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Show "JACK MORMONISM." In a riot of sarcasm the "Welser (Idaho) "World asks If hanging is not the proper penalty for tho crime of "Jack Mormonlsm." In ancient Greece there was no penalty for parricide: It was so monstrous a crime that the people of that day could not conceive that anyone would commit it. Similarly the. statutes are silent In Utah and Idaho on the subject of "Jack Mormonlsm." The offense Is bo outrageous out-rageous that there- was neither belief that anyone would .perpetrate It, or, If It were perpetrated, that any known punishment would be adequate. The World may Indulge itself In ridicule ridi-cule of this subject, but It Is none tho less the most serious question which confronts the people of these two States of Utah and Idaho. The common com-mon hjghwayman takes the purse of an Individual; the common burglar robs one home of Its silverware; the common murderer slays one man. But the "Jack Mormon' takes the prosperity, pros-perity, the home peace and the patriotic pa-triotic life of the whole community. His offenBe Is as black as the sentence o'f Cain. He knows his sin and, for profit, he repeats It. The attempt of the "Jack Mormon" Welser World to turn off tho subject as a Joke is useless: its satirical suggestion sugges-tion of hanging as a penalty merely leads to the belief that, like another Judas of old, It may be contemplating self-destruction. GOLD BRICKS. The Mormon church lobbyists aro at Washington trading off gold bricks to the guileless United States Senators. Llko other bunco steerers, they must take for their aphorism that there 1b a new fool born every minute. Only upon this ground could they make any hopeful effort to coax Seiva'to'rsi into the belief that Republican Interest is to be enhanced by the protection of Reed Smoot. That Is their play. Tho lobbyists tell, with grave and reverend air stroking their patriarchal beards" in the "moan-while "moan-while that If the Republican majority In the Senate will stand by Apostle Smoot, protect him In his seat during the remainder of his term, and Incidentally Inci-dentally do a few other things that the Mormon church desires, Republicanism will grow and flourish like a green bay tree In tho lnterrnountaln region. But seo how plain a tale shall put them down; Reed Smoot was not a factor In the eloctlon of 1004, and Salt Lake City, for Instance, cast for the Republican ticket 1C.225 votes a high tribute to tho popularity of Theodore Roosevelt, then President of the United States, and a candidate for election. In 1005 Reed Smoot had again become a personal factor In the politics of Utah. To protect his machine he mado a personal per-sonal campaign In Salt Lake City, He used all the influence at hla command. Money was not wanting for wagers and expense, And the Smoot candidate for the Mayoralty In Salt Lako City In 1905 received 4970 votes; a net loss In one year of 10,245 votes, when the net gain should have been at least 1000, due to Increased voting numbers. That Is the way Smoot Is boosting Republicanism In Utah, and that Is what is happening to Republicanism wherever it Is tainted with Smootism in the Mntermbuntaln country. It Is true that the American party In Salt Lake City drow off the great bulk pf that missing Republican vole; but the result would have been disastrous to the Republican organization oven with no American party In the field. To further demonatrato the unpopularity unpopu-larity of Smootism, as well as to show Smoot's utter hick of political loyalty, Senators are cited to tho experience of Provo the home town of Senator Smoot, where there was no American party vote In 100G. In hlB town, and In the same election In which he butchered tho Republican majority in Salt Lake City, Republican Apostle-Senator Smoot supported a Democrat for reelection re-election as Mayor Smoot having certain cer-tain business and personal reasons for desiring to subjugate tho Republican Republi-can party of his town. Provo was Democratic and a very popular man, Hon. W. C. Roylance, was running for re-election as Mayor. Smoot's Republican Repub-lican support defeated him lgnomln-lously, lgnomln-lously, and the Republican whom Smoot had opposed was elected. Senators of the United States, there you have the effect of Smootism coming com-ing and going. In Republican Salt Lake, whore Smoot supported a Republican Re-publican candidate, that candidate was overwhelmingly defeated. In Democratic Demo-cratic Provo, where Smoot supported a Democrat for re-election, that Democrat Demo-crat was overwhelmingly defeated. Smoot's political breath Is political poison. Buy the gold brick, If you want It, Messieurs of the Senate; but you need not take It without due notice of Its worthlessness. Smoot cannot deliver de-liver one vote In Utah not even hlB own, for his own Is under the control of Joseph F. Smith and the way things are going now the Smoot and Smith votes are about all that Joseph F. himself him-self has at command. |