Show TAKING COUNSEL In the Territorial Enquirer of Tuesday lost is given some advice to the young mon and women of Provo and Utah I county as to their duties in the coining August election Of course the Enquirer praises the Peoples party as being all that could be wished and more than could be had other ways The Peoples party is neither so good as its members claim it to be nor so bad as some of its opponents Ray it is It is the party of dictation say whatits members may and man as an Individual has no consideration with it The welfare of its members and of citizens citi-zens at large is an incidental object not the main one The main object of the Peoples party is the control of tho political po-litical affairs of the people for the furtherance fur-therance of the interests of the Mormon church The Peoples party is a probative kingdom of God on earth All members i mem-bers of that party are counseled notto follow the advice of men of experience experi-ence but to follow the advice of their leaders be those leaders aged men or young men with the down of youth upon their faces be they wise men or ho they rash men the capacity and character of the leaders l have no weight in determining determin-ing the advice which is given to the young men and women of the pal ty in the matter mat-ter of following the example of men of experience The leaders of the Peoples party are appointed not chosen To the young people who are just coming of age and who will cast their first vote this August the Enquirer gives this advice We say to the young men and women choose but let your choice I be wise That advice means choose the Peoples party no matter what conclusion I con-clusion they may arrive at after the most careful and thorough investigation of the facts us they are and a survey of the political poli-tical Held as it is It is the advice of the timid and conservative which holds that j I the wise is the established it is the ad j i vice which says there is but one object and but one method of attaining that object and it is not confined to the Peoples party alone in this Territory It is the position of the Liberal party as well which says there is but one method of making a political fight in Utah and that party also has said that in union alone is any hope and strength and that party too has told of the experience of some of its great mon and it hun been held that acre and profession of political creed entitle them to great and reverential consideration The character I andability of the man together with I the breadth of his view and the J I depth of his thought are the things which make a mans experience I of valuo and worthy of consideration I Ago gives opportunity for experience but I age does not give weight and worth to i experience they are tested by other I rules I I Further on the Enquirer says l It is i better for a blind man to be lod by an II I acknowledged and tried friend than for one who is not blind to follow in the foot I stops of corrupt and vicious men Is it quite certain that those who would always al-ways lead are not blind themselves And if one does not follow the conyentional lead does he always walk in the footsteps of corrupt and vicious men There is t I very much talk in Utah about the wisdom of following a tried and trusted friend and of how much better it is to pursue the old beaten track no matter how I I rough and out of repair it may be or I j whether there is a better one but if one trios a little different path it is strange how soon the tried and trusted friend forsakes for-sakes the poor wayfarer and says there I never was any good in the wayfarer The i I acknowledged and tried friend stands I by the blind and inexperienced just I I so long as the blind and inexperienced follow the leadership of tho acknowledged acknowl-edged and tried friend hut not any longer no not even during thetwiukling of an eye Then the Enquirer puts the case just us it is In plain language it is better for the young and inexperienced to listen to tho council the italics I me ours but the word is i the Enquirers of their honored and experienced fathers I than to go to destruction imitating the I I examples of a rogue This is true if theo j f the-o fg iuexderiencedare going toimi1 I tate the example of a rogue and thereby i j go to destruction But is to quit the Peo plea party necessarily to imitate the examples ex-amples of a rouge and go to destruction In the last sentence from tho Enquirer is the true keynote to politics in the Peoples Peo-ples party that keynote is the advice to listen to the councils of their honored and experienced fathers That is the whole troublo listening J entirely too much to the uouneilfi It in i the council of the First I Presidency and the Twelve that dominates domi-nates and controls Utah Territory andto disobey that council is to lose tho only acknowledged and tried friend that the Peoples party have in Utah Territory Terri-tory Subordinated to this Council of j i Twelve which in Utah plays much j I the same part that the Council of I 1 r Ten played in Venice arc the j I j i High Councils in each Stake whose J advice whennone comes from tho hihm source is usually followed in county politics In city and ward politics the oouncil of the bishop predominates solely on account of their wisdom and experience I experi-ence no other What is needed by the young men and women of any party is more independence of thought and action although that thought and action may I teach them to take the course recommended recom-mended by the Enquirer but if they fol 1 loW the course recommended by that paper because councils tell them it is tt for them they take a very unwise coarse Selfreliance is the thing that Ij I J JO < > v c c makes genuine men and women and it is the thing tlwt in u frI fr-I government make sjtiong government t It is the thing which shoriltt becnitivafed I by all for its own sake and no mandrill be more liberal and tolerant than the self i l reliant man wll hikes Ins com eln anything 1 thing because he believes it the best and who has the btrougth and courage lo i stand by his convictions It does not I j matter so much what a mans convictions j are so that he has arrived at them through his own effort It ia i the half conviction which submits to be guided by some one in authority that causes the mischief We would pay to the young people of the Peoples party Choose the I course in politics that you deem best not what others say is best j I |