Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-05-06
COMPASSIONATE POLITICIANS,

way in which they. exhibit their
doabIe-dyed- hypocrisy would be
decidedly amusing. Their snaky
methods are being constantly mani
Tested by their own eommittal ex-
pressions. The portrayals Of IN
mitigated 6uplicity in connection
with the pending legislation to dis
franchise an members Of the
Mormon" Church constitute a
case in point. There is, for instance,
a Journalistic enunciation which
appears this morning, IN relation to
{ he StrubIe bill-otherwise entitled
10 lie known rs the Baskin- Thomas
West-Chamber Of Commerce bill:
ut inierferes with no mans wor-
ship. It wounds no man because Of his
religions belief"
Let US examine the logic OF this
statement.
The measure provides for the dis
reimbursement ofall members of the
Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter
day Saints.
What entities n person to such
membership?
That he believes in the atonement
OF the Lord Jesus Christ, has re-
pented OF his sins, been baptized by
immersion in water, by one whom
he recognizes as possessing the
proper administrative authority, for
the remission Of sins; has received
the ordnance of laying The hands
upon the head for the iDpsrting Of
the Holy Ghost and has partaken Of
the sacrament of the Lords Supper.
There Is nothing in the foregoing
religious faith and performances
other than what can be properly re-
gaEded as religious belief and wor-
ship. There is no room for dispute
ON this point.
The unavoidable inference drawn
from these premises is that any man
who contends that when a person is
deprived Of his civil privileges be-
cause Of the exercise of these Cuarap-
iced rights he is not interfered with
IN his worship nor wounded in his
religious belief is either q fool or a
hypccrite, besides being by nature
aud instinct 4 tyant.
Pathetic hypocrisy is the janus
faced quality in its most disgusting
form, Is it places those who indulge
IN it in close proximity to the can't
ing class This being a clear cut
and unanswerable proposition in re-
lstion TO individuals with human
shape, but devoid Of the higher in
stincts II the race, 1t viii be easy to
estimate the quality Of the source Of
another expression from the same
quarter as the one already quoted.
As it is well, sad though the task
may be, to consider the lower rs
wei as higher phases Of human
We give it here:
There is no, a man with a compas-
siona,e heart that looks upon tho little
Mormon children that are growing up
here, or who thinks Of his own chill
dren, but what looks upon this Cul-
lom bin as measure Of infinite mercy
to the Mormon people themselves"
o, how these good men have been
wrongedi Could anything be more
sublime than the finely strained
mercy OF these great-hearted phiIan-
tbropists who are filed to the shirt |
collar with compassion, while many !
OF their compatriots are rounded out |
by imbibing copioas draughts of |
beer and bad whisky? And have
we really mistaken the aims Of these
noble fellows, who claim TO have
been so grossly misunderstood? Ifso,
is il too late TO make amends for the |
injury done TO the brave band OF
self-prOclaimed great men, sonie-
times known as "active anti-'Mor-
MON Utah pOliticians?'' Does there
exist any reason why the men who |
are TO be-should these mercIful |
benefactos carry their beneficent |
scheme-disfranchised without be-
ing interfered with in their worship
or wounded in their religious belief. |
should not in some way show their
gratitude? Would it not be well for
the beneficiaries Of the proposed |
legislation to get up, in combination
with their children, even TO the third
and fourth generation, a series Of
those delightful gold -headed cane
episodes, in which each surprised
recipient could respond with a neat
ard appropriate speech and tears in
bis eyes?
Before taking any steps toward
mprovising tokens Of appreciation,
esteem and affection on the part Of
hose 1t is proposed 20 disfrauchise
Owards the disfranchisers, 1t would
,e well TO give consideration to the
blowing additional statement.
quoted from the same source as the
wo already inserted in this ar
icle:
There are plenty OF people who say
hat in little while the Gentiles will
ave full control Of the Territory. It
: jus. then that the trouble Will be-
IN. AS things are moving it will not
'e long before the old political parties
VII draw apart. PROBABLY in the
iext Presidential election year there
vii be, inlieu Of the Liberal party, a
democratic party and a republican
iarty here. When that day comes.
hen the Mormon vote, under present
onditions. will become a controlling {
oie.7
Now, that places the matter just !
'aere it belongs, aud is a vindica-
ION Of the laundering admission OF {
commissioner Saunders, made be- s
,re tue House Committee on Terri
1ries when the Acknowledgement
ieasure was being considered. He
Ivored the pending bill because the
'rmer special legislation did not P
ave the effect Of breaking up the {
MoEmons" politically and causing {
le n to vote with their opponents. b
ir. Saunders and The writer of the y