Show S. S WHAT THEY FOUGHT FOR r The makers of ot Torn Tom Kearns's papers must think every one Is as ignorant as they are In that the they are wrong 1 On March 30 of the present year ear the New York Evening Post contained the following editorial paragraph I Mr lr Smoot the Mormon apostle against whose pernicious activity acU in the senate all aU the moral organizations of the country were protesting four years ears ago is directing his machinations just now to the details of or the tho copyright law There is no sense In the fling no warrant arrant for it Il no bit of reasonable reasonable- ne It p a a. a m m stab at a public man who is believed be lie ed t to 5 belong to Q o a sect Which can tafe safely anti and atall times be bo attacked without any danger or of being called to toa a count account A A Salt Lako Lake man replied to tho the Posts Post's paragraph in the following words Senator Smoot was opposed opp sed because be cause he was a Mormon not Mormon not because of any pernicious activity in the senate senate sen sea ate or Qt elsewhere And the senate rejected rejected rejected re re- re- re the charges against him because because because be be- cause being a Mormon isn't reason enough for disfranchisement Mr 11 Smoot is chairman of the committee on patents and this copyright matter engages engages en en- gages the tho labors of his He will 1111 not hurt tho the copyright law nor law nor any othor other And the Tribune grows frothy with ang anger anger r declaring the statement of basis for the case against Senator Smoot Smoot is isa 1 a n. falsehood Now overy every one in Utah knows thero there was wati in the last analysis no other chargo against Senator Smoot than that he was was and was a and is is-a is a Mormon The They tried to chargo charge that he ho was a a. mist and were routed They were beaten from one position after another until they pinned their effort to making maling mal mak S ing a case against him because he was wasa a Mormon because ho he had bad been through the endowment house because because be be- cause as they tIleY falsely averred he be had f. f k j. dA 1 i lal taken en an oath to de destroy tro the government govern govern- mont moat of or the United States That was as the whole inspiration an and 1 l warrant arrant of or their last desperate struggle le It was the core of the argument against him It was the tho one thing which if It established ishell would have ma made o a Mormon ormon inelIgible ineligible in in- eligible to any office under govern govern- ment And AUl the Tribune should be Informed that the papers were prepared and nc actually ac nc- In the house of or representatives at at Washington to proceed against Congressman Con Con- gressman Howell Howen and ami expel him on tho the very cry same grounds rounds And after that what right of ot fr franchise would any arty Mormon Mormon Mor Mor- or- or mon won have havo had hall From start ot at finish from center to I circumference the case was an attempt to dr drive e the Mormons fr from m citizenship And there are some somo who still aUlI wish Ish it could be done The suggestion that Cannon an and King and Howell all Mormons l ha had served In congress blinds no one I It happens that Tom Torn Kearns Kearus did no not want the seat of either of or them I It happens that the election of neither spelled exclusion of Tom Toni Kearns from froma fromn a n Just as ns soon as that marplot found he lie could not a second time induce the tho Mormons to send him to the senate he began his fight on the Mormons And AntI his attempt to unseat unseat un un- un seat Senator Smoot was directed not alone at nt tho the one man maligned but at atthe atthe atthe the whole connection which had earned carnell Toms Tom's undying hatred by b- refusing to get into 1 politics and help him to a coveted coy cov eted position position position-a a position by the wa way which he be disgraced e cr every day la ho held 1 It You bullying bushwhackers have havo been carrying water on both shoulders long enough You pretend you ou are aro friendly to some of or the Mormons L And some sonic of them thorn are aro weak enough to believe believe be be- lieve it But Dut your fight is in its cyer every line a fight for the utter and universal disfranchising and degrading and antI expulsion ex eJ of ever every Mormon You ma may deny it until you OU are black blackin in the tho face but that is the fact |