Show A FA F I lit It I T The rite Now York fork Independent n a strong religious vapor paper In iii vend semi mont does not agree with ninny many of at tho Iho public In their as to 10 tho the Investigation by h the Iho Senate com coin committee under cover 1001 of ot Inquiring Into the Iho qualifications of oC Heed Smoot for tor a II seat sent In Iii the tho United Senate Wv copy cop copIts Its Us article on the tho subject verbatim and wo we 0 think Unit lint Is la u n to toIto tho Ito olle oe comments of ot a n local load sheet on un n 1 para paragraph paragraph graph of ot tho article The rho f Independent says The Mormon Investigation la it taking a n wido Ilio course The rhe question before tho Iho ha Senate Committee Is III whether Mr Smoot n a Mormon Apostle shall ho bo ad ull admitted to 10 the tho Ih United States Senate It ItIs Is agreed that lint no polygamist can cnn be ad milted to Congress but l ul Mr Ir Is la lanot not 1101 a n 1 polygamist lol anti and no na one pretends that ho Is So tho le rent real question qUe In tile III Is its whether one ne not a polygamist but I ut an 01 active anti ruling member er of at I Ito tho Mormon Church can call bo be received oK as asa a q United States Stales Senator or Representative live flee On tho the face of ot It tho the question woi woud 11 t snout oell ridiculous for our Constitution excludes religious tests Hut JM It does not exclude do moral U teats tellis ti Yet no ono one Immorality of ot this tali or any Iny oth nth other other er sort part Mr Smoot Then If It bo Immorality In Is In a II primary mary nail and personal way WO chargeable 1 10 I against st Mr Smoot IB Is he guilty In any MC wayt by b Incitement or collusion h f fie nay may r i properly ia to t u Cx x eluded 1 This U la a nt main question now under Investigation To prove this hit it must bo be shown that Mr Ir Smoot as a n it ruling In Ills His Church encourages other people to 10 practice un an Immorality In the tho matter matteY malt r rat of at polygamy of ot which ho In ix not him hm himself self R lC guilty and to this purpose the cI donee Is la now being presented d The pret ent eat head of ot the thu Mormon Church has been boen under long lon examination by tho he committee com and he has hall admitted 11 nearly every thing which the Iho opponents of ot Mr Ir Smoot have hu charged While he that tiny any new polygamous marriages have taken place piare unless It may bo be In n very rare cases against the law of ot the tho Church he confesses that ho he line has him himself self pelf lived lIed and scores of ot other old men mell have lived el since nee the Iho admission slon of at Utah as liS a a Slate In continuous polygamous relations with willi the tho plural wives whom they took look before that Ihal time When ask asked asked ed if that Is not 1101 polygamy ho he said Mill No lOj that polygamy is it the taking Inking of ot nn an wife which ho has hall not 1101 done liane but bitt that thAI It Is Ix polygamous cohabitation When naked asked If It f ho he do does s not know knol that lint this Is against the law of ot Utah he says S Yes Yea but bul that he felt tell he must moat take that risk rj k for tor the peace of ot lilt his families lie did dill not think It right to 10 throw off ort Ms lilts wives and children and to avoid jeal Joel jealousies and friction ho he must remain In lri husbandly relations to 10 Ills hula wives He lie Hehn hn Ilas not nut taught others he says nays to 10 ills dill obey obe the law la but he choso to 10 do m ao II for tor what ho thought good reasons reason while taking no new wives wh Tho The vast majority of ot his hla people he wild arid are monogamists and the Iho polygamists tire lire I dying ort oft being now old men ell and In III n a n afew few tol years ears there will bo be none nono left letl Thle This IH III a n 1 very ery frank frnnk statement It admits pretty much mill all that IH Is charged It 11 la Is a n confession conre lon that would exclude Apostle Smith tram from the Senate but not Apostle Smoot It raises a 1 question on which honest moralists may differ The question whether polygamy or adultery or murder Is Its or Is III not right Is III one that must be he barred train from public discussion but lint the Iho question whether those who echo living In polygamous lor mans mons or Moslems or Pagans have con traded plural marriages morrl must on be he becoming coming coating Christians give glo up all nil but hUI ono one of ot their wives nIves hes Is 11 one that lint goof good goo l mission missionaries aries orles have havo differed about A year or 01 two ago KO the family of at ono one of ot our In Indians Indiana diana wets was converted con The fhe old ohlman man was RS I told lold that before eforo I ho was Willi received Into Inlo the tho church he must niue give up tip ono one of ot his wives It was wall a n very wry hurt hard thing to 10 o do but hug the old woman oman took her blanket departed to 10 live alone saying that the younger wife needed hula his protection and care more than lion she he did flood moral late differed as to whether the right In function was tuns given them mean Hut But the tho Utah law loll forbids living In plural mar marriage o tie well as plural marriage Itself and no pluralist hat has any nn place In Wash hash Washington ington The Tho testimony of tho Iho he head of ot the Iho Mormon Church lurch shows that while the tho Church holds that plural g Is I In Itself right nail and that It was or by I y revelation to 10 Joseph Smith yet tho the further taking of or plural wives Is Its I now nos forbidden while the tho continuance e eat of at plural relations with those previously token taken Is IH winked at nl but hut not taught So fur far no evidence has hns appeared on this Ihl line lino to 10 exclude Mr Smoot Hut glut another line flue of at testimony Is be Ing prepared that which will show 0 1 If It possible poe that Mormons are arc under such nuch bonds to tt obey opey their Church that lint they are not free to bo good loM citizens of ut their Is 18 that tho ho authorities of nt tho ho Church rule 1 control the he po political tn action of or their members member to 10 that hint K AI man Inon has no right to accept a n except by I y permission of o the A Apo pen lOIt i ties lies of ot the lie ho Church It U Is recalled that lint Mr rr Thatcher wa tvs II excluded Crom the Mormon Church for tar i politically I t nta M It H hits lias been heen asserted that I at there tHero urn oaths ink inken en which are arc treasonable For J OI this Wo await tho the further furl her evidence Thu Thus tar far nothing has haR been I een proved that milt It Id likely l to show that a n loyal Mormon may not also bo be P t loyal citizen unless he be lit liv 11 I ing n a polygamous life lire Practically tho the I question before I the Senate Is IH whether apy nn Mormon can enn bo 1 0 a member of that hotly body boll Must Must th that tt Mormon Mormon State 1 be e rep represented resented only by II a Much as we despise despite and detest we e emust must Will wait further evidence tint that a 1 Mormon cannot bo be admitted to Con Congress green gress I |