The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-03-07
Ident woodruffs prediction was

President woOdrufrs prediction was
made.
4 cannot be hoped that a community
VII prosper unuSr any leadership which
violates the pledges upon which great
gifts were obtained from the nation. or
winch abandons its vital principle. of so
cial equality TO substitute therefor the
class distinctions OF a forbidden priest
craft
TO me ii seems as If the church has
gone into idolatrous bondage TO the pres
ent head of the church: and that he looks
on the work as the Smith work, and not
his misleading, il II continue, the people
VIII be led into another bondage also
tlat from which they escaped when; u1-
Ger the benign rule of President Wood
IuIf, statehood was achieved
Stands His Ground.
The final demand of Elder Rackham's
paper is that i be required to appear to
show cause why the hand OF fellowship
friends and neighbors of the Fifth ward,
Ogden City. Utah, because OF the two
editorial articles: AN Analysis Of the
church No l., and AN Address TO the
Earthly King of the Kingdom of God
Whether 1 shall add any oral reasons or
not L give TO you the following as a re-
My friends and neighbors have extended
their fraternal kindness and friendship 70
me through a quarter of a century, win
no interruption up TO this date As have
ieit free to go to them for klnohess' SO
fDtN nave come 10 me thoAcoAto1 VI
times during the period of my residence
IN the Fifth ward.
What additional wrong have I suddenly
done TO justify a withdrawal OF that
relation?
Only, as the charge alleges, TO speak
plainly concerning an earthly ruler who
takes the name OF God in vain by using
II for the subjugatiOn and despoilment OK
men. Only to tell the truth as L see u.
Only to warn of dangers which. II Ihey
fall. viii descend upon a patient. toilinS
people. while the leader viii be in luxury
II may be that you will by formal ac-
ton. attempt 10 dismiss and abrogatc the
formal right Of fellowship. II may be
that many will heed your dictum
Utters Warning
But while I live I shall continue to love
The people with whom L was reared, VINO
Fl have honored me with their trust and
whom ] have sought to repay without
stint or self-sacrifice. Let me warn them
that troubles are coming upon the Nor
mon people through the ambition Of lead
ers who seek worldly place and worldly
wealth for themselves, and who leave the
F-eeple 70 bear heavier and heavier bur-
q dens with increasing years The "shep-
herds" so called. wax rich, while poor
Iatter-day Saints are sustained as pau
81 pers at the public charge.
The church cannot defy the country IN
& which we live; no gospel requires it
No leaders must be above the honest
f criticism OF the followers
s. Is this plan speaking? once my friends
1 and neiRhbors of Ogden did not dislike 1t.
In the days gone by there were many of
the most prominent among them, at
81 whose beseechinE I often went to Salt
s Lake to speak plainly at church head
quarters the things they were too tlmid
20 say, and yet which they knew were
true. I did so in those years. believing
that the church leaders should hear the
& truth from She people, whether compli-
s mentary or otherwise It was mT plain
speech to the leaders then which won a
modest place in their councils concerning
4 Utahs difficulties and the distress of the
81 church which had followed the long con-
1roversy with the government Tney
& trusted me TO go to the world TO present
S their views; for they knew that If l would
not fawn and falsify at home in their
81 exalted presence. / would not lie or
a eotrivocafe or trembIe before the great
ones OF the earth The franchise OF the
a Mormon people WAS spared TO Us by just
such plain spealking-the speaking of the
= truth. in defiance of threat OF cajolery-
Utah's statehood was won by this same
Is plain speaking. in defiance of opposition
lat home and abroad I do not claim for
myself any large part of credit in these
and other momentous affairs: but only
assert that the usefulness which the peo-
PIE seemed 20 find in my work was en-
s 1irely attributable to their belief in its
candor and lack Of fear
There was day when the leaders of
Sthe church WOulS listen to men. however
poor their worldly station; would listen 10
= p plea for personal justice and TO sugges-
tion for such general proceeding by the
& whole body. the church leaders included,
las would protect the people from disaster.
The day was when the leaders would give
Hof their own possessions to preserve and
carry forward the work
1trH-'Ges have come. if I have continued
ito 81 X plainly concerning them. surely
4thfs las what has been expected and
SIieeded. I have exercised this right of
ffree speech for the good of Utah's people:
utterinE warnings of disaster to come and
beseeching in personal conference and in
public that the men who had the great
charge in their custody would heed the
dangers
/ do not retract the utterances upon
which you sit in judgment, but I urge
Ethem upon you a warning.
No people can reach high destiny by
Following a false leader; and once more
n charge that Joseph =. Smith, who
Islands at the head of the church leads
|Hrhe people not by the revelation OF truth.
Ebut by the selfishness of man; and the
teelfishness of man is not the true guide
ITO Gods purpose
once moro / urge that there is no right
vested in the church TO deny free speech.
TO attempt il is dangerous; to achieve it
rs tyranny.
81 7 have confined myself I'm this answer
4entirely to the matters presented in the
&charges AGAINST me. There are many
45hings concerning which j might assume
+permssion TO speak under Your general
sHreqUeat 10 show cause. why should not
Ebe disfello~shipped. but do not wish 10
S#fake advantage of that. lest IL should Ee
5 deeuned a teChnicality or an intrusion; and
therefore ! submit the foregoing.
Yours fraternally.
FRANK J.~CANNON.