The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-11-19
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4 THE ECCLES|kSTS
'hineut and Faithful Nor
+ mon Comes Out Into
: the Open.
NEMANDS THAT PLEDGES
mo THE NATION BE KEPT
scates EXcOmmunicati0n of
nnshOers, Whisperers, Ec-
! lesiastical I,awbreakers.

"H0r ir1Dunes- s-f rom lnls udle uh-
49, leaders of the so-called Mormon
lat Keep the pledges, or compact,
icsmadc with the people OF the
States, and which formed the
reconsideration for the boon of
,ood, | am "hcart and soul
the American party
above declaration IS MADE With
.,de slightest bitterness of feeling
sal any member, or leader, of the
LA ln which ] Was born, and in
EsNI expect TO die.
have | surrendered any love
uFr interest IN. the principles Of
Ir,racy which, from almost child
have claimed my admiration and
BRING loyalty. Indeed, as / look
beard over the long. clean. and
feous fight the Democratic party
Mad for personal liberty. fran
e. uutainted by priestly domino
and square deal IN politics. as
lred with the record of the truck
snG fawning-for" church '-influ-
sand despicable Republican, or
10 party, my love for the princi-
uf Jefferson is intensified, and my
tntion for such Mormon Democrats
,n. II. King. James II Moyle,
Ps Smurthwaitc, and other
h defenders of the people S rights.
respect for compacts solemnly
Las been immeasurably in-
ed. The battle with themselves.
tacri6ces they have made, and
Re compelled to make, are now
- only TO themselves. their fam
.and intimate friends. But. some
;sKhen those who. by their bigo-
n partisan blindness, have caused
,..tions and unrest III their church;
ave inspired the contempt of all
,;ed peoples because of their dis
E.of plighted faith. and who have
Invoked the gathering tempest
rIll force their surrender, the
Ind file Of the Mormon people
.Fe up and bless the memory OF
=, Moyle, and others who sought
nFain and heart TO avert the i'm
Y storm, We're il not for two
" that 10 me appear sufficient, I
not intrude my unimportant per-
~ before the public, The first
su;in will find sympathetic echo
-. HcIE'S anu DIdlHS DI InoUSHnU
mon Democrats. The other rea-
T. that it would soon be known
Democratic friends that 7 have
[Fnyself with the American party,
" were better to publicly state
o'ition than to have nv motives
rtrJed by either friends or enc
BSuld not have it even inferred
lave withdrawn from my church,
o,prnciples are as dear to me as
ere when. without purse or scrip.
ii ped the highways Of Great Brit.
help spread the gospel Nor do
fs,Dnd that the American party
ling, or will fight. the Mormon
~, The onlv demand the Amer
''arty is making is that those
Of the Mormon church who are
,.,g the laws of God and man. and
avs placed the yoke of political
sm on the necks of Mormon and
~: shall obey the law and keep
P@ledges.
e il NOT for the fact that those
Headers agreed to abandon polvg.
and all that the word implies. 7 !
he. among the very Inst Of those
light offer any word of condemna-
or their acts. But under existing
lions will gladly enter rho ranks |
ose who are fighting for what | |
ive to be right. and I will not |
the struggle until every so-called
phet, seer and revclaior' is driven
The stump and out Of politics. and |
they solemnly agree TO disfcIlow-
every whispering Jimmy every
Fhoe Mormon who dares to tell his |
ren and sisters that ii is the wish |
President Smith. or any other |
phet, that they vote certain
ffor the welfare OF Zion and
such creatures as President vii. |
c. Parkinson he excommuni.
above may sound bombastic, but
those conditions are faithfully
led there can be no peace in Utah.
pne Of the very first, some four
ears ago. to raise the signal and
in y President Joseph F. Smith.
tes John Henry Smith and F. M.
of the danger of their political
Sdanger not alone 10 the truce be.
wMormons and Gentiles, but TO the
y Of thousands of church members
sonld cherish resentment toward
;nt Smith for publicly declaring
70 would regard il as reflection |
T'mental calibcr to be known as a
'at, and toward John Henry for |
tnnel-mouthed oratory and his
LII that ''the skirts of the Demo.
reek with the blood Of tho
ys Joseph and Hvrum. In
5llnd and bigoted partisanship
,,alse prophets. seers and revcln- |
n'wed fine wind and will, unless !
reparation be made, resp the |
mind, borh within and without the |
il.on which they have perpetratcd
pr irreparablc injury.
+ thousands of the Mormon peo-
id ! in passive revolt against those
Toay they are as loyal TO their |
v as any of those ..prophcis
"nbovc; they believe that Inc Al.
af; can achieve the splendid dos
,Atlined for this peUplc without
nfged prophets descending TO such
des of infamy as has marked The
OF broken pledges, deceit and
,e methods during the past fif,
Spars;.
eaking thus harsriy of President
MI Smith, | do not want to be
rstood. | believe that down
his heart ne is an honest man
asfertain that he believes he is
% his Maker and to his people.
> hming enigma involved in the
sa,receding sentences. and the
~ made nerein, can be solved in
efriences Of his early life, That
~ tragedy enacted at Carthage
nns,bt have left it's scars on the
~, pd brain Of the young son and
"a tof those murdered men. Add
t,pndying memory of those irving
~ lDtense nature. and eyclusirnlr