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Show I No Caste Nor Class. "What a lovely old prevaricator the News is. In a long article it announces that all Mormons stand on common ground; that when a man is given membership in the priesthood, it is by divine di-vine authority; but even that does not enable him to form a class by himself; that all good Saints stand on common ground. How must the Saints smile as they read that. But does any ruff-scuff Saint from the country ever call at the News oillce and, slapping the editor in cW on the back, say, "old man, loan me $f?" And when a brother Saint starts a salt manufactory out by the lake, does he come in and say, ' "trother, Joseph, I am running a little .opposition to your salt plant, but we will still bo friends." Or is he sent for and told that the spirit of apostacy must be upon 'him, for by the grace of God all the profits in that salt that the lake holds in solution belong to Joseph. When a meeting of the Saints for any purpose is called and there are elders, bishops, patriarchs, presidents of stakes and one apostle, why is the apostle always called to the chair, though he may I be a chump and could not preside for sour apples? ap-ples? ' |