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Show H DUBOIS ANSWERED. In a letter in tho Baltlmoro News, M V. S. Peet makes nn exhaustive an- M swer to tho ravings of Senator Dubois oC Idaho. It reads as follows: M To a person from tho western stato3 M tho irrational statements of Senator M Frederick T. Dubois of Idaho in nn in- M tcrviow in the News recently aro cer- fl talnly amusing. His statement that M tho Mormons of Idaho, Wyoming and H other states adjacent to Utah hold the H balance of power is sheer nonsenso. It H every Mormon in Idaho or Wyoming H had voted for Judgo Parker at tho last B presidential election thoy would not H havo reduced President Roosevelt's B plurality DO per cent. For instance, HJ President Roosevelt's plurality in Hi Wyoming was 11,559, and thcro nro HJ not over 3,000 Mormon voters In Wyo- HJ mlng; and in Idaho tho conditions aro HI practically tho same. Senator Dubois HJ wants to convey tho idea that tho rc- HJ cent great landslide of Democratic HJ votes to tho Republican party in tho HH Inter-mountnin states and that ho will lose his political head was tho result HI of the Mormon church influcnco Is rl- HJ diculous. Thcro was a greater change HJ from tho Democrats to tho Ropubli- Hl cans in Kansas, Nebraska and Mlnnc- Hl sota than thcro was in Utah, Idaho or HJ Wyoming, nnd thnt certainly could HJ not be laid to Mormon Influence. HJ Because President Roosevelt and Hb tho Republican party wero popular HJ and Judgo Parker nnd tho Democratic HJ party wore unpopular Sonntor Dubois HJ would say was occasioned by Mormon ! church influence. If tho Mormons M wield an influonco in national politics H they havo a very poor way of showing M It. Sinco Utah became a state only H two of tho six senators olected were H Mormons namely, Senator Cannon M and Senator Smoot; of tho six con- M gressmen olected, three havo been fl Mormons, nlthough 75 per cent of the fl population in Utah Is Mormon. That M politicians of Idaho and Utnh have M tried to forco tho Mormon church Into fl politics is from tho fact that Senator M Dubois stntcd in n letter whllo enm- fl palgning Idaho that Mormons wero 1 crlmlnnls. Mr. J. H. Brady, tho nstute B Republican stnto chairmnn of Idaho, fl had 10,000 copies of Senator Dubois' B letter printed in pamphlet form nnd distributed In tho Mormon settlement" H of Idaho, but It did not make any pcr-M pcr-M ccptlble chnngo in th cvotc. H In Utah the politicians persuadod an B orthodox minister of tho gosncl to In- M troduco tho following resolution inth" M Ministerial association of Salt Link" M City, an association of all tha ortho- M dox ministers of Utah: "Resolved, That it bo tho senso or M this Ministerial association that tho M timo has como for tho election of nn M out-and-out Gentllo mayor nnd cltv H council, tho majority of tho members M of which will not bo tools In tho hands fl of tho Mormon hierarchy." fl This resolution was published on September 22, 1903. In tho Salt Lake fl Herald, a semi-Democratic paper, and the other papers of Salt Lako City. If M - a similar resolution had been passed fl by tho Mormon church against tho H Gentiles it would have been heraldpd K throughout tho lnnd. Wo havo plenty H of ovldcnco to show that people out-B out-B side of tho Mormon church hnvo tv M to inlect religion Into politics in Utah H and Idaho. But wo havo yot to find m a singlo lnstanco whoro Josoph F. H Smith, president of tho Mormon H church, hns dominated or interfered in H any .wnv with tho political actions of H anv individual or party. H Senator Dubois nlso states that four H of tho Mormon apostles have taken H plural wives since September. 1890. H On tho evening of March 10, 190C. Sen- H ntor Dubois, in n lecturo under tho H auspices of tho Mothers' congress in H . Philadelphia, referred to tho Mormon H " peril, and stated that Mormons were still marrying In polygnmy, and that H tho Mormon church interfered In poll-H poll-H tics. I aroso In tho audlenco and told him I represented tho business men of BJftj "!' ""'.- VT:T3I5S'i:! T "t, "" Utah, and that I would give him $1,00 for each and every case of plural marriage mar-riage performed or sanctioned by tho Mormon church sinco 1890. I also offered of-fered him $1,000 for each and every caso of Mormon church Interference In politics. All tho answer that Senator Dubois offered was that I ought to ba In jail. I pointedly asked Senator Dubois Du-bois on that occasion why ho stated in tho Salt Lako Tribune of May 28, 1828, that tho Mormon church did not interfere inter-fere in politics, and why ho stated in tho United States senate on February 5, 1903, that tho Mormons had not performed per-formed a plural marriage sinco ISflO and that ho had yet to And a man who would say that tho Mormon3 had performed per-formed a plural marriage anywhere since that date. Instead of answering mo or informing his nudlcnco on the subject, ho was speechless and sit down. Senator Dubois cannot revive the Democratic party of Idaho and securo his rc-oloctlon by Injecting nntl-Mor-monism into it. As long as President Roosevelt remains as popular as ho Is now with tho western people, it will bo imposslblo to swing any inter-mountain inter-mountain stato back into tho Democratic Demo-cratic ranks. Senator Dubois laments at the long drawn out Smoot trial. It was certainly not Senator Smoot's fault, as tho defenso only occupied about threo weeks time of tho three years' trial. Tho trial was closed in January, 1905. Soon after, however, tho prosecution said If thoy would reopen re-open the caso thoy could put one witness wit-ness on tho stand who would testify that tho Mormon church Interfered In business affairs. Tho caso was reopened, re-opened, nnd Mr. Chnrles Sniurthwaito of Ogden, Utah, was put on the stand and testified that tho Mormon church had ruined his salt bus'ness; but when ho was carefully questioned by Sonntor Son-ntor Knox, Mr. Smurthwaite admittol that ho had Invested $9,000 in the salt business and at tho end of tho year ho sold part of It for $34,000 and leased tho balance for thirty years at $C00 per yoar. (See Vol. 4, Pago 250, Smoot inquiry proceedings). Just as long as thoy can keep up tho antl-Smoot and nnti-Utnh ngltation thoy will graft the liberal but deceived people in the cast. Thcro aro now several antl-Smoot lecturers lec-turers in tho field, and thoy either charge on admission fee or pas3 the lint at their lectures. Wo all had to 'Ug up a dollar each to hear Senator "Dubois In Philadelphia. It is a low estimate that over $300,000 has been collected by theso antl-Smoot agitators nnd lecturers. Miss Helen Gould gave them $G,000; Mr. John C. Martin, Cincinnati, Cin-cinnati, $1,000; in Chicago they worked up one of their audiences so that it put $529 in tho collection box. Many societies voted to assess each of their members 50 cents. What thev wanted with all tho monov thoy collected col-lected no ono has been nblo to ox-plain, ox-plain, as Undo Sam paid all of tho expenses of tho Smoot investigation, both for tho prosecution and defenso except n portion of tho lawyer's fees, and his bill was over $100,000. Those agitators hurt Utah and Idaho bv frightening away Bottlers and cap'tal, and tho business men of Utah aro up In arms against them; and when Senator Sen-ator Dubois or anyone else makes falso statements about Utah and Idaho thoy will bo brought to account. V. S. PEET. Baltlmoro, July 19. |