Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1882-10-27
viii never relax it's hold until the will

will never relax its hold until the will t,
of the people has shorn it Of its polit-
ical influence and delegated 1t and Its
apologists and defenders, back into
merited and helpless oblivion.
The question should no longer be
one between the two political parties.
1t is one Of American ideas and prin-
clples, against those Of an established
church, with a corrupt political hierar-
CRY, prea' hing treason and defiance Of
HE Government. and sworn to dissen.
mate its filthy doctrines all over the
land, sworn also in the words of tile
endowment house oath, ito ayenge the
blood Of the Prophet Joseph upon this
nation, and 10 teach this vengeance to
! ur cbildrens' children until the fifth
generation" 1t is well known that
the propaganda of Salt Lake City di-
reefs the course to be pursued by its
devotees in this Territory, and that the
political dcs,inies of Idaho have been
in great measure shaped by an alien
aud law deiyiug priesthood residing
in ftah. The question to which we
are brought face to face, therefore, is
one involving position where intelli-
gent Democrats as well as Republicans
should take their stand upon the side
of liberty and loyalty. unite to hurl
back the audacious assumptions of that
strange conglomeration Of cant ny
pocrisy, falsehood and crime known as
the Mormon church, and teach its hire
lings that the people of this Territory
are not to be whipped into line by or
ders emanating from the Harems OF
Salt Lake City.
When any religious sect, Mormon
or Methodist, Jew or Gentle, seeks to
dictate in politics it places itself or
record as political power, and should
be treated accordingly; and when thi.
political power inculcates doctrines
opposed TO all principles of morality
and in open and boosted defiance o
: law, it would certainly appear to bs
the duty of all law abiding and loya
citizens to resist its every attempt a
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 1t is for this reason
therefore, and in the name of outraged
law and decency, that the Liberals 0
u Idaho call upon all patriotic citizens
Il regardless of former party ties and at
. fiiations to join in depressing this in
sidious power ere yet it be too late
Disregard this power, and with it
5 present aggressive policy it will 500
y increase to such an extent that th
: combined forces of both political par
p ties will avail but little against il
l Disregard it, and the time is not ia
S distant when it will absolutely dictat
u as it now controls our ,litics. Dis
: regard it, and it needs no prophet
:. eve to foresee that in a few years on
y Territory will be as absolutely unde
y the heel of a political and religion
IS despotism as Utah, discouraging in
: migration except as it contributes t
t it's own strength, discouraging educs
d ton, except as it tends to the sprea
g of it's own doctrines, discouraging tn
I" development of our mineral resource
except as contributing to fill the cot
n ers of the church, discouraging mo-
Is atty, liberty, purity, everything tone
ing to make State great and powe
D. ful. Meet it in the same aggressiv
n spirit which it displays, fight it wit
y, the same bitterness which it itself e,
l. hibits, crush it, as we can at this stag
s. of our career and our Territory wi
&c vet be wrested from the rule of prizes
tn craft and hypocrisy. and with this 10
OF blot once effaced, take the position
ly rightfully hers among the bullion pr