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Show All That's in the Way. Bishop Whitney in his discourse in the Tabernacle Taber-nacle last Sunday plead for a better feeling between be-tween Mormons and Gentiles. That was a kindly thought on the part of the bishop, but he muBt keep in mind that every Gentile who for forty years in Utah has plead for a righteous adherence to just laws, has been advertised in the Church organ as an enemy of the Church, and as a person whose highest aim has been to despoil Mormons of their property. Probably it is natural that Mormons Mor-mons who look to that organ as inspired have a feeling that the worst men in the world are the . Gentiles in Utah. As to the Gentiles we do not believe that there is any feeling toward the Mor-' Mor-' mon people except kindness, and pity that they will not assert themselves and demand the rights which are inherently theirs, and which have been promised them In the most solemn manner by the men who control them. Bishop Whitney is liable to be an apostle at any time. He is one of the able men of the. Church; bis scholarship, his native eloquence, his work in Utah all his life all point to him as a probable successor to the late Apostle Merrill. No man better than Bishop Whitney knows that all the present .trouble in this city is not due to Gentiles. Gen-tiles. It is due entirely to the high officers in the Mormon Church who will not keep the promises they made in order to obtain statehood. So far as the masses of Gentiles are concerned, the only demand they have to make Is that the Ghurch shall take itself out of politics, that the' "high officers shall confine themselves to the duties of their ecclesiastical offices, and let politics alone. So long as It is possible for Apostle Smoot to come here and dictate who shall be nominated for office of-fice this hostility will go on, and this bitterness and unrest will continue, notwithstanding the general gen-eral feeling of Gentiles is a warm desire that this insistence on the part of the chiefs' shall pasa away, that the gyeat masses of the Mormon people shall stand up -as free as the Gentiles are, tto espouse whatever political ideas they please to, to perform whatever political acts they may believe to .be right, to vote as they please without inter-ference inter-ference from the men who solemnly promised that these privileges should forever more, without ques-tion, ques-tion, be theirs. jH |