The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-09

and yet with as much information as
YOU or |. with all the opportunity 70 OBJ
here In Utah, our friend. tho Junior Sen
ator, stated on the floor OF that body that
since the accession of the present head
of the combination church In this State
there has been no interference OF the
church In politics in this state.
(Cries from the audience; Jaw. come
Indies and gentlemen. calmly and scri-
ously, fully approaching what 10 most OF
VIZ seems the absurdity OF question OF
that kind. either my friend. tho junior
Senator, does not read the signs OF the
times. or else ! am seriously and abso-
lutely blind To what has been occurring
In our midst In the last six months
Go TO the City and County building,
whore there is today In session the Leg
islature Of this State. and behold the
men down there who nre Just as honest.
just as sincere just high minded in
their idea as TO what should ne proper
legislation In their attempt to serve the
them, members OF dominant church OF
this State. bowling themselves with all
the devotion OF Hindoo before the Jug
gernaut of an ecclesiastical machine that
is rolling on them and crushing out every
spark or manhood In their bodies. on
the other hand, men just as conscien-
tious, lust NJ willing to do what they
think would he 10 the best interests Of
their constituents. rolled fiat into the miro
by the political road machine that Is run
ming over them and leaving nothirly Of
them except reminder that they once
attempted to exercise some slight degree
OF political independence under this po-
litical church machine,
say there are times when there comes
defeat: when there comes victories, but
the sacrifices that are obtained through
a victory are greater than the harsh
and I think that In the contest that we
have been waglng and are waging we
are not to make the sacrifice which the
citizens N this free country would make
in surrendering to an ecclesiastical des-
potism. that victory obtained by 1t is
merely temporary,
son there must be Two propositions
which are self-evident. One is. to place
1t In the shape of an alternative either
the idea which Is dominant within this
State which has brought us all the sor-
row that has been so prevalent here
In the past year Is to remain, is TO in
is to extend beyond the confines OF this
state throughout all the Western States.
and finally become the dominant idea
religiously and politically of this entiro
country or else II Is finally TO become
an extinct idea and that this State Is TO
become like the rest OF the American
States, l say TO put IT. in another form
and TO assume what we do assume. that
political ecclesiastical condition In this
state which compels the citizens of a
state TO believe In a dominant creed, to
Idea is TO grow and become prevalent 1t
ls TO become the rule throughout the
United States and finally 10 become
recognized as the American idea.
Triumph Is Sure.
The second is. that as sure as there
conflict There was time when that
term and that phrase was prophetic In
It's meaning. IL was struck off by one
ei The greatest statesmen the United
In the hearts OF the American people.
and they recognized as they never had
before that In the ffies and the early
sixties there was a conflict which must
go until II was decided in favor of one
Of the ideas or the prevalence of the
other idea. As | think YOU will agree
equally irrepressIble. It may be that
you and | will consider the sacrifice too
great we may not live long enough TO
see peace come, but SO sure as the prin-
IN right: so sure as we have placed our
confidence in the we'll meaning and the
lght-thinkine. in the consciences of the
American people, this conflict with you
or with me will go on with one inevitable
So ] take heart; / think l have more
confidence than most people, and in some
way. somehow, In some Uncomfortable |
method to us, the solution OF this ques-
lion is to come. and is 10 come not in
some iuture years when YOU and j are
great heart Of the American people that
Viii strike a responsive chord through |
out Utah, There will come a revelation |
hat Will make our State a grand free |
state. The faith that / have Is the faith !
hat | have in an over-rulinc Providence |
md in the good citizenship and patriot
SIN NJ the people Of this State; but |
whether or not II he so, for me and my
icuse. If we stand alone we shall stand |
or this principle. If IL is worth standing |
or 1t Is worth fighting for. it is worth |
'our sacrifice. II is worth my sacrifice
is worth everything besides, TO stand
II Utah a free and independent American
'itizen as in any other State in the
Jnion.