Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-12
AFTERSENATORSMOOT
Protest Against His Reten-
tion as Lawmaker.
MASS MEETING HELD
ADDRESSES BASED UPON NOR
MONISM IN UTAH.
Representatives of Reform Element,
Known as Latter Day Saints,
Defend the Faith.

gational Church was well filed yesterday
afternoon with men and women who
braved the frigid elements in order that
they might by their presence participate in
the protest being made against the admit
lance of Reed Smoot of Utah to the Senate
of the United States. The assemblage was
termed mass meeting of protest" and
was held under the joint auspices of the
Women's Interdenominational Union and
the National Womens Christian Temper
ance Union.
Bishop Earl Cranston presided. and
stirring addresses were made by Mrs.
Teunis Hamlin, Charles Maslyn Owen. DR..
r. H. McKim and Mrs. Maria Reed.
Prayer was offered by Rev. J. G. Butler,
D. D., and Rev. Donald Macleod, D. D.,
read the Bible lesson.
The speakers made a strong plea for
American womanhood, and severely ar
raigned the Mormon Church and its meth
ods 1t was commended that polygamy mas
been practiced since the admission of Titan
as a state, and that the present relation
between the Mormon Church and the state
ment The speakers announced their IN
tention to oppose the seating of Mormon
representative in the Senate TO the pit'er
end.
Incident Not on Program.
At the close of the meeting there was
happening WHICH WdS lioS uo"A St'
printed program. Mrs. Maria Weed had
lust finished her address on 1.-The Menace
of Modern Mormonsm the benediction
had been pronounced and the large audi
ence was moving from the church When
two well-dreSsed and ntellgent-appearlns
men, who had been among the auditors,
assembled to the speakers platform and en-
gagged Mrs. Weed in conversation. one OF
them, who had drawn note paper ana
pencil from his pocket and was ASKING
Mrs. Weed questions and apparently max
ing notes, said he was Fred. M. smith OF
Lamont Iowa, a grandson of Joseph Smith,
the founder of the Mormon Church. This
young man is said to be one of the leaders
of the so-called ''Reorganized Mormon
Church." or "Josephtes, the original
church being known as the "Brighamites.
1t was stated that the Josephites seeded
from the older body many years ago and
assumed the title of The Latter Day
Saints" and that they have not practced
polygamy.
There was lively cross-fire between Mrs.
Weed and the two Mormon representatives,
which was also participated in by MRS.
Hamlin and another lady. Mrs Weed as
serted that the original Joseph Smith had
several wives. She said she was not OPP
posing the reorganized Mormon Church,
represented by Joseph Smiths grandson,
but she maintained the position she mad
taken and adhered to her statements made
from the platform.
1t developed during the controversy that
the reOrSdnlZeO CHuTCH Has us Heduquoi tOio
in Iowa, with branches in Massachusetts
and other eastern and northern states.
When Mrs. Teunis Hamlin was introduced
to the meeting yesterday she prefaced her
remarks by stating that the women had
taken hold of the Mormon matter, believing
it was necessary, as the men are busy.
She referred to the exclusion of Roberts
from Congress-, and said the Mormon
Church had broken all the pledges IL nau
made.
Charles Mosfyn Owen of Salk Lake City,
who has been engaged in the compilation
of the evidence for the protestants in the
Smoot case, was next introduced. He
quoted from a book published, he said
under the special authority of the Mormon
Church for the education of the President
Congress, the national government and the
citizens of the United States generally. The
quotation follows:
This republic can never become an asy-
lum to all nations until her domestic insti-
tutions are founded upon liberal laws, until
she will protect polygamy as equally sacred
as monogamy, as a Bible institution, as
right that should be sacredly guaranteed,
not only to the polygamic emigrant who
may land upon our shores, but to all the in
habitants of our country who may desire
to embrace this Bible institution.
IF Utah be admitted as a state she will
most undoubtedly that the rights of
the domestic institution are not trampled
upon by religious bigotry, that no illiberal
laws are enacted to prevent emigration
from polygamic nations. May the
time speedily roll on when Utah shall be-
come a state
Utah has become state" said Mr.
Owen, "and she has virtually fulfilled the
above declaration. The written laws are
not and cannot be enforced and poygamy
is rampant today not only within the Dor
ders of Utah, blu. also in Wyoming Idaho,
Oregon, Colorado, Nevada and the terri
tories of Arizona and New Mexico Every
pledge given the Senate committee on terri
tories by the Mormon representatives when
the proposed admission of Utah to state
Dol
ticed more openly today than at any time
in twenty years past. The Mormon men
have added numbers to their harems under
some guise. If the practice shall be longer
wnked at by the nation a greater danger
is imminent. Already designing politicians
of both the great political parties of the
day are bowling before a power that owns
and exercises controlling vote in the
states of Idaho, Wyoming and Utah, and
| large and solid vote in Colorado and Ore
CON-
Rev. DR.. McKim's Address.
DR.. R. FL. McKim, in predicting that this
light would be carried on to q finish by the
women, If the men were too busy. said:
Some of these Mormons are termed
| saints, but when we come to investigate
their lives we find them bereft of every
virtue which makes decent Christian
| They talk of liberty, but it only means
| foul license. They profane the sacred
name of church, for theirs is only syna-
| abomination. How long will the people go
| on in careless optimism, continuing pol
| icy of laisse faire?
| '"rhese modern prophets Of Baal declare
| that those members who disobey their Sc
| crets shall have their threats cut. It is
| wrong to admit them to citizenship, and
| certainly it is a wrong to admit their rep
| resentatives to the United States Senate"
| Mormonism and It's Evils.
| Mrs. Maria Weed, who has been making
| strenuous efforts against "Mormonism and
it's evils" for about three years, said, "the
| Infamous Mormon system originated in the
| practical joke of a professed free lover
| and charlatan." She criticised Ella Wheel
| err Wilcox for her statement that 1.-The Nor
| mons were the most prosecuted and prose-
| cuted people in the world
Mrs. Weed said any man in Mormondom
| might become god if he had a sufficient
| following and large number of descend
| ants.
why, these people in Utah." she declar-
| ed, believe that Gen. George Washington
| was a good orthodox Mormon, and any
| Mormon woman who admires the father OF
| his country may marry him, using any or
| binary man a proxy. A large number OF
| Mormon women have thus married George
| Washington, and were that distinguished
! American alive he would be alarmed and
| astonished at the number of plural wives