Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-01-09

enacted, would have deprived us Of
every civil tight. 1t 10 only very
receutiy since nh attempt WAS made 10
disfrauchlse us ana reduces us TO the
level OF the Cinnamon and the Indian,
and then what would we have beenT
You look ut thOte races and see thu
treatment they receive, and you can
form au idea Of how II would have
been with ue. We should have
been piandeTed and robbed OF
everything, and we should have
been defenselesa. VINO would have
cared about us when stripped OF
political power? What is 1t that
makes the emigrant to this country
though no may be- ignorant aud IN
poverty, power in tho lana? 1t ia
because he has vote, and politicians
court him. But most Insidious, we'll
injured aud persistent attempt was
made to deprive every man OF us OF
the franchise, OF the birtnright we
have inherited from an ancestry OF
frte meu. God delivered us from mat
and who is to be thanked for IL? Those
who devised these measures and Woulu
have nut them in force? Arc they
the ones to whom gralulau0ns sfe uue'
I believe msDy Of our people MINK
rome OF those people ought to be
thanked for it; ut least, they seem to
act that way. The men who
raised their voice., laid their plane,
and used their influence against SUCH
measures are forgotten or thought
lightly Of. Now, God be praised, we
are free today, we have our rights, and
no msn Is to he thanked for II; IL has
been God's power that has uone IT,
When 1 Think Of these things, aud see
now the servants OF God have strlven
from the beginning with all the
strength Of mind and body that GOO
gave them, TO preserve the rights OF
tue people, and then 1 hear men talk
as though IL was unpatriotic, slniul,
aud tubverslve OF the righta Of men to
listen to th1se servants OF this LORD
who have established by their laborB
the right to be heard-l say when l
see this think, as one OF old has said,
that ingTatitude Ia WORSE than the elm
OF witchcra't.
Let US appreciate that which God
has done for us. No Llttsr-day Saint
ought to ask this people to honor men.
but honor this authority that He has
placed to govern and to guide, and
that has shown Itself equal to every
emergency, every crisis and every
trial. GOD has ehown that He is able
to cnoose the leaders for His people, ana
that when He has chosen them He Il
able to sustain them in their leadership.
There has never been q moment whom
they ave been unable to do that which
was necessary in cOunBeiing the peU'
pie in path OF safety and that,
too, without mixing the authority
OF Church and state, or n any manner
trenching upon or crossing the divid.
ing line which separates the ecclesias-
teal from the civil authority.
Respecting testimony | desire to say
few words. was asked the other
day why a man should testify that he
had been strengthened in his knowi-
edge. II he knew that thing was of
God, should he not always know 1t,
and how could that knowledge be
added to? Now, as Brother Grant has
told us this AFTERNOON, it is possible for
a man to have knowledge concerning
a thing aGd then to lose 1t, or to have
1t iade away in certain measure.
We have abundant instances OF this
in the history OF the Church. Oliver
Cowdery was admiuistered to by an.
CELLO messengers as Joseph was; he
aever denied that, but always test he'd
OF II; yet Oliver C1wdery lost HE
| staining in the Church anu went into