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Show ' ' When Sneaks Succeed HPHERE was a time when the government of i Utah was a theocracy in name as well as J spirit. Then a few families were everything, the masses of the people wt-re in fact but a herd, to do as they were told. Then there came a time when the government was changed in name to comply with the nation's J forms, but the spirit was not changed. t The determination to carry on within the re public a government which was in truth hostile and alien in its determination, under the name of Liberty, to still hold to all the tyrannies of a theocracy, caused infinite sufferings to those who were enthralled by it and infinite heartburnings among all the people. Moreover, the old assumption that certain fam- jj ilies must be held as the elect was clung to. 9 At last the dominant power here, to its ever- ' 9 lasting credit, called a halt and put out a proc- fi lamation that henceforth the rule of the republic jjfc should be the rule of all the people. Then a K great calm came to Utah and a marked progress k began which has ever since continued. K But a certain few have never been loyal to the m changed conditions, and have never given up the r idea that the power, the honor and a larger part m of the emoluments should by natural right be p retained in a few families and they are perpetu- ally trying in sneaking ways and on false pre tenses to bring around the enforcement of this system. These people are true neither to the church nor the republic; they are influenced I jf, wholly by personal avarice and a desire to obtain unearned prestige and honors. With every new effort on their part there comes trouble, and, k when they win, the state and the natural progress f of the state receives a set-back, and the growing ; affiliation among all classes of people suffers a I chill. I For instance, the trouble that was precipitated upon our state university a year or more ago, came from these people who are true neither to the church nor the state, with the result that the . university cannot regain the prestige it had estab-" estab-" lished for twenty years to come. Finally it is a matter for the Mormon people to settle. The Gentiles made statehood for Utah possible on the solemn pledge of the dominant J party that if granted Utah should In spirit and in h j. . mt truth be an American state. The Gentiles have kept every covenant, so have the masses of the Mormon people, and the changes that have been wrought in Utah have been as great as they have been splendid. Whatever trouble has come has been from these few irreconcilables who have been determined to win by sneaking and false pretenses what they would not dare propose openly. open-ly. It is for the Mormon people to settle, and they have behind them as a reason for settling it right the knowledge of the fact that when these sinister sinis-ter few win a point it is always followed by loss and dishonor to Utah and all her people. |