The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-10-30
THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE FRIDAY MORNING OCTOBER 3d.

declarations by the church, ] say the
attitude Of the church to me, and j
trust and believe 10 you. is In oil re-
spects all that we could ask it to be-
but after all that unbroken line OF
declarations made to the world and by
the official authority Of tho church.
there are men and women who VIII
come to your homo pretending TO repre-
sent the authorities, and they say they
selves, and speaking for them to you,
that 1T is your duty TO vote the Repuo,,
lican ticket this time. IL it not truef
(Cries Of a. Ycs,"O Then in the name
no, I am trying to be moderate in my
language. and you ought to. give mo
credit a voice; "We do'D for speak
ing SO mildly when / feel so intensely.
False Position.
'But now what attitude does 1T
place the men in who issued those
declarations. T say that the church
has no worse name, that the authorities
Of the church have no worse name for
those same individuals, for they rep.
resent them to their people and to all
the world rs being the sort of men;
that they will make these public dec
larations to their own people and to
the world, and then, in secret, they
are conniying and sending forth mes
sengers to nullify and to destroy the
policies that they have outlined IN pub
lie declarations. In other words, we
have one policy which we speak 10 the
world, and then we are untrue to the
word we give to the world and play
the sly game of politics behind these
be more infamous than that? Then,
when man comes TO you and under
takes 60 represent honorable meu as
being the authority that they represent,
and ask you to become a party TO such
an infamous scheme as this, tell me
what your answer ought TO Beg
(Shouts OF .'Kick them out."D
Mr.. Roberts then read the declara-
tion from the address to the world,
which President. Nephi l.. Morris read
10 the assembled saints at a meeting a
few nights ago, and in which 1t is set
forth that in. the event of the church
being attacked by a political party,
that it chould call upon its children
TO defend il.
"Uuder that clause" said Mr.. Rob.
erts, "tho president OF this stake un-
dertakes to Justify the interference
that has taken place in religious meet
ings and under the auspices OF the
Mutual Improvement association, and
justifies his advice that this time we
shall vote the Republican ticket; but
how, In the name of all that s reason
, dDlc, lS lUdL CIduSc W applI'u' -
Republican president of stake, III
this corner of our city, TO rise up and
say TO the people to vote the Republl-
can ticket this time2 May not Demo
cratic president rise and say: This
time you ought to vote the Democratic
ticket? Is it TO. be left to any old ar
rangement when TO use this magnlfl-
cent power that the church, and the
whole church, reserves unto itself; and
may not l, as a general officer, have
word TO say in relation to the apph-
cation of the princip]e7 I think so.
] think our honored, friend made a
sad mistake and went beyond the limits
of his legitimate province and author
ity when he undertook to instruct
Democrats to vote the Republican
ticket, and I differ from his view of
this matter most dlametrically. (Crles
| of $50 do wel")
Scheming Republicans.
"Shall we submit when scheming
| Republican machines try TO arouse ouI
| fear for the silly uttcrances of Il man
scarcely responsible for his utterances
and under the spell of a personal mag
nctism an i'll advised audience rises
| and gives vent 10 feellpg of
bitterness, shall we consider that the
| foundations of our state move because
of this exhibition of power and bit
| terness1 Mine cars have not been
| trained in q school to take fear at any
such exhibition.
~ sell out my people, me seek tc
destroy that church to which l have
gwen the best years of my manhood
Twenty eight years nave l stood in Its
| public ministry, and 7 think ] am not
egotistical or boastful when [ say
have stood against all comers who have
assailed it,
my family i'll exile for the principles
that it taught us; and at the last
went IN prison for it, and stood among
those who were branded as shameful
] have been in the midst when its ennis
saries were assailed more than once,