls itself a creed. 'jjHH Then, too, the best interests of the city de- . , . Mm mand this stand. The city has been drifting ! fffil merely for eight years past. Situated where it ! IsBn ought to be the most prosperous spot between 1 .ijflji the seas, it has no prosperity save such as comes ! pHm not through present conditions, but in spite of jfiOl It is not a question whether this or that can- jpij didate, personally, is not a more loveable or just 11 as honest a man as some other candidate, but it fflffl is a question of self-government, of self-respect, : ; jflU of justice, the vindication of free institutions, of I hH ProsPery and progress of the city. lgH It may not succeed this year, but it is liable to, flH and with a solid Gentile vote for only Gentiles, it MjHI will be a protest filed which will grow in sig-jJaH sig-jJaH ' .nificance the longer it is considered, and will f I IB haunt the pillows of these usurpers here until at ' ''HI ast ose pillows will seem to be filled with fljJHj thorns. America for Americans should be the J'fjwi ' slogan this year. |
