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Show For Good Saints to Consider We hope our saintly friends are keeping watch nowadays of what Is going on in Utah and Idaho. They will see that both states are torn with heartburnings; they will see at the same time that it all comes through the determination of the chiefs of their creed to control the politics of this state and to dictate who shall hold the high offices of our sister state. Of course, you know that they deny this to the world. Of course you know their denial is untrue. And while you obey them in political matters you are partners with them in their falsehoods. When Mr. Smoot persisted per-sisted in being a candidate for the senate, we, without any personal unkindness to him or to the Mormon people, said it would sew dragon's teeth in Utah. Were we not right? Did you read the testimony of President Smith, of Apostles Lyman and Smoot, without a sense of shame that what you have all your lives been taught as holy should be thus dragged in the mire? Have you not felt the humiliation of having a majority of a great senate committee, after three years of investiga-tion, investiga-tion, declare that one of your trusted apostles js not fit to take part in making laws for this country? Then see to what extremities he ls forced to resort. Do you ever read the newspaper that has been established here in his behalf? Have you noticed how coarse it is and how it shrinks at nothing to make it appear that it is a real He. publican paper, run honestly in behalf of the Republican Re-publican party, and can you not see through the thin disguise that it was established for no purpose pur-pose except to deceive some credulous Repuhli-cans Repuhli-cans here and the country at large? What would you think of Bishop Scanlan or Bishop Spalding or the Rev. Dr. McNiece if they were to take an active part to weld all the Roman Catholics", or the Episcopalians, or the Presbyterians into a solid political body? And what would you think were either one of them to dare to name the candidates can-didates for office in Utah, from governor down? And if this had been the chief business of Bishop Scanlan for years, what would you think were the Intermountain Catholic, at stated intervals, to deny that the Catholic church had aught to do with politics, and at other stated Intervals advise its readers covertly not to mind any party obligations, obliga-tions, but to vote for the men who would serve God, meaning the church, best? Have you not strength enough to shake off this superstitious fear that is upon you? You have been taught that the Constitution of the United States was inspired. How dare you, then, vote for men who have been deriding that sacred instrument for years? Your people had trouble in Kirtland, Ohio, and had to get out. It was the same way in Missouri and Illinois. The trouble was chiefly because Joseph Jo-seph Smith persisted in double dealing in the poll-tics poll-tics of those states. That is still kept up by your I chiefs in Utah. Arq.you sure of your tenure here? In Idaho the 'cry is raised to .disfranchise you mil. Do you not see more troubles ahead? |