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Show when this covenant is ratified we will have i:u mono wars. o not bo deceived, for Mi' h v.'lil nrit bo the cse. If so, the rcvlarions given to the I'rorjhet Joseph S.-nith, as leootded In tile Doctrine and Covenan ts, are not true. I cannot understand under-stand why you take it fur granted that the P-a;; ae or nations will do more for the world than the teachings of the Savior have been able to do. I ask you to read ttie many passages te jjook 0f Mormon Mor-mon reb-rring to this nation, as well as tiie many revelations given to the Prophet Joepii smith, as to the destiny of the same, Not being very well versed in the Book of Mormon we fail to catch the drift of tho senator's argument, but we feel confident that there are many thousands of highly educated and intelligent in-telligent Mormons who will take issue with the sage of Provo, who has been in politics so long that ho must perforce per-force be getting rusty on the Book of Mormon, tho Doctrine and Covenants and the Pearl of Great Price. In any event, we know that most of tho leaders lead-ers of the dominant church are for the league, and it is fair to presume that they are a3 well up on the Book of Mormon as the senator. His referenco to tho teachings of the Savior having failed to bring peace to the world does not help his case, for if these teachings teach-ings wero followed by the inhabitants of the earth, senators included, wars would not break out. In other words, they would not occur if all the people who pretend to bo Christians were really Christlike in their actions toward their fellow men. Does Senator Smoot intend to convey the idea that Christianity is a failure, and that we have reached a stago of civilization where further progress is impossible f Docs he really believe that the good red blood of the sons of Utah must be shed upon the battlefields for all time to come? Has he no faith in mankind or hope for the future of the world? We greatly fear that the senior Utah senator has been drinking at the fount of German materialism mate-rialism to Bitch an extent that his vision has been blinded and his judgment warped. A little self-examination would evidently not be out of place in his j case. I SMOOT'S DEFENSE. Senator Smoot h:is written a letter to Mr. C. N. Lund, Jr., of Mt. Pleasant, Btating that lie will not vote for tliq lcaguo of nations covenant without a number of reservations, those proposed by tho Lodge-Knox faction. Tho letter, let-ter, which appears in full in another section of this paper, was written in reply to one received from Mr. Lund informing tho senator that ho would be repudiated at the polls next year. Denying Deny-ing that tho conclusions he has reached are based upon partisan bias or that his judgment has been warped by politics, Mr. Smoot makes a vigorous partisan attack upon President Wilson and wanders wan-ders far afield for the purpose of creatr ing prejudice against the league in his homo state. His arguments, if they may bo properly called such, are taken from tho recent speech of Senator Lodge, who has publicly stated that if l:o can find tho necessary votes in the seuato ho will not stop at reservations, reserva-tions, but will arnond the treaty and send it back, thereby rendering tho work of tho Versailles peact) conference null and void so far as tho United States is concerned. This, we take it, is also the purpose of Senator Smoot. It is not necessary to take up the arguments in detail, for they are not new. Timo and again the people of tho country hnvo heard them fall from tho lips of Borah, Poindextier and Johnson, John-son, while theso senators were declaiming declaim-ing ngainst any kind of a league of nations, and they have also heard them uttered by tho fanatical Sherman and the unspeakable Keed. Senator Smoot cannot give added importance to such ravings by adopting them as his own views. It has become evident since the debato in tho senate began that it was tho intention of certain of the sonators to reject the treaty and covenant cove-nant if tho Republicans of the country would stand for it. It was quickly ascertained, however, that the rank and file of tho Republican party favored ratification, so some of the leaders set out to do by subterfuge what they did not dare attempt directly. Senator Sena-tor Smoot says he will vote for the covenant with certain reservations, but ho "will do so with a great deal of apprehension," -Ho may well be apprehensive ap-prehensive if such reservations are made part of the treaty, for tho league will becomo an impossibility and the god of war will continue to reign upon earth. Hero is a sampfe of special pleading upon tho part of tho Utah senator: "Ask any mother in Utah if she wants her son to be drafted and sent to offer, and more than likely sacrifice, his life to settle a quarnel in which America has no interest whatever, between, be-tween, say, two of the Balkan states, or two other countries located in -the farthest ends of tho earth, and see what she will say. Yet, under article X of the covenant, as now framed, America, if called upon, will have to pour out her billions of dollars and give the blood of tho best of her young men in order to assist in settling set-tling just such quarrels, or repudiate the obligations assumed under the provisions pro-visions of tho league.'' Tho mothers of Utah will probably remember that the great war from which we have just emerged, crowned with the laurels of victory, originated in the Balkans. We could not escape being drawn into the conflict, although we remained neutral long after Senators Sena-tors Lodge and Smoot aver that we should havo gone in. If there is a leaguo of nations the belligerent Balkan Bal-kan countries will bo placed under restraint re-straint and the war cloud will not always al-ways be hanging low over that portion of tho earth's surface. If the league of nations is not organized tho next Balkan outbreak will again set the world aflame, and the sons of Utah will le once more sent over the seas, along with tho brave lads from all the other states in tho Union. AVe could not escapo the last European war, and we cannot escape the next one if the United States senate makes such an unfortunate event not only possible but inevitable. We aro more than confident con-fident that a great majority of the mothers of Utah earnestly desire that the covenant be ratified by the senate and that they will not be deceived by what Senator Smoot has to say regarding regard-ing the Balkans, Hedjaz or Liberia. Of courie, it will bo generally understood under-stood that Senator Smoot 's letter to Kditor Lund is intended strictly for Mormon consumption, for he unburdens himself in this manner: You evidently think, as many of the V;oylo of UtaJi led to Uiink, that |