| Show SENSIBLE TALK ON SENATOR SMOOT Along with wih a n large number of ot time the see sec secular ular newspapers new several of or the tho religious ious or publications are In their declarations against time Mie tle crusade against Heed Hed Smoot the th new ness no front from Utah First however it wili wi bo ho Inter later eating to note says the tho Kansas l City Journal Sf f r Feb eb 15 he tIme expression of oC the religious which Is antagonistic tic tt tb to 10 the new now senator of oC which tho time fol Col following following lowing front from the tho Now New York Observer Is Isa Isn isa a n fair Calr sample TIme M American At people are not yet ot nfl all ut they the ought to bo be 10 Intellectually or moor mor morally ally al but at any rate the rank ranle and file te teo of o the common people believe belen in him com coin common mon muon decency nod have hae no desire to see sen seated In the time national legislature uny any man from froni any section who silio either practises practises polygamy or Is n a 1 member of oC a achurch achurch achurch church or system that defends that In Mr Smoot is I an avowed apos apostle tie tle te of or he ho has las been ben a 1 Mor Mormon Mormon Mormon mon missionary and he U Is II responsible for tor Mormon doctrine so I far forth Time The American people do not believe In Mom Mor Mormonism monism considering It a Il pet peet and amI a n menace to public morality anti so 80 to American institutions And It now ro re 10 to agitate against the seating of oC Mr rr Smoot when whon he appears at the time door of oC the United States senate senat Mr lr Smoot 11 lIla not himself be a polygamist but bul buthe bulhe he lie Is In bad company and amid In the thought of IC many lan will wi continue to bo be in association with wih the Mormon system It Is useless to try tf to deal with simply as na a n religIous belief holot Its known corruptions and depravities must be taken Into account a and resist resisted ed cd to the time end There hero Is la no room roam rom In the United States senate for a 1 Mormon senator Tho The Observer lies has hero given a ft l sped specimen men mn of or religious bigotry anti and ond Intolerance once ance No one ono can camm on ay say IY anything against the Mormon religion from the time stand standpoint stanl standpoInt point of or a u good government and morals mor II Have BAVO as ns tho tue Church practises or defends the thc evil of oC What we vo e know knowIs Is that flint the Mormons went out on the thE dreary deserts d and the mountain fastnesses and developed a n civilization ton which l I is characterized by b Industry Intelligence and time the closest of oC human fellowship In education be b havior and achievement th tho the Mormons ormon of o o Utah are nr not selected out by 1 reason of or their Inferiority InterIority They Time The violated the time fon of oC the civilized world In adopting polygamy as nn an fn article of ot faith hut but In no Ito other temporal tem rl way Is their religious practise availed or as I nl ble And Anti what we have on the best bet betor of or Information from Utah contained In Inthe the of oC the time census consul department IH IR that polygamy Is U pawing away aiva afa even cIen as D It paused from time the practise of ot the whose whO story Is la told In the III U ble tile bleAl Aa As Al for Mr tr Smoot It If Is I not nt charged that loot he Ito Practices or defends polygamy On Oa the contrary ho lie belongs to the time new school of ot which not nt only contents Itself with wih ono one on wife Ife hut also Ilao Is It its full Cul for the tue th complete extinguishment of f the pr c tine of ot polygamy p m It I l I h true trus enough that Mr Is II to the the ruth less hess art of husbands hl and wives wh Vho have lived hived lve long Ionic and arid con contentedly rn contentedly In the relation asking that time the practise be bl h allowed to todie toIle todie die Ile out In time the fn natural sequence of oC events but In this he ho does doe doA not Dot differ from foni frn many nan outside of ot Utah Uth who ho hold In abhorrence In truth then It I should be the fe of o the moral morl y sentiment of oC the United States that Mr Smoot Is I entitled to 10 rl ement for tor the th work which he lie ht Is per performing performing r forming In Utah by hJ precept and e cx ample So far DB we I mien o 0 othe of the time religious journals joural has imas II gone tn to the extent lent of or this kind of or to the Mormon Ne of them however hOler Have poc i plainly against the tho proposed proponed eru nde I 11 e keep kep him out omit of ot the senate The Te N York orl Outlook for example dec Kir 4 that tho the action acton which time the tw Stat should take lake to wipe 1 i me It it to the h principle If f C equality by excluding a mm Mormon from ttO the tho senate but to assert auert the principle s sor of ot civil equality by br excluding i 1 1 h pamy from American an soil sol And Mid tim th the New e York ork Independent noting fir that Mr lr Smoot Is 19 Innocent of ot rolv fa gamy am my takes up another branch of oC the i I opposition ly I to him and says significant significantly ll It Is very Iry ery hard bard to see B how hO n a good goot argument cun emma be he made mantle against giving Apostle Smoot a n seat In the thO senate nate The main charge In Is that hint he recognizes In him the church a 1 higher power lower than the time federal government So go does doel every eer good goodman man wo We has tine any religion That argument agu argument ment has been used nil a nauseam against Catholics Cathole Fifty Pit years ago William Wilam II 1 Seward Howard was teaching our people to obey a I higher law Tho The Independent seems seeing Mell here to turn tuna tur this the tables on iii In some Sonic of or the brothers There one of oC them who will wi claim that the Constitution or the this statutes are more sacred screll than the laws of ot God Gad They hey assume however to define anti and bound the time laws of Ir God rial GOI de do declaring 1 cloning claring that polygamy U Is a Violation of oC the he religious obligations established by h deity Of or course the tl Mormon re ro response to this Is II that the time God Clod of oC the Hult permitted and amid authorized authorize polygamy poly Ily gamy And the uIl rebuttal serves serve only to emphasize the tart fart that our ur social customs are anti the product of or expanding Intelligence e find morals morn II and ought neither to be by b I the time church chulch nor established In the form forni of ot a religious observance Time The error of oC the tIme Mormon Church was WIH Us its Is assumption of oC polygamy pol al as ns a lel lou duty hilt The error of or other ether denominations tons Is 18 their assumption of the right to dis disfranchise Ils franchise nil all ni guilty guity or Innocent ot a personal Infraction of ot time lire social law simply because they are arc Mormons Mr father was as a So probably were the time an nn ancestors of or everyone of ot us We profess proCess the time religion under tinder which these ances ancestors I tons tors torl once practised polygamy Mr Smoot professes the time religion under which his ancestor practised PolYgamy Thi The sins of ot our forefathers are not visited Mulled upon u UI us Why should the sins of ot Senator SmootH Smoots be visited on him |
