The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-10-31

the state. tho degrading tendencies. and
the debasing influences they must have
on the minds and characters OF your
children.
Do you wish your children to become
true men and women? Or do you wish
your daughters TO marry pcriidious men,
who shall then beget other children as
characterless and as worthless as them
selves? II you do not wish such out
come for your race. YOU must stand for
ever by those principles OF truth and
honor which shall weld your sons to
manhood, which shall make them feel
the stain OF perfdy like a wound. then
shall YOU have sons who faithful TO cv-
cry duty, both public and private, shall
add new luster and renown TO your race,
in all the arts, and sciences. and enter
priscs OF peace: then shall you have sol
diers who. IL their country shall require
their services, will stand with ranks Un-
end OF long and doubtful days; then
shall you have a country and flag
which In every event, and every trial,
shall be worth the priceless blood OF the
brave.
Equal Justice Demanded.
TO combat the daminati ton OF tho
church over the laws of the state is not
intolerance or persecution. 1t is simply
demand for II reign of equal justice.
There is no equality In the administca-
tion of the law which commits Cen
tile TO prison Tor Digamy and yet Se;s
free Mormon for the same offense. in
Volved in this conception is the further
proposition that the citizen owes 4 great
er and higher duty TO a free state tEan
10 the church. and for the simple reason
that the state concerns the welfare and
happiness OF a greater number ns- PER
sons than are embraced within tie pale
of any church.
II you had lived a little more than
two hundred years ago. and could nave
fax, why il was that he. the wisests the
most gracious. and the most tolerant, OF
al! MS contemporary statesmen. r1ou!d
parliament of Great Britain, H.. would
have replied that .'all religious crccdS
considered as Il body of theological doc
trinc. look alike TO me. TO all OF them
| am alike Indifferent. But here IS Il
religious sect which holds the interests
of the state in subordlnation 10 the in
terests OF the church. If its policies
shall prevail IN the politics Of England.
she must surely fall TO Il third rate power
In the politics OF Europe; AID this for
the simple reason that the Interests OF
the stale are held in Subo:dilatipn TO
the interests Of the church. | am FOR
England. and against the assumed pre-
pondcratnS policies OF any church, i am
my country 10 take her ;.glt-
ful place al the head of the great f,Grily
foundation FOR those policies OF nigh
craftsmanship which shall enable her In
meet with, power and glory, the great
trials oi RlGnheim: OF Qu,denarde, OF Ra-
So here. my friends, upon vastly In
fnrior stage indeed. but upon the S2Wc
general principle YOU are against the
prcpoDdoratlng influence and policies nf
y church in the government of states;
you are laying the foundation here in
Utah for an American stale. mt 4 Mo-
mon church state.
Whosover shall by word or decd, or
vote, assist or encourage q priesthood
To dominate the laws or powers of the
state. will. whether Willingly o. uEwlt-
tinEly. matters not. do that which Nio-
laies the principles and dcridcs .be con-
victions Tor which our ancestors shed
their blood
Recrudescence of Polygamy.
Under cover of the conception thai
they must take their chances against
the law. our current history shows an
ever INCREASING rccrudeSccncc OF pulyg-
amy i'll Utah. IL is. however, but the
coward : chance they take since any
public prosecutor or judge who should
become active I'm the enforcement Of the
laws could not hold his office after the
next election. When they offer sums OF
money for proof that any case OF polyE-
amy has been sanctioned by the church
since tho Woodruff manifesto. they arr
wagering and advertising merely that
their priesthood has by successful Chi
cane covered up the proofs Of their law
brcalling II is but Il shallow prciense.
and VIII deceive those only who wish to