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Show SMOOT'S BITTER HARANGUE. Elder Smoot broke forth in his address ad-dress nt Spanish Fork Sunday night bo-fore bo-fore tho Young Men's Improvement Association. As-sociation. He is reported to have denounced de-nounced with bitterness all "our enemies," ene-mies," taking everyone as an euomy who is not a mombor of tho Mormon church, tho usual way. His bigotry and bitterness were, it is, roportod, resented re-sented even by the fnir-mindod Mormons Mor-mons who were in attendance at the meeting. Naturally Elder Smoot praised the Mormon priesthood to which ho belongs, and declared tho virtue of young Mormon Mor-mon men ninety-fivo per cent pure, a sta'temeut startling in its absurdity to all who know nnything about thoso young men. Tho immoralities of thoso young men in Utah county alono during dur-ing tho prosont year would average a-very a-very much higher per cent than that, taking only six months for tho computation. Elder Smoot also railed, it appears, against certain publications which he construes to bo unfavorablo to the Mormons. Tho particular publication which ho reviles wo havo not seen, and aro not prepared to say anything about it, but certainly if it is us bigotod, misleading, and miserably one-sided as most of the stuff that is printed in favor fa-vor of tho Mormons by the Mormon officials of-ficials and subsidized press, as well aB by papers that are caught unawnrcs and aro made unconsciously to do wrong in their service, then that publication must bo very bad indeed. Elder Smoot on Pioneer Day at Wan-damerc, Wan-damerc, on tho outskirts of this city, made a "good will" address, denouncing denounc-ing fanaticism, uncharitablentaa, und the bearing of falso witness against one's neighbor. That may bo supposed to bo the swing of the penduluni in ono direction, direc-tion, and his Spanish Fork speech the swing of it in another. But his denunciation de-nunciation of bigots and strife brooders in his Pioneer Day speech is perhaps designed for uso by him in the East, while his Spanish Fork speech was strictly for home consumption. By speaking ou both sides, ho makes good with Hopkins, and 'saves his face" at home. Elder Smoot is a "slippery guy," sure enough. In order to ascertain just where ho stands on any question we havo to catch him at both ends of tho swing, and also in the middle, and then you aro just us uncertain of him as you were when you first began the inquiry. No one knows, what Elder Smoot really thinks or means excopt his duly enthroned en-throned king and monarch, President Joseph F. Smith. Wc doubt if Elder Smoot knows his own mind himself, until un-til Smith tolls him what he is to say and to do |