Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-28
REMOVE TIE TROUBLE.

ANTI Mormon prints are lowing
every time they hear prominent
Ghnrch member say ono word to other
z Church members about the political sit
uation But they, themselves, arc max
ing frantic appeals to young Nor
mons" for votes. One of the chief can
aidates on the opposition ticket has
had the ilnpudence of asking the Nor
mons TO support him and TO help elect
the men Who, through the chairman OF
their state convention, are pledged to
do what they can to drive innocent
men into cxile. or prison. They are
asking young "Mormons'' to help them
elect the men whose acknowledged
party policy IS to lead the people into
\ bondage by means of intolerable tax
burdens. But they become frantic
with rage IL Church man appeals to
the Church members to guard their
liberties, and to vote down the usurp-
el.s.
There is no necessity for taking any
notice of hcfnconsistencies of the con-
spiiatprs We merely say to them, II
yall want the Church leaders to stand
aside and! be only spectators Of the
political contest, cease attacking the
Church. Cease your publication of in
famous falsehoods about Church lead
clls as part Of pour political ammuni-
ton. Cease appealing to Mormon"
voters for support for your un-Ameri- 4
icun plptss But do NOT expect the
men who have been placed as watch
eIs upon The watch towers QfSZion 10
be silent In the hour of grave danger
To American Institutions. They are not
towards. Do not expect them TO be
pverawed by The murderous clamors OF
The followers OF Annas aud caiaphas.
The Prophet Joseph when the
clouds were gathering in threat
5Iiing masses over the horizon of
the Republic, took firm stand upon
the platform of patriotism and lifted
up his voice in u ringing protest. He
said:.: i!ri:s- ~ II = X 90
,':Al mohSmen, priests, thieves and
bqgus-makprs, apdstutes ind, adultct-
5eFs,, who combine t1Gdestio$ this people
now raise the hue-Ind- cry throughout
the state that we resist the law. in or
5defsto raise preteXt for calling to-
getlisr. thousands more Of infuriated8l
mob-nlen to murder. destroy, plumber,
and ravsh the innocent. We are Ans
5erican citizens. We live upon a soil
J for sheSihertcs Of which our fathers
3pelilad their lives and split their blood |
UPON the battlefield. Those rights SO
dearly purchased shall not be disgrace
fully ttnddcn under foot by l;iWless
lnarfiuders without at least q noble eff
fort son our part to restrain DUR liber-a|
lies. tAdd5ess by. the Prophet joss
eph, June ~, 1919 at Nauvo2) fG
trhat expresses the sentiment of the
Prophet Joseph. 1t is the sentiment Of
y patriot willing 10 lay down his life on
the altar of his beloved country, for
the consHtutionally guaranteed libcr-
ties Of the people. And that is the SEN
timent by which the Church leaders
to{aysulc animated. That is the senti-
mentrbS which the Latter-day Saints
generally areFanlmated Let The UNI
American attacks upon the Church and
Church leaders cease, and there VIII be
no reasonable cause for complaint of
politics. The Latter day
Saints are Giln in theif convictions and
free to act. They are Intelligent enough
TO mike III their minds on oil civic
quo.ticns. Remove "Mcrmonisln"
frnm politics, and rebuke the traitors
WHO svioli,te every principle of Ameri-
can government by Selling the politi-
cal machinery and using 1t for ptr-
poses OF persecution That will end
the; trouble irlSljtah for ever.
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