| Show lA IA CHRISTIAN S I The Tha Dir Deurer t X New w s haw hai paid torn some lit litIe f Jit Ile Ie Attention to Ih thi of ot a 11 af f purported tI journal 1 called tI the tho th t Christian Advocate b br her he r q settee r nw It ha hai haa joined th Ih the warfare l the he Church of ot Jesus Juu of ot Latter laUtI xa tl Slay Saint and has hai made n of ot r with comment th the current mortal In Jn which r portion of th the kv pulpit and the pus take lake co 10 o much do de ht In Its Ita latest lone th the Advocate a to 10 our replies to It IU pr It I It II a gamble of ot Irrelevant matters matter hut but all direct against Senator Monitor He steed d Smoot I l t In its the United State tot Senate I uH of ot hi his hll connection with the I 11 Church I x Th The N hews wi I eons om m time ago IKO o pointed 1 11 put but ut the tact feet that WIll wee the turn aim d nd end of ot the t nf of the thet t I Advocate a and nil now that p paper pcr ha has hasi i plainly acknowledged It purpose It Ito F article on Mormon matters In la lau u Ili 21 lIlo Why used Hoed Smoot Should liei ne nil i Excluded I From rom the Sonata HH its al alit it r aon alOn for or an all t and unprecedented act art ron ld lder r z yng the occupied nearly throe double column pasts wide IMA alf st sire lire of ot that PIt piper per perr r r doe It alt all amount mount to Simply r this thIe That a number of ot the leading balding Ml m miers Hera ot or the Church of t Je u Christ nf or day Salute made certain pl lIo lie Ho to o the President of fit the United States r Inn te to the future conduct t of ot Individuals r who Iho hall hail been ben aroused of ot violating the eq laws of ot andr and r I therefore Iliad Heed moot Smoot who wa was not one f led kit the signers of the document referred o to o und and had nothing to do de with It must mint t fix e hold held responsible for or their acts arts and t lie e expelled from the seat In the United j lr Senate Menate to which li lie he was wan 1111 fairly by the vote votee otell of ot the fives nf ot Ih the political party to which the lIe belongs There I U ts 10 logic 10 for you tIu There I Is the Iho of a Christian jour journal mall nal 1111 There Is la the Justice rind and common of or an III Mormon That paper parades parade the oft otto repeated extracts from train the tilt testimony raven Iven before borore the committee o of the Son Sen Into nto by la President r P Smith concerning con conc c hi his hll family relations lations nod the reasons Ih why he preferred to rl rink doh lc tho the of ot noncompliance the letter of ot is III law than separate from his hi and children It ales AlfO lN brief extracts from the tho petition to President Harrison a and from the testimony of ot I Predent and others before be bt before fore tore the Matter Master In III Chancery In Ini i thin ehla ally alty In ht relation to the restoration reiteration I i nf ot Chu Church h property omitting all hu hut but I extracts a ae suited it Iti purpose what have thy they to 10 do with thAI the thA I which to 10 be bf the tub Jet jt treated upon by liy the e Heed Smoot had hall nothing to do with President Joseph f 11 Smiths Smith action I fur l fir r admission nor with lb l I and lions and therefore all these thew quotation 4 I nr barren of effect effert UPI upon Senator Reed flied I 1 status statue that nil all the end and I n and trained strained t that Stott tt the Advocate Advocatt makes milk as a 1 to 10 the I violation of pl 11 pledges lid attributed to the Hie named II are re Justified b by byth byth th lat fails what h has hila lit alt ll that thai to do with Ut the of ot ll Reed d Smoot by hy the Re He Ret t publican nf ot Utah itch II and nit hi his fitness to tn toj tot t j letAh MIi hi his hll seat eat In the senate Benale Why Uh the Advocate asserts that 1 Mr Nr Smoot In hi his relation I is III at al the d defiant violation of or A 11 law of ot t tell end and of t the solemn pled pledge I 1 I given n on their faith a and honor honer tn to th thI thaI tha I h 4 t of the United by the hier ore of oc the Mormon t Tle Advocate doc does not of ot offer offer fer a syllable of ot evid nc that thit Mr lr em et t U II doing doln anything of or th the kind f It make maken the harp and leaves leave i It without proof How would th the wll edl till tor ot of the Advocate relish It I If It h M lea were 4 of at conniving Ith a I ath at 1 the th real reel of nf virtue decency M honor and divine anI and human la law that tha have haY occurred In the ministry of It th Ih the i to which he and anoS o of nt other religion which hen he 11 n In hi his paper p r Now Kow ow lie hll need not sidestep t p end and dOlt dodge and Ind pretend that WI we p are inz In lo z mall make comparisons between individual or between beten polygamy and und adultery n or nr orf Attempting tn en Justify one by b contrast contrail S f t In tt n to the Ihl other That I is II not the I 1 point But Bul our Christian opponents opponent a af ere re rera ra re f CI pt to take that twist end and d turn that we mention It In lit this connection Af f The r real al point 1 la II that If It the editor o oth ot of if th the Christian Advocate AdvOCat I ft not respond l b his bit for tor th the action of ot cl clergymen nymen within Iti th the denominations denomInation with which he hI am M hates Halt then h he cannot Justly or ration i i t hold Reed Smoot Ot responsible fo forr for tor torro ro r anything tint th the Ad Advocate Ie ha hIli hie brought forward orwArd his hla ro r lOrell on lit As Aa A to the attempted re pone of nf the I k r Advocate to the rm remark rl of ot th Deseret Nowa That p pap paper r h he has evidently per a deft hand which U le poorly con conceded ceded aled under the Ihl cover over of ot it 1111 column columns to 10 o cull from editorials editorial In tho the Deseret N New Nawa wI r remarks mark on ot subject n touched upon by the Ad Advocate and weave ne them Ihm together In a style tle th that t I it II easily fInlly and II nil with a aim oun aiming flint ing II that Itself on nil 1111 II Th The Advocate AdvOCat tome some time limit arc ago echoed Ihl he the cry ory about the Ih Mormon hierarchy having made l an n arrangement arrange ment with certain land 1 b by y which the Mormon were wre to ob thin aln of the best et land lands In th the tha r thrown open for tor settlement Th The Advocate At hd headed lt its ItA Attempted Mormon Land fond LandOr Or Oral W We showed the r nf ot the tory story and t nd alto alio deprecated the mixing up II hy by sn called Christian papers paper and Inti women oai of ot otI I the he doctrines doctrine of the Ihl Mormon Marmon Church the he practice of fit polygamy and the tho rat status sloth of or Senator ReM tor Reed Smoot end and showed ho wed that he I la ft II well Known know n men temperate te nn en ab b talner from every kind of ot stimulant Ii I morel moral and end exemplary citizen who ho tends tand for tor home and end family anti and conn try ry and against whom even eren III his bluer bitter fIt eat t political can advance noth nothIng ns log by way of ot personal The Christian Advocate quote quotes pert part t tot of ot this ignores IlMa lh the he we e madof md made of It its ridiculous repetition of ot th Ih the land grab greb story etory which subsequent event here he lave demonstrated d to have hate been bean M es stupid N II as It wee was fl tI false e but make maken this reply The demand for tor the exclusion of ot Mr 11 r Smoot from the t United States Stain Senate hnAt It II not made nude became he Ie de l a II monogamist or Dr n a total from eler every kind of 01 stimulant and end a II m moral and end exemplary Well who said Mid It tae I The Deseret News New ewe did not Intimate t that the good Christian people who clamor for tor hl hi hili exclusion based baHti their demand on those hose grounds ground but in of ot them Our objection we WAS wu to their mixing up of ot ofte teed Heed te d Smoot with polygamy and land grabs and other extraneous mutter end Ind nd prejudicing the public mind against him ilm b by him with affair with which he ht had nothing to do Tint is III s the trouble now with the Christian Advocate Rte nut Hut that paper pIper argues argue 8 Hintie that Hint hll he ie should be b occluded excluded nf ot his hi association with 11 high official of ot the Mormon Church who have hav brok broke en n the pledge given Riven to the nn na Ion 1101 that If It their people who were under un under under der were granted amnesty th they would abstain from pl plural rel marriages and nd polygamous cohabitation and It II reaches eachen thin this While pr personally Innocent Mr Jr Smoot IH it officially a n pir party to th the viola lola violation Ion tion of ot that pledge b by his hili Church and anil of ot the defiance of ot the law of ot UtAh prohibiting n a awell as IU aswell well ell as al plural marriage That runt U is to jay that an nn innocent P person ron 1 Is in o A be e adjudged guilty nf ot a seta alleged against inn with whom h ho hI I la ti In religion Ob Observe serve erve I the he phrase phra p th that l Mr Ir Smoot Is ii I t n a party pert to the of that pledge Ho How row do doe the Advocate 10 11 te make Inake that out He Ito had nothing to do with lIh the pl pledge gO In tiny any shapo po or form ronn Such promie ns as vm was really made was tae tendered many year hl hlA elec election Hon tion and Ind I before tore his hll with the Church leaders That In la more of ot I Christian A Advocate Ie logic lo and Now a as to 10 the Ihl for tor amnesty which the Deseret K New i out of ot char charity ity fly for tor the editor of ot the Advocate Rte attributed nt at to tn his lick leek of nf k flow I edge er or than thull to perversity of ot Intent We e paid flu as h he now quotes WI We V are Aro of or the time opinion that time writer of ot the article never lIever rend that v tl petition And therefore dree UK H not know knew that he misquotes It In language and Intent Tho Ado sate and nov now rn repeats AtH that Id admitted tOIl UtAh to State Statehood Statehood hood only AUf of ot the that the tha Mormon Church Chun h through all III of or li n tic head And had hll pledged It Its II faith and honor that nevermore In Ih the tha future shall h ll polygamy be either a doctrine doc doctrine doctrine trine nf ot faith or of ot practice It WAil wag because nf of that assertion Hs Unit that we ed the opinion th that t the writer of ot It had not read th the amnesty petition Ii He tie now quotes a part of lit ofU It U a ha proof that h he had rend read It T ThU I Is III on one mote mme bit but of or Advocate r reasoning Th The fact t that lie he has hili been baen 11 I 11 leI with 1 a copy ropy of 01 th the Itle am n neety ty a II part nf of which h he In Is ahl able now tn to quote punts prove that he hI had hid read road It II before be ht fore fort h he wrote IUt th the article to which wa we II n objected 11 dose w It Rut Hut let It us ua tea a heth whether er Ir o our r suggestion wa was IM not well ground grounded round rounded ed tt tier Here i Ja whet what h ha he cite 1 as the Ihl HC sit lUll fuel language of ot the paragraph In III the p petition I A AI Ac shepherds of ot a patient and nuter nu 1111 ter In people we e tick ink tor GOr r them theta In and pledge our mr faith Ant and honor for tor their tutu future I This Thill t h signed by thirteen prominent lender of ot the church everal v ral 1 r of nt t whom ar It are now d Compare Compere their lan Un lUll wIth that thit attributed to them by bythe bythe the Christian Advocate I III there thre anything any anything thin thing In their pledge about a doctrine ot of faith Ha Hn not the Christian Advocate Ad Advocate t run rung In something upon them which the they never contemplated Am Anti It hT her I 1 the gist gilt It of or the matter mUter What had Reed to 10 do with Ith the Mitt tn Ing of elt f that amnesty and wherein hah hUh ha hU hashe h he broken 1111 any pledge It contained either In fact or M by Implication The A Advocate Melee Mate that th the quo nun U Cation to wb which th tit the N Newe wa ret did not purport to 10 form tonn th the petition to for amnesty Oh ye yea e It IUd did I But It wa was given Ien n is as I coming from tor Teller end nd we our doubts doubt a II to t th the h accuracy of It hi his hili purported remarks remark and It I Is of at no use lIae for the Advocate to att attempt to get around It its contradictory statement That paper takes taker up III th the thoroughly out subject nf of th Ih the understanding understand ing InK that was wu had hd when h n entered Ih th the Union that n new plural marriage should not nol b be entered Into but that men mien who had contracted tit them previous to 10 th the Manifesto lo of ot 1990 should not b be Interfered with Ith a at as to tho thoa there relations relation That paper Piper attempts attempt to show that th the very 11 contrary wa Wit was the Ihl understanding and actually lly declares declare that The rhe rever reverie was th the cc cat CUI It wee IlU il that thai that position would be bl taken and was wan provided against again II d of ot citing some provision of ot the th kind 11 II evidence of or Ir Its groundless i It II quotes some lome questions propounded t to Press Prell dent Woodruff by counsel for tor the Church and his hIli when before betor the Mast Master r In Ut Chancery Chancer lion How tho the Ado cote ate can twist them Into a u provision the tolerance alluded to re rf remains remains mains for tor the writer of ot such reasoning to 10 o explain We hl have already alread referred the Ad All Advocate Advocate to the provision lon of the Act on question and the compline Anre anee ne therewith of ot the State Stal ion ban after the mutter matter had been thoroughly thor thoroughly debuted debated Th The only i equipment requirement b by Coner Congress of ot the State was all That or pi plural urn I marriages shall hall hallba be ba w forever prohibited That wn wall was nil ail that hat W WI wee H demanded of or th the State Stat for forth forthe th the reason that we have explained The end endeavors of ot some lome om persons to extend the he provision to other matter were Intentionally lly frustrated The lh of ot the th State compiled d with the Ihl requirement re reo of ot th the Enabling Act It and wa was accepted ec by th the President nt of or the Unit United United ed ell States Slate with 1 a clear lIr understanding of ot Its extent and Out whatever some om of oar kin kind hris lien Ian friends would ilk like ilkI In tn add to 10 that provision however Ihl they m may seek k to magnify and dl distort lorl the pledge nude made b by the State in it Its IU or that certain Church authorities made on In be he behalf half hilt of lit individual who were erl under ar or arrest re rest reel t or Indictment Ct tu at to their future attire conduct this tact riot stands Mantis out omit clear and distinct An end and should be bt till fully I under understood understood stood that heed Smoot IM Is not nl and hn hoe not b been en II a party part t to tn any n ny pledge or agreement of ot th the kin kind Intimated h by th the Christian Advocate and anil h ha has A not trek brok en n any Iny such pledge in ht any manner shape or o form and therefore all the and c ex exhIbition exhibitions of or poor logic lock end and cheap In invective which the Advocate h w been foolish enough to 10 adopt and print as all asIH Its ItH IH own have no herring whatever to Wh Why need Heed Smoot Should n Re lie I d From The rho Senate Sen Senate en ate AtC In III conclusion nn we 11 II again remind tho Advocate und and oth other othor r to A a supposed mingling of ot Church and State on the peat t of nt the tatter day Saints that the they nr me them themselves selves guilty guilt of or that which Ih they falsely allely accuse th the Mormons of ot doing It U IH le lenone none of ot their hu lna tt whom the tho citizen |
