Show JI GI- GI LIKE B AXY RELIGION J r I 11 t Evidently the Sandu Sandusky k Ohio Register man would be hc classed as an Iconoclast If Ie he ho were classified at all He HeI I S has been asked to use the influence of 01 his paper Impel and ot or S i A himself elf for the unseating of Senator Smoot and makes malies 5 V c. c the following reply ft We Ye are In receipt of a communication from an organization organ organ- J. J c calling Itself lt eJr the Consolidated Womans Woman's club or 1 1 something of that sort with headquarters in Philadel- Philadel tt n phia and requesting us to urge senators to vote voh for the j. j maj majority report In the Smoot ca case e. e The only argument In iii f favor of this as put in the request is that Mr aIr Burrows t. t the chairman of 01 the committee followed the testimony T carefully from beginning to end and has come to the ther r conclusion that Smoot ought to he be ejected from the seji- seji ate With all due lue respect therefore to these women r who claim to represent ent the clubs of the United States i we ve must decline to ask anybody to vote against Smoot moCt Wo We 0 have no 10 mortal use for Mormonism even cven with the thc t v polygamy left entirely out of It We Ye regard It as us a monumental L' L mental menial humbug But nut Mr 11 Smoot Is not a polygamist L-i L t he has not violated any law of the land Jand he Is the husband abt t of or one wife has hns never had hall another his personal moral I character is above reproach It is true he Is a Mormon ormon S F IH believes in the 1 Mormon religion his father and mother mothel S were Mormons and he was brought up UI in Itt that church r and anti under our constitution and our laws he has the same I 4 right to be a Mormon that Mr 11 Burrows has to be an anS S I Episcopalian or a Baptist or we wo have havo to be a Presby Presby- terian terlan l If we had l the power we would wipe all nil of those these j humbug religions out of oC existence but hut we have havO no such suchS S II power ower and anti we do not kno know whether It would do any good If Ir we e bad it to exercise It The people love Jove to be fooled p and we tolerate about anything and anel everything that goes oe J S under the name of religion whether It be wise vise or foolish Coolish vicious beneficial 1 11 or 1 And at that he probably has as as much o of r religion I It as the protesters have of or fairness S |