The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-07-11
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DISTINGUISHED Gentiles.

A gentleman who resides in of the Mormon in
tested counties of southeastern Idaho says to The
Scimtar that the American people outside the sphere
of church control have no conception of the condi-
tons that surround the Mormon residents of that
section.
They are hermits within the kingdom of Zion
aliens under the folds of their countrys flag in iso
ation among ntruders who hold them in suppression
by force of numbers They politically CONNER
cialy and socially ostracised-they who have the
first and only claim on the protection of govern
that belongs to them by virtue of inheritance
from the patriots who created it.
On election days they are oppressed by a
seriousness of their inferiority in numbers and inau
ence by the knowledge that the ballots they cast
ercise influence in the governing affairs of COM
munity, commonwealth and nation.
They are overcome by theocracy that exists with
in their government and derives of its just
powers from their government, but is all the while
an opposing influence to those principles Of liberty
on which the republic founded.
Among them are SCARED veterans who stood in
the breach when the life of the nation assailed,
and there are descendants of the fighting stock in
whose blood freedom christened on the western
hemisphere. All these are as nothing in the midst
of the foreign horde brought into this mountain realm
that the name of God and Christ might be made
mockery while the feast of lust satiated the
of the promoters of a monstrous crime
Among the apostates from the Christian creed of
the land Of the stars and stripes there of in
fuence and power in politics and government who
resist with pertnacity worthy of good cause, the
dsfranchisement of the aliens of the Mormon church
None of these men have ever given voice to a pro-
test against the disfranchisement of the American
citizens who abide under the jurisdiction of the Nor
hierarchy, their brethren in common cause.
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to political expediency and declare that these
fortunate Americans must abide the will of the
jority, the basic principle of system of govern
ment.
They would Danish from consideration the indis-
putab1e fact that their majority has not the legal
moral right to exercise the tyranny of control
the accepted followers of the republic-that the
ganic act of the commonwealth by which they
favored, protected and honored says that these
and women of usurping theocracy not en-
titled voice in the affairs of the loyal people of
Idaho.
The Scimtar has no tears for the dsfranchised
aliens Of Zion. It's plea is for the dsfranchised
citizen through the refusal of
the governing powers to command enforcement of
that law which says no Mormon shall exercise any
of the functions of citizenship dsfranchsed because
men have become so intoxicated by the fumes of au-
thorty that they have forgotten Cod creed and home
and are willing to abide among outlaws from social
decency, the hordes that make them great during
vain hour
There is of course, to be end to all this 1t
is not necessary to ask what that end will be- This
is plea for American citizenshp-for men of the
United States They have never been known to hes
itate when the test put upon them Take the
back trail to Plymouth Rock-to Jamestown. There
has been fa1tering, deviation from steadfast
purpose The theocracy will be exterminated, if the