Show i II WHAT WAS ESCAPED I I Because first Because the tho same tamo anti Mor mon man voice that stung sensitive and antI excellent leaders into la launching themselves them selves In tho movement would have hav instantly abandoned them They would have received no recognition for or virtue in the tho result The Tho very forces that have been seeking to war on the people who have no industriously quoted Mormonism Is tho the sum um of all villainies would In Inevitably In In- have havo exulted In tho the evidence that time the domination of tho the church had bad now been made incontrovertibly evident And that would IncontrO have e been bean tho the reward var of ot the tho Mormons for tor fore fore- ing a prohibition law through time the legislature I Second because because tho time law would not riot have been effective rrt e It would not have C been enforced One Ono churchman generously mado mido personal guarantee that ho he would see seQ oo It was enforced if lt It were enacted lie Ho could n OK as well guarantee guarantee guarantee guar- guar antee that It will not rain 1 Wednesday ay or or that It will Tho Time thing timing Is wholly beyond beon his Imis power It n would not have been beon enforced and the tho Mormons would have ha b been beau held r responsible for m that failure They rhey were made madu the time tools of their enemies I and their punishment would have o been th the taunts You have ha proved pro tho tIme charges wo have o been making against you ou There can n bo be no flO doubt of oC this Dr Short a l vcr very kindly critic In hise his hla e nc day night address clearl clearly Indicated In Indicated In- In the attitude o o. o alt all other oIlier churches to when ho Imo spoke of ot them with wHit nil alL their wickedness and thanked God they had hud done one right tIming thing The Tho attitude was painfully painfully pain pain- fully plain Curiously enough no mio Mormon resented it Now O Otho tho the position The Republican tn has taken from front tho the beginning c is that there Is IIi no distinction between citizens of or Utah We e appreciate differences of It habit it exists Wo We 0 leco recognize the tho presence of Mormons and non non- Mormons of at Methodist and ond of agnes agnos tics There Thero is merit in all of or them We Wc regard them as a n great brotherhood brotherhood brother brother- hood going forward to time the making of ofa ofa ofa a mighty state Time will HI do what present effort can not and the equality equality equal equal- It ity of 01 all an will be bo cordially conceded But much more time would have hare been required it If tho the enemies of the tho I I Mormons had driven them cajoled them tempted them deluded them in into into in- in nto n- n to making statute law by hy tho the power of ot tho the church And tho the men who wIre pre prevented prevented pre pre- vented favorable action on that bill are oro the best friends of oC both Mormons In particular and tho time state of ot Utah In general With or without such Buch comprehensive purpose ever every man who voted against the bill and anti ever everyone every ono one who bravely voiced his iris opposition to It did tho tIm church a service And through that large largo following tho the state and the nation |