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Show COMMUNICATION ON POLITICS, FREE SPEECH, PENSIONS Win. Waterfall I have before me a declaration signed by Wilford Woodruff Wood-ruff and Joseph F. Smith in 1892, and a copy of a statement signed by Heber J. Grant, A. W. Ivins and Rudger Clawson in 1932, which states that the church is not in politics. There are some high officials who should take this to heart. I have lived in Utah more than 61 years, and have taken an active "part to help brighten the older people's last days. Let me again quote from President Brigham Young, found in the Journal of Discourses, Vol. 1:4. "I would rather be chopped to pieces each day, throughout a period of three score years and ten, than to be deprived of speaking freely, or to be afraid of doing so. I am not afraid or ashamed to expose and oppose iniquity of men though they stand in high places." A horse can be led to water, but cannot be forced to drink. It seems strange to me, how men whose incomes are many thousands of dollars can try and force the aged to give up the $30.00 or $40.00 pension that the State and Federal government furnishes. Would those who ask the aged to give up the pension, be willing to live on what the Church can afford to give? |