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Show APOSTLE SMOOT'S CANDIDACY. There is a movement on to make it appear that the election of Apostle Reed Smoot to the senate Is almost a unanimous desire in Utah. A good many cowardly Gentiles are signing the endorsement, endorse-ment, that "thrift may follow fawning." But then a United States senator's duties are not confined to the state he is elected from, he is a senator I of the United States and is expected to help shape the government and the policies of the entire country. Well, Utah has between three hundred thousand and four hundred thousand people, while the states outside contain more than eighty millions mil-lions of inhabitants. Now the proportion of the people in outside states who do not want Apostle g Smoot for senator is far greater than the propor-I propor-I tion in Utah who do want him. The great mass I of people in. Utah desire his election, not I because he is among his fellow citizens a shining I light, not because he possesses any qualifications H for the exalted office; not that he has any clear U views on national questions; not that he is fa-H fa-H miliar with the history and spirit of our free in- I stitutions; not that he is a live and alert American II who loves his country better than his own life; II but because he is an apostle of the Church of H Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, though by vir-H vir-H tue of his office he is unfitted for the needed II work of a senator. And what makes the majority I in Utah anxious for his election is the very rea-11 rea-11 son why ninety-five out of every one hundred Am- ericans do not want him elected. H And no one better than. Apostle Smoot knows that if the individuals who make up the United States Senate had any clear idea of where his real fealty belongs, by what awful oaths he has foresworn his allegiance to the United States government, gov-ernment, and what his own purposes and the purposes pur-poses of those behind him are, he would no more be admitted there than would be the Grand Visior of the Sultan of Turkey. It is a shameful thing that the Mormon church is pressing his election, for the claim is that the Apostles are delegated by the Almighty to build up a kingdom on this earth, a temporal as well as spiritual kingdom, which in every attribute Is hostile hos-tile to both the spirit and the rorms of our government. gov-ernment. How long would a United States son-ator son-ator under any pretense be permitted to remain in a quorum of the Apostles when they are engaged en-gaged in the work of "building up" their kingdom? king-dom? How long ought an apostle of this alien kingdom be permitted to remain in the senate of the United States when that body is engaged In business supposed to be for the best Interests of this nation? For years, ever since the organization of the Mormon church, the chiefs of that church have tried to push one Asiatic practice after another upon this country. They have invariably failed, and when they have temporarily succeeded, their ork has always come back to plague them. This Propospd election of one of their ApoBtles to the Senate of the United States is but another attempt at-tempt in the same line. They should be careful lest the eventual rebound will be In the form of a law disfranchising every member of their creed. |