The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-13
of self -sustenance as n perpetual Grim
inal, and goes scot free
MUST YIELD OR DIVIDE.

The address delivered in the taber-
nacie on Sunday last by Elder Brigham
! II. Roberts which was approved and APP
| plauded by the polYgamons chief, who
presided. and by all the lawless poyg
amous gang, served to accentuate the
line Of dcmarcation between the peace
able. law.abiding Mormon people and
their law-defying, reasonable, lechcr-
ous and sacrilegious chiefs. These
chiefs defy the laws Of God and man,
openly and brazenly. and announce that
they intend TO continue such defiance.
They thus throw off all moral obiga-
tion all prctensc of being guided by
God, and all Just claim of being good
citizens. They are rebels against God
and traitors to their country They
openly avow this, they glory in it, they
parade it. and call upon then pco.
pie to support them and applaud them
in their vile and indcfensiblc speech
and conduct,
The masses of the Mormon people,
however, are not in the least Of the sort
Of folk that these pledge breaking.
greedy, mcrcilcss. law.defying leaders
proclaim themselves TO be. The masses
of the Mormon people are earnest, sim
cere, devoted to good order, and de
sire to lead moral, decent lives Be
tween masses of this peaceablc and in
offensive character and those who have
set themselves up as their leaders and
who openly proclaim their contempt for
all law, human and divine, who repudi-
ate the utteranccs of their own proph.
cts, secrs, and revelators, and who say
boldly that they will be n law unto
themselves. both in their acts and con-
duct, there is an impossible gulf fixed.
1t is absolutely impossible that the
masses of the Mormon people should
occupy any such position as this pro.
claimed by their leaders. Their position
in general is just as antagonistjc in
this as it IN fact is between them as
feecers and heeced
There is, as we have said before, an
conflict between the two
elements; none the less irrepressible
and antagonistic because at present it
does not seem to be recognized by either
side Of this division. AS a matter of
fact, it does exist and it must become
a question wherein the lawless element
must submit or a split In the church
must ensue. The States of the Union
got along for two generations and more
in peace and amity by refusing TO rec
ognize the antagonistic character Of the
rs between the two sec
tions of the country, the North and the
South. But nevertheless the antago- (
pressible conflict came on, Statesmen
declared, when the crisis appeared and |
the conflict could nc longer be deferred, |
that il was impossible for this nation |.
to exist half slave and half free; that I
the conflict was on and must be pur-
sued to the final settlement. 1t was
on and it was pursued until the final
In precisely the same way there is |
now in the Mormon church the elements |
Of precisely the same sort of irrepres-
,ible conflict. The conditions are there,
Inclr working .caDnoL De escaped, Ine
conflict must come, and all
his ranting against the laws of God
and man, this defiant setting up of
cchery, villainy, and personal Grim
nality must pass away, Whether it
shall pass away without schism in the
,hurch is a question, We believe that
the schism is coming, and that the mod
,rn operations of civilization working
lpon the better element among the
NJ Mormon people will call halt upon
all the merciless and ruthless villainy
hat now seems to permeate the dom.
nant polygamous cult, and that gang of
-uffians and traitors will not halt, but
will continue their crimes and defiance
And the day when the masses Of the
oeaceable, well-disposed Mormons will
compel their traitorous chiefs to come
within the laws, or rise up against the
hameless, disgraceful, greedy, avar-
cious, merciless leadership under which
hey are now suffering, will be glad
lay for the church. as it will be glad
lay for every inhabitant Of Utah.