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Show A Letter To Senator Foraker. To Senator Foraker-: Sir You occupy an exalted position. "Sou struggled many years to obtain it. You wanted the honor of it to leave as an inheritance for jour children. It was a just and laudable ambition; you felt that it was worth a life's woii if you could but obtain it. Are you right sure that you are worthy of It? Let us bring the matter home to you. We will suppose, Senator Foraker, that In Ohio a majority of the people belonged to an organization or-ganization which was called a religion, that had for its head a man who claimed to be the rightful sovereign of the earth through a direct agency which he had obtained from Almighty God, that his was the only lawful government on earth, that its mission was to overthrow all other governments, govern-ments, not only in a spiritual sense but a temporal tem-poral sense, and this was to include the government govern-ment of the United States. That at the same time this king claimed to have daily, by wireless telegraphy, teleg-raphy, communications with the Infinite. We w;l! suppose that within the past few months, In a public magazine, this king had explained the mys teries of this system and shown and declared that his government, both spiritual and temporal, was complete. We will suppose that Implicit obedience to this king had always been taught as vital to the true faith. We will suppose that just below this executive head, there was a central national committer of twelve others calling themselves apostles, who were all in the line of succession to the phce held by tho king, when by death of lunacy or any other cause the place of the sovereign became vacant. We will further suppose that no one belonging be-longing to the organization dared to disobey an order or request from the head of the organize i tioh or from one of thfs national committee when b iclced by;the approval of the head. That this organization had existed in Ohio, p lining strength all the time au:V spreading out into Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. That for forty years this King nad this national committee had voted every mem-bir mem-bir of their organization as' one person not forty si ratched votes in. the whole forty years. ' That not only had they named every officer in the state, but had controlled every legislature and the city councils of Columbus, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dayton Day-ton and the other cities of Ohio. That not one low nor ordinance could be passed without their approval; not one no matter how Infamous Cold be defeated after they had once approved it. That no one who cried out against their outrages cc ild escape the ribald abuse of "their organ. That lv Iding the balance of power in adjacent states, tboy sold their peoples votes in those state to elect this year a Republican, the year before a D: mocrat, and in the name of the meek and lowly Jesus kept all the country near them at a boiling s:iing temperature. That this went on until the government of 'the United States,, alarmed at the menace they presented, began to confiscate their property and had a bill "in Congress to disfranchise disfran-chise the last one of them; that then, alarmed at the showing against them, this Icing and this central committee at last begged for mercy and agreed in the ' most solemn manner that never a Kiin would they seek to control' the political thoughts or votes of their people. That upon that the government relented, gave them back their property and hundreds of thousands of dollar3 wrrth of property in addition- and withdrew all hrstile legislation aimed at them. That, then within a brief time, one of the central cen-tral committee; with the consent of the king, should announce himself a candidate for senator, counting on nothing to obtain for him the office, save the superstitious fears of the organizaticn. That in the election neither brain3, experience nor fitness for the place counted so much as tin weight of a straw, but that his election was a matter of course. That the Americans of Ohio protested against his being given a seat where -he would, in the exalted Senate of the United States, become the equal of all other senators and a lawmaker law-maker for the land, whose clnstitution declares there shall never be any union of church and state, much less an. entire subordination of the state to a so-called church; that a senate commute com-mute a should for three years hear testimony which brought out all these facts and many more, and that then a senator of Utah should bring in a report that the gentleman from Ohio was elected under regular forms,; that it was incompatible in our free country to interfere with any gentleman's gentle-man's religious beliefs and recommend that he should ho . his seat. What would you with your children about you, with the hope that they would have a fair show for fortune and fame; what would the Americans of Ohio generally, think of that gentleman df Utah who submitted the report? And what do you imagine or care what the opinions opin-ions of the Americans of Utah are of you? |
