The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-10-22
CONCLUSION,

We must not enter the union other
than free Our constitution must pro.
tect all the rights Of the masses. You
should elect your democratic candi-
dates to the constitutional convention.
The republican party is the party of
intolerance and it teaches and breeds
intolerance Mr., Joseph +. Smith, a
man who is a follower of Him who was
all charity. declares that the repuDli-
cans were right in refusing us state
mood, from the simple reason that wa
are democrats. Ii it was right to re
fuse US statehood On political grounds
it would equally be right to refuse US
on religious grounds. Mr., Smith says
that he is liberal in his veiws, but his
declaration upon political affairs Was
more illibsral than anything ever pro
posed by the most radical liberal,
when that party had an existence here.
Under the protecting wing of republl-
canism are huddied IKE chickens I'M
der hen all the radical and illiberal
elements Of our politics. The republi-
can conventions many a time this 1all
haye been controlled by secret, aud
oath bound order, that oStracises men for
their religion. The democrats have de-
nOunced this IN their platforms. Demo-
Gratis do not believe that the cross of
Christ should be dragged into the mud
and mire OF politics. Democrats believe
in equal rights to all, whether one be-
lieves in the virgin Mary or the revela-
tons OF Joseph Smith.
You who have read A. Conan Doyle's
great romance, THE White Company"
remember how that glorious company
went out from England in the olden
days to fight its countrv's battles in the
lands across the narrow seas. You re-
member that last great stand, when
the leagued armies of two nation were
about TO hurl themselves upon that
gallant band, Sir Nigel Loring, who
commanded the company, called to his
heroes:
"Stand where you are my menl Our
souls are Gods and our bodies are our
kings"
And SO says democracy and it de-
clar3s that every man has the right 10
holt office without reference to his
creed or station, OF t. his place OF wor-
ship,
Let us strive to drive all intolerau ce
fr, m Utah, We who in the past so
bitterly contested here over matters of
religious belief, should unite and de
mand the utmost freedom to all.
And we should vote down all that is
narrow and selfish in our politics. Let
lur vote his lalI be like the sign which
God paints on the skies in the morning
oyer our mountain tops, to herald the
coming OF the king Of daY, Let it aid
n changing the theory of legislation in
America. Let it be the forerunner of
the dawn of enlightenment, freedom
and prosperity.
If could picture in words the horror
and tue misery that has been the re-
suit of republican legislation the peo-
pie would arise as one man and
scourge the money changers from liber-
ty's temple. Hungry children freezing
from lack Of fuel. Desperate mothers
Offering virtue upon Moloch's ..altar in
order that innocent babes may live.
Famine, like a silent ghost stalking
into a million homes. manhood re-
duced to misery pulling the trigger of
the murderer and shocking the air with
the maniacal laugh of the suicide.
The passions of thousands by the
alchemy OF want, changing them into
beasts who quarrel ana fight in cutters
over crust of bread. And all the
time, Shylock. rubbing his hands with
fiendish delight is gathering more i'd
more from the peoples substance.
Turn from the past. Turn to the ris-
ing sun. Free yourselves from gold
Link your fortunes with democracy.
Democracy has ever said: "ShyloGb,
take then thy bond-take thou
thy pound of flesh; but, in cut
ii lg it, if thou dUst shed one drop
of christian blood thy lands AMI goods,
are, by the law, coufscate unto the