Show PASTORS AND POLITICS we have lave had frequent occasion to acl tile mccoul all of anti r a lug press pygmies with regard to the alleged exi existence sence of an undue and american union union of church and state among t thi people of utah in a late article we stated that the presumably of offensive amalgamation of A f mi w t cat cal rule and civil IV t tac li legious ious influence al has always existed in this country no less lez than in europe where there is 13 I alf tr or monarchical in which church burll affairs are not bound up tip more or icee with state management iu in which we do n no apa ath r slate state controlling the church or ti the e tho the leadin t ring i of a IN wo e have not M c t space ace or y jr time to enair I t I b t th the r i laii lati nhip of church and arid u world asi arl jirld might tie be received with ill grace un oil this continent til lelit ll 11 I have a ered the 1111 c ej connected 11 nee biml tile lutler country with its oT pring i but we can call euid tracts traces of tile same vil wil it bu be right in id r tile stara stars anil and stripes rit and the protective wings of the americ an eagle not t to gi go 11 lim lar larawa amdy yore tte wil mill it sierra nevada uto clio grat gr at gjud k haji all bofil mon dis ot of th the great reat union ha ila cla clarf tt tro I ral blunt Wl tt V breede gree sive the tile te leat cast by yn tra ra ditis t I b y A religious yu california with its young yount and pol population Mation with its multi tilde of races rices faiths li arties anu ant tha the bec spectacle of a community where the tho ifal fied I r into a e unit uninfluenced by us rule dectar si atar aar meal eluah X A timar moin tf latic domi domination j G but idill this adds very state of the pioneers not t two score years ola a it picture of denominational influence and ecclesiastical usurpation ur not much dif different in quid ity if in quantity from anything that new eng england landeith land with its its congregationalist gation alist descenIa ns of the pilgrim F fathers athers could or would abow how these columns mention has before of one odthe of the great questions agitating the political cir alft of present aescht day stirrings the gociar commercial i 11 and political poli tidal factions from center to circumference it is the sunday S que question tion viz the question whether and how and to what extent aehl the lk civill civil ak igind and armby 11 of the commonwealth ef of california should lend itself to execute the third colnman commandment act of the decalogue remember the sabbath ae p p va kiy t xi as A o s to tolla ly on this great issue the two leading ing parties have taken diver diverging gini s dirats bein being I 19 in favor faier of greater beater labru latitude fe while wilile the be re pu blia n aliean towards a more puritanical elfre mont ment of the sabbath quiet so fair it se good As far as the th state i 44 ceded tt it rids as a right take 14 who deadra to spend the lords day in devotion and worship shall noi nol be di disturbed and for tl this t yi JM but natural thattie that jhc tip clin ALI b vr at a dui duty y t to P proa vent any boisterous or riotous disturbance tur bance of tile sacred repose which ought to hallow ballow the day devoted t to there ti ator the advocates of in d reab laty jt kiy dred license enjoyment aj ar ie at but bilt the public sense and bublie morality on the repression w winch huud break as a q on the tile X of day y iii U A and ce it like the sabbaths Sab baths of italy which are closed and buffoon tt gods goals via b between n i i yel a il this i eye of t the e be cul J re mon strates against the union of church and state ought to be a V legal leevil tifT uffit air ir r it in pero d by t no cc b sias influence lic because jt at is question a ution t C h hill i all r Is and sects ren even t he ie Sif er creal cK c and be nett t t alike wt yc t what do dowe we eee soe the metho dit dist ministers of Californi not one of whom looks with anything i C war abhorrence and n on the A mormon lormon churchman using ahna allf influence fluence Li to the tile advancement of f the best tin interests beresis of ha his s brot brother lier hood bood take this political constitutional legal question in hand con aident that their sturdy molars can call crack the nut for which politicians and lawyers jaws aws proved inadequate it is not a theological question which agitates the tile political a t it is an all uffa r of public policy enral welfare the peace and iwer of the but i till still letho list clergy of the tile golam it gate gato make it their r business to ex irl pree s their pr preference eferen ce gotai not u ci citizens ig merely rely I f no they cloth their opinions with the tile halo of divinity vinit yand and poe pos c as the ot of the gospel of him who ail give unta Giar what is caiaro Cai ars we ne tako itha fullow fol lowing irig paragraph fioti I tit tho C S I P calls report of the transactions at the methodist conference in oakla adelt nd fuei elt t bishop hurst presiding icv rev otis gibson dr delivered livered a short oddress id dress he ile said sald it had been talked about among amon the tile members whether uie the should tabean action upon law as it keb u ailts it itself elf in in tile political campaign ampa ign k ireat great many of tho the pastors object t to ii lie i e taking any action tl int irig that it would von be mec Idling fa fyi ayi conference of ministers minis lers to take abay aba part rt in poli politics but it was ja adit t lo 10 lie be wise wite to hae bave a discussion sion of this matler in in this informal info imal of if pabst rs but as voters and aa as citizens we bo true to our coun try our tate state s and ourselves ihu tho liquor dealers in in their arrogance an e and arid succeeded in in getting a plank plant into imo the platform if of the ion von at ban san jose for the repeal oft if affe alio pany party si erred up a revival in calill ornia orilia of people who desired the bun sun lay lav laft lave and arid I do not believe any pity party would dare to repeal the sunda sunday day law la now tins this party would like their action but they int biot do it iti add we d do not want them to gud god lias has used that body of men lien for his own purpose to create a sentiment abid revival al in ill tile people ill in fior favor of or the bunday sunday law but bill both apal harnoi 11 are down luv low the tire hie the principle nn Lilo inen ot of both buth parties visit aleons I believe the republican would havo have the tile action of th the Denio radu co convention riven tion liu they thought it political poli tit tu liedl a do rhe bilat met at bai sacramento was cum composed tomp posed obed of better llian than usually meet in conventions vent ions 18 it has acen told me ine that L tho to antion at ba was a gathering of men ef of moral discreet disi reet lilen sudi such as noer never hae have been fu m this state before this his convention when it passed the sunday law plank rose in a crand grand alene of enthus enthusiasm it and round alter after round of applause arose that would not b bi quelled now wo are told that the tho republican convention was not sincere in in their action that they insert tho tile word recreation reat iun in in the plank that should not be there but I do not believe that gatherings gathe ringo of men front all parts of the state would hoodwink the people of the tile state tho the sentiments of rev gibson as to sunday observance and temperance I are unimpeachable but how low does his mixing these question ont with politics politick agree with tho the principle of separation of church and state stater but religion and politics were mixed still further as will be seen from the following interlude still from tile calla report how abou candidates asked a pastor general stoneman I do not know and the T lie other one sir mr esice Est ce inter erupted the I have met mr morris estee replied mr gibson I and fund found him an agreeable intelligent gentleman if you yen ask me if I will vote for him I shall tell you no I will not vote for a man to be elevated as a pattern for young oung men mon if I know lie goes into a baloon door I shall scratch mr F estebe name from my ticket here ag again ga in mr gi gibson baon has a perfect right to scratch mr E or any other name but when he declares this lie does eo so with an eye to the tile car parishioners who are supposed to hear bear what he has said and as i a faithful nock flock follow their shepherd which they again have havea perfect right to do although tb the e cormons mormons Mor mons mix church with state if they listen to the counsels counsel of their spiritual le adeis IMie i the gist of the whole thing however cv fr I is comprised I in a few perti by rev mr rice he lie said that there is a feeling that ministers tuini should not enter politics but batitis Bu titis it is the practice in the tile east and there is is no reason why in th this is part of the country ministers should not be candidates for in the legislature they could not be bought and they would stand shoulder to shoulder for the right rights he lie suggested that ministers bo be candidates for seats in the legislature INOW we cant for the life of us see why methodist ministers could would not become ornaments in any LeFi legislature slature but we would like somebody come body to tell us why mormon elders or church dignitaries should not be he as c competent teruto to sit in tho the lawmaking law making body of the country they have ass assisted sted in making |