The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-05
THE BIGoT CLAMPING CONTROL

The Mormons, represented by the, re-
putod leaders of the organization, have
| notified this office that In cases where
Gentle teachers are employed. they Will
not permit their children 10 attend the
| public school, but will either cause
schools to he started by subscription.
instruction of Mormon teachers, or else
| keep their children at home. The issue
seems to be. either that the schools OF
Idaho in those districts. shall be subject
to The control and supervision OF tho
| priesthood of the so-called Mormon
church or else they must be, closed. Their
leaders set up o no DE ,hoy gMcus dS io
| that Gentle teachers endeaVor TO en-
force any sectarlan. political or dcnomi-
national doctrines In the schools which
their children attend.-From official re-
mort of Superintendent Si)as w. Moody,
Territorial public school system, Idaho.
1887.
And yet the Descrct News has the
audacity to deny, that either itself or
the priesthood for which it speaks de-
mands that it be permitted to control
everybody and everything on earth.
This enlightcuing paragraph concern
ing the Idaho schools, coupled with
the declaration of Joseph +. Smith.
that the man who will deny the priest
nO0u tHs IIghL W ulitCI nun III an
things spiritual and temporal is liar
in the sight Of his Maker, should be
sufficient to set the News down for what
it is-a hypocrite and deliberate falsi-
fer of the facts.
The order which brought about the
condition complained OF by the super
intendept of Idaho public schools was
issued from the office Of the president
Of the Mormon church in Salt Lake
City. IT was the ambition of that time
to spread the power of the priesthood.
of tho "k,ngdom of God on earth"
over all this broad land. The success
Of the cult At home caused the Nor
mon chiefs 10 colonize a large portion
of the Territory of Idaho; and such
portion was practically dominated by
the priesthood controlling the Nor
mon people there, 1mmediately-ss
has been the case ever since the church
was organized-the mass of followers
were CROPPED in'' to carry out the
schemes Of the governing class. This
class has always attempted to domi-
nate the civil by means Of the eccle-
siastical authority. Knowing full well |
that the scboolroom is the nursery for |
the citizenship of the United States,
the high priests of Idaho began TO lay |
their Shiny fingers upon the system.
BY means of threats to withdraw their |
children and their patronage from the
regular public schools-(thc Danites
have various methods of intimidation |
and reprisaD-it was hoped by the
priesthood to either introduce their
system into the schools or TO destroy
them. Such policy has always been
theirs. from the very beginning, with
respect TO all manner of public activi,
ties. The high priests would rule or
they would ruin. This policy has
brought upon the Mormon church much
of the trouble that it has experienced.
but the brunt of which the leaders have
permitted the followers TO bear.
That very spirit is exhibited here TO-
day. The Deseret News and its snipe-
like journalistic supernumeraries are
crying for the destruction of the Ameri.
can party. They, and the priesthood
which they represent, have failed to
rule that party; and now they seek to
ruin 1T, even at the cost Of running the
glorious prospects now presented TO
this great State rs never before in
all of its existence. But the News and
all The higher Of the high priesthood
OF the Mormon church will fail and
ice; for the American people have by
Ihis time learned how to take their