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Show The Lectures of Dubois. . -H The Deseret News, that has declared Senator Dubois as politically dead and permanently (lis- jfl graced, after all does not seem to take kindly to jl the announcement that the ex-Senator is to take the lecture platform. It affects to believe that "'fl the ox-Senator will tell lies about the Mormon 'H Church and its chiefs. For instance, it by impll- cation at least denies his statement that in cer- il tain States no man can be elected to the Senate il of tho United States without tho help and favor of the Mormon Church. Of course the ex-Senator means the controlling few in the church, who aro in truth the church from day to day. Is that un- true? How is it in Utah? To ask the question is to answer it. And if it is true the principle which the ox-Senator is contending for is estab- lished. He might have said that in any state where there are Mormons, tho vote of every one jH of those Mormons will be cast against any man Whom the first presidency and apostles for any reason desire to have defeated. That would have been true certainly, and we iH hardly think the News will deny it. For instance; 11 Senator Newlands of Nevada and Senator Patter- jH son of Colorado voted to deny Senator Smoot his 11 seat. Does any one believe that either could over again obtain a Mormon vote? ' The News knows many gentlemen in Utah who have hopes of being elected to the Senate. Does ( it know cne in the whole list who has any hopes ' in that direction except through Mormon Church influence? Hardly. That brings us to another point in the article of the News. It declares that Mr. Dubois would disfranchise the Mormon people because of their religious beliefs. Then comes back the old question, With the Mormon creed where does religion leave off and 'H politics begin? In his article in Out West, printed over his own signature less than two years ago, President Joseph F. Smith, purporting to give "The Truth About Mormonism," declared that Joseph Smith received his freed directly from God, through di- vine hnmiM, and that gave him the right to rule all members of that creed in all things, both tern- poral and spiritual, and that by regular succes- sion all that power was continued to his success- ors in the presidency. There were no roserva- tions; the power thus conferred was absolute. This Mormon rule then amounts to a govern- ment, does it not? It makes the Mormon gov- ornment, then, a government within tho Govern- ment of tho United States, does it not? And can a man give his allegiance to a power which claims divine right to rule him in all things, and at the jH same time give any but a secondary fealty to any other government? Is ex-Senator Dubois, then, fighting a man's H religious beliefs when he declares his belief that iH only real citizens of the United States should take part in it's government? To gain statehood and to recover certain '9 church property, which had been seized by the H United States Government, the present head of , B the Mormon Church declared that henceforth H there should never again be any interference with the masses of the Mormon people politically; that &gsasaaCB- - . -1 .JHHMII I they should espouse any political principles which they might pleaso to, and vote for whom they pleased without dictation or coercion on the part of the church. His present position is as stated in Out West; that by direct succession he has a divine right to direct this people spiritually and temporally, ! which last, of course, includes politics and busi ness. Again, his testimony In Washington that he was continually violating the laws of both God and man, can have but one interpretation, whioh is that he, having in his own person a divine right to rule In all things, ho is not bound by any laws of man, and that the so-oalled laws of God, which ordinary men revere, have no binding force on him; which alio included his idea that he is not bound to keep his own word when for a purpose pur-pose it is given to deceive the ungodly Gentiles. In that view what was more natural than his command (for to one with divine powers a request re-quest or a word of advice is equivalent to a command) com-mand) in the Improvement Bra last autumn that all Mormons who had been thinking they wore Democrats should change their minds and vote the Republican ticket? Did not the Mormons so understand and respond, here and in Idaho? It was a violation of the Constitution of the United States and of Utah, and that kind of business is intolerable in a Republic which rests entirely upon the free ballots cast by a patriotic people. And this Is1 the view that most of the intelligent intelli-gent people of the United States entertain. If in the Interest of a political trade certain high officers of the Government are constrained to lend aid and comfort to this Imperium In-imperlo, In-imperlo, the principle Is not changed. Ex-Senator Dubois has announced his purpose to go out among the peoplo of the Republic and pioturo the real situation where this so-called divine agent rules. We do not wonder that the special organ of this power is disgruntled while contemplating what an earnest man may be able to do. |