The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-28
THE REAL ATTITUDE.
The True Inwardness of the Old
Hays Desires.
IT Is ROTTEN TO THE CORE
Apply the Reason Of the Monkey From Ne
vada, and Where Would the
End Be?
To the Editor of THE HERALD:

To the Editor of THE HERAID:
In an anti Mormon organ published IN
Salt Lake recently found an edlborlai
from which clip the following:
And the Liberals of Utah believe that where |
men have given up their consclences 10 ,ile hep
ing of others so far that they wiz ~ |
as they are directed to vote, ihey ~
not fit TO have the privilege of casting 4 pauot
or holding Office under the goVerIheh vi 'i ~;
United States entrusted TO them. ihgy art "a |
every legitimate sense aliens, aioelt OheS ~S4o |
born on this soil. and have grown dp under
Utah's sky. They aliens in heart 20 the gov
ment OF the United States. as they hoid anoIner
power to be higher than any power exercised py
: the United States or any power transmitted
>through any law of the United States
thought at first reading that it was
intended as bit of buffoonery and that the
writer knew that no one would take 1t as
seriously intended. But when had gone
carefully through the whole article OF near
ly columns length, made up my mind
that. even though the author of the article
did not believe it himself, he actually IN
tended to have his readers accept IL as
sound argument. The article evidently
written by person accustomed 10 cup
ping logic, an agreeable writer ne Is VINO
leaves the most important Thought OUT VI
his articee and yet does 1t so sklll1ulIy as u
hide the omission from the reader.
The above passage from said article Is
directed wholly against the Mormon peo-
pie. 1t is a plea for their dlsfran-
chisement AS such ] wish to crltlcise IL.
live grant, for the sake Of arguments
its premises are sound and its CONCLUSION,
logical: that is, if a people who give con-
science ito the keeping of others and vote
as they are directed to vote, are not NJ W
have the privilege Of cartiing ballot,
what fellows. Not the acknowledgements OF
Nornons alone, assuming that they 90 vote
rs directed and give conscience to the Keep
inc of religious teachers, but the disfran-
chisement of every true, sin cere and con
scientious of such a thing is posslole
where conscience is given up Christian IN
the land belonging TO the Catholic or any
protestant evangelical church, III DO not
enclude the Episcopal and Unitarian Chris
tians il is because they are not trouoleu
with either politics or religion. 70 per
son who believes that the Christian churcn
was established by God for the salvation OF
mankind from eternal woe, it is impossible
TO avoid the belief that the priests ana
preachers, the accepted servants oil Goa,
are the keepers of the human conscience,
A person who assumes conscience oil MS
own cannot be true christian, according
to the popular conception OF Christian duty
Just so far as the church member assumes
TO guide himself independently OF MS
church. or its head, he becomes skeptlc,
TO the minute DANGER Vi Ills SOuA' onA
aware that Luther made stand for right
of conscience But Luther made accep-
lance of the Bible just as imperious as the
Catholic church had made acceptance OF the
Pope. Luther acted according TO MS con-
science. but he made his followers act &C
cording to his conscience also 1t was
merely a change of Popes. Hence 1t is true
that the church assumes to be conscience
keeper for its votaries. The rule of faith
and practice in evangelical churches is the
Bible. as interpreted by the priests and
teachers ana keepers of the people. The
rule of faith and practice in the Catholic
church is the word and will of the Pope.
The rule of faith and practice in the Nor
mon church is the word and will OF God
laid down in the Bible, Book of Mormon
and in present revelation. All three stand
upon the same basis, the will of God. To
the Catholics, God speaks through the Pope.
TO the Protestants, God speaks through
the Bible To the Mormons, God speaks
through two books and also through living
men. The only difference is that the Nor
mons believe that God is alive, and the
Protestants virtually believe that he is
dead The Catholics also believe that God
is alive Ii were easy to show that this
is the more rational belief, but that is un-
! necessary. Let US see how these sects
stand toward national government
Pope Leo says sit is an implous deed to
break the laws of Jesus Christ for the pur-
pose of obeying the magistrates, or to
transgress the laws of the church under
pretext Of obeying the civil law"
Vicar General Byrne, of Boston diocese,
says 1.-The good citizen will refuse to obey
an immoral command of the state" The
t.good' citizen is, to him, the good Catholic,
and the Immoral command is law that
conflicts with the commands of the Pope.
The Pope SAYS: "If the laws of the state
are in open contradiction with the divine
law, if they command anything preiudicial
10 the church or violate In the per-
son of the supreme pontiff the authority of
Jesus Christ, then, indeed, it becomes a
iutp 10 resist them aud a crime to obey them y
Again the Pope has said: 1.-THE judicial
functionaries must refuse obedience to the
state and the laws of the country which
sre in contradiction with Roman Catholic
precepts"
He requires: Perfect submission and
obedience of will TO the church and the
sovereign pontiff as TO God himself"
1t is not necessary to quote further Here
is sufficient TO show that in the United
States there is not one true Catholic who is
not pledged to obey the Pope, rather than
goyernme Mt where there is any difference
of requirement. Here issenough to show
that we have 100000 Catholics whose
conscience is entirely in the keeping
of their religious leaders; and,
by the logic Of the editor
from whom l have quoted above. they are
''not fl to have the privilege Of casting bal
lot or holding an Office under the govern
ment of the United Statesi''
Let US turn to the Protestant sects. They
are united in ''the National Reform associa
tionn Their purpose IS to change the con-
stitution of the United States to such an
extent that we shall no longer have gov.
ernment of the people for the people by the
people, but Christian nation with a
government of God by God for God, with
Jesus Christ as king. Said one of the vice
presidents of that association IF the oppo
nents of the Bible do not like our govern
ment with its Christian features, let them
so TO some wild, desolate land. and in the
name of the devil subdue it anC
set up q government Of their own
Another said: 1--WE want state religion
and we are going to have it.
Tolerate atheism. There is nothing out Of
he'll that [ would not tolerate as soon =
Atheists and Christians cannot dwell to
gether on the same continent"
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union is working with the Reform associa
ton for the same end. it has said, "a true
theooracg is yet to come and the enthrone
sacnt Of Chris; in the law Again it said
1.-The w. c. T. L. has one vital purpose
and that IS Christ shall DC this acorld's king
Rev. Sam Small says: 81 want to Sc,
the day come when the church shall be the
arbiter of all legislation, state nationa
and municipal, when the churches Of thu
country can come together harmoniously
and issue their odict and the legislature vii
respect and enact It into ldirS.n
The organ of the association says "Tht
preachers are the successors of the pro
phets' 'nTc are the representatives o
God.n
More is unnecessary to show that tn,