The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-02

! Since the election of the Hon. Reed
/ Smoot to the senate a great vail from
the Ministerial association OF this city has
rent the air On Jan. - dispatch was
/ sent TO Washington to Senator Burrows.
1 chairman of the senate committee on
/ privileges and elections. protesting against
the seating of Mr.. Smoot; that they would
send their reasons later. On Jan. u the
/ Chicago Examiner which received its
news from the same source. headed an
editorial ''Mormonism in the Senate.
! Shall a Mormon be Allowed to Sit in the
United States Senator This editorial
i states that Apostle SnnoOt is a bOld-faced
violator of the laws on polygamy, etc.
1 On the same date the National Woman
| Christian Temperance union received
message from Utah. urging them to help
\ Through influence and money! unseat
/ this awful monster. Smoot. from the sem
/ ate. On Feb %. 1902. this same Minis
! teria1 association secretly sent TO the SEN
ate a long appeal stating that the loyal
people of Utah are in awful danger of
being devoured by the monster polygamy.
After three newspaper columns of scraps
! of Utah history and court records that
suit their case, they close by saying that
| the majority of the people OF Utah sane
ton polygamy; that Utah is so bad that
it breeds polygamy, and is spreading this
foul crime into the adjacent states and
| territories corruPting public morals and
| dishonoring the American home.
| Any preacher who would wilfully and
( knowingly put his name to such an ap-
| peal to be sent broadcast through the
| United States is more fit for the Deniten-
| tiary than the pulpit: and why did they
! secretly send it? Why did these good
men hide their light under a bushel?
Why did they not have it published here
and let the loyal people of Utah pass on
it? They knew it was false and were
| ashamed to let the people of this state
| know they We're in such defamatOry work.
Sectarian hate and jealousy is not a mat
ter of ancient history, but it is up to date
here among some of the orthodox preach
| ers, and now they are jumping on Sena-
| tor-elect Smoot because he is a Mormon
| apostle. Before they go very far with
! their petitions to unseat Mr.. Smoot 1
would advise them to read article in
i the constitution of the United States.
which says, in part: The senators and
representatives shall be bound by oath
to support the constitution but no relig-
ious test shall ever be required as quail
ification to any office or public trust in
the United States" When a person cir
culates petition distributes or nHb-
fishes resolutions to unseat a senator on
account of his religious beliefs. the said
person is traitor to the constitution and
SAASAAA DC ti-iiittAidtNty BidNCO III Nhd1SS
of Ben Haywood or any other United
States marshal. But these preachers say
that although Mr.. Smoot is not j poIyga-
mist. he believes in polygamy, and should
be unseated for his belief.
What a man believes and what he does
are two different things. If Mr.. Smoot
believes in poIygamy. it is his business.
Many of our congressman and senators
believe in slavery, but as they do not
Hrer &c
chise them. A great portion of the or
thodOx church south believes in hui
man bondage, but this belief does not
hinder them from holding office. The
Roman Catholics believe that the pope
is the infallfble head Of the infaIlible
church; that he is above all kings, a
i. vicegerent of God and ruler of all ma
lions. The Catholics have right to be-
lieve this if they wish, and as long as
they obey the laws of the land they can
hold office The orthodox preachers be-
lieve, preach and teach and have already
condemned the worldly minded when they
shuttle off to a perpetual bath in lake
of heIlfire and brimstOne.r and if they do
not try to hurry the poor sinner to this
summer resort which they have invented,
they can hold office without a protest.
One great reason why these preachers
oppose Mr.. Smoot is that they have
|
person could hold a high position in the
Mormon church without being a poiyga-
mist, as the laws of the Mormon church
| required it, and the election of a Mormon
apostle, who is not a polygamist, to the
senate shows the people of the United
States the false ground they have taken.
Another reason is they said in their
speeches against the Hon. B. H. Roberts
three years ago that if the people of
> / -f,l, ala rl7r nf :.
/ polygamist they would never utter pro-
2 test. 1 would advise the Ministerial as
I ISOLATION to read the history of the Nor
mons on the temperance question before
: they enlist the w. c. T. L. in their cru
sade against Mr.. Smoot. The Rev. Glenn
ent NJ. Butler, D. D., in mis- history of the
Christian denominations says of the Nor
\ mons: ''Intenperance is almost unknown
e among them, and it IS more remarkable
6 as a large portion of their converts are
. from lower order of the large cities OF
the United States and Europe"
Historian II. II. Bancroft says, speaking
of Nauvoo. Ills, at this time the largest
city in Illinois: mo vice is meant to be
= tolerated. no grogshOps allowed; no
n 6runkard is scarcely ever seen as in other
= cities" This state which this association
e so condemns, has as little drunkenness as
t any state in the Union, and what little
there is is mostly confined to Its Gentle
cities. namely. Ogden, salt Lake and Park
q City. and why does this association cal
n on the preachers and temperance people
. | to unseat Mr.. Smoot, who is an intelli-
: | gent upright progressive, moral man II
! every respect. and overlook men who
are new in the halls of legislation who
are adulterers and men who either owl
or Represent distilleries, breweries and
> saloons? 1t is simply this-Mr. Smoot i:
{ a Mormon. These preachers put me II
I mind of a story. Some boys were pass
: ing a cathedral once and saw a htt'
sparrow sitting over one of its larg'
windows. These boys had been taught
to kill sparrows, so they all began throw
ing stones at it. After they had broker
: nearly all the windows in the building tn
: sparrow flew away. unframed The boy'
:, were promptly arrested and taken befor'
: a magistrate, where each and every bo!
: swore that he did not throw singh
n stone at the cathedral; they aimed then
- all at the sparrow. That is the exac
position of the Ministerial association
n while they direct their warfare on Sen
!, ator Smoot. they are besmearing Utal
II and her people with mud and putting it il
Il a false light before the world. The fol
= lowing will show how they are doing it
a Last Sunday. jan IS, the Rev 5. w
I. Bartlett. pastor of the First Congrega
:: tional church. Chicago. whose sermon