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Show 1 s!S COMPARED. itor Tru th : . the Honi I The KPa by a few of the ladies I noTIv a "tor Ho had betrayed his I of l?'V Jrty and state and read in 1 ?tt nilS States senate a Jumbled lhe m of false and slanderous np8n editorials and the attitude of 1 Tr'b"nof tlo preachers of tie city in I yp.SL Utah is food for thought for iurl 1g nronerty owner and peaceful 1 SeoHhlsstate and city. If you l- inv one of these preachers or la- a whv they arc sustaining Thomas ami his methods of injuring I man the only answer they give is l,t 'the Hon. need Smoot, a Mormon B ".tip was elected and allowed to I Ids seat in the United States fnate, and that Mr. Kearns is doing l he can to injure the Mormons and ?" deprive Mr. Smoot of his seat in he senate. If theso preachers and nver-rellgious men and women whom H i shall ilcslgnate as "knockers." would tS0P to think they will find that Mr. Smoot has a perfect legal right to be a united States senator. The con- stitutlon of the United States wisely nrovides for such cases and distinctly says that: "No religious test shall be I lenulred as a qualification to any of- fice or public truth in the United gtatcs." H it seems to me that any person who tries to debar any one from holding H public office in the United State3 on H account of religious belief, Is a traitor H to the constitution. Wo never heard H a protest from theso knockers when H Thomas Kearns was elected to the H United States senate. Let us compare H Senator Smoot and Senator Kearns H and see how Inconsistent religious H knockers can be. Mr. Smoot Is a H Mormon and subscribes to tho follow-H follow-H Ing: "We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers and magis-H magis-H trates, in obeying, honoring and sus-H sus-H talnlng the law." Mr. Kearns is a Ro-H Ro-H man Catholic and believes that "The Pope Is the Infalliable head of the in-Hj in-Hj Infallible church, a vicegerent of God, H Is king above all things and ruler of U all nations." On page 11C," verse G, H In tho Presbyterian confession ot faith will he found: "There Is no other H head of the church but tho Lora Je- sus Christ, nor can the Pope of Rome In any sense be head thereof, but ls that Anti-Christ, that man of sin and son of perdition that exalteth himself In the church against Christ and all that is called of God." Yet Brother Wishard tho great head of the Presbyterian church In Utah and Idaho, was so Inconsistent that 1 he sat In the Grand theatre anti I cheered to the echo a hireling of I Kearns, a follower of tho Pope of I !!.om. Just because ho was Injuring Utah. Mr. Smoot Is a benevolent man and in the city where ho lives and elsewhere, ho has donated freely to charity and public enterprises. Mr. Kearns is a wealthy man and prob-ably prob-ably has given away more cash than y ,otller man in Utah. The Kearns at. Ann's orphanage, ?G,000 to tho Y. C. A avo only a few of his goner-U3 goner-U3 guts, and tho peoplo of Utah appreciated ap-preciated them. Benedict Arnold, at Danborry, Ticon-"ogn. Ticon-"ogn. Crown Point and Saratoga. ''I great service to his country and as appreciated by all, but when ho Si raltor t0 hls country, all his mhju acts were lo.n sight of. Thomas " wn'ri13 ,wa? nnnroclated for his good Un ni e?th nt homo d in the InrnS? ateS SCnatC- bUt thc (lay 110 nartv .f "St 1,18 frle,uls nnrt th0 ohwL gttV0 Ulm the tltl0 of Hon-', Hon-', ho (lny tliat he let Ingratitude, ml nf f?st of a11 crimes") get con-hZ con-hZ ,lls ,,clng' tho word traitor WacKened all of his good deeds. Mr. tl i lms bcon at a11 "mes true to traltn? ,y ,Mr- Kearns nas been a E. . hls 1,arty- Mr- Smoot nas ftays bGn truo to Utah and ha,5 done all in his power to advance it socially, so-cially, morally and financially. Mr Kearns is doing all ho can to injure it. Mr. Smoot is an educated man and has the ability to well represent this state in the senate. Mr. Kearns lias scarcely scarce-ly any education and ho read with great difficulty Frank Cannon's Tribune Tri-bune editorials in the United States senate. Mr, Smoot is a temperate man In every respect and would feel out of place in a bar-room. Mr. Kearns is at homo In a modern thirst parlor and they say ho can lean over the polished hard wood and blow the foam off a schooner with tho alacrity of a professor in legerdemain. He knows the right beade on Irish straight and Scotch ale, and when ho samples the distilled vintage vin-tage of 1851, ho smacks hls lips as loud as the head lines In tho Evening Telegram. Isn't it queer that the V. C. T. U. should love Mr. Kearns and hate Mr. Smoot? Mr. Smoot says Alaska is a portion of thc American continent, but Mr. Kearns declares that it is a beautiful island surround-"by surround-"by tho liquid ho hates to drink. Mr. Smoot states that a - iliplno is a biped of tho .human family; Mr. Kearns says ho is a quadrl-peddlcd vertibrato of the small horse species. After ho was elected, Mr. Smoot gave a banquet to his friends. Intelligent speech-making and harmonious good cheer was the order of tho occasion. After Mr. Kearns was elected ho also gave a banquet, and his programme was boo.e. The above is a fair comparison com-parison of the two gentlemen. Anil after knowing the n'jove tho Hev. John L. Leillch and Dr. Paden got up a remonstrance against Senator Smoot and patted Senator Kearns on the back as a good fellow. This last anti-Utah anti-Utah Mormon crusade was started by Senator Kearns, when ho, by what he thought was a bold stroke of political sagacity, but which In reality was a traitorous thrust of his untiring ef forts tried to bring tho president of the United States down to his level; tried to make tho peoplo of Utah ho-lleve ho-lleve that President Roosevelt was degrading de-grading himself by Interfering with state politics; tried to make the people peo-ple believe that this writer of books and divider of continents was overriding over-riding Articlo G In the constitution of the United States by making a religious reli-gious test as a qualification of Mr. Smoot before he could bo elccto.1 United States senator. Ilut Mr. Kearns' scheme did not work. Mr. Smoot was honestly elected. Kearns was not re-elected, and the president of the church refused to get into politics poli-tics and help him. That so enraged Mr. Kearns that ho let hatred traltor-ism traltor-ism and u ongo dominate what little sense ho had and. taking his cue from the Rev. John L. Leillch and Dr. Paden and the Gontilo information bureau, commenced this anti-Utah and anti-Mormon fight, cutting and slash Ing friends and foes anno, no nas few followers and just as long as they buy his claims, ho will hire Frank J. Cannon to toot his horn. If Senator Kearns, who Is a Roman Catholic, had read tho papers or tho current history of tho United States for tho past twon-ty twon-ty years, or taken the advice of Bishop Bish-op Scanlan, or any other intelligent Catholic, ho would never have joined in with the Rev. S. E. Wlsn-aid, Wlsn-aid, tho Rov. J. D. McMillan, the Rev. George Bally, Dr. Paden and many other preacnors in this anti-Mormon crusade. For it was this class of preachers who wore tho prime movers In tho A. P. A. movement and Tho Herald and Presbyter, tho official or-gan or-gan of tho Presbyterian church, is still keeping up the racket. When I have seen tho head lines of the Salt Lake Tribune for tho past three months, thoy put mo in mind of a circular oi poster that the Rev. J. G. White a Presbyterian preacher of Stanford. Ills., used to advertise hls books and tho anti-Catholic loctures ho gave In different parts if ihc ri.iiry Iter is an exact copy or on, o, Uu ni Stop, young man, before you marry mar-ry a Uoman Catholic or send your sister to a convent. "Rend Homo' and 'needs of Darkness Dark-ness Disclosed' or hear .1. 1). White expose tho secret abomination or Auricular Confession.' Including tho horrible and corrupting quu'Lmi which Roman priests propounded to females in the confessional, under obligation ob-ligation of eternal secrecy ami under penalty of endless damnation if they reveal tho facts." If you will take tils cl.eiilar and put the word Morn on In place ol Catholic and Endowment house in place of convent and Mormon pr.esis instead of Roman, you will have the headlines of many of the anti-Mormon articles In tho Salt Lake Tribune. Or If you will take the headlines in the Tribune and put the word Catholic in the place of Mormon, you will have the old-fashioned A. I'. A. literature. Hero are some of llio books that this Piesbyterlnn preacher, While, sold nnd If you will make the saino changes in them you will have the literature of the Gentile bureau of information. "Fifty Years In tho Church of Rome," "Priest, Woman and Conlcs-Bional," Conlcs-Bional," "Tho Two Habylons," "Roman-ism' "Roman-ism' and Reformation," "Romanism and the Public Schools," "Why Priests Should Wed," "Romo In America," "Washington in tho Lap of Rome," "Romanism, tho Danger Ahead," "Convent "Con-vent Life Unveiled," "Awful Disclosures," Disclos-ures," "Romanism Unmasked," "What Is Modern Romanism?" "Secret Instructions In-structions to Jesuits," "Six Months In a Convent." "Rome's Assaults on the Public Schools," "The Parochial Soho;l Question," etc., etc. Hut all the assaults as-saults theso religious persecutors hoape.d on the church of Rome only helped It. The Catholic church is the oldest Christian church and it was much stronger after tho A. P. A. crusade cru-sade than before, and the Catholic churches, hospitals and schools of Salt Lake City would he a great ciedlt to any city, and after all this antl Snioot, anti-Utah, anti-Mormon howl the Mormons Mor-mons had the largest and most successful suc-cessful conference In their history. If these anti-Mormon A. P. A.'s had the "sense that God gives a gooso," they would seo that persecuting any denomination only helps It and that persons who send forth a slnntlor or falsehood aro tho only ones Injured In-jured by It. Salt Lake City, Including Includ-ing Waterloo, has six Methodist churches and lias hardly membership enough in tho whole six to 1111 one church. Those churches all have preachers and theso preachers receive fair salaries, and with tho exception or tho First Methodist, thoy all receive mission money and with the small con gregatlon those preachers liavo but little to do but howl about Utah, the Mormons and draw their mission money. mon-ey. To keep this mission money Towing Tow-ing in, they have to keep up this anti-Mormon anti-Mormon racket, thoy havo to mnke tho peoplo In tho east believe mat on every street corner Is a Danite and a destroying angel on ovory house top, and like Mrs. Dovoro and tho Rev. J D. McMillan, their lives are in great danger, and tho only thing tho eastern peoplo can do to help them Is by liberally lib-erally contributing. Tho Presbyter-Inns, Presbyter-Inns, the Baptists and ono or two other denominations nro In about the same position as tho Methodists. If these preachers wero honest und tho conditions aro such as Dr. Paden says thoy are, thoy should do all In their power to encourago good peoplo to set-tie set-tie hero, so In a few years tho Gentiles would havo a majority vote. But thoy aro doing Just tho reverse. Thoy aro advertising Utah in such a way that good peoplo aro afraid to come. It Is no pleasuro for me to glvo tho facts about these preachers, tho Trlhuno and the small band of knockers that follow fol-low them, but thoy aro Injuring my b'i. ni s. they are Injuring all who own poperty or try to do business in I'tab. and when shown the vacant bouses in Salt 1 ake City anil t o f,on (ml stagnation of business In Ptnn, they, like Nero at tho burning or Rome, laugh at the destruction they have wrought. Since March 1 tho rail-roads rail-roads lmvo given extremely low rates to encourago good settlers to come west, and If a person will visit Kan as Clly, Omaiui, Minneapolis and St Paul, tho principal western gateways, I hey will see thousands of gooit people peo-ple taking advantage of these rnres nnd less than two per cent of them come to Utah. Real estate men and knockers in other states are well supplied sup-plied with the Salt Lake Tribune with .Is glaring bead lines, which toll of the alleged awful conditions of Utah, and the Devil Fish painphlols of tho Salt 1 ake Ministeilal association and that kind of advertising Is what alls Utah. Yours truly, V. S. IM3KT. .Salt Lake City, April 1 1, 1!)0r. O |