Show COMMENT l OX THE CASE C It Is Interesting to read rend comments on the case of or Senator Smoot Tho The sentiment of the East seems to have ha been changed somewhat For a time newspapers had all taken take their cue from the Salt Lake Lalo Tribune and believed cd as docs does that hat paper that this Is IH a bad had state in which to live Jive But a chan change e has hns como come over the tho spirit of their dream And Utah Is getting gelling near nearer r fair treatment than ever in the past Here h Is an un of or opinion taken from an articie article article arti arti- cle cie In the burg Sun of 10 February b rum 1 15 I But Bui the Pharisaical doctrinal animus of or those campaignIng campaigning cam cani- t SI Smoot Is equally dangerous an and sub sub- J When hn morals patriotism m or principle of f their heir theirS S senators senator fil ale aie considered there aro nio few states that thai are arc sufficiently wIthout s sin in themselves to throw stones at al Utah Here Is another r from the thc Times If JC Jf Mr Smoot I Is to be ho cast east out It must bo be simply because anti and without warrant of authority In nn any statute provision pro of the fundamental law Jaw or rule rub of oT tho the senate Tho The Washington Herald prints a a. statement from Mrs Irs H. H C C. LIppincott Much of ot It will bo be news to Utah readers although there Irene Is not a a. lino line of oC the tho womans woman's I slanderous utterance that lint is not based on repeated publications publications pub pub- I In the tim Salt Lake Tribune Polygamy Is Increasing as ns ever every one knows who has studied the conditions quite aside from a political bias one state slate after another I Is falling failing moro mono an and moro more under the terrible power antI and menace of or It Is a n. treasonable body and anet Reed flood Smoot Is ono one of the most prominent members In his allegiance Ianco to his church he Is a traitor to the United States Slates The Thc Boston Transcript of February 1 16 G makes rather extended comment on the tho case from which we take tim tho liberty to copy cop the following Senator Smoot took his se seat t March C G 1903 1003 only onh to find himself the object of attack In thousands of or petitions peti lions Hons signed ne In good faith he lie was held up before the tho country country coun coun- tl try as a polygamist as ns one who whose c presence In the senate would be contamination and an affront to the sanctity of oC tho the American Home Moreover r he was charged with taking an oath as aR a Mormon Apostle that thai was In violation viola viola- ion tion of his obligation a as a senator Both charges have havelon lon long ago been abandoned abandon ll Mr Ir Smoot Is 15 not and never has been heen a polygamist His Ills domestic life Is admitted even n by those who would expel him him to bo be blameless The accusation accusation ac ac- ac- ac that Mr lr Smoot had taken a blood bloo curdling oath of or oren en vengeance was dropped even by hy the counsel of oC tho ho exclusionIsts ex- ex themselves ts Mr lr Smoot himself has denied dented that lint he ever e took tool nn any oath In violation of or or in contradiction contra contra- diction to that hat he lie took look as a senator Summed d up the theal al argument against him Is that lint he lie Is a Mormon lormon and nail ought to lo go The Dispatch of February 1 ID 15 cheerfully c concedes the soundness or of Senator Knox's argument In Intire tho tire following Senator Knox's speech In the senate yesterday on the Smoot case Is a vcr very strong presentation of or the constitutional eon eon- law Jaw bearing on tho the question The Tho senators senator's primary primar grounds crouns are arc Irrefutable and antI It Is certainly difficult dif hf- when whon these premises aro are accepted to avoid the lie conclusion which he lie reaches concerning the senates senate's right to expel And the lie Post gives the following Indorsement Indorse S ment I Senator I Knox nox spoke o yesterday against as the lie unseating of S Senator Smoot His This argument was principally with to Iho tho constitutional and legal questions Involved an and was without doubt a strong one Mrs Mis George Gcorge Johnson Johnon says this his to lo the Philadelphia Record None of or the lie women of or Pennsylvania have ha ever boon been pleased with the thc selection of either Penrose or 01 Knox as ns representatives of the state Polygamy exists in Its most hideous form today todar in III Ulah and other states stales of the lie Union We e have ha ample evidence e of this Ibis fact act find anti we wc know that Utah has never ne been true trim to the lie pledges of or statehood It Is Interesting to lo observe o that lint the lie good womans woman's ba bad opinion of Utah is an exact reflection of or the Salt Lake Tribunes Tribune's reiterated statements Isn't II it about line lime for or the lie Tribune to lo quit telling tolling distant people bad things S about aboul Utah Tho rhe Baltimore News of February 15 before the thc vote was taken comments as ns follows Senator Knox's s argument nt In the tho Smoot case cast Is an application of or cold logic that hint will be apt to shock the he warm enthusiasm that lint has been systematically up In favor of expulsion But the tho case against ag Senator Smoot has a weakness that no amount of or enthusiasm can cnn cover co up The demand for or his expulsion rests solely on his membership and office in a church that has heretofore heretofore hereto hereto- fore fOIe s. sanctioned polygamy cam and Is believed still to lo give 1 0 It clandestine shelter sheller Smoot Is believed believed arid and doubtless justly to to owe his election to lo the influence of ot this his church and the fact tact Is so abhorrent that an emotional emotional emo mo motional crusade has been een carried on against him Innumerable Innumerable erable enable meetings havo hayo boon held helel all tho the apparatus 1 b by which religious fervor is excited has b been en used to work I up sentiment against him He has been preached at remarkable remark remark- I an and petitions country the at all over and amI heaped upon ben been their and huB bulk have ha able for Cor volume And AmI yet the stubborn stubborn stub stub- congress In misdemeanor has crime or I stands out that no born fact not a Smoot lie He la is I Senator been against shown that lie he has It been beNl nor nOI him rests on hl church I against whole ca case The a establishIng It Il but membership What then Is Qualification if It he ho should be expelled bus lous test or of political on that lint S Knox's knit close-knit Senator made b by This Is till he poInt made madei and judicial utterance logic lode It I Is a n sentiment senti- senti i It a powerful that with full knowledge but adhered to upon s sound Und constituency In his own meat ment constitutional law It will be easy to denounce tie tie- principles ot of refute his Senator Knox but It will bo be hard hal to and Its conclusIons Is impregnable Its logic nl probably anticipate the tho ultimate actions fictions of or the thc senate tells the Washington Mrs Howard W W. Times some somo horrible things about poly polygamy amy In a section or of country of ot which she sho knows nothing Hero Is what she heard that hint another woman h heard unspeakable to Utah arid and Idaho the conditions are arc As president of or the Wom Women's ns n's able Mrs J. J JJ J J. J Homes' Homes Missionary lonal Society and who Is with our delegation dolega- dolega alion a- a returned from a trip tion lion wilt will toll you ou that she has Just Instance where i H a with acquainted one West Vest antI and is out Mormon has married a grandmother her daughter laughter daughter ant and amI been married as soon each having her granddaughter as th they became old enough These Thes three women representing three generations are aro all aU living JIving in one house with the same man as a husband Mrs Lippincott Lippin- Lippin nn n In speaking of or Senator Knox's attitude cott stated that the Pennsylvania Senator must know that lint the oath of the Mormon church required first filst obedience to the tho church Senator Smoots Smoot's church comes first the nation next We Va represent ten million women she continued Mrs J l Mary Weed the safe saCe woman Is thus quoted In the tho Boston Doston Herald Poly Polygamy amy was never moro more alive than at the present time rho The Mormon woman Is tho the most pitiable object under tho tIre sun today tolay the most enslaved and degraded of or women In the tho name of or American womanhood I plead plea for their emancipation We Ye dont don't know all the Mormon women of or Utah We Yo haven't soon seen more than a thousand oC or thorn them But an any woman Weed eed or other who will vill look at those wo we have havo seen and call them thorn pitiable Is simply a fool And nd if iC she sine says it of them Without having seen them she Isn't honest The rhe truth of or the tho matter is the tho best men In the lie naion nation nation na na- na- na tion ion have havo declined to obey ohey the lie demand for an extermination tion of the lie Mormons That Is the lie crusade on which h Tom Toni Kearns launched himself at t tho the beginning of or his American Ameri Ameri- American can party career and it Is what his closest followers have havo hoped the they would be ablo able to accomplish And hero we have ha quoted the strongest arguments the tho advocates of or tolerance tol tol- oh- oh erance oranee could utter and arid the c. c expressions of or opinion from the biggest n newspapers In tho the land You can can sea ECO that lint thero Is novel never again aln going g to besuch bo be bostich such stich a state of or turmoil as there has been lIcen in the tho past t Tl Tire The Ie Kearns 1 crowd has Inns exhausted itself Tho The cause Is so utterly lost Jost that hint they hey will never no again be bc ablo able to Interest tho tIre nation Utah will settle lien her own affairs and no iiO one in any church or 01 out of nn any church will suffer suITer because of or It Il |