| Show MORE PRESS OPINIONS We W e have hi a few SW more piece pren pre tOm corn comment meats ment nt on the case cu of Senator Smoot a U presented In Itt the niP reports report from the corn com co en on u ned I and add dd them lit to thus tho Already alread published en on this pens fill feeling assured that they will be bt of general interest They Tit af If afford Ifford atford ford further of the th cor or tn fi 11 of 0 the tho that Truth will win Hi Its It way and aM that Time Tim works work wonders wonder Prejudice I Is to hard liard to over overcome ov come com and falsehood for a awhile aWhile while but bUI in the end tM the right will conquer r rTIN The TIN Portland which has always alway takes taken ta the 1111 ld i of t quona taUnt relating in any an way we to the majority of 01 the ta people of Utah Ct deli deal 11 fairly with the tilt reports report that t her v terM come tram from the tile committee in the taM case of f tilt the ifs f Ct tab Senator The Th tallow fetlow hur Ing 1 Is 11 a I full tOp copy of an I n editorial fr that IMI paper PIPIt I I i i i i Assume alUm a virtue if It you have bare lIa t It tt not I It em seem ma to be lie the he III motto of ot a group groep of I Senator who 0 have ben pronounced Senator tor moot Smoot of ot Utah and aM want to M I unseat him Again Smoot aa as a man mn citizen or not a word rd I Is to be aid He lIe 11 la u a man of nf exemplary per par 10 and private Irha but ht hr hta I Is II IIII Isa 1 a II member of the Mormon butch SomA oma Mormons Mormon practice polygamy or have b brt rt it but I Is II not flOt one ft vt hide A nun man rust nut be bC turned tumid out set of the th Penal If any Iny nf of the member meM of the burh Ir l to n which he hI adhere lo to i iI wrong nil I t I Is the Ulf df T the a I dictum of the majority of the Senate on Un elections that could stir Ur prejudice t th tilt IK Is lugged IU fd In to this th flu II It matter not DOt that Smoot mool Un han Unx x If f Is II H II of ter All AU who have han S the i II cab b bj j rt admit that ht t he ha ba has ml a end to Is lead rd leadIng leadIng Ing In an In upright life free I I l if of every n kind It U I io iown that hr h n I vr er baa ha count countenanced or w M polygamy Iol m but has US e an p 1 much U ai II any an one otIe to brIn brt ft the Uie prohibition of the practice close clone Inquiry ry were tice made maJe Into litti the privet to character and sd secret t 1 br of the Senator who w moot what one of 01 the t them c pt from fron an In quarter ss report t M at u minority of the tilt committee om mitt wI wIant rant ant an and reader rend ta In f t fa On or a e St r Church Cb 1 4 01 ti concern conceso tO nobody hut him hi himat lit at It If No om ha Ima a to p pass Judg Judgment ment upon the t them At M haM eat or at t moot meet bf I they he lit more or ero erro eron er n inu vu ou than an this of a hH let of other ethes at pei pt p roll But Rut It tt I is a titos of c oM oN ten n nto r to t pretend to 0 tilt n aa U nay may m over offer In order to rover river r dee of or their erwa F lw r U It la II M be bt under neStr stood Mood that rach ach cia a M at hicks hark tics up this riM raM en n Smoot moot not net oal eta tand on tree free freeM M en Alp Ale AI of purity hail bat t wield rive 4 no ito non n to other ether or r 10 to any III kind hind of ot The rhe deputy Mut in lii temporary InI authority IB f for r t I i a I type of a aM aall all M of ell mighty goa people OP I The Tb Port FlIt Worth orth Record takes take UK Wf u the thu Majority report part without wit llou t reference to is t tUte Ute Use report port of the minority and taking for fir nt t h f p hI ht f r h Sn ri Art ad It Mormon Irmon Church bardl 4 tn t I editorially the u i L iNo III ay ayn No n Mormon rmon need ned apply t tU t lt t of the majority re report port rf t th I 1 h Senate committee qa the theto f r K d mft t to It aft lt fn in the I In ln 1 t S tIIT T r i rt tuU t b that Ibal polygamy in is I Ii i Mill Hili tr 1 l by many Mormons Mormon with Willi the onh nce of the tho po Ue or rules rule I I I 1 i I of ot the Ih Church of ot whom Smoot l I it one ont that the rulers ruler of th the Church exercise le a Ii controlling Influence In politIcal af of affairs atrain rain fairs and that the endowment oath commits the rulers to enmity against the IIII nation The first fr t count II It no mere more to 10 lie 1 con oon considered eldered in the tarn face of 01 the authoritative of or the Church and the lh rapid decline of ot polygamous practice than thai tacit approval of or lynching which a ti member of or Congress COhS might Indulge Io Po ly mY I Is prohibited by b In n express esp canon allon of 01 the Church hurh It I is III known kilo n to 1 b be befalling falling into Inlo contempt among moa Mormon Mention I eople It t U Ii I II all a 5 rapidly a aU ti III IIII tiIs U Is I possible with nith a socIal institution that thit heretofore had h d the nf of law latt arid add the th of er Divine r reveta vela Ila thin To expert I hI he to 10 stamp i mp It out ou Instantly I is III too much It II ought ouCh to tu he be that they h hurt v Ut tt their It 11 and nd th III Mormon Mormons of ut th Ib the present and aDd the rl its Ing generation err air thoroughly corn com committed 1 the he practice Senator mot himself K it I a II and 1 I Is on record is iM hi his Influence to suppress SI the evil II The Tb finding that the ruler rulers of or 0 the Church xeric a controlling In ID political I Ii probably true tru and lId lIdIt It IK itt to be condemned but bUI at III the worst It i Is not lOt such uch control a as l is contemplated ed II in the Idea Ide of or union of 01 church and nd stat late There Therl are at many cliques in poll tire tics tic many mah In and frt tr fluent Instances of rel prejudice In public They The are all ill 1454 and Ind I Iria the ria case te of Cf f the Ih Mormons 11 oaly In Hi I being wore w If it It I Ii 11 proper to UI exclude Senator Smoot on this account it h l proper hoper to Invalidate all 11 Utah elections election state tt a III as well meil a as for foe the con M control lid to which the report port alludes applies to all political I action in the MOnn I I That paper give I Wes the tb text lext of ot tile the al il alleged I endowment oath and aDd argue r that thai though UCIl on op its Iti It face It look looks an n treasonable yet ft in iD n the tb of history It soar may m now DOW be bt called CAli a II of ot that taking it at Its worst Senator Smoot moot ha hat since subscribed unity fealty to the fatted State ital Latee In I his hie eon con constitutional to oath of ot and to t that extent teat he b has recanted tile the Mormon rca ven vendetta M detta The Tb Record Rford then argus that If It It Is I disqualified every try Mar Mor Mormon Marmon mon IDOn U Is disqualified for tor tho Ih private member of the Church subscribe to 10 all Ml U the doctrines which the tbt rulers ruler pro promulgate muIS If Jf Smoot may ilia not hold ollie th the Mormon elector should not be N II al aloM l towed oM to vote Yote If U Smoot must mUll be held Mid responsible for polygamous crimes which h he h cannot I abate abatt other senators M mt bl a se III reason reanon lIOn aili My tIr be It held accountable for tor the trim crimea of at th thou lr constituent which their states state fail rail to punish The Great Gr t Falls Fall oll Montana Dolly Daily Tri Trl Tribune bune butte which It is I a Democratic paper de 45 d preset the lining up u of certain Sena PM Senator tore tor apparently a on party arl lines line against Reid need Smoot and Ind think the alignment of or the Uti Democrat on the committee WIt was without in inthe inthe the evidence produced before the corn com committee mitt and It fear that If It he U be b denied nIM hi his hll vat scat In the Senate on the ground forecasted by the evidence a avery avery very I bad bAil precedent Indeed would ba tm made and one that Ihal i II liable to return to plague pk ue it 11 Its author authors That paper Jl then remark editorially It Is li worth while reviewing this campaign for the unseating of ot Reed Smoot from It It Inception U It corn com commenced with n it number of ot clergymen and II nd sisters filter of rlou religious hostile to that with which moot Wee Wall wa connected alleging that he lie wa wu a i polygamist and violator of the law liw a a II plurality of wives like Robert HOMr and deserved a alike alike like late fate There wa was not a particle of evidence worth th the name nune produced In support rapport of that charge end and It Ii woe wan dropped and Ind another charge substituted lU In It its Ita place This wa Will to the effect reet that d Smoot owed a higher allegiance tu to the Ih Mormon Church Chu h than he h did to the th Stale taIa S and that hi hla obligations obligation to the lh Church were re Inconsistent with hi his ob obligations U In Ir the oath nf of office taken t by y him a as senator Reduced to it II its com cent common Omon centman mon man on term the argument wa was 11 that thai the Mormon Lermon Church Chu h teaches that the Uw law of ot God only to 10 lm ho known through IU Itt medium I hi itt to In lie he obeyed oy l the law of men made mad known through government statutes where the two conflict It seems seem to tn u us the argument his baa a familiar sound to l I the lb ear ear The Th late lit William Willi K It once oMe main maintained tamed In an In argument with Cardinal Manning that a good Catholic could uld not be a good one at the Ih came m mUme time Ume bt on In question M of oC morels moral m nl with which I the tb slate mate dealt in legisla legislation 1 Ia tion and with which the church C also alo dealt a man must mut owe oe M bl his and highest allegiance alllan to one or th the other and both claimed the tb supreme right to 10 hi III his obedience With alight changes change the came argument mIght be fitted to the Ih teachings teaching of ot the Presbyterian or Methodist churches In rn fact feet to expel Senator Smoot because UH of hi his Ila lo loyalty alty to tn his bill religious belIefs belief bell I It Ia creating a mighty dangerous dan ro precedent That in substance lo te lIt 18 about whit whet the majority Ity of th the committee want to do however their purpose to Is dl ul by it specious A Again gain we w feel f Impelled te to protest against the Ih notion 11 ot or men mea and women who have hare signed lI monster petitions petition praying the senate to expel need IteM Smoot and d like action Bellon taken by b ho hit tile Ule O and ANI pat gather her InRI This I is not a matter maUr of ot 1 It is 11 a judicial matter aM and a very IT Im Ian Important important J one nn st lit that The Th nail I Is alt It tiny tint s a as a final court of Investigation for fot action on Char against u hc Witty of or H ii tit Jo to represent otter eft in a aWls tt It I 1101 It Itly cm ly I improper I li while 11 they are II h harln ha a ring teM investigating th the case t to In them to 19 a verdict of 01 guilty before the lb I Is II all ill In In an another other ot CAM ei Involving judicial action eUn In Ina ina a c wn rt Interior Inferior to the United Mates tco MMe were thee the t religious U brothers and aid sister Estr lilt to tn present a 5 petition to 10 the th Ih sri jury to so find AM the t accused acott guilty gallt while hll lit 0 the ease case wa we AI on trial the Judge would mould vecy properly oder the petitioner Into hitS Jail for lor contempt lt of 01 court 8 tei Is I a I Republican mai ma and a H Mormon Moon i neither ft of ef which positions position meet m with admiration or approval with u us and Ind Inde yet e we feel like saying saving most emphatic emphatically ally lIr at this Ih time that the prosecution rc of Senator saor Smoot ha hat right alno ap appeared app pred p to u us very muck much like lib persecution lion tion aM we 0 believe hells Ulf a grievous 0 Injustice toe tice will bf f done don him blat hi the Ute State of ruth and American Institution if he lill hei haIs i Je Is on tilt the showing of evidence made |
