Goodwin's weekly : a thinking paper for thinking people. [volume], January 24, 1903, Page 2, Image 2

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iti I & one by one to gain a vote In the Congress of the
III flj nation, until at last they can throw off the mask
Jn K) bf the lamb and put on the iron helmet of the
jij M "We hold that Reed Sinoot should be denied a
! f lt eat In the enate of the UnIted States for these
I m reasons:
j 1 First. Ho is not an American.
' I JP Second. He does not believe in a government
' i?! "of the people, by the people, and for the people,"
v I I but in the government which ho calls "the gov-
i 1 h ernment of God through his priesthood," and be-
I lieves that he who is president of the Church of
I m W Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the very
I jjj vicegerent of Almighty God on earth, that he has
i ill a right to rule this earth and that the government
,'. 1 $ of the United States is an usurption.
j W Third. Because he believes in the divinity of
y 1 j, polygamy, that it is a holy sacrament instituted
H ! by the God of the Universe; that he has ap-
K 1 H & proved every tyranny and debasement which this
S I E' practice has brought upon) womai, and; only
fl . m waits the order of the president of the Church to
B I i m which he belongs to openly preach the righteous-
m jjl jT nes of the system. By the way, how did he be-
H ' 1 1ll W, come a high priest when John Taylor, as presi-
H -if dent of the Clmrch declared that only polygamists
H 'ij should hold any high church offices?
Ii (tt Jj , Fourth. Because, if seated, that act will place
J IS' f -' Utah under perpetual slavery to the Mormon
I j'jg U church; it will be a notice served on every home
I iJj'Jfa n on every ftspiring youth in the territory that,
H ifl'sL if he would succeed, there is but one channel
B Pfffl ? through which he can hope for advancement and
I till r' at is tlirouSl1 this merciless kingdom called the
I I'i !i Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
H T -m Fifth. Because Reed Smoot's training as a
H I ! to Hi - curc man nas Prevented his acquiring the rudi-
B , jfe ments of the knowledge most needed as a Sena-
I l' m tor' tlie nowledge of our form of government
H (J w .and how it has advanced from nothing to its
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present glorious place among the nations of the
earth solely because it has been a government
"of the people, by the people, and for the people."
And so Brother Smoot had been set apart to
serve on a six-years' mission among the unregen
erates of Washington, D. C, and all the faithful
are instructed to feel to sustain him.
FOR YOUNG UTAH.
Young Utah! In times gone by, the writer of
this has often reasoned with you. Sometimes
you have been angry at what has been told you,
but stop a minute and see if anything except
the truth has ever been told you from this source.
Well we have another truth to tell you today.
You are just now giving your approval to some
thing, the intention of which is to make you all
serfs unless you happen to belong to one of the
favored families. Can you not see how things are
going?
You have seen a man elected Senator of the
United States, not because of any special fitness
for the place, but because he is an Apostle, every
gifted Mormon has been passed by; every one who
through his genius and his industry and his emi
nent services in other fields has forged out for
himself an honored name, has been ignored, and
the high honor has been reserved for an Apostle.
Do you not see what all this means? Is it not
clear that the purpose is to create here an aris
tocracy of High Priests and that the great mass
of the people must be content tc pay their tithing,
and, at stated intervals, to listen to lectures on the
virue of "implicid obedience to their rulers?" Sup
pose Reed Smoot goes on to Washington and
without a protest is permitted to take his seat in
the Senate of the United States. Can you not see
that the door of all promotion is closed to you, ex
cept through the Church, and that even that Is
closed to nine-tenths of you all, because you do
not belong to certain families?
One would naturally think that an Apostle
one so near to the highest that the telephone
which calls the Infinite to the switchboard of the
heaven of heavens, would look down upon a petty
office like that of United States Senator, but this
office had to be saved for him, because he belongs
to the priestly aristocracy of Utah while you are
to be merely tithe-paying serfs, whose busi
ness it is to obey and to give up your sub
stance to those who take it and use it without
an accounting.
Will you never raise your eyes to see how you
are being imposed upon, robbed and degraded?
But there is more still to this business. The
chiefest business of an Apostle is to build up this
kingdom. Kingdom, mind you, not Republic.
This election of an Apostle Senator is the first
insidious step toward gaining national political
power on the part of the dominant Church of Utah.
Suppose that to go on until in the nation the
Saints in a close election would hold the balance
of power in twenty states, and use it for a specific
purpose to further the designs of the rulers of the
kingdom, what then? It was just that situation in
the state of Illinois that caused the Americans of
that state to arise and drive those conspirators
and with them their followers beyond their bor
ders, flinging them naked out upon the repellant
oreast oi the wilderness.
.Now go and read the birth and history of the
progress of this nation from the beginning and
you will begin to understand that it was the de
sign of the immortals who framed this Republic
that no religion should ever interfere and domi
nate the civil government of this country, that
three generations of Americans, in peace and in
war, have imbibed and fully assimilated that de
termination, and then you may realize that a few
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