Show MR ROOSEVELT SUS THINGS GIVES GIVER TIIE THE LIE 10 MAGAZINE muckrakers MUCK GIVES ADVICE TO MORMONS ina in a letter to isaac raci lie ile iks right out in meeting about utah I 1 hero here is the letter of 17 heodore he roo Roe beit iet answering iaac daae I ru ruiell ruen en as to stories ethnea pub published hOed by cistern mica maza lines it is norah orth ici ins ind d it is published at the nil arje of leonle of the no nc gobora who he ilo do noi noe like the greiper bee i ii rc e it nill ill not lend itself to injustice against t the mormon people nev nett york I 1 eb 17 1311 1911 my dear mr allu busell sell I 1 thank nou ou for dour letter billing my attention to the charges made ag ngn it ft t me in connection with it 1 an a al I 1 ld l d bargain mth ith the Ni mormon ormon church of uth utah the letter neu ou un en closed cot bottaini taini a quotation from a migi zine which blates that f hl buoi ADM ROO allt himself made tre tle bargrain barp bar iii ill tie ile A mormon lormon church abich c e irta to this fills di d IN it then continues continued tl ti at fit church agreed to to the votes c rf f uenh Wio and idaho in exchange for three 1 A ce ces aaion of the movement mo ement ird agit within the republican publican fiC part tor an arnen dment to the federal jL deral gt gi ing to congress the to legislate con f arning marriages pod go it linns ing 2 a defense of reed smoot apostle ind of the A mormon lormon 1 II i atol of tile the united states or aril his bib re n of his eat cat in the senite and J 1 ailiin it of eair eit r I 1 1 patt patr n naj r in utah ind burro stales in atoll once to the v ih of the mormon espre ed to the federal nd id ministration smoot it as a little difficult to know how to lea ca ith a store stor like this which is rot merely an outrageous lie I 1 ut one so K famous so absolutely t the theE lest particle pirt icle of foundation that it is Lit terIN impo bible thil that the men making the charge should be ignorant of the fact thit th it they are 1 13 mi iniz I 1 neier neer heard of this marazine may azine article ind and do not krov krofl abc wrote it hut but whoever ho eer did knew perfectly veil that he was lying I 1 have neier neer baard of the writer chose letter ou quote quate but bul he ilso ilo i l must know that he is repeating baseless baa eleas falsehoods the other two magazine articles iou ion quote I 1 hane hae not seen but if they in any nape or avy resemble reb emble the one f from born which you quote they are equally false the accusation is not merely false falee but so BO Judic that it is difficult to discuss it seriously of course coarse it is ie always possible to find creatures vitle vile enough to make accusations of this kind the important thing ta tt ber bar is that the men who vive cur currency renty to tho the aarie whether editors of magazines ok or the presidents of colleges show how thern selves in their turn unfit for association with decent men when they secure the repetition and en an coura gement of such scandals ls scandals which perfectly well know to he be false not on was no ini such euch bargain mado made by me but equally of course no such bargain was tria de b by president left latt or ill b angom an one ahn could speak for any portio I 1 i of the republican national organization orani no such bargain was as ever in an wa waa directly or indirectly indi suggested buggi sted to or con iid ered by me it is 19 not acrel an atric lous falsehood but it could by no pos edibility Eibi lity be but a falsehood neither the church nor amyoni on oil behalf ol of the churi church h cier greed to deliver to me ine the votes voles of tho the alilis mentioned nor to try to do so nor w iq 11 any il illusion luion to the mitter ever made to ne me neither senator smoot nor any other citizen of utah was as is fans faas I 1 know even so much as aa consulted con bulted about the patronage patro nag naV of the stills surrounding utah nor did tile the mormon lormon hierarchy through genitor alimoot moot or any one else ever express i single wish sri in connection with that patronage the appointments were made in wyoming and ditth precisely on the same s batern as a thel were made in new jurbe jinbei ind massachusetts and no more attention was paid to any candidates religious qualifications in one bet of states than in mother more alore ver vcr the same policy precisely vias 1113 follow followed cd in utah on oil genitor ben not was a gentile and one a mormon morman I 1 co i ul tea both Genen ll I 1 found senator smoot favorable fao fau rable to the can of thin the mijo minority rity of his colleagues in the senate and on oil ti 3 1 I c iltem t D m t n cia ci free IN thin I 1 did most moat other bellora bervi dl al though then were some I 1 consulted cen nore more freel thin I 1 dirt did hm hini As aa to there being a ces etian of if tile the movement for fed ral control of mir nage including divorce and poly gini 3 so f fd ar as aa I 1 I 1 row there nen er was such cessation perso personally nall I 1 hae alna s favored uch control I 1 here cherr was an to give tile the national natio nul goice emern ment complete control oci marria marriage gL this was strongly agy opposed by a majority of the five in the houses houes of nf Can cress s aroa fro the different states and in but two or three instances is 13 it possible that tho thoe there e or opposing posing it whether demo brats or republicans could hive have been influenced by any thought thour vit whatever COnC concerning Liming the cormons mormons Mor Alor mons personally I 1 then favored fa ored the proposal prop osil and hive always favored it because pe beci cause use I 1 believed and still believe that this is II one of searal directions in which the power of the government gov emment could with advantage itel vantage be increased whether or not it its IE especially needed as regards polygamous marriages in butah utan I 1 arn am not able to say on one occasion a number of cinar geis were made to the while I 1 was president about these polygamous marriages in utah idaho and wyoming Wy omine it being asserted that a number of our federal officials hid had been pol ly married A very thorough and careful investigation was madu mado by the best men in the service into these charges ind they here ere proved to be without 0 o much as the smallest basis in fact it was finally found that a fourth class postmistress whose earnings ear ninEa J 1 5 bear ear wore were about 25 ind who wis an old air aman had been married borne bome ar years previously but had long since gince ceased living with her husband not ord vas it found that there wis was nr basis for the as regards the government official but incidentally it develon oil that the investigators nere to find a single cise a of pol ganous marriage entered irto since the pric printice tice had been professed lv iv abondo abandoned ned I 1 cui cin and of cour L on thi chii point sl s oil eil generalli there may or maa ma not ba foundations for the conrge of aich I 1 knib lothine no thine but I 1 can speak positively as aa to this investigation vesti esti gation mide by thoroughly earn com det rit and upright government govern mert rill in wyoming idaho and rutih my memory is that on en mother other lee I 1 i either in arizona 0 or mexico or both our attention wis was billed to cibes dullere acre there had bad ben b en bolg arrous ind that the offend irs were promptly eutch no man loan earr eaf r d to me not flat to pros leute any offender in such a cae ca e ind I 1 may add thir that every mormon with whom I 1 spoke a me that since tile the public r renunciation of polygamy the law lav had biad been observed Ned in this respect just as in others and no one of them eier eer so go much as hint to me any desire to plead on oil behalf of any possible offender of the ta ape pe I 1 am of course speaking of marriages ages a entered into since the file churi church h pro amento in queston if it were eve ever r shown to be true thit th it such marriages haxe hac been entered into I 1 should deven even more iv thin hitherto urge giving thi fi deral Loern ment power to deal electively with ith polygamy pol gamy As AI for the rise cise of son sen aitor smoot him elf lie he cime came to me of lin own accord ini in not only assured me that he biag not a pol polemist jami t but I 1 mi ad iss inured urcil me thit he hid bid a any ny relations with any bomin except 1 ing 11 g his own wife and I 1 kiy also dao idd that it inas bas universal tev testimony of ill nho he knew aej jn thing of his du do iii richtie life tint thit it va 19 ce in every ay lie he also assured me thit lie he had abw al s done ev lr I 1 thing hing no nc could to have tho the la law about polygamy poli gamy abao cutely obeyed and most moat strongly up hel I 1 the position that the church and it id taff taken n in its public renunciation I 1 of and that he voul boull I 1 set act as 13 quickly ago aga nit list an mormon attlio lie now id t os s made plural marria marriage qc as agnnes i a gentile who committed bigamy I 1 looked into tile aarts farts verv thorough continued on esth page MR ROOSEVELT SAYS THINGS continued from lot let page li 13 conNin Led thit senator Smoot hid hill told me ine the truth ard him exactly as I 1 did all other Seni that is strictly on his merits crits 13 a public servant I 1 did not interfere re in my iy ay is ib to his retention in tile the sive vc that where Sena senators up to peak deak to me on ane subject I 1 snake to them freely aln ng the lines I 1 hive herf cil tilting the view which I 1 believe is 13 tile the onla men is hit in arnt aar acin in can at take n imely ir th it if M mr r smoot or iny ore else ase h hid id the I 1 w m he should of cours be turn id it rut cut but if hp ho add abc ed the liw ind wis in ind man in his public and piti vate relations relative ns it on id lie in outrage to turn him out because of his religious reh ious alief I 1 have thus gone oer point b I 1 r tilt int the e inra infamous accusations ions mide ti 3 the ieter v hoc cr he WT nhom hom iou quotel quoted ichu atrom chich brind vilh tile the nun min iho rinda them ant an 1 ilo the magazine mana zinc editor who id cd them and iny one who quotes them chere is i ining binl in this species specie of cr ind the man angi cd in it do not stand one aluk in men iho have reilly mikell pirt in ill the pric priccie tie winch which aben thc biffl ifft t tu to denounce denoun deno cL so bo lor for abse slanderers slander ers now NOTO a vord nord to the mormon people them belci if 11 the accusations rin I 1 le e agillia chint he Mor cormons Monno mons nii cire is filec as the upon chuh I 1 hake h ne abone aboc there is 13 no need cf mi ma siding ally aai thing lut let rne pie most in aist on oil the vital need it if there 19 t the he huth in adv of these accusations of nf the i mormon lormon keople aeling inith thor ough ness in tie britter an iI Tort opeal or covertly to introduce poll poli imi ma in the jhc mormon church would merely that the church hall hail set its face destruction the pc poo tile pie of the united states will not tole rite ind and if it ere found that with the tion and I 1 il or conni connivance vince of the mormon hurch church people pole polygamous iagas aie now DOW beine c mitered into dry allf Mor mons or if entered into are on ana an other footing thin bigamous are arc treated eera what c in tile the country then tie ire united stat states es government inguid bould LI itself in tile the end take control of tile the whole question of pol im i I 1 1 d I there could bo be but one outcome to the struggle in such cent tile mor mon church would be doomed 11 A I 1 d if there be my iny mormons cormons Mor mons who ho id ad ocie in an shape or nij wi dij dio di dimidi o b 1 d ence to or c cin in celing of or the ead ing of the manifesto mini festo forbidding forbid dinc all further 4 thit mormon is doing his oe bet t to si cure the ot of the church thoe thoc comons mormons Mor Mo mons on oil the other hind who tilo occupy the position uphold in your letter and who insist that the mor mon men church shill shift turn its face to ward the fugue take a position which if generally talen taken will mean that the church will be treated precisely on in equi liti with all other churches the A mormon lormon has the same right t to 0 his form of religious belief that the jew and the christian have to theirs but like the jew and the christian he must not practice conduct which is in contravention of the law of 0 the land and I 1 have hale known monogamous I 1 mormons cormons Mor mons whose standard of do mastie life and morality and whole attitude a toward the tha relations of men and a nd women were as high aa that 0 of thebert the best citizens of my fly ither ether creed indeed among these mormons cormons Mor mons the atie standard stin dard of sexual morality was un no high thir children were numerous rous healthy and well brought up their young men wore less apt than their neighbors to indulge in that chourio of sexual dissipation ho bo degrading to manhood and so 80 brut brettl il in the it inflicts on women nomen ind the wert were frio fre from thit hit vice more destructive 0 to civill civil than any other can the artificial rc of 0 tile the printice pric tice of stenle in arri ige and which t aich alti ulti abely mean destruction of the nation rile ehe 10 lo s of nf the paternal ind i nd matern il I 1 I 1 it among men and N con ED the deification of 1 I cold cal jc culi ting thi felure tu un that there sin arl no otter other I 1 jois and and I 1 no uther duties is 19 areat gre at is tho the joi jo b in binl the duties connected coonce Ledwith with the hippy famili figol life ot of aither aither and children Lh ildren ill this rt remits a fir evil than cen the worst of purely olit icil evils can be the evil ot 01 dlvore and ill I 1 lindred cola coils are re maieli wick wickedness ednes art and evil result to ahti greit and central cil if th the min 13 nt most inor lip to be a 1 good father pir forming for roine its ins full duty tu to his wife and cit aln atell if the acri verj omin cornin is not il 11 O ot oat t ini xou tu be a good happ NY wife fl ind mother tile the mother of plenty I 1 0 o U f aril ard biary ind well inell trained tc lined children then riot not have the averie age man mail ind the oman anis ed cd nhit bit is tl ali t l the it chest hap binl ot of life but arr arc bad cit cm of the vur I 1 ape t pe ind nl the nation it in which kllc rc reent ent the iver affe ace tine of citizens is 19 doomed to undergo tile the hopeless hop pless di imster dilister sister which it deseria de serif ingo in so fir nr is 19 tha cormons mormons Mor mons will stand iKJin st ill hilious ind nd dei grading of this kind t licy hey j NY will ill set a ex em ml le ie of citizen hip 1111 if on tile the other hand the tha Mor mun church openly or secretly beldt giors firs to reintroduce introduce rc pol ism than i it it has ro for destruction ind his become an 1 I ally ot of the forces of evil so 0 potent is to obia i ill 1 11 decent citizens to join armint 1 it t the mormons cormons Mor mons who ho realize fa fact ct and find js is 3 iou ou do an I 1 as I 1 h hie I 1 ei e er cr revon tu to believe does doci on oil these there matt battels els are arc riot not only fighting for the best of the mormon laurch but are perform in N well all the high at duties of amzel amerl I 1 c in n erth i anra air SiL signed Si ened ned ROOSEVELT I 1 |