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i '& I l' Vol. 6; No 18n. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, DEC. 1,. 1906. Price 5 Cksts School Election Wednesday The nominations for the board of ed ucation have been made and the elec tlon will take place on Wednesday next. The Third precinct was the last to come up, the non-partisans nom lnatln; . W. J. Newman to succeed himself on the board of which he has been an efficient member for a num ber of years. The full citizens' or non-partisan ticket is as follows: First precinct Byron Cummlngs. Seco"hd M. J. Cheesman. Third W. J. Newman. Fourth James T. Hammond. Fifth H. P. Henderson. It looks to us at this time as If the non-partleans would elect their entire ticket. .There will be a dirty fight put up by tlio amerikearns party against Byron Cummlngs in the First precinct, but wo think Mr. Cummlngs will win. Ho certainly should be elected, In view of his past services on the board If for no other reason. He has been a .most efficient member, fair and with out prejudice. Mr. Cheesman ought to carry tho Second in the ratio of 2 to 1 and we think he will. The board needs him Mr. Newman's election In the Third I is a foregone conclusion. I In the Fourth there will bo a hard strugslo between Mr. Hammond and "Parson" Tibbals, but wo rather think the "parson" will come out second best. In the Fifth, Judge Henderson was nominated by both the non-partisans I ' and tho "Americans." Nobody would I bet against his election. 1 "UNITED REPUBLICANS." j An organization calling Itself tho V ' "United Republicans of Utah," has been formed. What the object of the organization is and what it expects to i' accomplish Is not clear to us. It does ' not look as If it was very clear to tho promoters either. They have Issued a declaration of principles consisting : . mainly of high sounding and at the same time very hackneyed phrases' f without any practical meaning. A paragraph from the state constitution regarding religious liberty, liberty of conscience, etc., which nobody quar rels with, Is quoteJ as part of tho de clarations of principles. As far as we can gather the object of tho organiza tion is to get tho republican party to pledge itself not to nominate for any office any high ccclcslast of any church. This would probably hit Apostlo Smoot of the Mormon church and Elder Weir, of the Presbyterian church with equal force. As wo un derstand It an elder In the Presbyter Ian church stands as high as an eccle slast as an apostle does In tho Mor mon church. It seems to us un-American, contrary to the spirit and lottci of tho constitution of the United States to declare that any class of citizens shall not have the rlstht to aspire to any office in tho land, and it would be worse than foolish for any political party to commit Itself to any such a declaration. If a churchman of any sect comes becfro the popple for election to any ofllco or before any convention for nomination for any political office, if tho people or the convention don't Tan't him let them turn him down and do It decisively, "good and plcn y" os the boys say. Nothing practl cal can ever bo accomplished In the way that appears to ba outlined by the so-called "United Republicans The movement If wo mistake not will "die a-bornlng." -"dio a-bornlng." The idea of a politi cal party, forming a coterie within its party to rulo the party Is absurd. o CHURCHES IN POLITICS. Editor Truth: Tho Rev. William T. Brown, field secretary of tho American Unitarian societies, made tho following state ment in tho Unitarian church last Sunday morning: "There is no city in this country which hns a larger proportion of churches or a larger percentage of professedly religious people than Philadelphia no city -where the claims of religion as voiced by tho churches are more widely allowed, nono where so-called Infidelity or athe ism is less in evidence. But a polit ical. Investigation, initiated not at all by tho church nor in tho name of re ligion, has disclosed tho fact that for long-continued political corruption, for complacent robbery and graft, for rot ten civic politics, Philadelphia bears off the palm from every known com petitor. Not one-half not one-tenth of its story of iniquity was laid bare in that investigation there wasn't enough moral virtue even in tho re form forces to plunge tho probe to the very bottom of Us noisome sore and yet, the exlstenco of that corruption has been known for years and ycar3 by its smug church members. And the custom of counting a hundred thousand votes having no existence has been followed and approved by men who attend and support Chris tian churches and I daro to say that (ow of them over heard a word from those pulpits which could possibly disturb their calloused consciences. "In other words, tho religion of Philadelphia of tho people of that city of its churches and ministers has been, up to date, as Impotent to affect, much less correct, tho moral rottenness of Its politics or its busi ness, as its drinking water, taken from tho unspeakably Schuylkill river, has failed to check tho ravages of Phila delphia's periodic plague typhoid fe ver. It was in that city, you remem ber, that tho ministers came together a few years ago and prayed tho Al mighty to arrest the typhoid epidemic then claiming its terrible toll there, while at the samo tlmo tho peoplo continued to get their drinking water from tho samo stream Into which noi only the sewers of that city, but tho sowers of sovoral others empty." Having spent the greater portion of this year In Philadelphia, I will say that tho abovo statement is too true, and tho great reason for tho corrupt state of affairs in Philadelphia is tho fact that thero are too many churches (hero to bo kept up and too many preachers to bo supported, and they have to resort to politics, slander and graft to raise the money; and, further, they are attending to everybody's bus iness but their own. Thero aro five active anti-Utah and anti-Mormon so cieties in Philadelphia, tho Mothers' congress, tho Confederation of Wo man's clubs, tho Methodist Church Extension society, the Baptist and the Presbyterian Homo Missionary socie ties. All of theso societies, aided and abetted by tho Ministerial Association of Salt Lako City, aro advertising Utah In n false and debasing light. For instance, tho Mothers' congress, of which tho notorious slanderer, Mrs. Frederick Schoff, is president, as sisted by Tom Kearns, Frank Cannon and Fred T. Dubois, (who aro allle3 of the Salt Lako Ministerial associa tion), to injuro Utah, passed a reso lution last winter that they would not patronize any railroad passing through Utah In going to their convention at .os Angeles, on account of the Mor mons. This resolution, of course, pleased Cannon, Kearns, Dubois and the Ministerial association, hecaust It would Injure tho railroads, tho hotels and the business interests of Utah. The Presbyterian board of homo mis sions, Instead of trying to save tho .lives of thousands of little children who aro being slaughtered every year in Philadelphia becauso they aro obliged to drink tho sowcrage from tho Schuylkill river, aro selling over fifteen lcuids of most false, scurrilous, damaging and misleading tracts against Utah that tho fiendish and do praved minds of their authors could conceive. Instead of trying to savo their own Httlo Innocents from tho deadly scourgo of typhoid fover, diph theria and cholera morbus, they will rush out to Utah, 2300 miles from homo, and protend to reform a people who aro 100 per cent better morally, physically and intellectually than thoso who represent tho Methodist, Baptist, or tho Presbyterian churches of Philadelphia. I do not speak at random when I mako tho abovo state- 1 ment. . Thero aro now in tho Philadelphia medical colleges twenty-four Mormon Students from Utah, and not ono of 1 thoso twenty-four students uses to- J bacco or intoxicating liquors, carouses or chases "fnlrles" at night. They J aro punctual at tho lectures and all 1 stand at tho head of their classes. Tho Mormon students In the Phlladel- phla medical school? outrank morally ,$ and intellectually lv a largo percent- J ago tho Methodist, Presbyterian, and j tho Baptist students, In thoso col- s5 leges. Tho samo condition prevails J$m at Harvard, Yale, John Hopkins, tho 7 Physicians and Surgeons', Columbia, t Georgo Washington, Ann Arbor, Unl- ' ' versify of Chicago and all other e schools of higher learning, and I dial- pi Ji Continued on Pago 8. A Bookcase for Christmas - Breeden Office Supply Co. Agetl;dSec j The Best Possible Present for the Home 60 W. Second South Office Cabinets m