The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-12

| church and the state in harmony-the
state TO command. to control, to defend:
the church to uplift, to counsel, to bless
VIII insure the peace. the progress and
the glory of nation. Spain ignored the
/ law of separation and bearing aloft and
SIDE by side the Holy Cross and her
| saffron flag she wrote a history of
| crime and bloodshed and death and APP
| paled the world with her inhuman acts.
/ Inc fathers of our republic, standing
! within the shadow of all the terrible pol
| ltical and religious persecution of the
past, wrote an inspired" constitution
| and declared therein for absolute sepa-
/ ration AS a result, the United States
| towers amidst the nations. reflex of
the liberty, the peace and the progress
4 of the world. Let me here, with due re-
| gard to the rights of all persons, say
/ that in my humble opinion the person
/ holding A high position in the church
becomes an oracle unto his people. and
1 ne. by virtue of his position, nfods hu-
man thought and shapes human lives.
He whose advent into the world was her
aided by the angels song, Peace on
Earth and Good viii to Men," emphasized
/ this injunction, Render unto Caesar
| that which is Caesars" Obedience to
these divine commands may require on
our part the ''heroism of determination
! and self-control," but the observance
would usher in better feeling in Utah
/ and many who have gone away In anger
would come back, and say was said
| 5000 years ago, in the meadows by the
beautiful sea, whittier thou goest there
will l 60
Cause of Strife.
! Permit me to state what / believe 10
/ be the cause of the political strife in
| Utah and point out as best ! can the
remedy. For the people who paved the
| way for this commonwealth I have only
| profound respect. They are my people
| see them stripped of their possessions.
| journey unparalleled in the history of
| the world. filled with hope and strong
| of purpose | see them enter this val
| leys. In their day of trial, in their hour
| of travail. | see their act of loyalty
the Stars and Stripes unfurled upon Mex
lean soil | see them build, as best they
| can, the free school and the holy church.
| | see their labors. like IAN emanation
| from heaven convert a barren waste
/ into fertile fields-a home for the rose,
| the fruit and the grain. ] see others
| follow. not of the same faith. and build
| their homes side by side with the Dio-
neers. The old and the new disagree as
! to political matters, but finally their diff
ferences are adjusted and statehood IS
granted-granted to Mormon and Gentle
alike-and the people divide upon party
! lines Republican and Democrat, and
peace and fraternal feeling prevail The
! leaders of the dominant church say to
! their people:
Your political liberty is in your own
| keeping. Do with it as you will"
Right here is the cause of all our po-
| litical strife-the actions of some men
Politicians have gone up and down the
state, upon the eve of every election, tell
| ing what the brethren want Thus they
| have cast discredit upon the church and
upon its leaders. Mormon and non-M Nor
mon. Republican and Democrat. as well
as the American" party. have filed their
protest seemingly in vain. As for my
self | prefer to believe i'm the SINGER
ity of that statement: Your political lib
erty is in your own keeping" And it
should be. The right to cast a free mans
ballot is .as sacred as a fallen soldier
grave" In the effort of mankind TO
maintain the right, wars have ragged,
thrones have tOttered. nations persisted.
heroes suffered" Our right to embellish
bought at Bunker Hill, at Lexington and
Concord and all those glorious battle
fields of the Revolution" The price we
paid-the blood of the soldier the life
of the patriot. Beneath this flag and
within our broad land there is room
for the state and for the church and for
the political party each working in its
separate sphere of action. and unmolested
by the other. Let your religion be sacred
to YOU and your neighbours religion be
sacred to him. and let not the political
party trespass upon the rights Of the
church, and let not the church trespass
upon the rights of the political party.
On Plains Of Canaan.
Four thousand years ago, on the plains
of Canaan. they gathered stones and
built heap. and one said to the other:
Let this heap of stones be a monument
of peace between us You may 60 to
the right and ! will go to the left and
neither shall come to do the other harm"
The warlike Greeks dedicated the little
island of Delos to the god of peace and
declared that here war and contention
shall not come" For 900 wears I'm the
temples at Rome the vestals kept the
holy fire burning upon their affairs. Is
II not possible to dedicate Utah to the
god of peace, TO build the heap of stones,
to make the division line between politi-
cal party and religious organization. to
light the fraternaI fires upon her altar.
to enter into covenant, and then keep
the compact as holy as the altar as
sacred as the flag? The organization.
political or religious, Initiating a move
ment looking TO this end would be en-
titled to the lasting gratitude Of the peo-
pie of Utah. Yours truly
ID. o. RIDEOUT.