The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-05

do. how can they endorse a bill which
provides for the regulation Of railroad
rates?
The Harrington Resolution.
must mention one or two matters aris-
ing in the Republican state convention.
/ do not refer TO the transfer by the Re
publican ring at the command of its boss
of a large block of votes pledged to
Morse for the supreme court. who at one
time had the favor of the boss, to Candi-
date Frick, who at later time had the
favor of the boss, and which block of
votes was moved from the support of one
candidate to another with no more effort
than pawns are moved upon cheSSboard.
But do refer to that incident when Del
egate Harrington had the temerity TO in
troduce in a Smoot convention a resolu-
ton declaring, as does the constitution of
our state, against a union of church and
state, and which went farther and OPP
posed the active participation of high &c
clesiastics i'm our political affairs. Wheth
er the resolution was polite or impOlitic
IS unlmportant. But ii is fact that Mr..
Harrington had scarcely secured a read
ing of his resolution before the house fell
on him. The little bosses rushed here and
there, and all was connection. One man
from Ogden wanted it postponed TWO
years until Mr. Smoot has an opportunity
to get out of the senate without assist
ance, and one of the most active women
members declared that Harrington had
apostatiZed from his religion. Why? Be
cause he had exercised a political right
and had introduced a resolution diStaste-
full to Senator Smoot. To those who
agreed with her / commend careful
reading of an editorial in the Deseret
News of Wednesday, Sept %, 1906, and
from which 1 quote the following:
The Deseret News is of the opinion
that every man, no matter what may be
his ecclesiastical status. has an equal
right with all other citizens TO express
his opinions on living questions of any
kind that affect the public welfare and
10 use the influence that he has as cit
zen 10 bring about the uplifting of man
kind. This paper does not take the
ground that either the church as a body
or its leaders in their sacerdotal capac-
| lily, should attempt to coerce the minds
} or acts OF any human beings, to impose
/ penalties upon them for declining to sub
nit TO SUCH dictatiOn, or to pose as DO
| litical masters in any manner or in any
| sense of the term"
( Put an End to Discord
Every member of the church is free
1 TO join and support any political party
| or creed and to vote for any candidate
| that he chooses to aid. and is not under
any obligation to submit to arbitrary
| control in such matters from any source
/ under the sun. This is the truth before
! God and the world. and all rational neo-
| pie should understand it and close their
ears to the tumult of faIsehOod and folly
| raised by the most INSCRIPTIONS DOliti-
| cal adventures that ever cursed any ma
!
| And the sentiments that / have quoted
| expressive of political freedom should be
| endorsed and sustained by all true men
and women. rebuking as they do in adj
I vance. the men, who. without doubt as
/ the campaign wakes warm will endeavor
| by whispered suggestions and innuendo
10 lead Democrats into the Republican
fold.
| Why not put an end TO discOrd and
contention. TO unworthy political meth
DDS. 10 ring rule and bosSism here in
Utah by voting the Democratic ticket
The ills from which we suffer will not be
| ucred by the success of the American
! party and they will be aggravated and
continued by the success of the Repub-
hcan party. Both are appealing TO mems
| passions and neither has the poWer &c
bring the people into harmony and uni.
! son and to grant US peace at home and
honor abroad. such as all true men and
women long for. The Democratic party
| appeals to the hearts of men 1t asks
them all to have charity. which enduretf
long and TO cast aside bitterness hat,
and unworthy suspicion and TO WorI
along lines that win make Utah proud
of her children and all the children O.
Utah proud of their state. The plea tina
YOU should vote the Republican ticket
because the Republican Farty has giver
us prosperity has no valid ground be
cause our prosperity has been given u,
by a beneficent Providence and beeauS,
prosperity without happiness in the hom,
is dead sea fruit"