The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-09-24
TT CONCERNS HONOR.

What can be said of the honor OF q
people that may be moved from the
safe and trusted anchorage of an
hundred years by the one party of all
Of this nation which has proven itself
in thousand instances their most Bit
ter and deadly foes2 Having supreme
power in the nation for over thirty
years and Utah sustaining territorial
relation to the government, surely
there have been times in that long
lapse of years when the government
had it in its power to have performed
some vital act f)r the good of Utah, or
at least, the opportunity TO have done
some graceful or complimentary thing
calculated to teach the Mormons that
they were not regarded by the govern
ment as outcasts, infdels or repro
bates. Yet who recalls the act, either
important or triyial2 No one, and not
one. Remember that this people were
planted here upon high and noble
principle, and it was opposed by the
Puritanicsl sentiments of New Eng
land which dominated the national
government throughout the thirty
years lease of power Of the republican
party. Now in this crucial test, we
find some of the spiritual leaders of
the people come out, erect the banners
Of republicanism, and urge the people
to support them. This, under all cir
cumstances, Is dishonorable to the Last
extreme. But for this the Ahos\
church is not to blame. EAs
where's that palace wherein foul things
same times creep notP
The high and noble must be honest,
faithful and unselfish. If they become
selfish, grasping and dictatorial it con-
Btitutes worse crime than where
men of lower degree 60 away-on the
principle that an armored battle ship
can do more injury than wooden dis
patch boat. Lucifer got on very well
in heaven until he developed the am
bition to rule. Then his trouble be-
gan; not his alone, but the misery
overhowed the universe and we are
not done with its worst consequences
yet. Now if our churchmen will listen
to Teolsey's advice and "fling away
political ambition" the laity will get
on very well and very soon get the
country all right and interfere in no
sort Of way with the church. The way
politics are now organized one man
cannot lead political party and the
church at one and the same
time, without scandal. 1t would
seem, too, that high ecclesiastical posi-
hou ought to be enough for one man
without, from the vestry room, ruling
politics. When the people are de-
bauched by those they have trusted
and followed as their spiritual leaders,
it does not take long to make of them
both infdels and apoststes. The greed
for gold is found in the church as well
as in politics; go it is far safer to es-
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gold and ambition.
In the coming election there is more
at stake than democratic principles,
lofty and grand as they are; more than
the election of an honest, able, earnest
and pure-hearted man, though his name
be Joseph L. Rawlins-the stake is the
sacred honor of the people OF this ter
ritory. We appeal to every father
to assert again the manhood
that made him once to leave friends
and home and suffer revilement,
and all of the hardships of the wild
erness to assert his right to worship |
God in his own way, and again to place
his manhood high above all this, all |
the efforts to debauch his reason and to |
force him to bow at the polluted altars
of that party which kept him out in the
wilderness lust forty years longer than
he needed to have stayed.