Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-12-23
Grant Wallace Handles the Cues
ton in the San Francisco
Bulletin.
SOME CAUST|C CRITICISMS.
lie Arraigus the Women Who Have
Taken Up the Fight Against
utah's Senator. Elect

preparing to hold scalp dance around
the remains Of Mr.. Reed Smoot, the
newly elected senator from Utah.
Mrs. Elliott, thc leader In the anti
Smoot hulabaloo, tells us that the
women OF the United States tmeaning
precious few OF them, realizing that
the ultimate outcome of seating Reed
Smoot In the senate would be the fur
Their degradation Of woman and the
Dissertation Of the home have banded
together To Gust him and voices shrl-
~ her determination ito keep the oc-
topus of "Mcrmonism" from fastening
its letters upon the unprotected females
Of the eastern states"
There would be just az much sense In
having Senator Beveridge unseated. ito
protect and perpetuate the home" on
the ground that he Is n confirmed bach
eIor who thereby sets an Infamous ex-
ample, which, II universally followed,
would sweep every home from Ameri-
ca
Bachelorhood isn't Catching" how
ever; neither is the state OF being mar
RED as much as Abraham or Jacob or
some OF the closer ancestors Of Jesus,
particularly since President Woodruff
OF the Church OF Latter-day Saints, on
Sept 20, 1890 issued a manifesto strlk-
ing out Of the necessary beliefs and
praotises of the Mormon" Church the
practise Of polygomy. Polygamy is a
dead issue.
THINLY YELLED. ATTACK.
That the plea of protecting the
homes from the blight OF polygamy"
Is a specous one. and merely thinly
yelled attack against the rival religious
body of the Latter-day Saints, inspired,
not by any fear of the defunct "octo-
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desire to clip the wings OF rival sect,
Is shown by their express declaration to
Senators Platt Depew and Burrows,
the members OF the senate committee,
that they demanded the unseatlng OF
Mr.. Smoot "on the ground OF his alle-
glance TO the Mormon Church and
his knowledge of the practise Of poly
gamy, Irrespective OF whether he IL
polygamist or not" Verify. the good
ladies raise the cry of the wolf"
whether there Is any wolf or not.
and insist on protecting" homes which
In the next breath they indirectly ad-
nit are not In any noticeable danger.
Many OF the club women OF broader
minds and larger human sympathes
have fatty refused to he used as clubs
for smashing the official head OF this
brother Christian. whose only offense,
so far as has been discovered, despite
the efforts of Gentle detectives con-
sists In belonging to sect which has
not yet grown numerous enough to be
respectable"
THEIR OWN HOMES NEGLECTED.
These women neglect their own
homes and children. II they have any.
to "portect" the homes OF others from
condition which II is admitted by
their own evidence would actually vast
ly improve most of them. Behind their
skirts, as usual, turks valiant body
OF small-caliber preachers who are al
ways ready with their holy pea-shoot-
ers to scatter destruction amongst the
ranks of far-off evils, while convent
entity blind to the vastly greater ones,
the injustice. hypocricy, crime and deg
radiation at their own back doors.
When religious persecution begins,
the prosecuted ones have my sympa-
thy, and the ersecutors--narrow, UNI
kind, bigoted--have my pity. Perse-
cution Is never frank and honest 1t Is
born OF yammering hypocrisy. 1t al
ways fights behind mask, the mask In
the Smoot case being the idiotic yawp
about protecting the home"
What is a good home? How shall we
know, save by the results--the output?
"By their fruits We shall know them"
The leaders of this attack on Smoot,
while forced by the facts to speak In
terms OF the highest praise of the Pc
cuiar people of Utah and of the happy
homes and moral, innocent, well-edu-
Gated children of the "Mormons," yet
insist, in the next breath. that Smoot
must be barred from the Senate lest
his influence shall blast the American
home
As matter OF fact, II we are to
judge by the results the average Cen
tile American home Is a good deal less
of success than the average Nor
mon" home.
TRIBUTE TO UTAH WOMEN.
mine out OF ten OF the polygamous
wives own 100 acres of land each, and
can vote for the president of the
United States They are good women,
moral, devoted to their children. and
true TO their husbands. My heart
bleeds for them" says Mrs. Elliott.
She admits her inability to rouse them
20 sense of the awfulness OF this
unprecedented state OF things. They
even had the effrontery to try to con-
vert her. But, though unable to save
the women she has hopes of rescuing
the wellfed and well-educated chill
dren, although as she points out, even
their case has "despairing aspect"
IN that the youngsters In these terrible
Mormon" homes ARE absolutely inno-
cent OF any sense OF immortality" and
therefore hard to convert to the chaotic
Gentle way of running homes and
churches. Truly, there is urgent need
Of missionaries TO change this alarm
ing state OF innocence OF the children
into quaking conviction of sin-a
condition precedent, of course mot to
morality, for morality never 'saves
EOnlg'fl hnf -
There are few present-day apostates:
on the contrary, the religious zeal OF
the younger "Mormons" is stronger
even than In the days of Brigham
Young and men and women OF all
classes 60 on missions 10 all parts of
the world without question ond at their
own expenses and the tlthes are paid
with greater regularity than ever
SOME COMPARISONS.
The "Mormons" have no paid
preachers priests or missionaries.
Those who expound the Mormon Cos
pei are not parasitic class and are
not above spending most OF their time
IN useful labor. being thus truly demo-
cratic In spirit. on the other hand,
prieetcraft and preachercraft are pure
ly aristocratic or monarchical instltu-
tions, in origin and IN spirit. Again
the jealous Mormon" missionaries, TO
be found the world over are not on
salary. They are usually young busl-'
ness men and women, professional
men and farmers. who choose to lay
aside money getting entirely for few
years ito do the work of the Master"
In intelligence and moral wholesome
ness, those | have seen are no whit
behind other Christian missionaries.
As there Is no provision made for
(the salvation of women in the Scrip
lures, their only chance OF heaven is