Show SENATOR SMOOTS SMOOT'S MAGAZINE ARTICLE Exchanges In cr c every part of or the country country coun- coun try are arc paying a good deal of oC nUen atten lion tion to a recent article written lJ by Senator Sen Son atm ator Smoot and pu published in the Hie North orth American Review lew under tinder the title of I The Passing 0 of Polygamy The article arti arti- j arU-j cle dc is in the best hest of or o temper and tot fol follows lows closely the advice Ice of its opening sentence It is well to be fair Here are arc two paragraphs from tho the I I article mentioned J I I I Mormon citizens are as persi persistent tent in upholding their political party part tickets as are nou Mormons that the they do without dictation from or interference by the church and that so 80 far a as the I Mormon church is concerned there Is IsSn in Sn Utah no union with the state nor domination thereof by the church The Tho state constitution contained the tile required required re re- re- re provision on Oil the su subject and it itI has been observed strictly Thus the tho state of or Utah and the people thereof have kept faith with the national gOI government gO gov emment In respect to statehood and will continuo continue to keep keel it it Under pressure within as well as ns from rom without the Mormon church Inthe in inthe inthe the year eal 1809 adopted a II church manifesto mani mall festo requiring n a cessation of oC i oly- oly poly poly- or the marryIng of plural wives I r which it had been practising in this tills nation lation against the national sentiment In n Utah was admitted to tu state state- hood hood one condition being that polygamous poly poly- 01 or plural marriages should be e forever fore prohibited This condition was complied with Comments of exchanges run all the wa way from a flat fint declaration of disbelief lief hief to 11 n kindly expression of ol confidence confidence conn- conn dence deuce in what the senator has bas said The article should be helpful as ministering min mm- to the good name of Utah Utan wherever tho the North American Review is rea readOr read or Of course polygamy am is passing and andin andin in III a few years will be e but ut a memory Of or course there is no new now pol polygamy gamy and has been none with the conni connivance ance of or the Mormon lormon church Tho The Mormon people themselves do not want poly oly- sam gamy The Tho only 1100 people 10 who do are at the shrine ot or Torn Tom to Kearns-to to whom ovon one caso cas t would be worth sainTs of dollars |