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Show THE OLD ROLE OF THE NEWS. H With vehement iteration the News denies that 199 anything like church rule in this .ity is unknown, 1 HI and challenges proof to the contrary. The News !u9 did that same thing for many years, only to have ! mV its capacity for prevarication advertised by the ' WM heads of the church when they came out and said 19 they would never again seek to control the po- . H9 litical thoughts or ballots of the people . The ! j H bluff of the News is precisely as was the re- ' t MB ply of Falstaff when asked to explain why he had , 3fl hacked his sword and why he had so grossly lied. ' jfll to which the great liar replied that if reasons were 61 thick as blackberries he would never give a rea- IjBH son on compulsion. The fight in the council over ' JfJl the franchise job was in itself a reasonably ap- jfl parent reason; the fights in school elections are jfl pretty good evidence; the presence of JReed jm Smoot in Washington with a Senator's commiss- j 9 ion is conclusive evidence; the fact that both Mr. ', $B Lynch and Mayor Morris are counting on Church ; ' ffl help is another reason; the fact that both are ' jfl wondering today who the teachers, the night H previous to election, will in whispers tell the peo- ' SI pie who to vote for is pretty good evidence. ' fl What was Joseph F. Smith's final harangue ' 3j in Conference except to declare that he was h ifi speaking as God's own vicegerent, and if he is ! j 9 what can his dupes do but obey? And would the S News have us believe that one like him, the ; j B President and head of a dozen of the chief in- i M dustries of Utah, with absolute power, with the B spell of a mighty superstition over thousands .of K blind followers,, is holding himself aloof and .not 1 W perpetually mixing in the government of the City si 5 where most of the industries center? E 3 The News has been a steady liar for its creed ,'t ' for nearly half a century, does anyone expect it m to change now? Has it not always been the de- j I fender of every wrong and crime of the Church M leaders? Have any of them ever fathered any j job too awful for the News to defend? Why j 19 should it change its habits now? li ' H In the coming election national policies will M be eliminated. There is but a single issue and joj that is between the rule of the people and the rule ' 9 of a few self-appointed grasping priests. Where 9 in such a campaign should any man who believes 9 I, in the sovereignty of a free people and in their , jflf right to govern themselves, stand? There is not t i i ! H one gentile here who does not know that neither ( !K the Democratic nor Republican candidates B mayorand councilmen can be elected, except by j IB making such concessions to this church-power as H will handicap their usefulness for two years to j jflj come; why lose any more time? Why make a j ,31 Punch and Judy show of the City Government , i 'MI any longer? |