| Show As J P meakin sees it 11 the buffalo new york en qu of march 19 has tile the fol foi lowing to say of john P meakin and some of his views publicly expressed concerning persons and conditions condi tiona in ill utah J john ohn philips Melk kin of salt lake city utah known tile hie countr country v over ve r a ay 6 tile the P fraternal i evangelist vall gelist was one olle of tile men who led tho the fight fiolet tr senator reed smoot made to retain his seat in ill the nations capitol mr meakin eakin VI aio who has been spending a ftc few days in ill tile the city say slie considers smoot one of the must most maligned and masul misun de der stood men in ill tile the united states 1 I regard smoot as si a man of stainless character one who is faithful to his trust both in pub lie and private life fire said mr ml meakin to a represent representative active of the enquirer En 1 I believe every ill man lu has a right to his own views and I 1 appreciate tile the fact that there are no two men alike in ill tile the world nor are there siny two things alike it is lie tale licille acme of absurd fool foolish isan isbn ess therefore for people td quarrel they see thins thinas differently As ari for myself if I 1 saw sav a poor barbarian praying to it a stuffed snake I 1 would rather kneel kneal down beside him than bowl or kick at hirn him I 1 am ain not hoh a member of the mormon church or any church as for that I 1 am a however and as such I 1 believe most emphatically in mental liberty but other mens menis relic religion ca rion is mine to defend and i never ask for a 6 right but I 1 accord to my ollowa fl lowa As I 1 see the smoot affair it was practically a difference ference lif be tween statesmen and politicians and this often means much for you know that the latter work for rhems themselves elves while the form or er work for the people the fight in utah was really commenced by a few disgruntled men because they were not able to gain certain material addan they desired appreciating the fact that there was iv a shouldering ing flame of prejudice against the mormon people 0 they bosely 19 ply made that a great or er part 0 of f their air stock in trade this they did their best t to ya fan fail into a bigger P flame until at last it wits wis barely safe for one to speak truthfully and knowingly on oil the subject in iii many sections of the east and retain the good opinion of the masses the ears of tile the people seem to be stunned when once a clamor is aroused and then itis it is almost impossible for them thein to listen to truth recently I 1 read a statement made by senator knox of penn sylvania to this effect in referring to the dreyfus case I 1 believe with him that had it not been for the friendship and sonae of justice or maj Pic quart and emile zola backed by the purity and love of a good wo man mr daeyl dreyfus ua would today be e on oil dev devils its island or dead and had it not been bean for certain levelheaded nien men statesmen ind others and the love of a x devoted wire wife reed smoot would p r 1 have a e loaf A dead fish can swim saini A down 0 IV n i stream ani but it takes a ave live one to swim up tip tile stream ani 1 I have known reed smoot fro from in boyhood and I 1 know I 1 him iain cb tobe be one of the die kindliest kind liest and ts best cf if nien men I 1 know that lie he lins lias but one wife and six bealla ifal children and that his home life is ou en ideal one would be irn impossible possible to inscribe te scribe in words the buffe sufferings 0 and hea heartaches that tight fight a hin made tile the nian man and his family during the fight 1 I 1 was a guest of lie family faintly one night and as is ili hi custom nir mr smoot conducted samily prayer before awrore reirin retiring g it was as the prayer lp ayer of a christian man 1 the next morning mrs Sli smoot loot let led thel little se bervice l vicel anil before S litt hf hud finished tiivi chui praying aying 1 1 abing I 1 tonel tuv clr in ill tea tears rs slie she 11 pramod hobt fervently bet ion ing god to bless nofa only th the e members of her family but till all of his children she ed the throne asking bartic lurly that reed might he be given strength to wit withstand cistand the abuse heaped upon him by the ani amer er ican people and when sho she had finished my eyes had been opened to the beautiful home life of these people and ever sine since e I 1 have felt like fighting any man like a wildcat wild cat who would cast any reflection on the character of senator smoot or his pure pare beautiful wife prom from that day on I 1 have endeavored to give the people in my 4 lectures ct on I 1 utah and the harmons mormons Mor Hor mons f a truthful picture of his greatly great misunderstood mans home hoine I 1 lif ifo and di describe scribe dise ribe his roal real character 0 |
