| Show A l NATIONAL COMEDY A Norwegian writer of ot reputation Mr Herman Wung In a n little magazine called ant printed 11 nt mit St Paul Minn has ha the following to tn say AllY about the Investigation of ot Smoot Mr Wang regards Mr JIll Smoot as partly Norwegian resents tho time Injustice aimed at nt him ns as im on Insult to all th the thA Norwegians In Iii this country Ha lie lieen says en ye yeNo No comedy could ho he more moro like It u grand graml burlesque hurle than IMn tho tIme one IIno which the senate Investigating committee has hRS kept going during nearly two wo years veers In order to find something If It possible that would give them n II pretext for getting our Heed ex ox expelled from his position as senator from Utah It Is l n a long time since anything like It has Ime IH been presented before the public In this his country countr Mr had hall hoop been J en elected properly arid In itt the usual nominated and liuI sustained by tho the iii Pa which hud had a it tuition Ity III In time the state stalo Legislature Mor Mol Mormons mons alike voted voled foi him In short he lie was umas elected elect 1 solely in iii account n of his political anti not re no religious But then lien the 11 It was wait found that Mr Smoot held 1 it i position In the Church something tint that Is called Altos Apos Apostle tIe tle U we me believe correspond with ui the tho title of nf or III super Huper supervising clergyman over ovel II a number of ot parishes parl h fl BUI auth h ns as wo we have them In Noi Not way III although tho the ecclesiastical do de degrees grees In the Lutheran Church the tho Mormon Church are not at nil all paral parallel lei lel Then It was wn that a II lot of or hypocritical ical we sectarian t a r Imi ministers supposedly mostly Methodists and their of commenced their howl find and at nt th tIme Iho same sante time gathered subscribers to their protest pro lest In III all nil parts of or tho thin country taking advantage of the lie popular suppo 0 Billon all 1111 Mormons have a IL host of women to 10 provide lo for although no rio noone one seemed to 10 consider where all 1111 these women could come como from Hut But then again It t was Willi found that Mr Smoot only had one ono wife and never had more moore mo than one also that he lie hut had never novel desired de or attempted to get got nay any anymore more moore and 11 nIl that discovery made ho time faces n of those protest protestant lint ant powers nt itt first rather long and sober still It did not take o them very vy long to hit upon something else cise that would woul do for them They argued that If Mr 1111 was not himself a II poly others were und Inasmuch ns as Il Mr Smoot was an all Apostle ho should bo ho held hehl responsible for all other Mor Mormons monK mons Including I ii clod lag the tho t President en t of the tho Chinch when they transgressed thai law of or the time land IlInd by taking care caro of ot more mOIl titan than one wife Upon this tItle foundation Uon they have hao all nil their latest complaints protests trials Investigations up to thu present time Hut But yet yot they tIme tile have ac ne accomplished 11 nothing alit lulo advanced no tin fm her than the time starting ate rt I ng point l 1 All they hove found Is 18 that Mr Mv hired Heed linn line hut but one OliO wife uie that scum pome others In Utah have hae more than thull one nun most of or those are aro old follows fellows runt the limo senate upon Much mich grounds would turn Mr lIr Smoot out timit Is 18 hardly probable In any other oilier national such lIuch charges would be bo turned down Iown without mummy any formality whatever but bul In III this hypocritical country count the tite howl hol of clergy clergymen men Is taken for genuine truth ami their hysterical petticoat lifeguards tin en much political 1 Influence that hunt Homo notice must bo hio taken of their howl and 1111 1 therefore our exulted exalted senate Benato mused nn un Investigating to toI tolie ho lie I appointed witnesses OS to 10 bo lie sum summoned mooned from Utah antI time the complaining were allowed to prove piove rummy OilY anything thing timing th they y could think of or In itt connection with the es of other Mormons and the tIme ceremonies In the tho alit about tithing hug ing In salaries to tho time Mormon priests a II hundred other othor things hut but noth nothing hog ing was waH round found against Mr ox ont I that he lie holds tho time orno omo of or f an Apostle In tho the Church No doubt time the senate enate Is IH well III pleased with the tIme slow alot progress that has hUB been he on made for If time the proceedings o con oon n ha Ito carried on Ott Indefinitely till 1111 Mr Smoots term terumi of ot office shall expire then each Individual senator huts has escaped n ut con constitutional without tIme the sacred a II great deal dealand nail and without casting their vote veto for rOI ot time tho expulsion of Senator contrary to law and Justice When time the th next session se slon of Congress time tho comedy orne tony may be he con continued tinned luLled or commenced anew In n time the same anion way That of course courso will take a n great grent deal of money hut but Is in the time pUblic nubile money mone compared with tIm tha gold 1011 golden goldon en on opportunity presented of giving tho time clergy untO women n II chance to blow off ort a n eul of taint tainted ed ell ci I Translated from the thi No IR February 1905 1305 published by Herman Bt t Paul lInn Minn |
