Show A 4 SS ATTACK Tho April number of oC the tho National Magazine contained ft i 1 very ory or fair artiola I about Senator Heed Smoot with an nil ex excellent o 0 portrait The Deseret NoW News copied the tile article In tito May laY Issue l of ot the thO saino magazine ve wo ns na the lending editorial on Affairs nt at In tn a eulogy of ot Sen Son Senator ator tOr Gorgo G but It IB IH marred by n a needless and untruthful nt tit tack upon President Joceph F Smith under tinder the Hul o of oC nn an effort to 10 show up tip tho Bin smartness versatility of ot the thu M statesman nulO We quote from It IL ns as follows Senator Hours gravity vII Is III now anti then lighted by a n t Hash of ot lino nwe t humor but there hero was taa nothing humo ow In III tho the way wn ho io cd the defiant lawlessness of or tho the Mormon loader louder monell before the tho senate committee try tryIng tryIng Ing log charges affecting Senator Smoots illness s to retain lilt his B Ment at It WitS a U In which the wll IIA was speedily reduced from u K ionizing to I dogged utter being lit orally tAlly forced by the linens sP as tic ticU n U to contradict himself ep exposing the sophistical na an nature ture lure of oC the tho Inspired which Jio lie receives from heaven and parses on onto onto fl to his hili people It matte made clear Ihl fact That runt whatever may Ina be he Bald of oC Senator personally Ills associates In tho the control of ot the Mormon Church or O tim th chief among them theta have been beell and are lying living I In relations their several wives the tho pub ii i 11 edict tor of the n aln t such audi conduct President Smith even went law to declare that notional national far as tic BO o not punish him hini anti and tic IS for Cor the law In W of oC ho hind had no tear of or that The rite ugly anti condition by the tho Smoot Inquiry may liln not result In hIM ejection from Crom tho tue hut but It certainly should hould ami will give force Coree to 10 tho thin demand for Cor the exer exercise nw new blot blotting blott blotting In itt of oC the tho Nations Nation authority cise II ice under tinder ting out polygamy nn nfl t tho the cloak doak of at the tho Mormon Church I Wo We s o should think that Too Joe Mitchell I whose hioco name Is Ic H nt at tho the head of ot the tho article quoted train from would endeavor to bo hI accurate when 1111 writing the Inter chapters In his hili magazine on Oil af nC affairs fairs faire nt at Washington We Ve tire sorry Barry to HOP 14 such lIuch Incorrect statements aa no 8 those o havo havn reproduced for they the cast n a l cloud of oC doubt Oil on other matters of ot In Information formation on which he touches month monthly Jy ly y The rhe record of oC the proceedings as IU down In bv hv I the Ih IA stenographer IH i no doubt d b within the t n reach eh of oC the he Na NIl National M and no so there Is 18 no flO sol aol solM ll M il exu e for the tha errors Into which Its Us hits has fallen In an attempt to Putt pan ler dr to popular prejudice anil full fall Into with lIh the crowd In pelting the Mormon The truth IH III that no member of oC the tin committee on ClIl anti and a elections was wall va move more courteous cou antI and fair fall towards re Smith limn was WaK Senator loar And An lifter after asking n it 1 number r of ot whIch sero eN er n a r puzzling In lit their manner ot at a lieu ho he Kindly nd I suit put tin the th fairly before toro tho the committee by lIy what ho lie to be tho tue glut gist gl t nt of lIt Ae We le quote i tin thi annexed verbatim trout from the lort Hoar I would like to Know knot Iwo nt lit com H ln convenient time train from Mr 11 Tny Ta hr l r II a hut mit in Mr Smiths lie liet t to contradict Awl what of oC f It U li lie hi I that Mr Ir t lol I is III In this Ihl That fht he and amI hiM church accept lIt car cr certain tain thyme divine lone which IU f lomo loni to ti Including him ns na n one OliO of It Its Ita i iT l lf iu In the pout plUit that one cf of divine waK nn nfl In Iii Jinn n to polygamy to tt plurality of oC AMP lye 1111 that ha ho Interprets thet Injunction 1 tion t not to menu that hat t U It I t IN III I s binding hi Fill I Ii on Ott nil 1111 under nil all 11 circumstances put but that It Is IR like Injunctions to toI I I who belIeve leve In mi na o anti and that that in Ia l shown by th time the fact fatt that I tho the construction of oC It that only Illy 3 or I per cent In old of ot atI that hut I communion Hv d in III polygamy tIlt that thereafter t 1 and utter after th of it had boon lic n declared declined an of ot fi by hy the civil 1111 law there lucre I won WM an revelation I will stat not UH fie the word worth tine hut but not for Cor the th future fu ur requiring polygamy and auth that flom fi oat that tune time forward hi his Church Chulch line lias linet uh t d to It nail Mil has hR the practice of oC polygamy with the tho ex eXCl Cl I am about hout to state an In of e timid tutu has obeyed l 1 the civil luw that there have been bOel since then no nn plural mar inar the 1111 or with the theOf of ot the Church hurch or a society but Iut uL that he Ito anti and to toJiU his JiU belief hellet other persons III In highs high places of ot authority I of or tho tito Church ChUIch and with Pie hIs full tull I suppose have i hi that while they tu y would contract no nomore Snore more plural and re reItl lust t with stub all their Influence and all the tho of ot tim tho Church any An new nl one ono tint vl hll tIm tho th hits has never sanc sancor U d or solemnized one aile since that later Iller revelation they tho will not no desert dOllert tho ho wIves and tho the children to whom thy they had hud boon bonn married under the tha old JU dl II antI on and nil th thit t ho hnit hM thoro and Mil their chil children dren In separate 11 and ond has lus lived In the tho relation of at husband and wife wile with them tham 10 so that thit new now children have havo been boen borne borno to him bv by nil mill of ot thorn thom thomI I do not know that I t havo given tho the whole statement but in substance I think It I t would shorten antI and mako clear this Inquiry It If wo we wore to know whether you ou expect to controvert that In whole or In part If It I have havo In Itt 11 any particular It I wish Mr would point out the particular In which I have havo misstated It Mr Ir understand Mr Sean Sena Senator tor lor that t you ou have havo ve stated the 03 rut I understand it Now Not ns ac to the attitude of ot Prost SmIth before the committee There Thero Is 1 nothing In the entire InUre report that In iii Indicates I defiant lale s or a n pa patronizing air nil or a n manner manlier or n a cheer heer dogged Nor Nol was lOS aa he lie forced to 10 contradict him hUn himself self repeatedly or nt lit till all Mr Ir Chappie cannot for lor or the tha life liCe at of him point out u a contradiction of oC the kind 1 he lie mentions or Ol shell shew wherein ie se 1 frank statements Ita made by Smith mith as to his own family relations were ere any different front from what was generally understood except by people who ho Ire are completely Ignorant of oC Utah affairs Time The universal al verdict wHet of or the tho gentle gentlemen molt men present at nt the tho examination wit Wl vua that dm In tho the live five days ot questions that were fired at hint him the tho conducted himself In a n manner that was Vins remarkable for Cor Its equanimity evident truthfulness 1 nail candor Ben when I about his private af nC affairs fairs CalIs In such auch a n way woy that he ho could have havo legally morally and justly declined to answer he lie unhesitatingly complied compiled and gave his hili responses without reserve Only once did lid he lie show any uny resentment nt at questions levelled at t him and this IH is his language us ne appears In iii tho the official report Mr Smith I would like to say Mr tr Chairman I If you please that It IH is very vory g and trying to me to pub pith publicly itch announce my ills private domestic af a fairs before this committee Mr 11 Taylor As All far no nil I mn nm con corned coined I 1 do not care caro so ao much about that You 1011 can proceed ns as n you ou Mr Ir Smith I do It very ory reluctantly simply because I nm inn required to do tb so soby soby by hy title this honorable committee I 1 10 vu gret It very much and I wish wl h to say that much to the tho committee because my statements and testimony hole are going to the tho world and I do not lIot want It understood being compelled ns nil I Ihne I havo been bellI to give e Information to tomake tomake make statements of oC opinion In relation to my lily friends that I am nm In any nn sense a spotter 01 or nn an Informer It If there thero li ic I anything gentlemen that I despise It ItIs Itie Is III an nn Infamous spotter and Informer anti I nm riot not one of ot those I wish to tate state that in lit order that It may go down on record re ord Tho The statement about President Smiths Smithe declaration that he was not amenable to 10 the tho law Is III also Incorrect hole Helo Is 18 what the tha witness said In reply to home some questions train from Senator Bailey I It Ills Is also taken from Crom the tho official record I should like to draw a n distinction there thero Is IB n a In tho the Senators mint mind that I great difference In our Judgment In our feelings foll n between Ill the tho law prohibiting plural marriages and the tho law lUng what IB is l termed In the law unlawful unlawful ful cohabitation it very ery great grent differ difference once ence marriage has hns stopped but hut I choose choo e rather than titan to abandon lilY my children and their mothers to run my ray risks ricks before the law I want to say sa 1111 too that It IH is tIme tho law mw of ot my State It ItIn In ii not the law of oC Congress under which I nm ant living tutu by hy which I nm inn punish punishable punishable i unish able It Is 18 the law hat of or my State tho thin courts of or my State have competent Jurisdiction jurl to deal with mo inn In my lay offenses otton the tho lay law and the tho th Con gress nf of lC the United States has no business with my private conduct any ally anymore an more than titan It has haa with tile the prIvate con cot conduct duet duct of nt any citizen of ot Utah or nay other State It Is III the law of or my fly State to which I nm ani amenable nail If It the tho of or tho the law Ill have havo not done their duty toward me I can cnn not blame them themI I think they have some flomo respect for Cor me If Jr the tho editor of or the National Maga Magn Magazine i zInc zine mInes does not lIot understand that there thero Is Isnow now floW no law of at Congress S applicable to Utah on the tho question at nt Issue but that the State laws las me are amplo ample for the till pur purpose pose he ho Is l not lIot And wo 0 should think from Crom his reputation ns as a 11 fair antI able writer ho would want to correct his assertions about the tho Mor Mormon Mormon Morman mon man President apologize for Cor an nn that III In very VeT vcr unfair to 10 that gen gentleman and does doel not add one ono iota lota to tho the brilliant qualifications of ot Senator Hoar nor 1101 to the tho esteem In which ho Is held here lucre i II as 8 elsewhere |