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Show A CLEAR VISION. Por an accurate, comprehensive, fair and courageous presentation of tho Smoot case wo commend to Tribune readers a porusal of tho article ro-printed ro-printed today under tho title of "A Ploeting Triumph," from tho editorial columns of the Washington (Indiana) Herald. The Herald is Republican; its editor is a man of prominence in his pnrty; he has given long and intimate study to tho Utah question in general and tho Smoot caso in particular. The Herald sees the groat, wrong which has been done by and to the Nation by tho falsa viow and the cajoled ca-joled votes of the Smoot proponents in tho Scnntc; and, with statesmnnliko vision, tho Herald also sees that tho triumph of the polygamous cult in tho retention of Smoot is evanescent in character and dangerous in extreme to the church of which ho is a ro-aponsiblo ro-aponsiblo authority. It is consoling, in this timo when political chicanery, venality, and other effective powers havo boon operated in bohalf of tho polygamous cause in politics, pol-itics, to find hero and there a publioi6t of such conscieueo and courage that he will not bow beforo tho procured decision de-cision of even the Senato of the United States. , Tho Washington Herald is right in its altitude; the triumph of wrong is a fleeting one. Not one of the lamentable facts is changed b the vote of the United States Senate. The Mormon church continues its daily teaching of polygamy; its leaders continue their polygamous living; hundreds of young men and young women have been drawn into the practice, and they continue therein; Reed Smoot has never raised his voice within the church or in Utah against polygamous leaching or polygamous polyg-amous practice; as an apostle Reed Smoot coutiuues to be a responsible part of the governing power of the cult; the Mormon church does leach, and its adherents believe, that 'the church is tho kingdom of God, with temporal power superior to that, of the Government Govern-ment of the United States; no man who holds- an npostleship in the Mormon church, and who believes what, ho inculcates in-culcates to his followiug, but pays a superior devotion to the church over anj' that ho enn offer to the Nation. These facts remain. Thoy arc indestructible. inde-structible. Not one of them was eradicated, erad-icated, not oue of them was modified, b3 the Senate's vote". They stand in all their glaring shame irrefutable. So long as tho facts cudurc, no vote procured pro-cured by misrepresentation or bargaining bargain-ing can conceal tho infamy or can end the necessary and righteous warfare against tho radical evils. Indeed, tho triumph will be a fleeting one for the Mormon church; and it will be the most costly victory that the polyamous cult has ever won for when the people of the United States shall learn all the truth (and they -will learn it) there will be such enforced reform re-form as will make the Mormon church to wish that it had never attempted to foist its treasonable government into the councils of this Nation. |