The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-11-04

of this country who ara not skilled la
borers, | tell him do not understand
how he can possibly substantiate such
a theory
In the foregoing is found sweeping
denial that the farmers and laborers
are protected; and further. that it is
the great consuming class that pay this
large amount of money into the pock-
cts of the manufacturers. Such men
as Harrison, Reed, and other intelli-
gent republicans haYe ceased to wor-
ship at the shrine of McKinleyism and
have forever turned their backs on
that god of robbery and Capitalization
of wealth.
Notwithstanding that the better and
wiser element of the republican party
has deserted the old protection war
Cry, the Utah contingent of the G. o. p.
still hugs to his faded bosom the twin
sister of rotection-bounties, and has
held the corpse up before the voters,
and by dint of downright lying and
distortion of the truth has made
some of the people believe the ''stif''
was really breathing. The reason why
so many Utah people-lean toward the
protection and bounty heresies, is be-
cause of lack of political training in
the past, and because it is q fact that
only about one-half of all the people
are capable of reasoning from cause to
effect. Many of the people have been
blinded by the cry of hard times. bond
issues, etc., and have failed to inYesti-
gate the causes that led up to the panic
and which required years Of republi-
can mis- rule to produce. 1t is easier
for all people to see effects than it is
to study the law of causation.
There has been injected into this
campaign the same element of eccles.
iastical influence that has been dis
turbing factor in Utah politics during
the last three years. Right in the face
of the most solemn declarations to the
contrary, men mot the churchl have
used their. high ecclesiastical infiu'
ence in behalf OF the republican party,
By that act, thousands of Mormon
democrats have been made to suffer al
most the tOrments of the damned
They have been forced to choose be-
tween their former fealty to men and
the fulfllment of promises sacredly
ratified, and the, freedom OF personal
action and conscience. In doing So
democrats have done no violence to
their faith In sacred things, nor has
their course weakened their hopes fol
the full fruition Of promised blessings
From under the feet of not few who
place their faith in men rather than in
principles, the light foundation OF
their faith has been swept away. Some
of the young who have not yet learned
that mortality is synonymous with
frailty, have had their Id OILS shattered
the faith of their youth has vanished
and in many cases never to return.
Such has been the elimination OF
three years of questionable republican
praselyting.
1t has been source of sorrow to
tens of thousands that such questions
! - those we have just indicated had tc
Sbe met during the campaign that has
Just closed. Mingled with that sor-
row has been joy that so many Nor.
mon democrats have been loyal to them.
selves, their church and their God In
the denunciation of the conduct OF
high churchmen for their unwarranteG
interference with the rights of citizens.
The people have listened to the
pros and cons of the question and to-
morrow they will render their theiI
verdict. The result will be watched
for with feverish anxiety by both
parties to the controversy. Even the
| eyes of the nation are fixed on Utah
as they were never before turned Oh
any other people. The line of demar.
cation has been clearly drawu. In I'm,
mistakoable terms the democrats have
declared for on absolute enforcement
OF church and state. If the returns of
tomorrow's balloting shall prove to the
nation that the people of Utah are sin
cere in their allegiance to promises
solemnly made, ard by parity of reas-
soning, to the union, all will be well:
If republican majority shall be re-
corded in favor of ecclesiastical domin-
alton of Utah, woe unto this people.
Voters, remember that a mighty
trust is reposed in your hands; that
trust is the fulfllment of sacred prom
ises. the boon of statehood and the
material development of our beloved
mountain home. Voters, this is our
testimony and into your hands we
commit those interests.
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