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Show OLD WOMEN IN THE EAST Meddlesome ' Matties says Billyfs Budget "Mil Nation's ttudget" Is the name of a newspaper published at Douglas, Wjomlng. Bill goes after some matters mat-ters of public concern in most plctui-csque plctui-csque larfguage, and the following orr tho Smoot case Is at least readable. The article deals particularly witli tho women's organizations in the East which aro engaged In seeming and presenting petitions against Mr. Smoot, and so far as Bill's expressions on this matter aie concerned meets our hearty approval and we publish the same by lequest) with considerable consider-able pleasure. This Isg't saying that Mr. Smoot should bo pcimlttcd to retain re-tain his seat or be unseated. The Senate Committee has this matter in charge, and like Representative How-oil, How-oil, wo have confidence in that committee com-mittee and the Senate. But this idea of a lot of good but misguided women, who know nothing of Utah or Its people, peo-ple, presuming to agitate any phase of the matter Is not only ridiculous but nauseating, and this far we echo Bill: When Sancho Pana sat on that mule and watched his patron go up against the ical thing In windmills, he doubtless experienced a sense of goneness gone-ness some slecn Inches oi so below his gullctt which vvasa twin to the disgust dis-gust which pdrmcatds my oat-meal macerator as I wearily wade, day aftci day, through the details attending the attempt of a lot of misguided old women to oust Reed Smoot from his seat in the United States senate. And history will repeat Itself maik me. Mr. Smoot, is all light. He halls ftom Mormonotim fmrt is himself a Moimon branded as such in the cradle and piloted on the cork for all I know oi caie. If lie has over denied his lell-gion, lell-gion, before oi since his election, the fact hasn't peicolated through the megaphone of a multlsonous ministry or the gct-lt-qulck columns or the pub-llcpiess. pub-llcpiess. He has a light to his religionunder reli-gionunder tire constitution and the Hag which most In general follows it. It is hue that theie have been bieth-rcn bieth-rcn of Ills belief who. in the old dajs, weie blessed with a King Solomon su-pei su-pei pronation of marital emoluments, up to the thlrtj'-thlrd degree to the hyphenated honor of all Christendom and strictly against the statues In such case made and prov Ided but polj gamy is no longer a perquisite of Mormon-ism, Mormon-ism, and Senator Smoot lias only 1 w ire. And jet a passel of divided-skirt patriots pat-riots of whom many appear to have husbands and who ought to be keeping keep-ing tho sacred hearthstone ot a happy home hot somewhere have been holding hold-ing a guinea-hen ch Infest at Washington Washing-ton olT and on for morcn a month with tho avowed Intention of stopping Mi. Smoot's pay check and sending him back to .Ion as a pilvatecitUcn. Religion Re-ligion Is a lock on which many a good ship has sulTeied curvature of the spiritual spine hi times past a rami-lied rami-lied l at hole as tweic Into which wisi men have solemnly pounded scctai Ian sand for centinles. Theie be people too, who aie ncvci happy unless misei-able misei-able who advertise In want columns for woiry and woc,and thrive on mental men-tal thoins and thistles. It was a blending blend-ing of these foi ccs for that thing vv hlch fanatlcscall icfoim, doubtless, which raised the low. Tho chin di.es took outastackof leds right at the start, and have been plajing tho limit. Then theie was tho Congress of Mothers who collaborated, ImmeJIt, witli a stralght-tiont edntlngentof somewhat passe splnsteis or Baikls proclivities under the title of the Daughters of Diana, likewise the Bifurcated Federation Feder-ation of Women's Clubs, tho Ancient and Honorable Association of Ann.the Daughters of tho Revolution, tho W. C. T. F.'s and the B. G. S. TVs and other fearsome feminine organizations whose names one unfoitunatelj forgets for-gets -all aftei the hide and tallow of one male man named Reed the Rake. And thejvo been busy, jou bet, have bii77ed about Roosevelt's eais in vociferous, sutrocallng swaims; hung onto our giavo and rover-cud rover-cud seigniors until half or them aie hopeless hjpoehondilacs and theio Isn't a coat button left In the whole blooming bund.; have met organized, and icsoluted, and noted with regret and viewed with alaim, and condemned condemn-ed and denounced, and declaied that the nasty old senate was Just ical mean If Smoot tho Monster was permitted per-mitted to remain so there. Now what fell Is all this rumpus about anj way, ladles? Reed Smoot Is a gentleman, who is certainly well within the senatorial average d'je molnd that, Mao Woodl when weighed weigh-ed in the scales of moralltj. He tie-selves tie-selves to be let alone should be permitted per-mitted to hold his seat.wlth attendant salary, pub docs and garden seeds, Just as long as the people of Utah say so as ho shall, and will. Bcttei go home girls who knows but what tho Old Man himself Is sailing dangeiously near the rocks olprogresslvepolj gam j at this very moment maj be lias degenerated de-generated Into a hopelessly stranded and wlnc-loggcd wreck since jou left his bed and board and set out on a wild goose cliaso which appears to possess pos-sess all tho essential elements or Don Quixote's historic whack at them windmills. Butsaj If jou aro ieally looking for work along how-to-bc-appjthough-marricd-to-biil-onc-wlfo lines tackle the Sultan or Jolo. He isau admitted multi-married man with tho full consent and approval of and actually under pay from these United States. Tho scamp had twentj-odd when he last got a count on them vv Ith slathers slath-ers of glass-bead baits out for morel Suifcrln' sisters! and what do jou think of that and what are jou going go-ing to do about It?" |