Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-05-19
A STRIKING LIKENESS.

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The address of the delegation who car
ried the Declaration and Protest to Wash
ington is now published in the church
papers. 1t is much in the same strain as
the Declaration, but is more conservative
In il we find the following remarkable
assertion It is not the mere dictum Of
the Church authorities. The First Presi-
dency of the Church had nothing what
ever to do with the preparation or rati-
fication of this declaration of the peoples
grievances and their protest of wrongs in
fiicted upon them" The above state
ment may be true in every particular, but
there is not one man in a hundred in
Utah Territory who will accept it as per
fectly true or candid. 1t is strange that
the call for mass meetings which was
made at the Logan conference, was made
on the motion of Mr.. Heber ]. Grant, an
apostle of the Mormon church, immedi-
ately after the reading of the epistle
which Mr. Taylor and Mr.. Cannon ad-
dressed to the officers and members Of
the church in conference assembled. Mr..
Grants motion was in the language fol-
lowing: ...
Sin view of the statement in the epistle
that we have heard read, that the proper
tion of the male members of our Church
who are living in the practice of plural mar
riage is but little, if any, more than two per
cent. of the entire membership Of the
Church, = - l. move that a
committee be appointed by this Conference
70 draft a series of resolutions and pro- |
test to the President of the United States, |
and to the nation, in which the wrongs |
the people of this Territory have suffered !
and are still suffering, from the tyrannical |
conduct of Federal officials, shall be set |
forth specifically and in detail, and asking |
IN respectful language for the same treat
ment 10 which other citizens of the United
States are entitled, and report the same to |
mass meeting which shall be hereafter
called. %
This seems very like an impromptu
affair, does it not Delegate Caine, in
presenting the Declaration, said that
" the people wanted to have formu-
lated the facts of their faith, such as
o'S -AnoUO td'S --CausS vi COHI HIpldlnJ
against them.
This has been done, and the people have
approved thereof, and made it their act
and deed" But still We are assured
that @ the First Presidency OF the Church
had nothing whatever to do with the
or ratification OF the declara-
ton" To have made the statement ,
complete in every respect, the committee !
should have said that the First Presidency
lave nothing whatever to do with any, ,
hing in this Territory, especially where :
he dOings OF the Mormon church are +,
The committee to draft the :
declaration was nominated by the presi- i
lent OF the conference, which shows how !,
rec from ecclesiastical influence the E
Whole proceeding was. 1t seems that the ;
mass meetings We're TO be called hereafter +
When Mr.. Grant made his motion; and .
With this also it is to be presumed that I,
he First Presidency had nothing to do. r
here was wonderful similarity in the !,
anguage of the Epistle and the Declara- n
ION, which we pointed out in parallels "
ONE time ago, and great many h
hought that the two documents :,
'ere from the same hand, but they were u
ot, as the First Presidency alone drew II
p the Epistle; and with the Declaration q
re know that they had nothing to do, a
or Mr.. Caine told the President they had n
Iot. The only true and satisfactory ex- =
'lanation which can be given for the
eeming similarity between the Epistle !,
nd the Declaration is that the First y
'residency, who promulgated their T
spistle at the Logan conference. q
-pnl 2, 1885, must have copied, u
a sloyenly manner too, the II
anguage and form of the Declaration n
INCH the committee who. drew up that o-
Instrument promulgated to the world Sat ;,
rday, May the second, 1885. No other "
ypothesis will give so satisfactory a re- y
llt. ...... - -
Why was 1t necessary for Mr.. Caine to n
ssure the President in the very outset of to
ls address that the Declaration and Pro- 60
st OF the people did not .emanate from q
le First Presidency? Did there
lrk in Mr.. Caine's mind sus-
lcion that the President would
llnk the First Presidency had had w
7eiything to do with the declaration and --
Itl1cation OF the peoples grievances, if
were not assured by the peoples rep
that such was not the case VI
was very strange thing to tell the IN
resident that along and lengthy declara- Pl
on, which had been ratified by the peo- M
In hundred mass meetings, twas not 40
e mere dictum OF the church authori- lOf
's. = Ii was the free will OF a free peo- IS
freeiy expressed, the same will which sol
lanimously elected Mr.. Caine to Con- Cu
ess. But 1t is pleasing to know that no
e First Presidency of the church had c1le
thing whatever to do with the 'prepars- 90, 90,
IN or ratification of this declaration of HC
e peoples grievances and this protest 81.
wrongs inflicted upon them" II toI
owes one thing at least, that it is neces- a a"
~ TO go away from home to learn the be.
est news about domestic affairs. the
ant
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