Show COMMENTS STILL COME CO IE Perhaps something has bus been gained by the Iho he expose of Mormonism which line hns attracted n general attention n lien lion but hu t It II perhaps could hive have been accomplished In n a less lew conspicuous manner that Is 18 taking laking It for granted that the govern government meet ment wants Want tu to secure the punishment of ot persons who violate the Iho law of Iho the theland land by hy practicing polygamy The Tho senatorial tm king the Iho latitude It t line hop Is la farcical su so far tar as liS dealing with the tho subject In la hand hund Is II concerned Spokesman At I least lead they tho cannot charge dent with being mixed up In hr this scheme of ot raco race tubule Seattle Soa t tic Tines Times The Indians of ot time tho United States re roo for Cor to President Roosevelt as us the Great Orent rather The newspapers of or the coun cOlin country country try lIy are now using that term to 10 apply to lo President Smith of or the tho Mormon Church The Tho Crisis CriB Is IsIt It If It IL can bo be proven that Senator Smoot has hili violated time the provisions of ot the tho enabling act nel passed p by Congress either directly or Indirectly then he lie should be bo dealt with ns as a 1 lawbreaker Hut on the tho other othel hand even een should hollid It bo Io proven that the tho Mormon Church hurch still believes hut that time tho of ot thin act net prohibiting polygamous or plural marriages Is III wrong and not In iii 11 accord with tho the truth or an lilt they lh would ex express express X press It II ho time will of oC rod Joel ag IS revealed to Ills His prophet Joseph Smith Jr anti and should It also bo ho proven that Ihal Senator Smoot mooL also nillo entertains that same whew view ns us nn apostle lIo of ur that church and so teaches that Hint Is no reason rca ol for tor debarring him front from the th meo to which hl h ho he huts has been duly elected providing he docs does no nomore nomore more than seek to change opinion ion tun to his way RY of ot thinking anti obeys tho the letter of the law II as AI long ns liS It ex cx lets IRtH though It be adverse to Ills his way wO of ot thinking Spokane Review Tho The Smoot Investigation Is giving the tho more mora or less lees Interesting If It not reading but It Is III not nol clear door what hlll relevancy It has t to 10 Smoots right to n a sent In tho the United States Stales A 1 good goolt deal of light tight has haR been thrown on nn the tho ho history of ot the Mormon Church the Iho beliefs anti and II 1 el practices of lit Its member It may mn b be interesting interest Ing to learn loarn about the revelations experienced by h soma porno of or the tho early Mormons and amid to 10 ascertain how hol many wives some of the Mormons have but hilt All oil this the he Investigation one ono of ot tho the Church und and not 1101 of Reed Heed Smoot Tho The matter to 10 bo ho determined Is not whether tho time Mormons have a n number of ot peculiar religious f beliefs bellor or hoth whether hother er they regard the tho practice of ot poly polygamy polygamy gamy na its consistent with lIh religion find and good morals The real question nt at Is III Issue fue sue fa 1 t whether or M not Reed Heed moot Smoot has hns violated or Is II now violating the laws of ot its hla state stale and of ot Otis his country or fir has Ima committed c or U lg committing any ony acts lIels that until unlit him to bo be n 11 United States Stales senator tor Mr Smoot t Is n a Mormon mind and ho he hu huns line hns lineas ns nil much right to his hl religion as has Imes the Jew Je tho limo Catholic or ortho tho Lutheran To take his hili mere beliefs und anti opinions Into Inlo account and attempt to deprive him of ot certain rights of or citizenship Is practically persecution of tho the man bo hoe cause of ot his hili religion and und upon time tho pre onto lento I of protecting public morals lc and aMIA Is violating that thai freedom of ot religious wor worship ship which IH is guaranteed by b the tuition of the he United States Slates mind of the several eta states tel So Su long as Mr Smoot obeys obes time the th laws haws and commits no fie overt nets acts which offend the moral tics of or the nation he Is entitled to the protection of ot the Iho taws las and to lo whatever offices ot ees properly property and other advantages he ho may mil acquire under thorn them If It con comm gross Kress wishes to 10 Investigate the tho Mor Mormon mon mar Church hurl it I probably hat has u n right to do It II IN hill bill that Is III something quite apart from Recd Heed Smoots right to hold lold holda n a 1 sent seat to which he has hns been hoen elected by tho people of nt Utah h |