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Show A good saint asks: "If the great majority of , StrbI the people of Utah want Apostle Smoot to repre- 11 Ha laVi sent them in tho Senate of tho United States, what 1 mm jHl business is it of yours or any of the rest of the kink 1!hbh1 minority in Utah?" R If j JHi If that question is more frank than courteous hK-ftJBl no matter. Every man is entitled to express his 'Mr H f'.Hl views and all people are not Chesterfields. 1 1? -!'' I There is more than one answer to that question. f J jr fJJjMi The first is a State is sovereign only within its 8 ffK. VI& own borders. A Senator of tho United States rep- MltiHiBB resents all the States in general, his own State 'Jj Uwljmi in particular and hence no State has a right to i m i$Mf elect any man Senator who could not bo elected in f mM ! any other State. Is there any other State where f WW" K Apostle Smoot could possibly think of being a can- ! J f" ,iH didate for United States Senator? Pffl '''''iBBT Again, no State has a right to elect a man 'llwj'am Senator of the United States against tho best moral fj pj ,"pMl sentiment of tens of thousands of people in every jj lj ' fj'jM1: other State in the Union. Finally, the first quali- ' l llu 'lH' ' fication of a Senator is that he shall bo a citizen : HtHm?H of the United States. The real definition of clti- 'ilmH'fl' zenshlp is "one whose highest fealty is to tho iBillMftaW Government of his country." Under that definition ; 1 1 JB9 Mr. Smoot is not a citizen of the United States. ! j dSb His highest allegiance just now is to Joseph F. j $ j W$ ttBf Smith. It Ib more to him than any command of ! j&jHjjB' Congress, or of tho President of the United States; j M pfeMt' It Is more binding upon him than could be any . 'lPttBV statute passed by Congress, signed by the Presl- j ri Jl 1H dent of the United States, with its constitutional- j jj fSf jl, ity certified to by the Supreme court. It is not like JS IfSflHi the fealty which the ministers of other creeds give m mWwWm to their religion. That is a fealty not to an earthly jj llMjH. king or government but to the Lord of earth and illllflllam heaven. M IIb rilBf That of Apostle Smoot is a dual fealty, one to a M jjmfijfl celestial kingdom which he hopes to attain to In llilfftifl! another world, the other Is to a purely temporal ' plBf1 kingdom of which Joseph F. Smith Is the present SB? head and his command in temporal matters is iB more to Apostle Reed Smoot than the utmost com- i PlA ' Bu mand of all the law making, executive and judi- L iMjB cial power of the United States possibly could be. IlHEi&S Reed Smoot by oath is so bound to obey the head Sramllv of this government in Utah, that If need be ho SlmlaB would obey it even if in so doing he would so out- m jjS H rage the laws of the United States as to make him m Mm, M a felon under the law. Hence we say he is not a M If B citizen, he has by the most solemn and dreadful IBtf TH oaths voluntarily alienated himself, and has no Slt'liHl more right in the Senate of the United States than Sa f Hi would have the sword-bearer of the Sultan of Tur- m mM "vB key. IRi&W In a good Mormon publication recently ap- ShSIIbbk peared an article exceedingly laudatory of Apos- HHaViH tie Smoot, predicting his certain election to tho XIe'ibV Senate and among other things the writer called fl ir ! ': upon the young men of Utah to rejoice because of 1 1 Iff k!Bf the honor that was about to come to one who had 1 1 f HaY been so faithful in all things, and who was about 1 1 II. 'iwM to receive his just reward. j f jlfH Now it seems to us that reads like a call upon i 1 im&ffl young Utah to attend its own political funeral, for ! I BlaaBBH Mr. Smoot's election will be a certain notice I BsaavH served upon every young man in Utah that no 1 JBBBBBBV matter what his attainments may be, no matter ! I SIrbMBH what his services to his fellow men and the State HH may be, there is but one possible path over which 1 1BH he can climb to honors or official preferment of Si&aBBBB any kind, and that leads directly through promo- XHaBBBfl tions In the church. That is made all the more XlBiBBBH clear when we think what Mr. Smoot's chances IfcilfflaaH would have been had he been but a lay member. XhIbbbbbI There Is not a religious fanatic crazy enough to IsfflBal believe he would have ever been thought of for ffiHraHaBBB that place. Why then should young Utah rejoice WBraBBaaX over his election? Why should a notice be served IUbbbmI on all the young men in the State, on all the IHaal bright boys in the schools and colleges that they S SIHhmI may look forward to no political honors In Utah 8S9HH except through preliminary promotions In -the W BHHH priesthood? That fact makes clear the utter alien- hbhHBH ship of Apostle Smoot to the Government of the SKHHH United States for such a rule is, so far as the XikbXBbI power of the Mormon church reaches, an utter Xaaaaanal perversion, of the letter and the spirit of the Con- J4 IHJbbbbI stitutlon and laws, a mockery of free government, Vlr&jl XaaBBaBaf a slap in the face of that government which is IIbbbBBbI supposed to be of the people, by the people and XlflaaBBBM for the people of this Republic. laaBBBaal n jBiaaBBaaiMH |