Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-07-28

the Church, but am convinced that those
in authority in the Church are not sincere
in what they claim to believe. 1t is simply
lust for power with them. There is no re.
ligion in it at all. And I'll tell you why l
think so, and that is, because of the course
pursued by George Q. Cannon and others for
the past year and half in this Territory,
When the Edmunds bill was passed. have
already alluded to the fact that the authori-
ties called upon the people to live their re-
ligion-George q. Cannon was the editor of
the Jurenile Instructor, and as late as
April, 1885, in the columns of that paper,
he said that there was no man-made
power, whether it be vested in Kings, Presi--
dents or Congresses, that ever would make
"this people" give up the practice of that
preached upon this theme, until one day the
grand inquest of this district took his case
under investigation, and when the m embers
of his family were summoned to testify
therein, he had not the courage of his "con-
victions," but sought his hole in the ground
AND WENT INTO HIDING,
And as soon as indicted he ran away and
hid, and has been skulking and hiding ever
since that time. Thus he had daily and
weekly and monthly called upon his people
to do what he had not the courage to do
himself. And when at last price was set
upon his head, and when he saw that there
were those around him who were tempted
skipped over the Territorial line into the
adjoining State of Nevada, and when the
Sheriff undertook to arrest him he denied
his identity as long as there was any hope
of escape by so doing, but finding that use
less, he said to the faithful officer, Here is
$1,000 to say that l am not George Q.
Cannon, and let me go!' This is the man
who claims to be the vicegerent of the
Almighty, who claims to be so highly IA
vored, that he holds daily communion with
the Throne of Grace, and that his mission
here on earth is to point the path to heaven
for his followers. And when finally the
officers from this Territory went to Nevada
| to receive him, on the way back he under
took to jump the train,
LIKE AN ORDINARY HoRsE-TurEF,
And run away, and when he was recaptured
and placed under bonds of $4,000, then did
he call upon Bishop Sharp to give his name
for S25,OOO of that amount, and that man,
| whom he had lashed but a few months be-
fore because he dared to promise to obey
the laws of the United States, came forward
and placed his signature to the bond for
that amount as guarantee that when his
(Cannon's) name was called, he would be
there to respond. But 10! and behold
when the day of trial came
and his name was called, he was not there
to respond and he has never been seen
since by anybody who wants to see him
most-the officers of the law. Can you, gen.
tlemen, see any distinction between the con-
duct of this Latter-day Saint who stands at
the head of this Church, and the conduct
you would expect in the case of any
ORDINARY AND VULGAR MALEFACToB?
Now, in conclusion, | wish each one OF
you, when you 60 home, to think these
things over and see that the public mind in
the East is brought to understand this ques-
tion. And say to each one of you, those OF
you who are mothers and sisters, as you love
your homes, as you value honor in men and
prize virtue in women. see to it that you
cease not your agitations until your repre-
sentatives in Congress have done their duty
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