The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-12-01
smoOt Case in Austria.

From the Advertiser of Bielitz and
Biala, Austria, is taken the following
able editorial review of the Smoot
case 1t win be noted that the editor
Of the Advertiser has some inside in
formation that the. Utah papers have
been unable to procure. II is TO be re-
GREETED that the Advertiser does not
reveal more names i'm connection with
the case. Charles Mostyn>Owen. among
Others, would 10 doubt welcome in
formation that would ena BILE him To To-
cate the six missing wives The
twenty-five senators referred to would
unquestionably be more ciroumspect in
future if their names were made public
BY the Advertiser. IN many respects
the Advertisers editorial is the most
sensational article on the Smoot case
that has yet come TO hand.
Under the caption The Revengeful
Mormons,' the Advertiser of Oct. Il
sGys:
"A scandalous affair with a political
background has for weeks past the
press Of the United States occupied. In
the Mormon state of Utah the highly
esteemed Mormon. Reed Smoot. as sem
ator to Washington was sent but this
SWOot seven wives and about seventy
children had. which was according 10
the view of undoubted people even for
senator himself i'm the land of I'M
limited possibility, too many. The
women of the Christian Temperance
union, the Christian Association of
Young Men. the Baptist union and
others. as also Christians of all beliefs.
petition in circulation placed which
would demand the selection of Reed
Smoot Illegal 10 declare and to the state
of Utah generally the right a senator
To choose withdraw. This petition was
TO tho deputy. Alden Smith, handed
over the latter declined nevertheless
in d very ironical, amusing writing the
request as Illegal and unconstitutional.
In the senate one now found the private
life of Reed SmOot examined closely to
reveal whether perhaps dark spot be
found TO make possible to the MormOns
their dignity to lose. There
was a commission of five. senators With
this remarkable task entrusted. Reed
Smoot went out of the investigation
a5 a man of honor forth; it was estab-
lished that he with his wives a model
legal married life mairtained that his
children well-bred were and that the
high repUte which he in Utah enjoyed
Well-merited was. The American press
and the public held in their wrath over
the position of the senate not back. and
cOmmotion over the insult which on its
senator and the state itself put had
been, and they planned a revenge. In
a short time had a great many citizens
of Utah $65. 600 together brought. This
sum was TO the famous Pinkerton de-
tective institute handed over with the
charge twenty-five Senators OF the
United States five months long day and
night TO watch over. The detectives ac-
quilted themselves OF their task Of the
best. The material which thereby to
Sether was brought shall incredible
be Ut sufices the slap to esta blish that
the Mormon. against the Mormon-lives
OF the twenty-five watched-mostly
married-off senators-in relation 70
their morality absolutely as an innocent
little child must appear. In the Chris
tion Young Women's and Young Mems
association but has the fright taken
hold, for it was reported that the Citi-'
zens of Utah even the life OF individual
members of these societies. some clergy
men and even the bishops themselves
would watch over for to show that the
MormOns proud would have right to be
OF their senator, Reed SmOot, and that
properly even other states the right
their senator to choose must surrender.
The M0rm0ns have through all
America the doctrine of their side
spread, their revenge was complete"