Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-01-08
UTAHs SPECIAL LUNACY.
Salt Lake Tribune.

III lIleSe WOTuS.
1t has been repeatedly shown in
these columns, as well as on the pub
lie stand, that the Mormon Church
contains the theocratic and demo-
cratic elements in its system OF gov
ernment They are nicely balanced,
and in perfect harmony, in that form
presented by divine revelation to the
Saints. God speaks, the people say
Amen" and thus Deity and human
ity agree, authority and liberty unite,
the voice of God and the voice of the
people are one, and the result is JOY
and peace and power.
The above is put forth January l,
1889. There is nothing new in it.
1t is not essentially different from
what has been put forth, Ill one form
or another, in many lands, since
knavish men first caught the idea
that the best way to hold power and
to gain wealth was by enslaving men
through their superstitious fears. 1t
was the rule in Egypt, when civiliza-
ton was first born; it has come down
the years through a hundred Nations;
sometimes it has presided over hui
man sacrifices; it has never failed to
enslave, brutalize, degrade and rob
any people who have not had the
strength to shake 1t off. There is
less excuse for it in Utah than there
ever was before, for the people know
thoroughly the moral character of the
, man who claimed first this special
power to act as Gods vice-regent;
/ they know thoroughly the characters
of the men who have succeeded him,
and if their lives in any way reflected
the fact that they had been touched
with either celestial grace or celes-
tlal mission, no human eye has ever
caught vision of that reflection.
The man who can truthfully say that
=, he believes that either Joseph Smith
or Brigham Young, in his harem, in
tr,guing for power and money; franz
ing blasphemous excuses to justify
; his lust; drawing to him the earnings
Of credulous dupes; making dishon-
orable trades in politics, in lands, in
S whisky; making combinations to en-
g trench himself in position; to punish
l. enemies; to stihe free thought: to
g degrade womanhood; to defeat the
q Republics laws, and III short to fill
!. perfectly the role of cunning des-
$, pot; gave any outward sign of hav'
i. ing been exalted by a mission from
IF heaven; such man is fit candidate
y for lunatic asylum. And when, in
the face of that history, man like
c. w. p. puts out such gibberlsh a:
the above, if justice were done hin
y he would be put to hard physica
NJ labor through the day and be com
PEELED to study some exact science
for two hours at night, until he would
=, be willing to acknowledge the fac
. that by the sweat of his brow mus
man earn his bread, and not through
:, small smattering of knowledge ant
full quota vf wickedness could b,
make living by pretending, in
stupid way, to explain devine revela
at ton to credulous fools. 1t is pitia
he BILE thought to reflect that grea
CHI people here are neglecting the edu
as cation of their children, refusing T.
OF prepare them for successful struggl
tn against sharp worlds competition
Nv killing every germ OF devotion
to to country in their hearts, making
he them disloyal from their very cradles
IL and stulling them with such rot as tn
IS above. 1t should be stopped, or tn
n rights which pertain to America
citizenship should be taken from
people so depraved and misguided
~ This land was, from the first, conse
Nv Grated to Freedom. Under its being
!. light the poor of the earth have gath
y cred; under it all opportunities wer
y opened to the exertions of America
GU manhood, and 1t should be preserve
- in all its original purity and powel
. When men call the abject slavery
" some knavish priests liberty, the
" dishonor the world; when they ca
10 such system religion, they dishono
y God, and the honor of native land d,
so mands that there should be sn end
" it.
Young Reporter-"The storm kin