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Show i, Good Saints, It Is Up to You. Scattered through Utah are thousands of ' earnest, honest men and women, who believe that ) the American party In Salt Lake City Is made up I i of had men Who would if they could break up the J Mormon faith. About all they read Is he DeTseret f ll News, which tells them dally that there are bad It - mda here, intent by all means in their 4power to 1 3 ", - destroy the religion of the Saints, and at the same V--:',' time to make war upon their property. There are ? ftvo questions which such people ought' to ask l thomselves. One is, has the coming of Gentiles i to Utah hurt them financially? Has their flevo- ' tibn to their church resulted in extraordinary gain i to them? Let them think what Utah would now have been had no Gentiles ever come hero. , . Again, has not their religion resulted in giving all ' the honors and most of the property of the Mor- mons to a few families? Suppose the plan of thoir system had been to establish an aristocrucy through which a few families wore in the end to ;! hold all the positions and to own the bulk of the property, what bettor scheme could have been devised de-vised than the one Introduced here by Brigham Young and whioh has boen strictly followed ' fc since? You have been taught from childhood up that the faith which is yours, the system which you jf obey, is an exact counterpart of the faith and the System whioh tho Savior instituted on earth. If ( you believe that, then, lest you be mistaken, reaa , J the Now Testament thoroughly and see if you can n trace tho slightest similarity between the two. If I r 0 you cannot, then turn a little back and read how II ' tilings wore in Judea in Solomon's time, and see Jk--' if you do not discover the model on which this B creed was founded. ' W There wag a Icing and court and the people I " Wre taxed to the limit. There was BM 1 built and the stables of the king, dp Stables fpr his horses and chariots were ftiy finer and more costly than the homes of the people. Ana Solomon had wives almost without number. But ,' "the Son of Man had not where to lay his ' head." He wont about barefoot to teach the peo ple. He never held an office, never wae president - of a financial or industrial company, never dio-i dio-i tated who should be elected to office, never sought to control a legislature or a city couholl. When he died he. was not possessed of enough earthly Wealth to purchase for his body a burial place. .1 However, those are matters for each man to H decide for himself. But the founder of your IJ creed repeatedly declared that the Constitution of the United States was inspired. That Constitution Consti-tution provided for a government of law. Even the fvork gf thp President and Congress was made subj&ot te whtt. construction the supremo court might plade. Qjit. That instrument provided for the ab&dlutQ separation of churoh and state. Now, that Constitution was framed only some seventeen years before the birth of your prophet. God hardly changed his mind in that time. And that brings us down to what your duty will be on election day.. Are you going to be dictated tp by anyone? This is a government, not Of priests and kings, but of the people. Tho people thrdugh their representatives "have had control of this city for nearly tvvo ,yeafs past. You have seen more advancement here in that time than you saw fox fifteen years prior to 1889, when your priests had undisturbed rule here. And it has bonefited Mormon and Gentile alike. Do you want that to continue or do you want a return to that old inertia in-ertia which hold the city stationary so long? Your chiefs have promised nover again to interfere inter-fere with your political beliefs or your vo'tes. Why do you not hold them to their word and yote for your wives and your children? Why do you not. determine to do your part to make this- an. American state? The ballot was given you by the fathers to be your protection. How dare you cast that ballot under the dictation of agijnortal on earth? |