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Show THE POWER THAT RULES HERE. We have been told by a high Mormon authority au-thority that when a man has once subscribed to the faith of the Latter-day Saints and has been baptised, he thereafter may do about anything he pleases except to apostatize, and still his soul's salvation is secure. Hence we see how without trepidation President Smith, Apostle Lyman and others testifying before the senate committee that they are living in defiance of he laws of both God and man, without any apparent comprehension of the enormity of their offenses, or the effect of such sworn testimony upon the state in which they live and reign. In the same spirit the News is published, for what should an editor so entrenched care what he writes or how easy it is to establish that what he writes is untrue. In this campaign we do not think that any time need be wasted on young Utah, for their's is the most convenient faith ever invented, for it holds that anything to deceive Gentiles is all right. Something no more to be accounted for than are the tithing funds after they have once been taken into the man of the church. But Gentiles surely ought to be on the alert. The Gentile that this year votes for Mr. Morris or Mr. Lynch or any Mormon candidate for council, coun-cil, gives a vote of confidence to the men who admit that they are restrained neither by human nor divine laws. The News tells us how the knockers are retarding the progress of Salt Lake. But really that testimony before the senate committee did more in three hours to keep earnest, intelligent, law-abiding and decent people from coming here than all the newspaper articles that could be written in a year could do. And there will be no progress here until it is known that this city is taken from under that lawless and merciless and tyrratlical control. This city today ought to have a population of 200,000 people. It would have had could the start made by the coming of statehood been kept up. Why was it not kept up? Is there any possible answer except that the dominant power here shamelessly broke its plighted faith, and returned re-turned to the nastiness and brutality of the old days? What would England do in such a case, what would France, what would Germany, what would any Christian nation of the earth, except our own do? What would any American community do, situated as the Gentiles are here? Would not their ballots be as a unit to save this city to free government gov-ernment In the souls of young Mormons growing up in Utah, the germ of patriotism is never permitted to expand, for all their, fealty is given to another power. Their leaders tell them that all who do not subscribe to their faith are enemies. In the meantime they are being educated edu-cated at government expense in West Point and Annapolis, and queerly enough an education in either of those schools does not change them, their fealty to the higher authorities of their creed is not shaken. What then should Gentiles here do? Certainly their protest should be unanimous at the ballot. Self-preservation is one of God's laws. There can be no way to strike for it here except to beat down the despotism that rules here with the ballots of a free people. |