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Show JUST A FEW REMARKS. TO MR. JOSEPH V. SMITH t In the Tabernacle Sunday you admitted ad-mitted in plain English that you perpetrated per-petrated perjury upon tho people of the United States when .you testified as a witness In the Smoot case at Washington. Washing-ton. You also spoke of your "inquisitors," meaning the Committee on Privileges and Elections of the United States Senate, Sen-ate, and mentioned the word in tone of Buch offense as to make It convey clearly tho Idea of wicked and cruel men engaged In an effort to martyr a saint. You also said that' you had committed com-mitted this perjury In ordor to cscapo the "traps" which were set for you, Intimating in the clearest way that the members of tho Senate committee were engaged In making pitfalls for you. You also said, presumably In speaking speak-ing of that committee In Washington, to whom the case of the Mormon people peo-ple is submitted by Its being Involved with tho case of Reed Smoot, that "none of us are Willing to submit to the Judgment of our enemies." By this attitude which you have assumed as-sumed before your people; by your utterance ut-terance in their sacred places of worship; wor-ship; you have continued the teaching of treason which your life has shown; and If your followers take as a principle prin-ciple of their lives the suggestion which you have made they will bo grounded In the faith that the Government Govern-ment of tho United States is nn unrighteous un-righteous one; that its officials are but inquisitors; and that the motive of law and proceeding by the Government Is to set traps for the prophets of God. You have no more right to make such teaching to the thousands who yet regard re-gard you with full or partial respect, than you have to teach theft or arson. It may be that with your full command com-mand of legal machinery there Is no way to reach you by the law; but your action shall be known of all. You teach treason to the Government Govern-ment and disrespect toward Its officials. Mr. Smith, It Is the logic of your words, and It is the most common knowledge now In this country, that you defy God and blaspheme His name by taking that name In vain using. It as a cover for sin, and using It as a scourge for other men; breaking the commandments which you yourself require re-quire others to obey; and standing before be-fore the world as false toward your God as you are false to your obligations obliga-tions of citizenship. Mr. Smith, you do well to talk of antl-Chrlsts! You who have spent your life, according to your own testimony. In misusing the name of the Almighty Father, and testifying to falsehoods with the name of Christ for a cover. Do you not think that retribution will soon overtake you? Remember that behind such as you stands the headsman of God's vengeance! ven-geance! I do not mean that you will suffer early death or lose your property. And If such fate should come to you, I would not be one to sny that God had avenged Himself upon you. These things are mysteries; and as good men and bad men die and are unfortunate without any apparent discrimination on the part of Providence, It Is not fair to select a single, instanco and claim that it illustrates and proves the general gen-eral law. But this I do dare to say to you: When your lies, have run their course; when your cruel fanaticism has become understood; whc"n your selfish blgotuy has undeceived your dupes; when your treason has aroused tho country against you then a Natlon'9 laws and a Nation's sentiments will palsy that arm of power; then Into the crevices of that narrow heart will creep the blade of a people's disdain: then arpund that soul, which sought but self, will be the darkness of self, un-penetrated un-penetrated by any ray of unselfish human hu-man sympathy. i No man x;an live the life of blasphemy blas-phemy to God which according to your word you have followed; no man can lead the life of betrayer of his fellow men who have trusted him as a pure leader when he was then defying the laws of the country which protected them; no man who ha3 taken from the men who toll that little surplus which would have furnished comfort for them in order to add to his unnecessary unneces-sary enrichment, without feeling hero, If he live, tho whips of outraged Justice; Jus-tice; or if he die, feeling hereafter the" judgment of God whom ho has profaned pro-faned In life. You have sneered at the men whom you have excommunicated. You and others have sneered at that brave, honest soul, Charles Smurlhwalte, ' whose grandeur of ideal life and chivalrous motive you cannot comprehend. com-prehend. You have said of them that they now can have free speech. Ono of the rights, then, of an excommunicated man is to quote to' you, from your own Doctrine and Covenants, thlB passage, which you would do well to read in public and heed In private: ID. BEHOLD, I. THE LORD, AM NOT WELL PLEASED WITH MANY WHO ARE IN THE CHURCH. 20. FOR THEY DO NOT FORSAKE THEIR SINS, AND THEIR WICKED WAYS, THE PRIDE OF THEIR HEARTS, AND THEIR COVETOUS-NESS, COVETOUS-NESS, AND ALL THEIR DETESTABLE THINGS, AND OBSERVE THE WORDS OF WISDOM AND ETERNAL LIFE WHICH i HAVE GIVEN UNTO THEM. a. VERHjY I SAY UNTO YOU, TIIAT I, THE LORD, WILL CHASTEN THEM, AND WILL DO WHATSOEVER. I LIST, IP THEY Tt'- NOT REPENT AND OBSERVE OB-SERVE ALL THINGS WHATSOEVER I HAVE SAID UNTO THEM. THE WRITER. |