Show THC ANTI MORMON Among Amon other tales t lea of woo woe prepared for tOr tho willinG ears ClUB of at the delegated to the tho Los Ie Angeles religious assembly who called at this his city on oil their way ray yore wre some fabrication of ot a II notorious of o notion fiction Mho figures In Presbyterian circles la iii The rho poor floor fellow is Intensely anxious to o prevent the th participation of ot Senator Reed need n Smoot In tho the of ot this nation although that gentleman was yaa duly chosen chogen en to represent thU thia State by the regularly elected members of ot tho the Utah Legislature lature To effect Ma his purpose the tha clerical opponent of the i Senator endeavors to attack his loyalty and to that ho h has baa taken an nn oath of ot allegiance to a Government to dominate the govern government i ment of at this fair land lan I What that oath lu is the accuser does docs pot not state slate We hav have heard a n great grent deal lately about the th oath of at nn Apostle ot of obedience to the tho Priesthood I other alleged swears that oust only hi 11 u the fevered Imagination of an zealots Wo We never nover hear h ar hat Is I the tho formula of these terrible oaths notwithstanding the fr fre Ui nry with viah they are aro held hekt Uj UI in over tho the American public The junior Senator from Utah has lias taken the tha oath of hU ide onice as States tates and und has baa made oin Oln In print and Ind otherwise that Ills his first duty Is and shall be to his hla country Its Us laws and Institution InstItutions As All Allem Asan nn em Apostle A In lu the tho Church ot of Jesus Jewis T Thrift of Saints hIs hla time lime rind Md nd talents were vere devoted to Its mm Mry until on request he was wall permit permitted permitted ted to 10 engage In III the th politic labors that thit were I ere C upon on his lili candi cantil candidacy dacy nod his Ms election to the high n cu cular lop lar In omee onice he h hoW occupies In that permission there v was as noth nothing his ing more mure than hion what might be bc by any Iny firm or Institution to a II man owed his time Hmo and activities lIe He could not consistently engage tl e In labors without suph permission and aw still mill his other position It U doM not hot Involve au auy dictation or 01 r allot with the lie duties of his omco In any ammy all manner whatever II lie Is 18 Just as 1 fre m 68 nil any other sen servant senant ant of his country to tomake tomake make malle Its Interests ls his chief find nd fully tully carry earl out the obligations of or Ma hIS oath Other purported 11 oaths are arp pure Jurt myths nut Hut his detractor desires to mike f Pf the tho he Marmo Church Churche Is e In mp a n j organization of n a s cut ulAr r nR nn jre And pd to support this view h hi 4 han haa put in pUnt and circulated circuited state mints m like Uko the following Speaking of ot j the th Church leaders he lie says They The dissolved the tho church political dividing their and tarn over lver to the national nat patties parties pal ties itt unit Inri This Wits m done donI without calling culling th their lr to r as In m convention with without out omit the ot or vote ote tt t the tIP nm n of cours cour WOE was a it highhanded of chun n ov ir the citizens This was ivis fin Jin n piece l t of or political Ic lt for tor the he double purpose o ot of d the goern went and st more their grasp on iK Thi Tb Th utter titter r falsehood of that state ra ment ht nw t be clear to ever even old reel real dent tf cf t nah tish When the Party wa It It w Wee s effected by pub Jr it ti meetings meeting In Iu different ports porte Of ot ta tt Territory Pirat J n a meeting muting of or orthe the i j eaI rt wan cs II held haM In tn th S lai Hall Lill jh 0 n lil Ihl tty Lily when the matter wee fully rul MH I the tho dissolution do tie It ms not a 11 Church inset Int Neither elther r were cre the tho th meeting of ot the Ih thet t paH patt In this city Lity nn anything but but l t th The TIle movement hid h been bea urged I If j 1 o by some of pt Its members for tor years yean This The pressure until It reached a it 1 Culmination and the party Us members going over to tn the th Democratic or republican party every Ivery one ne according to his own choice a n as was advocated In tho the meet meetings ings liu hold held and In tho the prints The Tho Church cut cul no figure In the tho notion action of ot time tha party and no o the tha th whole story in Int inthis this t tI We lYe have quoted Is la un on true In further endeavors In that diree e tho ho preacher t who Iho ho wrote tho the pamphlet clips little t Sentences from works York referring to tn the Kingdom if of nod the term forum being Join used In n an Mine ns Thesis Them he ho construes construal to signify getting up u of ot f n V 1 temporal Kingdom by the he Mormons Mormon within the time United Statue to 10 this gov goy government government and all nil others Tho The works Merits from frani which the little bit bIts of at para paragraph paragraphs Arn graphs graph that s seem m to suit his ht hi h are ale of Mormon when hen h Ita w knows know very vory well tt the tho Church line hns declared by up official notion by the b y In conference a that thin the only of at the Church Chur h hare are re The Th nible the tho Hook Book of Mormon Ui Uti Ule Doctrine and Covenants and tho thoP P Pearl rl of at Price f From Irom none of those thosa can ho i g like those tholo he has hos Isolated Crom rom their Ih context In the tile books book which arp pot not recognized ai as standards and ha lie has manipulated with tho cunning of at clerical deception We say sayne he ne known knoll that the thu works named are ore the only standards of our Church because en n tm another othmer part p rt of ot his hili effort ho men mentions them but puts huts tho the hilbie lest In tho fAme came spirit of ot miserable j what has all nil that to do with the tho theUn Un 8 Why he Imagines I th who hil read fetid what he says will i have hn no better sense than lieu to think that tt it ha hitS a n tearing bearing on that matter The Tho unIted States Senate Is III a body composed of or thinking conserva conservative tive men wio w Who o are nr not usually led away IL by b such uCh clamors as ns tho the preachers mind those thoe whom they Incite to Illogical Protests t are aro trying to raise mIse Tho The opinions ions ons ns of ot some name Mormon writers long SInce deceased on theological questions the allegations against certain prominent nent l nt Mormon leaders lenders and nl the stories about the means by which statehood Was Wis nB obtained have haw about as RS much to 10 todd todi dd 1111 di with Senators Smoots right to his hi hiI tnt seat I In the th Senate as ps tho the lurid talea den about rb b ut the tha Catholic hierarchy similar to those hose now repeated bout about n the tho Mor Mormon mon lnor 1110 Church have hate to do with the revolution of ot tho the planets This Thin seems eema to 10 b hI be the tho time tine for a re o ot of those periodical religious outbursts against t the time Mormons which havet haVe stirred sectarian circles ao si often and with such poor 1001 final success Occasionally some satisfaction Is felt over temporary results but bul the time out outcome outcome come tome Is always beneficial to the time Church of o Jesus Jesul Christ of ot and lIl surprising to Its enemies So It will willbo wIlllie bo lie In the present Instance and nn so Co mote It bo ho always |