Show ecclesiastical interference in utah politics the marysvale Marys vale free lance tins lias outlined an attitude for the of utah to resist ism in ili politics the argument of tile the free lance is here submitted the above including the heading js is clipped from the manti mant messenger of august the messenger then proceeds to quote from the free lance of july the editorial dil dilemma lemma of state democracy and then comments as follows ig A number of papers express their approval of the above and endorse tile the plan proposed the free lance willfully misstates the facts or is misinformed for ined Leta let a committee be selected to collect evidence of ecclesiastical in interference Interfere ference and anc that committee will 1 render bendet a verdict fis 9 did the special grandjany grand jury jary called to invests wate the wild rumors of numerous polygamous marr lugen in etith since the manifesto if the editor of the free lance and those who support his faulty arim ments have had experience h in politics in in other states of lie he union tile they y know very well that there is less priestly interference in utah politics than I 1 n most state the prea are few and far between who do not feel it part of their divine calline to edvise the flock in iii politics ns as well as religion iu the leaders of tw mormon church as a rule are less active in politics than tho me divines or of other d denominations e tt it Is s playing the baby tact act to a limit for the democracy to to cr cry y church influence ohp people of utah aie progressive intelligent and think for themselves because a great majority of tham believe in protea protection tiou to american institutions nud and amer american lubor labor they are accused or arren 1 dering their independence and putting the ballot at tile the disposal of it a fow few me men in ecclesiastical nut authority hority it is it a di cat insult to every mormon it ie untrue to prove that we are right select your committee make an investigation collect evidence and it to the public until this is done dode we contend that the evidence is not sufficient to constitute a cause for complaint in order to be fair with vie the messenger I 1 its criticisms are quoted in full by way of parenthesis the free lance will flay that its editor was born and reared in ili the mormon formon A church ind and can give as many good and sufficient reasons for the faith that is in ili him 22 as any other member of that denomination lie he Is ia also au american citizen and probably fully as ao interested iu in ins his count rys welfare as though lie he shared the child like faith of tile the messenger editor in the questionable theory that america can be mple made great and prosperous by laws that rob the laborers of 25 to PO 60 per cent of their their earnings and pass it over to such giant monopolies as the Contine continental oil company ohp free lanco lance maggs tile the claim that the leaders of the A mormon lormon church DO 10 advise the hock flock in politics as well as in religion the AI 1 auger 0 allegos alleges C that thai the le froe 1 arue willfully misstates the facts or fr j and then proceeds to til no lint hut tile the arec t 11 1 I 1 i rt i 1 in 41 priestly interference in politics on the part of the mo binon priesthood because they tire are less active CI I 1 VC in ill politics than the divin edof other denominations the free lance respectfully suggests to its sanpete cotem clotem that it suspend its bral brai n laking study of the subject of pro to american institutions go buck back to school and study the rudiments of logic until snell time that it can write a paragraph with less self elf con ira Iro dictions ihan iball are contained ined in the comically pompous screed the I 1 free lanoe has honored it by in 0 Hec sectarian tarlan divines ineke no claim to being prophets seers and revelatory mormon divines divine 0 do malce that cla imand tile the mormon people alveral times eacle caoli year vote to sustain them as prophets peers seer sand and revelatory revelators reve enters inters 1 I anduray and pray for them as such at their morning and even evening ing devotions if the Ws messenger editor finds bin himself to grasp the difference beaw between een a sec sectarian secie terian rian divine who lays no claim to special inspiration nor to special authority asan as an apostle of ali him m crucified advising his flock dock it ID politics ay as well as religion and the lie stump stumping hig of a prophet seer ond reve batur lie he ali the sanpete editor should lose no time in consulting all an alienist I 1 that which seems to most moat trouble the messenger mau man if ie that a large number of the best of the utah papers endorse tile the plan propped prop oed 11 ity ILIN an encouraging sign to find so 0 o many papers that endorse thy the free lances position and proves that when tile the disturbing question comes toa to a show down the botter batter portion of the cutill press prees cau can ho be depp depended 0 on for loyal loval support for political fre freedom ddom amo among ng the papers that clipped and approve approved d portions of the article which gave our sanpete bontem such it severe spell cf mental cramps are am bulletin Good wills weekly the E east ast ern utah advocate and the utah state stale journal which reproduced the entire article both publicly and privately during wore more than ten years the writer of this has opposed the stumping of apostles and in fact all ecclesiastical interference P in iti the p political political oli affairs of the people the opposition is ia not because of avy any pique or resentment nor is it entirely political there are thousands of mormon republicans as well ns its democrats who oppose apostolic stumping and other political work because of the loss of respect they incur and tile the resentment engendered in tile tho hearts of those who disagree with their political doctrine for instance every devout Alor mormon nion prays for the spread of the ile gospel for saints generally and for the llie church leaders lead fra NV now when v h e n a Deno lit in his prayer gets as far us apostle john henry smith and then suddenly recollects how flow jowl down iu in deacre deveret Dea eret t the he apostle philp stumping ng said he collid would not say all democrats were horse thieves hub but that till all horas dulev thieves es are aie 4 1 the invocation in would vry very lively terminate Wi without tilot any nial pleading 7 for tit nn ilpo itle who hotd ehni d AID tind and hi his party and thy the N b I 1 ke hiki ledave h can iri tp S h 1 ii m i |