Show I A MORMONS O DILEMMA I To The Sal Salt Lake ake Herld Herald I am aim In n a corn which you cannot me nie But I must open valve mental escape n ot ny my condition by writing or swearing I p efer fer the fIt first although the last comes easiest arid and is perhaps ps the most approprIate Job saId that meO a are bo to t tto ble as the sparks fly upward 01 or something that that And as Job was forgiven for tor curing cursing everything his kerro SO I hop hope to be forgiven tor for the themen men aJ cuss words that surge through my brin brain like the angry breakers over oer oera overa a coast Rat Mr rr Editor I 1 wa was born a a lo n nAt At m mr moth mothers rs kne knee and God never made a beLer better m mother ther I 1 learned learne the story o the life suffering ng and death of tb gente Nazrene Nazarene I leared learned to I love Jove him And toda today his e majestic pr I same revered likeness I formed during my ml between me an anthe and the dreary waste or of spiritual blackness cUe called skepticism Also at my mothers knee I learned the the pathetic story of the life and dea death h of Jo Joseph eph Smith the WhIle never religiously inclined my I faith In the divine mission of Joseph oseph mith was ever vo active Later lIfe I 1 was caled called toa to a mission to Europe Europ I 1 was told if I were prayer fat ul and faithful I 1 ab abs s testimony from heaven that JOI JOIs Jo Josph s ph was a prophet A Am heaven Js Is my io man according to lo his strength more dIligent dIligently ly t to be be faithful than hau I and to receive ny prayers for a mommy mony suh as 5 w uld satisfy me were nr vall Tn Ta lieu thereof I turned to th clar of the truth oi o oa h I il X to a divine mis the Of lorm Mormon which I leared learned almost by I arrive arrived at definite contu condu contusions purely by a process of and so Ions long as the lamp lamo of reason re remains remains mains as int into th l and r n CS or of presen the than years rears wi will continue although Je like Job JolI ma mado may maydo do some In my my preaching to worl world I early fel fell into the Ume practice tice b cause of their from the primitive of reter g with line and lofy lofty scorn to the thc sectarian church t the Methodist church hurch against I 1 had a grudge because d early persecution ton tion or of and the they had no no et s er and and mad t spiritual gid guld ance by dir t a d revelation ton tion In to their forms of go I pointed wih with pardonable In a my church to Us its each of whom was a apro pro prophet hei ser seer and revelator and to tIe the continuous fow of divine light from Deity to thos those same prophets Mr lr Edior Editor I did not know as some of my brethren and sister sisters affirm that Joseph Smith was was a a prophet ot of God but I did beleve believe It wih with aU all my heart And up to the time when he the people were to gae graze in the green pastures pt pf national polities I prayed for and amI sustained tle successors of oC Joseph Smith ana the apostles as prophets seers and revelator revelators tor tors In futher fulfillment or of Jobs lul declaration that Hman man I horn orn to trouble I selected Democratic gass grass for m my political diet HAd Hd I fa favored a wih with even een a modicum of prescient light or vision I would have hav foreseen that the Utah brand ot of Demo Democratic cr cratic tc gass grass would be turned into husks b by the verdict of sone of those vc very prophets seer seers and revO for Or I had been so 50 earest earnest earnestly 1 ly pra praying ng 1 acceptance f the oX oJ Democracy was the The re result suIt sult of long and careful investigation a and d even een apostolic denunciation failed to make of me a Republican even f fr the welfare of Zion and to enable Utah Itah to achieve statehood 1 myself with a few instalments installments of quIet as loud vl violent lent and far farI I reaching a as Jobs for I 1 not only stopp l far short of my Maker I excluded I that grand old man Pres President ident Woodruff and the maJority of Df the I apostles I also m my I faith by the complacent thought that it another cr case ot of a Re for uck and a v por or man Democrat r for r children And I am still In C g Josept Josep F and John ohn Henry HEmry maIe no to havins having cast th lr apostolic mantles when they their open leter letter to Thatcher and took hire him to task task because hc truthfully said that that D Democracy had Its origin In heaven at the time wh n the SaviOr made the pr to give man his agency as against the devils deUs plan to t take frem man his agency an anto and to save him In his sins Nor did they the Smith even intimate that they hd had she shed their apostol man mantes tes ties when In that same open letter they the proclaimed that they were Re and descendants or of WhIg 1 Democracy cruel neglect when thoe those same apostles while boasting o otheir their WhIg c str failed ta t state stat that since John aided by Poca Pocahontas Pocahontas hontas achieved his signal ov r Powhatan the only one who has shed special on the ram family I 3 nal name was Joseph oseph Smith the prophet and he was a Demorat Democrat and was an champion of oC Cr free e trade and sailors rights An And Mr Edior Editor the there e are arc thousands upon thousands of Mormon voters oters down in an and Sevier counties who are yet In a con diton ct cr total spiritual and politIcal blindness regarding the fact fact that the Pophet Prophet Joseph Smith was a a emo crat and time the further fact that tha at t one period of his life he hc was Mis ls It may now be too late Cor Or the inC to be of benefit to the Democratic pa part but i it Is interesting as an ie item of history 1 C C CI I Again those apostles Joseph F and I John Henr Henry Smith made made un ng pretense f casting asid aside their when the they their smi nc endorsed that od rus an anI politIcal infamy known as the Nugget Nuggets of f Truth by their party SIr ir cul ted from Moron Mormon Sunday schoolS and ana M I Nor or did tho those e apOstles s m make X e at any protest when the thep p of the marty martyred ed Joseph Smith wap was published In thos those sm same Nuggets or of Truth and b by ton brand branding lug ing hint him 05 as a or and compelling th the mn man who died for his fait faith at Carthage to act as a poUt 1 ical decoy down In Sevier Seler Kane Ine and nd Garfeld Garfield countes counties to allure voters voters to the Republican st standard Nor tid did a fe resent the he special requeSt In that letter letter sent out by lean county chaIr n nOn n to te the or Of on the tWe old mos ack Nauvo Nauvoo Democrats Joseph F and Joh John Henr Henry b bT ras reason n of 1 their were guilty of the pp p of procuring votes voles for their party under buder te the false e that Jos Joseph ph the prophet wa was a n n or Whig hlf Nor did Id Joseph F Smith even that he had bud l laid id his mante mantle when In a prInted ss he Bishop Stevens rec recommend roe In involved the pay mont ment of etc etc and which Jand Janda landed I a Ut Utah t ep bH n In congress Nor did Joseph F Smith that he was a aa a a prophet ser seer amid revelator when he rushe rushed into the Sal Salt Le Lake Tribune and 1 ed edthe the voters oter ot of Utah that he would e gart gard t t tUbe I O il l f n C r t J he t lOb 1 li d r ot of c gb T b peer eer and revelator husted hustled to tog g gt t into harmony with the apostle and hi his cOhorts composed of men havIng colossal men taI sackcloth In and ne ales the h remainder I of thoe those Demo ct w wIth h ment mental c liber looked at t the abbreviated brain boxes lr pinheaded brethren and remer another wit witt in inspired inspired and apostolic declaration made b by John Henry up In Cache county count to Lo Lothe the same effect that ca car take or Off their unbuttonIng tonIng cuing their onar onarA A of the perhaps dv or that bat forer former formerly 1 ly beloved elove man and amid revered apostle who h bed id ted on Democratic mental rental ceased then and there to be In a prophet prophet eer and reve ree I tor and from froin the ho hour r that In sor Te humiliation and resentment I reid that unfortunate and weak sta m ment nt of Joseph F down dOn to tb the present time I hav have not sustained ed nor hor for him as a prophet seer and r revelator As air n ordinary man I respect him and hen I reme br tr tragic ic de s ibich nich swept wet his father and uncle from life Ufe into the grves of m rt amid recollect a profound influence those In Incidents must ha hare ha had his young and plastic mind mind my hOart goes out In sympathy for tor the man mans and charity foil Cod I his radical But to me nd JG the they I y er rn n Jo mJ foe 0 ie i And iid as 51 I remember the thc charge that the skirts re k with the blood of the prophets and rum John Her Henry i in Cache valc valley 1 niso aso r so something else That In olin onn nry said tb 1 Democrats lashed the slaves ot the thc that trailed rai d te tile stry starry cag lag in the th mire of n that not al all Democrat Democrats are home thieves but al all hore horse thieves are re reD D Mr Smith on that or caslon gravely told his rpt and wildly applauding audience that he had taken of off his apOstolic mante mantle and had l left f i it at home There are thousands like myself In Utah who do not that John Henr Henry Smith has been able since the da day when h b exchanged his holy apostolic for the putrid rd garb gab or of the polIticIan Ju to resume that mante mantle Another Another thing that I als abo is that since that memorable evening in Desert Deseret I have offered no word o prayer for John JohnHenry Henr Henry Smith C 5 Mr Editor this communication is 15 ex cx extending tending to unusual hut ut I would invoke your Indulgence and the pa patience tience of your readers during durin a few mOre minute minutes I will endeavor to be bre breI I do not beleve believe that Apostle Reed Smoot is a a prophet I 1 beleve believe that a prophet ser seer and r y lator have hare foreseen the gathering te tempest would have hac sensed the thc wretchedness and sr sor would come cometo to many of oC the or of Utah as the Inevitable results ot of his electon election to the United States senate What are the trus ot of cUon The leader leader of the Mormon church dragged before the na nati ti n and compelled In the pres presence nce ot of many whose love of t Is a pr pro dominating Ung pasion passion of other others whose moribund ald amid sensual are arc In capa ble of sensing the thc tender and hu humane humane mane motIves that tha Impelled Joseph F FSmith FSmith Smith to I inthe face tace o 01 a great na and in de defiance fance fiance of th thil In Jaws we of God and man To compel this man who by a large ma majory maJority jory ot of the t f Utah Is sus and nd revered as a prophet to I admit that he h has s n nOt t so far as he henos nos ve ar a revelation verton that Sf he dip i It would i ie be e j what t any good Methodist dp etc As of Mr Smoots electon election th stain of dishonor has bas be beOn n laid on the grave of one apos tie silent Jh lips s can make no ho de or explanation Two more of the poste have Into exie exile the bran of auler adultery following close luso upon them I a brother apostle on In in order to retain a seat he leer could have worm won at that time except for the lofty prestige of his apostleshIP Is com compelled to openly but denounce them and to ly his quorums president As a furth further r re reul ul we have Aste Apostle Lyan Lyman denying hat he ter consented that of the B Y U might take a plural wife down i iii And while 1 the he Ue lie Is passing passing between them we know the end is no not yOt t Mr EdIor Editor would seer seers Und nd have brought al all this hu on the LOrds ch gen people Add to thoe results the he previous von sEquences s ot of Interference In our politics and the cup of bitterness held to some of our lips I is run full to over oer Speaking personally one of IY m sons an upright t and in ever every way has left he church mOll man lef because he cannot harmonize religion and Utah Another son not yet et out of his tens teens cannot distinguish be bet t een the actions of men and amid the prin principles p s truth they claim to advocate or cou i It wi will be said their disaffection ton tion was the result if Dr heIt fathers example but I know that that I it is s not The They simply read ohe rile president and apostles have no idea of f the widespread disaster to the faith or of the th young men c ef Utah that has ben bUn cled caused b by past t and pre prent ent interference of political l affairs of oC this people We Ve know by the I a nd s of President Smith and Apostle Smoot in WashIngton that they were sincere in their erstwhile as assertions tat that they were not In politics a and on the stump as prophets seers and but 85 as 01 the United States t te But tb comes too toolate toolate late to av avert rt the wreck and Finn strewn In the wake of their political cal wor Th They should have their lack laok of In the strife it is a significant fact that only those thoe apostles who have beer beer active In pol poli ts have blen been sUbjected to hu minU nAnd And f if they wi will only feel that that Is a mater matter of divine ton al all will m be n a while In ion just a few words o oC to A Apostle poste Reed Smoot moot Among the biter bitter things I ha haye e sall of him Is t at if f I had a boot big enough and andS anda S a le leg lons long enough that senatorIal corn com would be saved a lotof trouble That is now retracted Senator Smoot Ii 1 not ani only partially candid but he Ia 15 coUrageous Had Apostle Mopes Moes Thatcher been even as as se verc er In his ms of his brother apostles as ApoStle Smoot has been hl hi IU punishment n i h m en t ou J 1 I fth The h total losso loss of lb te rl t times Umes have radically changed Wih With sincerity as a Som hat wilful member of the Mormon church I say al all honor to Aoste Smoot He may as same ass assert rt be the theY Y ng and modern Mose Moses raised up to Israel out of the darkess darkness of this Egypt But ome of us W nt a little more light before beCore we en can 0 be entirely resigned to the s mistaken policy of sua snaking king us the sl u h Or rather ban heeding us over the bitter but cJ cleaner ner waters or of the Rea Re aea sea During al all m my life iffe I never yet b to announCe c myself a Mor mon or to defend my amid people I cannot not nor wU wIll not ie re to my r fah her to j right tC m men n t tiis s nty hu h Npr pr wIn I at lt t to bide my Ien tIt 4 behind ind a nom ef 1 l feel cry T Tl l |