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Show EDUCATIONAL. The Springfield (Mass.) Republican makes the following editorial comment on the Smoot case: Senator Smoot's case will be heard BRain thiK month, and. it is hoped, decided before his term expires About three yours have passed since Mr Smoot was elected. The mot that can be said Is that thus far the affair has been educational Concerning the Mormon church and the, practices of its saint Properly interpreted, the Republican is exactly rlRht when It sas that the most that can be said Is "that thus far the affair has1 been educational." for under proper Interpretation that means the best that can be said Education "concerning the Mormon churth and the practices of Its Saints" was the mighty labor undertaken by the nineteen protestants who offered themselves as an Immolation upon I he altar of Slate and national safely When they appealed to the Senate to refuse to ApOStle Retd Smoot a seal lh that high body The same education was undertaken by the m.iss meeting In Bamberger hall two yean ago next March, when the American party was begun. The same kind of education was continued by the organization of the American party which held its convention con-vention in this city on September 14, 1904. The same kind of education is now bring Offered to the country by the more than twenty thousand Americans of the State of Utah who have grown Into their present mighty host from the mere handful of a few years ago All that wo ask is that the Nation shall know the character of the Mormon Mor-mon hierarchical government, the pur poses whbh the church leaders have In view, and the practices of the chief prophets, seers and leselatora When ilils education shall have been completed then- will b enforced upon Joseph F. Smith and his compeers an unconditional surrender of the treasonable treason-able ground which th y occupv for the Nation win no longer be patient wiib the offenses of ingratitude, disloyalty, law-breaking and tyranny which prevail pre-vail here In the profaned nam- of (lod, under the flag of I he Republic. |