Salt Lake Telegram | 1906-06-16 | Page 12 | For Mr. Beveridge

.'' v N ' . , ' FOR MR. BEVERIDGE V ' ' In introducing his anti-trust bill, Mr. Beveridge of Indiana in his own luminous style called the attention of Senators to the fact that public opinion was going to hold them to a strict accounting, that the people were watching, that justice must be done, and those who opposed op-posed the appeal for right would be remembered. lie said in much better language than the above his periods - were all rounded, the punctuation marks all in the right places.'; . ' ', ' We suggest to Senator Beveridge that he had better keep that exordium fresh in memory, because when-he goes back to Indiana' there are several thousand ladies f in that State who will want to know his reasons for denying de-nying so far as he could the appeal of the Gentiles of - Utah for justice in the matter of Reed Smoot, and by what authority he, as a Senator of the United States, should make a report which in effect says that when the men of Ohio fired out the Mormons, when the men of Missouri did the same thing, when the men of Illinois ' -. did the. same thing, and while tha tfaricns in Utah are demanding that the Mormon .Wji lika every other : institution in the country shall get within the laws of this Republic, they were all wrong, that he, in his su-perior su-perior wisdom, finds it necessary to declare that the men of Ohio were all wrong, that the men of Missouri and Illinois were all wrong, and that the Americans of Utah are like the host that surrounded Pilate's judgment hall " and cried, "Crucify him 1 Crucify him !" ' , . Mr. Beveridge is an adroit lawyer. He can some-times some-times in the courtroom make the worse appear the better' bet-ter' side, but he is dealing now with the American people, peo-ple, and he must not go back and say it was a mere . matter of persecuting the church, because his neighbors wfll jeer , him if he does. It is simply a matter of ' - whether when the Constitution of the United States ' says there shall be no union of church and state, it pos-. pos-. sibly meant there might be an utter subordination of a ' state to a church. To give him a little idea of how things are here, we beg to say to him that while m this State there is an American party, made up of Republi-. cans and Democrats, with the hope of redeeming this - State from church rule. Even now it is being taught in the Sunday-schools of the dominant church of this A State that the American party must be downed this ; year, no matter at what cost.