Show TilE USUAL THING The morning Church Echo occupies half a column of editorial space in appealing ap-pealing to the people to have a regular old time Fourth of July celebration t and then closing with the usual Church h bucket of cold water on anything national ii in its nature This is the language in which the Churclt paper winds up its 4j earnest appeal for a Fourth of July i celebration But we fear there can be aj no such celebration now We may get to it again and most sincerely and earnestly L no we hope the time is not distant when ft we will be there but we are not there t yet as the press and the pulpit and the courts and the officials all tell in language I lan-guage too plain to be misunderstood We can try however to learn if we are nearer to tho time than we have been for I several years past and if i we are let us l rejoica and move faster I j Here we have in all of its hypocritical fullness the usual Church programme 4 Appearances are saved by a characteristically it character-istically longwinded editorialhinging on the majesty of the American eagle and t the glorious associations of the immortal day of July Then comes the real glut of the article Then comes the actual inspiration in-spiration thereof Then is seen the true and only object of this precious Fourth of July homily to which the public is so impudently treated But we fear their can be no such celebration now pathetically whines the Church I Echo Tho Church does not want any celebration redounding to the honor and glory of a government it hates fears 1 and is a traitor to This is tho true and only meaning of the words But we fear there can be no such celebration now ¼ These words are in the light of an order I to the Saintly brethren And how I about this happy reference to the 1 celebration a little farther on in this Fourth of July appeal of the Church Echo We are not there yet as the press the pulpit the court and the officials offi-cials all tell us in language too plain to be misunderstood Here are words of happy application indeed to an occasion which should be a public reunion an occasion on which neither politics or religion should be employed to offend or insult The Church I is not in love with the Fourth J of July a day commemorative of freedom v f free-dom i a day on which is set in deep impress 1 im-press civilizations seal The Church wants no Fourth of July celebration It is a natural enemy to such jubilees of liberty But THE DEMOCRAT hopes that nevertheless Salt Lake City will gloriously I li 1 glori-ously remember tho day The Gentiles d of Salt Lake yield not in fervid patriotism d patriot-ism to any Americans who breathe j the air of freedom between the I two oceans Salt Lake boasts many Mormons who fear not to free 1 themselves from the fetters of church domination at the call of the Nation to t 0 which they owe allegiance The Fourth of July in Salt Lake City can be made a 1 day of National homage a glorious and I i triumphant exposition of National loyalty Let it be done 1 |