Show ALL Lb I IN TIlE THE TIE SAME SAIE BOAT If H Senator Smoot Is Is' Isto to be disgraced and excelled from the United States senate because he sat t with wih high officials of of- of or his church who vho were polya- polya mists and did lid not denounce them to the authorities or himself institute criminal proceedings N against them is there one one of oC us whose hands are arc clean Is I there one of o the men In Salt Sl who Is blameless The speech of or Senator Burrows based bused on the evidence given glon in the protest t against Senator Smoots Smoot's retention retention reten reten- tion ton of or his seat cat seel seeks R to fasten on one i man the thc responsibility which everyone every everyone j one of o us hares Chares ares with wih him It I Is In known that there thore was a tacit agreement on the tho part parl of oC the people of Utah to leave leavo without further troubling tho the men who had entered the state of o polygamy at atthe tIme the time Utah was admitted to to the union And from that day to this all aJ of U us have maintained maintained that attitude These people confronted a condition which demanded the wisest thought and they believed tho they had settled it itIn I Itin In the wa way best for or all al the Interests in involved in- in It I would not have been a perversion of the record for Mr Ir Burrows Burross to take up the thu case cas of Mr E E. B. B Crichlow Critchlow who IvIlo was one ono of the protesters protester against th the seating of Senator Smoot and prove iroe b by the same sro record made In the Smoot mot ca case o that that the tIme senator simply 1 S.'S S S I followed the tue habit halit and adopted th the pole polio policy of all 11 hl his fellow citizens in In Utah whether or 0 not they W were vre re Mormons It I I Is in In evidence In that same case caso that Mr rr Critchlow moved Nl Jo In convention tomake lo to make unanimous the nomination of or orthe the the two Iwo senators who were werl pledged lo in vot vote t for rOl Mr Jr Smoot's Smoots election ejection to the United States Slates senate It I w was s proved In iii that some same rl record that Mr Jr Critchlow Crichlow was In the tu position of a prosecuting attorney for or years ears and antI that h he failed to fo prosecute any o of tho the ts In Utah Ulah I though bough h the ft fact of o th their I living 1 In that relation was perfectly I known to him It I. I Is proven In that same ame record that Mr Jr Critchlow Crichlow stumped slumped the state of o Utah with wih John Henr Henry Smith traveled t t with him associated with wih him Indorsed him tr treated him hini himas hinias hima a as an equal equal and and did III not not denounce him dim to fo the courts And yet t he hp knew John Henry Smith was aH a polygamist polygamist AntI And Mr Jr Critchlow Crichlow 11 has recently re received rt- rt re- re an appointment 10 to 1 the law rv-I rv i Ice ce of or time the government go The rhe truth of oC the matter Is 1 lq our OU people peo- peo l ube lile without exception have accepted t he fact of oC the old polygamy am and have gone gont on for ard forward In the firm hJ belief that Ue lie best lest way to tn settle th the whole v vex vex- xing x- x l ing ng og question was to make malce no no further prosecutions of or those old cases prevent prevent pre- pre vent ent the occurrence of ot new ones and so 80 let the thc Institution o of polygamy die out In the usual course of nature Wo o 0 have met in business busIness' af nr affairs at- at fairs and have found them square In n their r dealings We Vo have havo bought of them and sold to them We Ve have Joined Join join- ed el I them thorn In movements for or the ad advancement ad- ad of the public and anti for or the alleviation of distress distress We Vc have ha greeted greet greet- ed cd them cordially We Ve have sat at meat with wih them We Ye have given Iven them i in n every way ay that recognition which we give other men and anti have havo not felt fel called cabled caled upon to file to affidavits s a against them hem Senator Senator moot Smoot in a more moro trying tring position a more intimate one has no more su sustained polygamists than have ha e the rest o of u us for all al these thee years Our people believe that patience with wih those old cases would be the bc best t solution of the problem And It i Is Unfair unfair unfair un un- fair for COl Utah to lay bay on one ono man the burden of an action acton in which we have been just as complaisant as has he |