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Show " 1' A Fleeting Triumpk Washington (Indiana) Herald. The Mormon apostle, liccd Smoot, is to retain his scat in the United States Senate, tho place ho obtained through tho dictum of tho Utah hierarchy and which ho holds simply because of tho fact that tho unwritten law of political partisanship forces tho partisans to stand together. But it is a lloetin triumph, tri-umph, for tho foundation oC Heed Smoot 's caso is builded on tho sands. There can bo no .permanent union oC tho church and the State in thiaconn-try. thiaconn-try. and tho agitation against ftinoot, while it is temporarily iiictlcctiyo, must in the end accomplish the purpose jor which it was brought into active lite. In spite of the fact that tho fight against Smoot lasted for more .than threo vcars, we arc of (ho firm opinion that tho real issue in the case has been but fntntly interpreted. It is not Smoot the ninu who was attached by tho anli-church anli-church party of Utah, but Smoot tho npostlo of Mormomsm. Nor because Smoot is a Mormon, but for the reason thai ho is of, for and with tho unholy combination Hint seeks tho control or thc politics and the commercial and industrial in-dustrial interests of tho Interrnonntain Stales. Wo have heard in this contention conten-tion much about the guaranty given I o ever' American citizen to worship God according to tho dictates of his own conscience, or not to worship him if he so elects. But all that was irrelevant. It did not belong in tho discussion, and it was mndo prominent simply bocnuse that specious plea could be used to obscure ob-scure tho true issuo involved. With duo respect to the Senators who stood, for Smoot, wo maintain that they, ns well as many of the newspapers of the country, have not gone deeply into tho Mormon menace to tho fntcrinoun-tain fntcrinoun-tain States. We shall confess that the opposition to Smoot did not appeal to us at tho first, but the closer the acquaintance ac-quaintance with tho circumstances tho cloaror it appears to us that tho peoplo of Utah who have set their faces firmly against this church domination of their politics and their business arc cxaclly m the right. And wo have not the slightest doubt that eventually they will win their way. Jf wo Uro to take them nt their word, the most of the Senators who stood in support of Smoot assumed that as the open charge of polygamous practices had not. been mado against mm. the fact that ho was not proved to be a polygamist in actual personal life was sufficient to purge him of the charge that he, as an apostle of the Mormon church, had abetted polygamy by his association with the notorious polyga-mists polyga-mists who arc tho controlling influences influ-ences of the church of which Smoot is an apostle. The man who profits from stolen goods, even though he had no' hand in the theft, is equally guilty with tho actual thief. The Mormou church is managed by a body of self-confessed and notorious porygamists, tho real head' of the church being a man who lives with five wives in flagrant violation viola-tion of tho moral law and the statutes of Utah. But the moral law never had any place in the disgusting eastern sensuality sen-suality of the Mormon church, and the statutes of tho State of Utah were not I intended to apply to the polygamists of j the church. Sometimes there is a little niiscuo, and one of the faithful gets t hooked, as was tho case last summer when tho Mormon prophet, Joseph P. Smith, was fined for unlawful cohabitation, cohabi-tation, but. these incidents aro not frequent. fre-quent. As n rule, the prophet and his associates in tho apostolic, confederacy are able to keep themselves out of court. So fqr ns is J;nown Reed Smoot is not a polygamist in practico7lw?jBi fl friends and associates arc. Mont SflRl other apostles of tho church -I.IHt.. amists in l'nct and in thcor'. ThftiSW-U ident of tho church, but one or b-flBj moves from Smoot in authority WlK' before tho Senato committee' 0r$ f forty-three sous and daughters V1 ' A by his five wives! A saloon keened i ' be a teetotaler nnd preach torn t i but it is hard lo admit his bI?c?M I' Tho keeper of a bngiuo may horsoirl fr continent, but one would hardly wJiM her for lectures on the advantapci i chaste and modest life. S0 with 1 it Smoot. I Hs thunders against polviSZ F' arc for outsido consumption only & ' Yos, the Mormon hierarchy na), , ' a transient triumph. Partisan ch?: stances favored Smoot, and h0 w;nl' t" out his term at Washington as tho J. I v rescntative of his church cabal, in.Sl fa of the representative of the pCoDfS I Utah. But the wedge slartoi bP 1 anti-church party is well entered. f far indeed to bo displaced bv tbi a B ato's ill-ndvised act.. It win Be.WK long until the split is wide eaonrtpMl make certain the cessation of cfiL? 2 rule. The people of tho rntormo3'if States who arc against tho uniojK churcn and State must conquer at cB |
