The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-07-29
"GOD'S TRUSTEES


Kingdom Of God on Earth:
| In the absence of the monarch the
responsibilities of the realm arc within
your custody; and be the period of your
authority long or short, the destinies
of the kingdom may be affected for
all time by the motives and methods
of your rule,
1t is well for men Of your station
TO study history and know by what
means Of rulership, calamity to the in
| terests of your realm may be averted :;
il is even better if contemporary events
afford closely applicable illustration,
for you 10 weigh such circumstances
with judgment and fidelity that you
may know by the menace of similar
| institutions what is the threatened dis
aster TO your own.
There is pending in secular court,
having ostensible jurisdiction over the
affairs of your realm, suit at law in
which the monarch and some Of YOU
who are his ministers are parties de-
fendant on an application OF certain
tithepayers to enjoin the monarch from
what they deem is misuse Of the
funds derived from common taxation
Of the subjects. The monarch himself
and the ministers, followed as one may
reasonably presume by most Of the sub
jects, have treated this suit with airy
disdain, and have assumed that you are
impregnably guarded by the complai-
sance Of the Judiciary, not less than by
the servility of tho mass But while
you have been thus assuring yourselves
OF the weakness of the prosecution and
your strength, in another domain
similar kingdom Of God, also calling
itself Zion and also ruled by a mon,
arch who claims divine right, has found
it's affairs hailed before secular tri-
bunal, and there the judge, having no
fear of political vengeance before his
eyes, has pronounced the law with such
clearness of precision and justice that
all men who read must know that in
that other domain equity Is to be es-
tabhshcd. There the judge has ruled
that the funds, however vast, derived
from common taxation Of the subjects,
belong not to the monarch individually,
but to the whole people, aud are be.
yond his power Of alienation. They
are trust funds and the contributors
thereto may pursue the funds and
scrutinize their utilization to the last
penny and to the final instant of time.
Furthermore, the Judge has held that
men who have subscribed TO covenants
OF fealty to the monarch to do his
will In all things are not fit custodians
OF the treasury, and the court has re-
moved the funds into other receiver.
ship.
The regency of this realm, if 1t will
be governed by powers Of observation
| and reasoning, cannot fail TO conclude
that what is good law and what is
public opinion and what is determined
/ justice concerning Dowie IS Zion will,
in time, be applied as law, public opin-
ion and justice for this realm and it's
ruler. Not always will the monarch or
the regency be able to avert the in
evitable by the exercise of unconstitu.
tional influence upon the constitutional
| departments of government. and in q
day not far distant the responsibility
Of the ruler for the moneys OF the
common treasury will be recognized and
enforced by the law and BY decisions
Of courts.
1t would be we'll for tho realm and
the peace and guietude Of it's people
If there might be such wise and honor
able adjustment Of the relations be.
tween the subjects who contribute and
the ruler who disburses the treasury
funds by the voluntary action of the