The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-04
NICOL HOODS LOGIC.
NUTS FOR THE MANIFESTO SUP
PoRTERs TO CRACK.
Asking People to Endorse n State
ment They Believe to Be False
Following Out the Principle OF
Hanging a Man First and Trying
Him Afterwards.
To the Editor of The Herald:

To the Editor of The Herald:
[ kindly ask for a little space in The
Herald, as 1 desire to say something in
regard to the new manifesto and to
voice the sentiment of public opinion that
one hears expressed on nearly every &C.
casion.
| The Mormon people voted at their gen.
eral conference and approved of this doc
ument yet 1t is well known fact that
a great many of them are opposed to it,
This opposition arises from that part of
the document wherein it states that the
church authorities have no desire, neither
have they ever interfered in any way in
regard TO politics. Now great many of
US do not believe this part of the mani
festo, and to ask US to vote for it, is
entirely wrong. We have been taught that
God hates hypocrite and we would
simply be exhibiting ourselves as such,
were we to vote for something we thought
was not right. Another thing, it has al
ways been the rule when anything per-
tanning to church matters was before the
people, a negative vote has always been
called for, and it has always been
charged by the enemies of the Mormon
church that this was only form as no
one would dare to vote against anything
the church leaders placed before the peo-
pie, for fear Of being dis-fellowshipped
This has. been denied by US time and
time again. Yet, strange to say, to all
appearances, our enemies seem to have
been right for once.
At the Provo conference the people
We're told to vote for or against the man
ifesto just as they pleased, but were also
told if they did not vote for it, they
did not have the spirit of the gospel at
heart. At Tooele last Sunday, Apostle Ly-
man told the people that tomorrow (AIon-
day) the manifesto would be read TO
them and invited the people to be pres
ent, except the "tenderfeet did not
care whether they were present or not
Interpreted, this means, AL you who
int r-~4N fr,4 iF1.rA
ent, all you who intend to vote against
it, stay away" According to the report
in yesterdays Herald, there were four
men who had the courage of their con-
victions to vote against that document.
They simply made use of that God-given
right freedom of conscience and for
which, SO your report tells us, one of
them was promptly disciplined by those
in authority, by having his name with
drawn as an officer in that stake of
Zion. This is something after the man
ner of hanging the man first, and CIV
ing him a trial afterward, and it is just
such action as this, Mr.. Editor. that is
causing SO much dissatisfaction among
the Mormon people today, and the best
way to stop this dissatisfaction and crit-
TO the people and issue one naming the
church officers who are prohibited from
entering the political field, and let it
prohibit them from taking any part
whatever in politics, and all will be well.
But this way of giving the people an
onion to chew, when they expected an
apple, is what is causing all the trouble.
NICOL HOOD
Sugar House, April Is, 1896.