Show NO inconsistency wednesdays salt lake trifun quotes at a paragraph fron our editorial on readi as follows the history of both our great na dional parties as well as that of al parties in republics prove that undisturbed possession of the butrem power ends in heinous corruption just as a change of air is for the physical organism of man al stated periods a change of party is sometimes requisite for the political organism of state even if it wai known to a certainty that the new possessors of the power would not dc any bettar than their predecessors a change would be advisable either to reform the republican party or induce its regeneration while it if permanently left in power would sink into the sloughs of an incorrigible corruption A change would at all events result in a better unearthing and unveiling of the past wrongs and abuses and thereby prevent their repetition to this quotation our salt lake contemporary adds the query ther the is sincere in this doctrine we can assure tue that we aro perfectly sincere in it just as sincere as will be the majority of american voters on the 21 vember when their ballots will manifest their desire for ft change in the national administration the cori redness of our principle as enunciated in the above quoted extract is not disputed or denied by the tribune editor but ho seems desirous of and turning its point so as to convict us of inconsistency be cause we do not advocate a change in utah where the dominant party has always been in power on this premise our amiable con temporary builds an airy superstructure of un tenable deductions which it takes only one breath to sweep way like the webs of an autumn mist the JUNCTION while favoring and delip ing an administrative change for the united states does not do so for pure theoretical love of a change or in a micawber Mic awber hope that something will turn up but it advocates the most radical change on account of the past wrongs and abuses of the corruption into whose irredeemable sloughs the present administration seems to our eyes to have it the asks la not a principle which holds true in the nation at large true when applied to a pan of it if not why we can answer it simply the organization by which the church of jesus christ of latter day saint is governed and adminis is not commensurate to any national parly among the mor mons there is no party it is with all of them who are true to their profession the church and nothing else as far as spiritual affairs are concerned and even in political mat tera they have had sufficient bitter experience to beware ol 01 the illiberal spirit of cither of the great national carlies par lies the with its platform assumes at once that the existing order of things in utah is that the administration of the church Is a binl a tyranny which it knows very well not to be the case the very origin and present existence of the prove whether utah is suffering under A one sided depo isna or not and all the elections prove how much of a change the people of utah desire notwithstanding the idle and hollow of a handful of disappointed and disgruntled foreheads soreheads sore heads the parliee who feel so soro and mad at the immutable uni ty of the church had belter learn once for all that mormonism is not a political organization tin it U not a coalition of office seeking and eruol ament hunting carpetbaggers carpet but a and sisterhood of all who have lent a willing ear to a higher oracle than that nominating omina ting from an editorial tripod and who are influenced and governed by higher and purer revelations than embodied in party plit lorms and still as utah belongs to the union it is impressed with certain political forms and practices which in truth are entirely foreign to the kingdom of god in its purity but which are necessary to keep our existence within the wheels and levers of the national mechanism the tribune itself concedes their right to convert and gather and achieve political power is not denied and in the haiie breath the liberal oran says it is to mormon control of ballot box that the american people ob eject the direction of ihn entire energies und machinery of the church to the enforcement of political unity that ig tho cormons mormons Mor mons have a rightly be a party but they have no right to act as uch whence this alight on the part of the dimply on account of tho objectionable unity and solidity of the cormons mormons Mor mons atia cihi tor the republican majority in vermont or the democratic majority in alabama to control the ballot box but for the mormon majority to do the banoo in elahi an infringement on chii indeed if the JUNCTION ha two of right and wrong oo 00 to apply to iho blaton and one for utah the rhems to us to be in tho happy possession of republicans one for the democrats and one for tho mor caong again to speak in the concluding worda of ho tribune such things havo been yes they have been when the saint were cruelly driven from their bomea and fields after their prophet had been murdered when they driven into tho desolate wildern pBs they would allow neither the democrats nor republicans public ans to uso thra ag both aro aing the ignorant negro voters in the south no utah wants no administrative change except it bo a change which gevea the people their rights as american citizens and restores to them their inalienable prerogatives of electing their own governor and other officials and having their own lawa paaul and enacted without fear of an imported gubernatorial guillotine but for a change in the leadership and administration of the church our opponent will it is so ordained in the decrees of him who hag instituted as authority andor hi blessing and guidance we admit a inconsistency we want a chainge a radical ancor utah territory but none whatever what eier for the church of jegu christ of latter day aieta iv |