Show PRESIDENT WOODRUFFS celebration LAST sunday and monday president woodruff celebrated his ninetieth birthday the exercises exercise 3 on sunday were given by the sunday schools in order that an opportunity might be afforded the children of meeting their honored and revered leader monday the let dinst was in fact the ninetieth anniversary of his birth I 1 and there in the beautifully full y decorated tabernacle assembled eight or nine thousand people to pay their respects and offer congratulations to the sturdy move as freely as the air so far as any church is ia con concerned cernea after speaking of his long acquaintance with the leaders of the church the venerable leader said 1 I lever sever in one instance have ever known any leader of this church ever attempt to dictate and direct the affairs of the state as a member of the church under the above statements we are warranted in saying that if any president of the mormon church has attempted in the past or shall attempt in inthe the future to influence the vote of any man he was not then and is not now clothed with j f 7 pioneer and beloved president the united states celebrates the birth of washington and the christian world celebrates the birth of christ but there them is perhaps no other place in history where a man in his lifetime has received so many people upon the anniversary of his birth and so many warm and heartfelt congratulations mormon jew and gentile were glad to meet and shake the hand of the aged and honored citizen the broad ax and mrs taylor were among those who had the pleasure of shaking hands with president woodruff and wife president woodruffs Ps address of welcome was A splendid effort for a miu mini of fourscore years and ten it awed that the whole and only purpose of his long life has been to benefit his fellow men his life has alas been a laboroi labor of love like lake the great master he has labored incessantly for the regeneration of the human ram race he is one of those who will leave footprints on the path of life that those who falter or weary through lack of 0 faith or who err mT designedly or ignorantly seeing may gam gain new hoj hopes fresh encouragement and a light by which their wayward feet way may surely and safely tread the path of usefulness and honor homr speaking dug of politics mr woodruff a said there is not one item not one sentence sea tence 1 in i n the constitution of in the laws lairs of the or of the state of util man that tha deprives any citizen cotany name nature religion or po politics air d the jadi land fr from joining my poli flOR le w wishes 1 hes or voting he wishes f iby this ili av without 1 ajajj J W with ita precedent Prec dent wood mi 50 aj 77 aeja or pu supposed w IA it 3 6 ath i r i A i AI 4 i i U c SS wiam rj poises R t r is Cs 1 any ecclesiastical power in such effort but is simply acting as a common citizen and if under such conditions a man be of the same religion but not the same political faith as his religious leader and should refuse or fail to see eye to eye politically cally with such leader it would in nowise militate against his religious standing hence if the president or apostles of the mormon church or the ecclesiastics of any other church shall go upon the stump they can expect and claim the right to the affiliation of only those who are of their political faith church discipline can reach no further than church lines the broad ax firmly believes that president woodruff has never attempted as head of the church to control or interfere with the political actions of any man or set of men his words 11 1 1 never asked any mortal man on the face of the earth to cast a vote for me I 1 show conclusively that his hands have never pulled the strings of politics but that he has stood aloof from their unsavory influences it can truthfully be said of mr woodruff that a good man Is is rather to be chosen than great riches aud and loving favor rather thin than silver and gold |