Show Tim lIlli CASH SMOOT Under Un UI this Harpers Weekly Ve contains the following Our clear and there for foro forcible fercl de nr t in ht l again t yielding yield yieldIng Ing Ine to popular clamor It Is well well known that tho tisa t l Senator from Utah In Is oust ono un of If the th i dog o culled called Apostles of ot the thu Mormon rolmon Church The protest In Is I by 1 H 11 of ot Itah of nt whom It II are rree He It publican and four Democrats Democrat It mete avers Mormon onnon hierarchy Is In Invested vested d with supreme authority In III uli al nl things thin temporal and spiritual that the tho th mandates lit lt this Authority are an In announced trod and transmitted by the first Oll president lre and Twelve Apostles polities that as MIL a matter of bt faith or belief bellet this body of ot men has ban hn not abandoned polygamy and that consequently It must IN K held heId to connive lInn at and encourage polygamous incite practises This protest may teem seem nt lit the first glance to nice question but wu we wedo do not believe bell c that the Federal Senate or the United States Supreme court would have much difficulty In III deciding It II It should be ble obvious to 10 nil all Intel Intelligent gent II men mell that the th absolute religious liberty ort guaranteed Ku by our Constitution woul 1 bt be IJ devoid dovold of ot practical significance cance If It the professor of or particular be beliefs b Net be lit heM held for rr the trans traits lotion of ot tho hose e h belief Into acts by others How could a 11 Chinese n a Jap Japanese I anese e a Moslem n a 1 Jew J w or even elen nn nil agnostic be secure In lit his citizenship udder such nn Interpretation of ot our J organic law Is IA hut but ono Olio endurable construction of It the Constitution With n II mans per pcr conn beliefs or with tho tenets of ot the church to which he sees Ie I tit lit to belong oUt our Federal authorities have absolutely nothing to do so long o put the citizen does docs not personally commit such tuch nets which arc prohibited I by IJ a n Federal l It H would be bt b In hit the highest de greo Broc dangerous dan nay ultimately fatal total to tho Iho principle of ot complete Iteration In mutters ot of opinion and und belief h lI t If It the tho construction of the th Constitution advocated by hy many ivell persons In the cope of Senator Smoot should be ht accepted 11 by II the Senate and sanctioned 1 by the thu United States Supreme court |