Show L KE AND Till SHALL r FREE YOU VOLT Cripple Cre Cr lk k i Times Times- 1 S N. N zw w Ti Tin Tb Times will admit arn at the start tha hat there thore arc are phases haseR of the Utah Ulah A oal 11 ll an and church situation th t n astonish aston atou- ln- ln ish isit and daze laze us us- usand antI and are alc utterly beyond be lIe- youth yond ond our comprehension We e do not nol und understand tand for or Instance c. c wh why Reed need r and Tom Torn Kearns both hoth Mormon Mor Mor- 4 mon bred should so o bitterly as assail I i Inch each other oilier and so o persIstently attempt e to bring the Influence of the church Into Inlo what appears to be a personal s row low We e do not un understand how ILIs It IL Itis I f is that thai the American party purt supposedly supposed I 1 Mormon anti should be lie supported b by wh the avowed Mormon or why party part should be called Republican I It II Is certainly In no spirit of ot cape cap- cap e tl tIus us m that we ue sa say to the hc ther r judg- judg Judges s of oC Utah hero here and elsewhere i that th they would better beer Inform themselves them them- selves of the facts before they hey presume I to condemn This This is not the captious spirit It surely Is the spirit of or fair ness BeSs The Cripple Creek Times an nn excelL excellent excel excel- L lent paper with paper with the tho exception of a i tendency to lo accuse editors of other otherA In t v 1 A iw t t of purposed ell deception has deception has ti ced some somo sentiments conc concerning that we e do not believe are wara war war- a ted by the facts act In the casc cas And I believe beleve tho Hi Times a and d most of or the tho I rc t of Ulah's Utah's judges would make t 4 1 un emo l if it the they possessed a a. boiler better beter At the Iho start starl however we wish to tu s say that their misinformation Is less Jess their own fault faul than the sin of those Salt Lake Lale people and papers who for sinister purposes have havo scattered un- un 4 truth over the nation naton r 1 With ith this premise promise we ma may pardoned for fot ru stating staling that Mr r. r Kearns was not Mormon lormon Some rather severe elO things have been heen said of or Mr Ir Kearns f i. i at on one time and another of his life Ufe v i But Hut that he had turned his back on I II I C the te religion of his mother molher Is not nol one i. i jf pf them He Ho has ha ten en guilty of or some to offenses that can cn not be condoned But ut it I must be hc said said to sid to lo his credit credit- t. t that ho he has not heaped malediction 1 I. I u. upon on the thc Catholic church In which he 1 W was ws s born and bred bredt that thai he has never ne k I taken the secrets secrets' a membership there gave save him him and sought with wih this knowl- knowl j I e lo to cover the communion with wih y obloquy He lie has ha never ne er ma made le comI commerce com corn j merce of oC the Iho ceremonies of or the conf con- con I f ional nor has 11 he ho damned to lo perdition per per- dlton the thc clergy of his church even t though luch here heie helo and antI there a priest ma may have offended against the iho law Q In one one i of its It fundamental the Cripple Criel Creek Times is il wrong I But for the Information o of that thai paper Japer and tom some others other who need It wo we want ant to say y 1 In a political sense ense there thero Is no avowed Mormon party In lii Utah Ulah i i i'M M Members of or that church chulch Ue are divided h c In JR their politic rather more than the 7 members of any other church we M. M know leoY There flere w was a time when nearly cIr U Catholic was wag a Democrat The Tha Change from flom rein that condition began n I about about 1884 1884 when Mr Ir Blaine Blain convinced con con- vinced the thinking men of the Cath- Cath c church that It wa vas to lo their in interest In- In 7 crest terest as 5 to the Interest of all al other f I American citizens to give effect erect to Republican Re Re- publican principles In the laws nn and practices o of the nation naton And nd the change U has been going on CV ever r since until now It H l IK 11 doubtful if the ho Catholics Catho Catho- f t lies le aro are more moro than tItan half Democratic t Mot Most Pret and Methodists nod and and the Ule rest of the tho churches aro aro made up in their majority majority ma ma- Jorl of oC men inca of the Republican I party rt There are Democrats Democrat among them thum of r 4 1 curse course but bul as ua a u r rule lc you ou scratch a Presbyterian and you OU will wili wi fn find a lIe Re- f publican 4 11 But DUl the the Mormons Mormon until recent recently i H re about evenly on national 14 f O tho the Republican a and aid l 4 f t K th i Democratic pin parties teR And we do 19 j t t not think that can an bo ho o truthfully said sid ic t the tho other otier churches church 8 Iris In tho the state slate t champaign which closed November NO i- i S. S J j last ast Wt there thore was a decided ed move move- J 1 ij ment on the tho part parlor of the S. S called so-called c led American party the party the Tom Kearns party hero party partY hero hero In Utah c to disfranchise I tho Mormons That Indeed la is they tho the y ultimate o of the American t d i. i The Democrats of Idaho 1 7 J under Bunder under tho the leadership of or United States I u A Senator Fred Dubols Dubol certainly waged f t tl l an open campaign campal 0 o of Mormon dis o. o t i 1 and there was wal f 4 al of ot the plan In tho Utah newspaper l' l S Th of or the Democratic part party So I 1 T f i J r J. J h i j that lint the IH people of f the tho Mormon ormon church luIch had no 10 io r recourse but to vote vot the tho Republican ticket We believe bellev beleve that most of oC those who were driven into this party at nt that time lime will wi re remaIn remain remain re- re main for Cor thc they are surel surely as amenable amena- amena ble bic as are other othel citizens to lo the Iho truth trull that this country countr Is better off or un under unde er Republican rule than un under er an any oth oth- er So much for 01 the tho political of or church members In another pas passage e o of Us Its Is recent lecent ed ed- ed the Times would be bo Tight right In InIs Its Is conclusions If It I were not wrong li In Inis is its premises It I represents tho the Mormon church hurch as teaching and encouraging the practice of polygamy This Is error errol I if we ve ar are to lo believe beleve the statements o of the best men of Mormon faith and the certainly known practice o of representative represent represent- alive men inca In that connection In the mose solemn manner maimer the Mormon church has pronounced against the lie practice of oC poly polygamy amy We Ve believe beleve the they still hold that some of the ancient Asian church from flom which al nil al our religious establishments were bul bulkier ed eded lived ed in pol polygamy Jm an and that tha the Bible has ha not nM yet ot been revised cd In condemnation of that custom But so firm Irm is IH the Mormon pronouncement against the practice of poly polygamy amy that in Salt Sal Lake there are arc less les than a hundred o of toda today There Thero are loss less les than four COUI hundred of or them In lii Inthe the he state of or Utah There are arc no new plural marla marriages es The Tho institutIon Is dead dead or or deat-or or rapidly dying At no time were wore a of the Mormon men of polygamy As the tho Chica ChIca- I go Chronicle has lias happily said ld The Tho Mormon bugaboo has been overworked over over- I worked Understand please we are nTO saying these things not lot from the lie standpoint of an organ of the Mormon church chUch but lUt from the Iho position of a Republican a citizen of ot Utah a teller of tho ho truth and wd a lover of oC fair dealing Senator Smoot is not nol and never nevel was wa a polygamIst polygamist mIst His influence is and always alwa's has been Leen opposed to the tho practice of lint hat relation It I Is largely because of or the influence of oC Mr Smoot and men like him ilm that lint the edict of or the tho church Is Isn In n ac accord with the sentiment of the ort nation naton In this r regard gard And It I is wholly flue lue t tb the Influence of such men and anI women that the lie Mormon ormon people would not thern themselves return to the polygamous poly poly- gamotis relation if every law against it it now on the statute books of the state and the thc nation naton were repealed II It I Is true Irue rue that nearly four score Mormons of advanced a alced age ago in this city al and near four Cour hundred in the state stale are still living in iii polygamy But the the pe people lle of this state slate concluded nearly twenty years ears ago agu that It were best to cease prosecutions and let Jet the lust lust- die leaving those still In In i the relation lo tu support the Iho women thc they had married the married the women vo men who honestly honest honest- J Jy ly and out te devoutly entered the he r relation laton latono o of plural marriage and who deserve fair faI treatment for Cor themselves and justice for or their children So that with wih few Cow exceptions there have been no prosecutions for polygamous living In recent years ears And since there are no nono now no plural marriages es it i Is reasonable to assume that the Iho problem n Is solving solving- it It elf We Ve may add a word of enlighten enlighten- nent ment for tor the Cripple Creek Times and such tuch others as have a mind open to reason The trouble in Utah is caused b by Mr Ir Kearns He lie secure secured the Influence Influence ence of the tho Mormon church in 1900 1900 the last lat time that organization has permitted Itself to lo take tako part In politics poll poli tics tics and and and was elected to lo the United States senate senat He made mac a vcr very bad senator his great wealth having had hada a debasing debasing- effect erect upon h him m. m He lie used his Influence Influence and and it wa was great In great In 1902 for the thc election of Reed Smoot lo to tho the tho United States Stales senate Mr Ir Smoot was then as he Is now an apostle of the tho Mormon church chuIch When hen the expiration lion tion lon o of Mr Kearns Kearns' term approached he a again aln sought the help of the lie Mormons Mor Mor- mons to return him to the senate Another pIe leni had by that time I I boon been elevated to lo the head of the church church Joseph Joseph F. F Smith the present president preside and ho he was and always had been opposed to lo the church taking part parl partIn parlIn In politics He lie le refused to lo second Mr Kearns Kearns' ambitions Tho The left lef t to U the ito tw free people of the state was settled b by the defeat of or Mr 11 Kearns and the election electon of George Sutherland Suther- Suther land always J a a. Gentile to lo the United Stat Status States senate And two iwo men nien of or ability and honor now represent this state In Inthe inthe the he upper house o of the national legis- legis lature But from froni the day when Torn Tom Tor Kearns found he could not compel the lid the Mormon Mormon Mormon Mor Mor- mon church to return him him to tho the senate even to the present he has mIsrepresented that organization maligned maligned ma ma- not Mormons alone but hut over overman ovel man who would woul not join him n In Mormon Mormon Mor Mor- MOl 1 mon extirpation and has ha done incalculable Inca Inca- I harm to the lie state stale of Ulah Utah Utah-a a I harm that hat will not be lie corrected for twenty years One thing more more for Col for the lie benefit o othe ot of the Times You can not tale take from a aman aman aman man his hla hl right to to hold office without depriving him of his franchise That Tha Thais Thatis i is a plain proposition And finally The H Republican Is not a Mormon paper but a Republican paper The writer hereof does doeH no not noL ond ne never ner r did belong to tho the Mormon church nor Is he writing at tho the die die- tlc tlc- of any Mormon dead or alive This paper stands for fOI Utah Ulah anti and ant fo for Salt Lake Wo We accord to the Mormons Mormon Just tho same rights that are accorded In justice to any other denomination No less and no more Neither ether they nor the Methodists nor nOI the tho Catholics nor an any one else Is going lo tu be of political rights because of the tho name nam of their religion Most ost of or them them like them Ilk most of or tho the members in every Overy ery other othe church church are are mighty might good people They The constitute a majority of the people o or of Utah Ulah Take from the Iho 10 equation Ih the element of polygamy and wo wu dont don't so see ce ceI but they are ar about the same imo as other r ri l I IV V t D Ir f people people people-no no better bolter beleI and no worse And Ant that clement they are themselves ex cx- cx purga ting We e are arc all ul citizens cUzens together Our In Interests In- In are arc interwoven and identical When we vc 0 tt It homo home have learned lerned tho the lesson of community Interest when the Tribune shall have learned to lo tell tel the truth about Utah conditions when whon the outside world shall jud Judge jud e e fairly because truthfully advised Utah will wi wear unchallenged the crown her re resources rc- rc sources warrant an and her people de de- de- de serve |