Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-14
OPPOS|T|ONTO SMOOT
Resolutions Urging the IN
seating Of Utah Senator.
REASONS ASSIGNED
PLEDGED REPRESENTATIVE OF
THE MORMON HIERARCHY.
Bishop Satterlee Presides and Intro
duces the Speakers-An Appeal
to the Senate
REASONS ASSIGN ED

yesterday AFTERNOON at the metropolitan
Church, placed itself on record as being OPP
posed to Reed Smoot of Utah retaining his
seat in the United States Senate, The as
semblage unanimously adopted a resolution
setting forth the belief that the so-called
Church of Latter Day Saints is antagonistio
to our Federal Constitution and every form
OF religion based upon the Bible; that 1t Is
a menace to American home life and an in
cult to our American womanhood; that Sen
ator Reed Smoot of Utah is pledged rep
resentative Of that institution. bound by its
laws and requirements to render first allie
glance thereunto. and that he therefore
must of necessity be unfaithful to the laws
OF the United States and that Apostle
Emoot could not have been elected to the
United States Senate without the dictation
and command of the Mormon hierarchy,
which is a complete union of church and
state, and therefore in direct opposition to
the principles of the Constitution of the
United States"
Therefore the asSemblage decided to
most earnestly protest against Apostle
6moot retaining his seat in our national
Senate" and to call upon all loyal and
patriotic men and women of every state TO
send protests TO the senators from their
etates and urge upon such citizens imme-
oiate and prompt action"
Bishop Saterlee Presides.
The meeting was opened with the sing
ing of Come Thou Almighty King" Rev.
J. ID. Butler. D. D., read from the Scrip
lures and Rev. John Gordon led in prayer.
The addresses of the day were next in or
der, Rev. Henry Y. Satterlee in turn In
Producing the speakers. Mrs C. L. Roach,
representing the Womens Interdenomina-
uonal Union of Washington, was the first
TO be presented.
Mrs. Roach. after explaining that one of
the objects of the union is to keep homes
q a he
1t great problem. MormOnism. The sane
tity of the homes throughout the land is in
danger, 1t was added. and there is great
need of the church being awake. Illustra-
tive of this declaration. Mrs. Roach related
an incident that occurred in West Virginia,
where certain MOrmons. by deception, Sc
cured the use of a Christian church and
therein preached their doctrines
1--WE are going forward in Gods name -
said Mrs Roach in concluding her argument
in favor of the unseating of Senator Smoot.
He has given us victory IN the past and He
will give IS victory in the future
Mrs. Schoff's Address
The next speaker was Mrs. Frederick
Schof. president OF the Congress of Moth
ers. According to Mrs. Schof her organ
tzation is striving to make the homes OF
the land what they should be, Women are
q part OF the world, the speaker said, and
they must know what lis going. on. Mrs.
ASchof expressed delight because OF the
general awakening in connection with the
Smoot case. 1t is time for men and wo-
men to arise. she declared and protest
against the seating of Mr.. Smoot The
speaker stated that she had been TO Utah
and could assert that polygamy is still
practiced there openly. 1t IS impossible
to obtain relief from the courts in Titan,
said Mrs Schoff. for the courts there are in
Mormon control.
THE question cannot now be dealt with
alone by the Gentiles of Utah" the speaker
further remarked; "t concerns all of us.
II is license, not liberty. There are Latter
Day Saints as much opposed to polygamy as
are the Christians for II is only since the
rule of Brigham Young that polygamy has
hourished.
THE Congress of Mothers felt it to be
its duty TO call the attention of the women
Of the country to the menace for a Nor
mon cannot be a good citizen. AS a result
of the call there formed the Sd Of
the present month, National Union of
Womens Organizations to protect the
homes Of this country"
Alleged Violations of Promise.
Mr.. Charles Mostyn owen of Salt Lake
City, Utah was next introduced. He ex-
planned that he has resided IN Utah for
more than sixteen years, and among other
things. said that when prosecutions under
the Edmunds act were occurring daily, he
had heard women. under oath, deny knowl-
edge of the paternity of their children. Mr..
Owen made the assertion that since signing
the manifesto that they should not prac-
tice pOlygamy the signers had violated their
promise. Joseph Smith. president of the
Mormon Church, the speaker said, is now
living openly with FIVE wives, by whom he
has had twenty children, and that Lorenzo
Snow recently became the father Of his
forty-seventh child, it's mother being his
ninth wife. Every hamlet in Utah has It's
Tolygamous representative declared Mr..
Owen. He went to say:
Eve ask nothing but what is clean hon
est decent and patriotic when we CHRIS
Utah
help us"
The speaker closed his address by de-
scribing in graphic manner the effect Of
polygamy on the children of the men with
plural wives.
The System Condemned.
Mrs Margaret Dye Ellis of the National
Women's Christian Temperance Union, who
was the next speaker opened her remarks
by referring TO a recently published inter
view with Mrs. Smoot. the latter being
quoted as saying that her home was a
thoroughly happy one. and that love is the
keynote of happiness.
I'VE quite agree with Mrs smoot and
hope that her home will continue happy
said Mrs. Ellis 1t Is not the man, Smoot
we are protesting against, it is the system
he represents. The homes of the United
States constitute the bulwark of the nation
and II is because of desecrated homes and
outraged womanhood that the women of the
land are now protesting. We do not care
anything about Reed Smoot, but Senator
Smoot Of Utah shall not sit in the Senate OF
the United States and help make laws for
our homes. Some one has asked why the
women are making such ado about this
matter. 1t is because women are born
patriots. l believe the Senate of the United
States will heed the voice of the people, for
the voice Of the people is the voice of God.
The Resolutions Read.
Applause followed Mrs. Ellis remarks
Mrs Teunis s. Hamlin then arose to read
the resolutions that. as stated, were later
unanimously adopted Before doing so
however she took occasion to point out
that belief in the separation of the church
and the state is general. but added that
Reed Smoot is so bound to his church that
he gives IT his first allegiance
Mrs Roach was recognized again to say