Show FORAKER AND THE CONSTITUTION In a speech the other day daj Senator Foraker said the tie very highest duty of citizens is to preserve the constitution That is a case of late repentance we think on the part of the senator The constitution of the United States declares there here shall be absolute separation of church and andst st tate state te So does the c constitution of the state of Utah And further while giving perfect liberty to all reeds creeds it declares that no state has a li right ht to ignore ignores its s own constitution But Senator Foraker last winter winer win win- win win-I tel ter er voted to seat a man in the senate of the United I States who owed his place exclusively to the fact that I Ithe the he constitution of Utah was in his case set aside and trampled upon upon The senator was not worried that I Ithe the lie man claiming a seat in the senate obtained that I seat scat through a direct violation of the constitution of I his lis own state but now he says the hi highest duty of I the he people is to prevent the national constitution from rom being destroyed Senator Foraker's word ord was I worth a great deal more a year ago than it now is |