Show BITTER ATTACK IS MADE of ON THE MORMONS SENATOR hansbrough MAKE LIGHT OF THEIR RELIGION declares they are beyond the pait pal of the moral code in their practices I 1 senator ITans brough of north da kota supported the resolution deprive lug ing mr air smoot of cf his seat la in a brief arle speech in which he denounced alor monism with vigor he said 1 I shall cast my vote in favor of the resolution now pending were I 1 to do otherwise I 1 would feel that I 1 had condoned every offense ever committed against good morals and the written laws of the thel country by tale tl mormon church not the least among the long list or of those offenses offen seq was the sending to this high legislative tri axi bunal one of the active apostles 0 01 the mormon organization these bordt are not uttered in hostility to or out of any lade lack of 0 respect for reed smoot they are spoken te give ex pres slon to the views I 1 hold in regard to the mormonism based upon the lie record it has made for itself 14 li sending its apostle here the managers always aggressive in aa avancing the political interests of thel leaders furnished us with another sample of brazen effrontery in further defying the public sentiment of the country relative fo ko the obnoxious institution ution for which they are axe responsible having In trenched itself hi political power in many state and territories ri mormonism comes here seeding a clean bill of health in the form of n endorsement of all its flagrant misdeeds the defeat of this resola uon tion would bo be tantamount to putting the seal of official offic approval upon a conspiracy conceived as I 1 believe in treasonable antagonism to our R republican pub institutions there is not a city or village or hamlet in any section of the united states where mormonism Is ip not in control of local affairs chati that docs does not welcome to its circle of institutions of 1 moral advancement tho the coming of a now new church society or organization organisation representative of any or ali of 0 the existing creeds of ot religious faith save that of the mormon church A proposal to establish a society of this abig creed in my mr downstate own state where mormonism has bas not yet reached ita its head would evoke a storm of protest so it would I 1 confidently believe hi any other section of the country where the institution is not in political d con arol it would bo be time enough eno ugh for this lawgiving law giving body to embrack in n its ita membership the apostolic representative of mormonism when thit organ ration duly renovated and reformed no longer a menace to civilization Is ig worthy of admission in full f with other organizations whoso choso history tenola and practices the moral sentiment of the land is not in revolt after tho the most serio merlou ij tion of the question I 1 have been boea unable to 0 o reach any other conclusion than that in this very verr peculiar and exceptional cage my action must ba be controlled by a la lax t more profoundly fundamental than the liberal testa texts which have furnished tho eloquent ar ol 01 senators with whom I 1 am ani obliged to disa disagree gree k in with continued continued on paso palo SW six 4 BITTER A ATTACK TACK IS MADE ON MORMONS I 1 continued from froin page one the dangerous doctrine of in an institution established upon the principle that Is 13 super for to the governmental system I 1 and under which we live we can afford to arise above conventional constitutional construction the higher law khoii should ia be invoked the unwritten law embraced in the inherent duty of every citizen of the republic to defend the written dinst instrument ent from the assaults of those who destroy it with the history of the mormon church before us it is discreditable to the universal accepted creeds of re faith to say that mormonism found its inspiration in religious convictions vict ions that its sponsors were moved wholly by a desire to serve god and thus to contribute to the salvation of mankind it Is impossible for me to associate mormonism with other sectarian organizations I 1 am in full accord with the constitutional provision that every one should worship god 1 in his own way but I 1 have no sympathy with an organization whose oath bound members array themselves in the livery of df heaven in order that they may gain control 0 of temporal affairs social and commercial in this respect the mormon church Is notoriously unique its scheme of salvation is bared wholly upon its success in dominating the political fortunes in fit which it conduct s its operations erat ions without this advantage it would be a failure once in political control it moves rapidly forward until it acquires commercial at all time the saving saying of boulb Is but an incidental part strange business and yet at no time and in no way not even through its I 1 of c colonization ha lia 4 it been enabled to hide from the public gaze the law abid abiding ilig people of the land have not been lec ived from nauvoo to the endowment house at rit salt lake city from tho place of plural marriages to the tithe paying ayling colony from the calony to the ballot box and the ballot box to the united states an indulgent house has looked steadily on its prayerful hopefulness that time will surely come when mien the strange and devious course of M ormon hm ever de flu blant of popular opinion stimulated with the last of possession and power would receive a check that time has come and n more fitting place could be chosen than in this chamber of impartial judgment for the rendering of oi the loag loing delayed vordi verdict vor dici ct |