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Show j We are told that the whole fight upon Mr. Smoot jtias been on the ground of polygamy. The statement state-ment 13 a reversal. The whole defense of Mr. Smoot was that he was not a polygamist and did not approve ap-prove of it, though the protest asking that he be denied de-nied a seat never charged that he was a polygamist. The main charge was the inherent disloyalty of the leaders with whom he is associated. That Mr. Dmoot's defenders carefully ignored. Mr. Smoot himself declared that he had taken Do obligations which prevented his giving full ser-' ser-' yice to the Government and people of the United Btates. lie did this, too, when it is the knowledge of every man of ordinary intelligence that the whole Mormon fabric rests on the assumption that the head of the church actually stands in God's place on earth End that to disobey him is to fly in the face of God himself. ' . . ' . "Every Senator who defended' Mr. Smoot and Voted for his retention knows that fact. President Roosevelt knows that fact, and every one while he ppoke and voted knew that five lines published by this president in a petty paper here last autumn caused between two and three thousand Mormon Democrats to vote the Republican ticket. . . j ! This, too, though it was on the part of Joseph I F. Smith a direct and shameful violation of the s (Constitution of Utah. That kind of work drove the jBaints from Missouri, it caused the killing of Joseph Kmith and his brother in Illinois and the driving out tof the Mormons. This, too, was when polygamy . fwas denied there as vehemently as it is now denied in Utah ; denied in a sworn statement of leading Mor- ' tnon womenthough half the signers were living in '-- polygamy thenl ... Great stress is laid on the fact that a majority, ' (whipped on by all the power of the President, declined de-clined to unseat Mr. Smoot. When the report was Jfiled a year ago, had a vote been ordered Mr. Smoot ' fteould have been unseated. But when Congress met in December the correspondents in Washington of many distinguished journals found it necessary to send to their papers that Mr. Smoot in private life tvas an angel and that he had not been proved a t polygamist. Just about the time Mr. Hopkins was ready to " make his speech one of the faculty of the Illinois uni-rersity uni-rersity felt called upon to supply a long article which the North American Review felt called upon to publish that Mr. Smoot could not be.legally ousted. oust-ed. Senator Hopkins' speech was not the speech of i United States Senator, but that of a Police court awyer twisting through a maze of technicalities. All these things meant the expenditure of a vast amount of tithing money. Knox and Dolliver changed their minds at the request of the President. So did Depew. Dillingham's course cannot be accounted ac-counted for on any ground except that he is a flabby bid idiot. Teller has for twenty-five years been a J ack Mormon. Of the Senators surrounding Utah, .Hey-burn, .Hey-burn, Clark, Warren, Borah, Clark of Montana, tind Sutherland of Utah, we all know that it would . bave made no difference what showing would have been made, their votes would have been just the kame. ( Now the News and its echo want peace. It can be easily obtained, but in only one way. Let Joseph P. Smith make good his old promise that the church End the high officers of the church will never again ' interfere with the politics of the Mormon people, and . there will be peace profound. That is the only way f can be obtained. ;To abandon the cause until (that is accomplished would be for the Americans of fjtah to do what tne President and a majority of the Senate did on Wednesday forge new and servile jcbains upon the wrists of every child m every cradle La Utah, degrade every . man and dishonor every Woman in the State. ( . |