The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-10-22

support 1f those lawlcss usurpatlohss
Honest Mormons cannot defend the law
defving lives led by the leaders OF their
church. 1t is impossible for any earnest
mar Of any religion whatever TO sup
port and defend men as religious teach-
crs and leaders who distinctly, ana Win
precision and specific detail that Is rs
appalling as it is blasphemous, admit
that they are living and intend TO con-
tjnue to live, lives in defiance OF the
laws of God and Of man. And when
the chief OF that church openly pro-
claims his pretensions TO guide his toj-
lowers in their temporal affairs by say
ing that "the fact of the matter 49,
when a man says you can direct me
spiritually, but not temporarily, he heS
in the presence of God, then the re-
volt Of true churchmen against inc
usurpations should be universal
Now, there is the crux Of tins whole
question. 1t is impossible for the
Mormon people as 2 mass TO CONSIDER
themselves in any way or degree at
tackled By that editorial, Read 1t and
see, There is no reason to find fault with
it at all It is q plain, straIg Ighttorward
statement of tho question that is ABOVE
all other questions here and now IN TINS
campaign. And in spite Of president
Morris 3 packed meeting, in spite OF his
snap Judgment, in spite of hls effort
TO make this question assume the ap-
pearance Of antagonism to Mormonlsm
or to the Mormon people, there is not
one word, not one sentiment, either IN
that editorial or in the American dec
larations Of principles for now these
five years, that could be twisted to such
a bigoted, proscriptive use as Presi-
dent Morris worked them for in this
case.
We hold that President Morris is dis
tinctly censurable for undertaking TO
make false presentation in this mat
ter. He has no foundation for the
propaganda which he appears to be
engaged in, to the effect that the Aperl-
can party or that The Tribune is against
the Mormon people. There has not
only been nothing in the record of the
party or Of The Tribune to Justify any
such claim. but precisely the reverse has
been true right along. There has been
in all of the American platforms dis
tinct disclaimer OF anything of the kind,
and this disclaimer has been kept stead
ily in view at all times by The Tribune.
President Morris is thus an unfaithful
shepherd Of his people in undertaking TO
lead them into false ways and to in"
doctrinate them with false ideas. He
is endeayoring to stir up bitterness
against his neighbors OF the American
party under false pretenses and with
ont the least justification AS a guide to
his people, therefore, President Morris
is false guide. AS director of their
minds and consciences he is misleading
them, and this willfully, because he
knows TO the contrary OF what he under
takes to make them believe. President
Morris, therefore, Is not only unfnith-
ful in his ecclesiastical office, he is
treacherous as citizen mlsdirectine
other citizens as TO what they should
do; and as man he is dishonest in pre-.
tending that thing is true which is
false. And in this new and
bloodless Morrisite massacre where only
Democrats arc to be the victims by
being betrayed into the ranks of the
Republicans, President Morris covers
bimsolf with deceit as with a garment,
and with fnlsehood as with a cloak He