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Show THE SENATOR TROUBLED. With the purchase of the Senatorship two years ago there was also an alliance, offensive and defensive, de-fensive, formed by which the combined church and machine were to make merchandise of the officers and control the politics of Utah. It seems that while Senator Kearns was laying the foundation for his fortune in the deep levels of the Silver King, he did not take the trouble to read the daily .papers and never learned the rather solemn truth that the chiefs of the Mormon church never make covenants with Gentiles except for what they deem to be their own advantage, that they are here for the Mormon church only; that they are not influenced in-fluenced by affection, gratitude or any of the other generous traits which ordinary men count upon, and, moreover, that even their solemn promises are subject to frequent revisions. They permitted permit-ted Mr. Kearns to have the Senatorship because it was only delivering goods for a valuable consideration. con-sideration. Had they written the receipt for the Senator to sign, it would have read something like this: "Received, Salt Lake, January , 1901, for the sum of $1 and other valuable considerations considera-tions not necessary to stipulate, one United States Senatorship," and signed, THOMAS KEARNS, Per RICHARD KERENS, Agent. The other "valuable considerations" included many things. One was the purchase of the daily Gentile newspapers of the city, and reducing them to organs through which no criticism of Mormon church methods should ever be made. The business ran smoothly enough until the late election. elec-tion. Then the Senator discovered several things. One was that with the Gentile press smothered, the saintly chiefs at once ceased any pretention to American citizenship, forgot every obligation of good faith and common gratitude and were going J ' i,uH to run business from the old 1880 stand. The rer t f ' jL lfl suit is that Senator Kearns is practically out in jj fc'ity Jflfl the cold. He will be the real Senator only until 4"J, il his successor appears on the scene on the 4th of J i jCJffl March next, while his prospects for 1905 ought to . L ) fM be most disquieting if he has any desire to sue- $ ilifl ceed himself. It is said that he is engaged trying jLjtlfl to solve the problem of how Apostle Reed Smoot f .tffH can be defeated in his Senatorial aspirations. If i ! fjffiH he was as brilliant as he has heretofore been lucky J ! , IjIiJtH he would know that Euclid could never solve that If lll'ffiB problem except in one way. j j9fl If his attorney would go to the office of the first fjfl presidency and say in effect: "Mr. Kearns is most j ) M -$M grateful for the honors that have been given him, f lKH and is most anxious to show his gratitude. He j EBB desires to see the erection of the great memorial f J tal building in honor of Joseph Smith begun. For h &jfl that purpose he has set aside $50,000 wherewith to Z f jfefB have the foundation put in and the first story !i!k UI erected. But he thinks that in that case he should m WxwKk have the naming of the next Senator, and has lipirH asked mo to come and confer with you to see if an (m fijfl arrangement cannot be made." 3 & WH That might win. It would be easy to get a dis- JriiSH patch from Yokohoma from Apostle Heber Grant wllMI asking that Apostle Smoot might be induced to J' P1M join him, to help teach the youth of Japan to sing, J JjM "We Are Thankful, O Lord, for a Prophet," and tH Apostle Smoot might be induced to put his Sen- ? ,1 U ill atorial candidacy in cold storage for another two i !i $9 years. 'i t,t9 We are not sure that the scheme would win, ' J J'flXH but we are absolutely sure that nothing else can I'MBh put off destiny and beat foreordination to a finish. I CpH And we give the Senator notice gratis, that even "''4-SB with that accomplished, it would only make his I fjj&lsB prospects for 1905 all the more desperate for to riLifsfl the chiefs of the Mormon church all Gentiles are m Wwtm but as Philistines or Midianites to get the best of : m rSH whom is a religious duty. , k''M9 |