The St. Johns herald., 1890-04-03
A DemagOgiSm Exposed.

Tempe, March 18th, 1S90.-Edi- tor Gazette-In a recent conversa- tion Arizona's would be Czar, was impressing or rather trying to inn press several gentlemen with his importance, and the great work he had done in Washington, in the in- terest of the dear people of this ter ritory, and confidently asserted that in spite of the ''gang" every one of his bills would pass, and become laws. He seems particularly proud of the Mormon disfranchisement bill" and the bill to give him the right and power to guillotine the county officers, when a gentleman present mildly suggested that the disfranchisement of citizens for re- ligious beliefs was rather a danger ous precedent to establish, and one fraught with great danger to our liberties, and that the Mormon owed no higher allegiance to his church than the Roman Catholic to his. This thoroughly informed off, fical. birding himself upon his sub stantial knowledge, loudly denied that the Roman Catholic church ever attempted to control the votes of it's members.
 Now it is too bad for our chief executive to be allowed to remain in such ignorance, and so if you will grant me space 1 will draw his attention to the encyclical letter of pope Leo XIII, recently issued and published, and will quote therefrom "that there IS no true and lawful authority except that which comes from God, the soverign Lord of all. Who alone has power to give man authority over his fellow men,"
 This in the face of the fact that the fundamental principle of OUT republic is "that all governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed" Again the pope says: "It is not permitted to blame Christian frmness when it chooses between two contradic- tory duties; and one cannot say that the Catholics are insuborinate or rebellious when they prefer obe- dience to the laws of God, rather obedience to the la@s of this gov ernment."
 The pope furthur outlines the way all good Catholics should vote ne says: "One knows that in many states Catholicism is v0ilently at- tackled, and in those countries re- ligious errors are favored with inn punity." ''To oppose ones self to this war against the Roman church Catholics should act so that men devoted to the church and her in stltutions will be called to the gov ernment of the different states
 "It is the duty of the church as- signed to her by God to resist the acts that governments may commit to the prejudice of religion"
 The extracts ought to be sufficient to satisfy even so prejudiced a mind as his would be Czarship, but if not, I can supply him with many an hours reading to the same effect. Now my position is simply this, if the Mormon by reason of extreme loyalty to his church, is to be dis franchised, then let the Catholics ard all others receive the same treatment. Under our institutions we have no right to disfranchise. The true motive which acutates Gov. Wolfey and that class of statesmen is the Mormon votes with the democratic party, and will not bow to the will of these states men and vote as they desire. hence he must be deprived of the right to vote at all ; let them satisfy his Czar- ship, that this fall they will as a unit vote with his party, and Vol fey would take another trip to