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PifflBHB to a ni&u occlesiast fr political preferment in B lMm place of looking to the statesmen and the citi- B ulB zens aml 1,1 0 l,ollticlans fr llls help, the civil B IHBk government will be banned and injured; patrlot- B 'JiHB ism will be weakened, and thus unintentional B l ''llafflB though it may be with some, liberty is injured B 1 ' ;111BB ancl afEectetl ere it should be upheld. Blaine B ijBBH said' 'Tliat tno nrst ImPulse of an American is B equality,' and Charles Sumner said, 'That the B ' lBBB flrst rignts is equality of rights,' and here in Utah, B 1BBB as wo11 n otner states in the Union, we should 9B i'IImw Mmm foster that idea which says that we grant only IB ilHw tlie courtesy that is due equals, and I say again, B MilwB 111 Qt Rer,"-',-!'cau Party ls greater than any jB jwB man in it, and if "we have had our old man of the BB jpjBB SGa' US Gd'S salcG' Iilco Sinljad' throw B' ifj wBBI "ll is sai(I tliat wo may flght a macnIn with B llPBHS a machine. Let us see whether we can or not. flff ' 'iHm BB Suppose at the head of one of those machines SR.- ' Jfi BB there is an apostle of the dominant church and BS hk lllS HlaCllln0 wants a certaIu thing done, say, in Millard county. He may send to a churchman in Millard county to go and gee a certain party or to do a certain thing that he desires to have done and it is accomplished, but the other machine ma-chine that does not have the apo3tle at its head is unable to use such methods. How are you going to meet such a situation as that? Now, we are proposing this resolution and the Democratic Demo-cratic party will pass a similar one, because God knows they have no other reason tor existing exist-ing and have no other vital issues in this state. My friends, W. H. King and B. H. Roberts with their great loquacity and eloquence have used great platitudes and said that men may worship as they please, and that all men are created equal, etc. Why, of course, this is true, but what we want is a concrete statement, a vital assertion, asser-tion, not mere platitudes. Wo don't want uuy. machine such as I have spoken of, dominated by any ecclesiast. If we adopt this resolution, you will find that when a high ecclesiast sends word to Tom Smith about some political affair in some remote county, the word will come back 'You attend to your knitting and . will attend to politics,' and that's what we want in Utah, which is and ought to be one of the most glorious states in the Union. You may not adopt this resolution today, but a movement of this kind will not M'ep go on and on and like the sunlight of the dawn-backward. dawn-backward. As Victor Hugo says, 'Right Is invincible in-vincible and truth is eternal,' and the idea will go on and on like the sunlight of the dawning dawn-ing day, it will advance and dispel the gloom of the valley and the uncertainty of political work. Lincoln said of Gettysburg, that there "was honor enough to go all around, so, if this resolution is passed today, there will be honor enough to go all around in this convention." After Mr. Harrington finished his opening, there were various speeches made, both against rind for the resolution. In closing the debate, iu Harrington said: "Out of fair courtesy to the lady from the north county (Cache), who has spoken, I should perhaps answer her briefly first. Regarding the standing of the pioneers and their coming to the West, I allow no person to go before. me in my devotion to the work of the pioneers. My father was one of the pioneers of 1847 and he helped kill the snakes and build the bridges. But all of this is beside the question. The point here it.: Is it tenable, is it right, for a high ecclesiast to hold a high civil position while he' is holding the church position? This resolution is impersonal to the Mormon church. It says that we are opposed to any high ecclesiast of any denomination denomina-tion whatsoever," etc. A Delegate: "Where would you draw the line?" "I would draw the line at apostles in the Mormon church and at officers of equal rank In other churches. But it is said you would exclude ex-clude a person because he happens to hold a high church office. In answer to that I say, that I will exclude an apostle and equally high persons per-sons in other churches for the reason that they are dedicated to other service and they cannot have their cake and eat it too. If they have eligibility for office, they must not accept sacred duties and high ecclesiastical stations that will remove tbelr eligibility. You cannot disassociate disasso-ciate the ecclesiast from the politician. It makes a composite character, one part of it political, and the other religious, and you cannot divide them in one person, and it is wrong essentially and fundamentally wrong. "My friends here say that whispering has been carried on. I kay, if you pass this resolution it will do away with the whispering, and the whisperer will lose his vitality, and aside from all this, this principle will tend to glorify freedom, free-dom, passify our state, and will make it more truly happy than ever before. Montgomery has beautifully said: B There is a spot on earth supremely blest, I A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest, I Where shall that place, that spot on earth be I found I Art thou a man, a par t, look around, I Oh, thou shall find how e'er thy footsteps roam, I That place, thy country, and that spot thy home!'" |