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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-21
SCATTERING AN IDOL.

4 EASTERNER with iconoclastic
a tendencies is out with a letter in
which he declares altogether too much
fuss is being made over the Liberty
Bell. Discussing the question as TO
whether or not the famous bell should
be sent to St. Louis he practically takes
the position that any old bell with a
crack i'm it would answer the same pur-
pose. that as far as sentimental value
is concerned there is no such thing in
the Liberty Bell so jealousy guarded
at Philadelphia, Says the writer:
"on the evening Of July 4. INC. the
Declaration Of Independence was finally
ADOPTED, yet there Is no record that the
bell was rUng. On the 9Th of the same
month the fact that the Declaration was
adopted was published for the first time:
stiH we have no evidence of the ringing
OF the bell. on tho Sth of July, 1776, the
Declaration was publicly read. and then
We read in Christopher Marshalrs diary:
mere were hundreds OF ringing bells.
with other great demonstrations of JOY
upon the unanimity and agreement of
the Declaration Upon that slender hint
haps the Liberty Bell was rung. but the
diarist fails TO notice IL. In the languages
OF the turf the Bell seems TO have u
claim 10 having also ran
DO let us stop this precious humbug-
gerry; let US be as honest as Barnum.'
. For our part we refuse TO take any
stock in the prattling of this shatterer
of idols. We shall continue to believe
the pleasant, the dear old story of the
boy who waited at Independence hall
on that memorable July 4. 1T76. for the
Declaration to be adopted. the boy who
ran as soon as he heard the news to
the church where his grandfather, bell
rope in hand, stood, the boy who cried
out, Ring, grandfather, ring" at the
top of his clear young voice. And shall
we efface from our memories the pic
ture of the old man, his white hair
tossed and tangled as he pulled at the
rope while the brazen tongue above
him proclaimed, Liberty throughout
the land to all the inhabitants thereon
Let Us keep our blessed memories.
They may be based on myths, but they
are very dear 20 US.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-21
THE sMooT CASE.
Senate the Sole Judge Of Qualifea-
tions of Its Members.
philadelphia Ledger.)

As the investigation of the protests
against Senator Reed SmOot proceeds 1T
is becoming moueR and more evident that
the Mormon hierarchy has not kept faith
with the United States with respect TO
the practice OF polygamy. Francis NJ
Lyman. one of the twelve apostles" who
will succeed Smith in the presidency.
frankly confesseS that he is polyga mist
and expects to remain a polygamist in
opposition 10 the law Of the country and
the slumbering rule of the church. 1t has
not appeared thus far that Mr. smoot
has discountenanced the polygamous
practices of his immediate associates in
the hierarchy. 1t does not appear that
he has condemned them. His high po-
sition in the church which permits such
practices implies acquiescence on his
part in all its tenets and practices in
pursuance OF these temets. and the grave
question arises whether Mr. SrnoOt may
not properly be regarded as the direct
representative OF o body which sets the
marriage law at defiance and as such
unfit for a seat in the senate. In other
words, does not Mr.. Shoots representa-
tive relation to band of confessed out
laws disqualify him in good conscience
from membership in the senate?
1t is urged that his exclusion on this
broad ground will not violate the consti-
tutional provision that no religious tests
shall be required as a qualification TO any
office or public trust in the United States
OF course, the senate cannot exclude Mr.
SmOOt merely for entertaining obnoxious
beliefs, however fantastic and revolving.
IT has not been shown that he is a law
breaker himself. Yet he is so far rep
resentatiVe of MormOnism and all it
stands for in faith and practice that he
received the consent of President Smith,
required by a rule of the church. TO be-
come a candidate for United States sem
ator. The range taken by the investi-
CATION indicates that the issue will turn
upon tho question of Mr.. Shoots repre-
sentative relation 10 a body hOpelessly
committed TO unlawful practices. From
The decision of this new question against
Mr. Smoot there can be no appeal for
the senate is the sole judge of the quail
fications Of it's members.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-21
AN ODD DEFENSE.
Tenor Of Testimony Says in Erect
Mormons May Do as They Please.


(Pittsburg Dispatch)
The testimony of the Mormon leaders
before the senate committee IS rapidly
taking the form of the defense OF ire
SpCnsiblhty. Apostle Lyman admits that
he is violating the laws Of God and man
but relies upon the mercy OF the Lord
President Smith said yesterday the com
mancs OF the Lord came as individual
revelations. The whole tenor of the
testimony for the past few days has been
IN effect that any member OF the church
might do as he saw fit. excusing viola
ton of church canOns and secular law BY
claiming TO have divine revelations TO
him personally The average citizen who
IS not a member of the church Will have
his own opinions upon this defense and
concerning these revelations of the code
the associates Of Senator SmOOt.
SO FAR as the evidence being presented
bears upon the case at issue Il may be
assumed that Shoots claim to his seat IS
legal or constitutional lines. The senate,
ike the people generally, has probably
arrived al the conclusion that Senator
Smoots admission to that body IS unde-
sirable. no matter what his standing I'M
der the law 1t may be unfortunate that
actual constitutional points, but Il is
doubtful II il will be. The whole issue
in the public mind, and presumably also
with the senate. Is whether Smoot should
on his rights. The last Mormon 70 be re-
fused admission 10 the house OF represen-
tatives was admittedly rejected because Of
his record. without going very deeply
into the question of his rights. II is an
unsatisfactory way of dealing with the
thus most speedily attained il will prob
ably be accepted.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-21

a right governmental policy they are
apt to think they represent public
opinion.
But IL they search far enough they
will find very large class believing in
a theory that is exactly opposite to
their own and they are just as earnest.
just as patriotic as the other side. It
Is the duty of the newspaper to reflect
public opinion as well as to form 1t
and it is impossible to refec5 public
opinion without presenting both sides
OF Il. for there are ALWAYS two sides.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-21
MoRMoN1sM AND STATEHOOD.
Shall the United States Be ''Bunkoed''
by the church,
New York Times.

ANEW lOTh Ilneh-l
Replying at some length to our recent
remarks upon Reed Shoots case, the
Hartford Co-rant observes:
THE rejection or expulsion of duly
elected and qualified senator or repre-
sentative because of his opinions or his
sectarian affiliations and of nothing else
will be a new thing in the United States
OF Americans we said beforehand IL
will be a beginning OF troubles. The en-
tering upon some roads is easier by far
than the turning back"
We entirely decline 10 admit that SmOOt
will be excluded from the senate of the
United States because of his opinions"
1t Is open to any senator to hold such
any other subject as commend them
selves to him Neither viii he be ex-
Guided on account OF his "sectarian af-
iilations in any usual or legitimate
sense Of that term. The case of Wilkes.
who was kept out of the house OF COM
mons Ostensibly the author of black
guard poem, but really as a radical. and
of Bradlaugh. who was kept out for re
fusing 10 take the oath required Of men,
berS. but really because a ma iOrity Of
the members, who may have agreed with
thus pr0claiming them, which cases the
Courant cites, are really not TO the pur-
pose.
The testimony taking before the COM
mittee at Washington is making il in
ereasingly clear that Reed SmOOu is the
agent and instrument of a theocratic or
vice, imposed itself upon the country as
one of the United States. MormOnisrn or
any other ism, cannot subsist and grow
when once the normal civinza ton of the
time catches up TO it. MormOnism in
particular, has grown and thriVen by its
isolation. When il lay off in the heart OF
the Great American desert and had TO
be "trekked' to by slow and painful
stages. the peculiar people might re-
main peculiar. But the opening of the
Pacific railroad was the beginning OF the
end. Once brought Into relation with the
general current Of American life Nor
mOnism was doomed The only question
left was of the rapidity Of its extinction.
About fourteen years ago. being harassed
with the laws which Congress. as the
supreme authority over the territories,
began to make against pOlygamy the
poiygamOus theOcracy began to believe
that IL would be much safer as a state
than as a territory. 1t also became aware
that it could become state only by false
pretenses which should impose upon con
gress- Those false pretenses it at once
began to put forward Ii pretended to
have abandoned pOlygamy, and the pre-
siding theOcrat put forth a manifesto 70
that effect. The result was that the
country was deceived. its agent congress
was deceived and the theocracy. or Con
spiracy, got itself admitted and recog-
nized as state. The-eupon It began to
remove the mask and TO reassert itself
as a foreign clement in the American
Union owing a higher allegiance than that
II owed to the United States. and send
ing TO Washington Representatives OF the
principles and practices which il had OBJ
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-21
Barber Shop Philosophy.

say said the deputy assessor, do
you believe in vicarious punishments? p"
Don't know what IL means said
Number with frankness altogether
unusual. We'll. I don't know whether
that's the right word or not. Saw It in
a book once used something like that.
But what L mean is. do YOU believe
people are ever punished for something
somebody else has done on account OF
something they, themselves. have
dCne2" The which, asked Number 1.
We'll. let me tell you about il, and
you'll understand. You've read about
this fake assessor who's been going
around passing himself off on people as
an assessor and improving the opportu
nifty to rob the houses? Yes. Well,
I'm suffering for that fellows doings.
and I'm trying 10 figure out whether il
Is a punishment for something Fve
done. I'm having an awful time. Ev-
erybody takes me for that thief, and
some Of 'em won't let me i'm their
houses at all You know we've begun
to prepare our lists now, and. say, It's
something awful the way I am being
treated by people here. Went to a
house this afternoon. Lady came to
the door. Told her l was the assessor
You git right away from here.' she
yelled, or I'll ring for the policel
Hold on here. lady l said TO her, L
not. I'm the real assessor. You don't
get in this house to steal things" she
yelled at me. I'm too old a bird for
that. l read the papers, and if you
think you're going to get in here TO
pillage and rob you're left. that's what
you are,' Now see here. missus.' 1
said to her, persuasive-like, L know
just how you feel, but l can prove I'm
all right. See, here's my book. If 1
was not what I say l am. how would
l get this book Why. people of your
stamp could steal book like that easy
enough. How do / know that book is
genuine? You git right oUt!' And she
slammed the door in my face She's
got a relative by marriage here who's
known me for several years, and I'm
going to get him to go mp there to-
morrow and stand for me. Got to get
through with this work somehow, but
say. I'm Just about sick of the job
That's just sample of what we get
everywhere since this fellow worked
that graft. I said to another wot
who wouldn't let me IN the other day:
Why, good heavens, ma'am, do look
like a thief2' 'Well,' she said looking
me over carefully, I would rather not
express an opinion, and, anyway, you
can't tell anything by a persons
looks. That's the way it goes, and it's
a dreary life. What do you think
about il. anyway? Am ! being pun
ished for another's sins or for my
own? Do you think"
Next gentleman" said Number 1.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-21

tanned statehood By falsely pretending TO
have abandoned
IL is this organization thar Reed Smoot
seeks to represent In the councils OF the
United States. while pretending 70 repre-
sent a state OF the Union. The whole con-
spiracy is daily becoming more and more
clearly revealed in The light Of the tesii-
mOny Of Mormon witnesses at Washing
ton. The real question Is not one OF
Opinions" or Of ''Sectarian affilation-
II Is whether the false pretenSes SHALL
succeed. whether the United States shall
be successfully .'bunkOed' by the Church
Of Latter-day Saints. If the Hartford
COurant is willing to ac0uiesce in that
bunkoing we judge that II will stand very
nearly alone
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-21
NOV orlnans Recines-

New Orleans Times-D emocratD
II the place is on the Chinese coast. re-
member the number Of your laundry
ticket. multiply by c, substract what is
left. and find the puzzle.
II q Russian name, add three portions,
sneeze, cross your fingers snd forget it,
II the names a Russian name.
And your tongue can never trip il,
Why follow this injunction then
Just shkip IT, neighbor. shkip II.
Some friend VII tell you how. of course,
Because hts me thOds suit him:
But II he does. do this TO him
Just shkoot him, neighboT. shkoot him
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-21

are now trying 10 solve. For II appears
clearly from this testimony that laws arc
laws only when they 10 not infringe upon
church rules. and that church rules are
cot church rules when they conflict with
new revelations. and that revelations arc
revelations only when they do not tres
pass upon the personal wishes OF the re-
ceiVer Of the revelation and some OF his
friends. The complexities of the old
style theology are nothing compared with
those which are suggested by this DIS
closure of the workings or the church or
the Latter-day Saints.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-21
Reviving History.
(CTncinnati TnauirerO

Away back before the civil war the Re-
publican conventions were resolving
against the twin relics OF barbarism- -
slavery and pOlygamy. Slavery has been
abolished through a costly war, but, ac-
cording to the testimony before a senate
committee. pOlygamy is still Furnishing
and spreading. 1t is by no means confined
to Utah. 1t is plentiful nearly all over
the Pacific slope.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-21
Proved a Hero.

Admirers of candor in men under fire
are enthusiastic over Apostle Smith
cheerful confession that he defies the
laws of church and state by living with
five wives. They call such frankness
heroic. But it is not to be wondered at
And comparatively IL is nothing 10 brag
about. Far greater herOism was shown
by the leader of the I4atter-day Saints IN
taking the wives. and living with them
than in the mere detail OF acknowledging
their strenuous existence.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-21

Got brick handy? Well. save 1t for
the man who talks to you about the
fine spring weather were having. You
might also jolt the old gentleman who
insists that the seasons have changed
nightly since he was a boy in this
valley.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-21

81. Louis railroad ticket scalpers
have been enjoined from traffic in ex-
position excursion tickets on which
they were preparing to reap harvest.
The United States circuit court Of ap-
peals decides that railway companies
have right to issue tickets at reduced
rates on condition that they shall not
be used except by the individuals TO
whom they are issued.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-21
Some Utah cOnundrums.

The answers so frankly given by Presf-
dent Joseph Smith of the Mormon church
to the senatorial inQuisitors suggest a
number of interesting conundrums. When
is a law not a law? When is a revelation
not a revelation? When is a church rule
not a church rule? These are some ex-
amples Of the posers which the people
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-21

Even in Kansas it is important 10
have money when you are on trial for
murder. Chauncey Dewey and his
cowboys have just been acquitted Of
numbering three brothers Berry, but
of course it wasn't because Dewey was
a millionaire. Perish the thought
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-21
Result Is Educational.
(Councn Rluffs Nonpareil.l

Let the Investigation take the widest
scope possible and the result, at least,
will be educational to the reading public
II the Mormon church is now the victim
denominations. Il should not be after the
present investigation. il il confines
along the broad lines mapped oft at the
opening session OF the committee.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-21

Langley. the airship man. is to keep
on trying. We admire his perseverance
but we cannot help noting with salts
faction that no more government mon
ey is to be wasted in his experiments.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-21
Estimating the Possibilities.

(ChicagO Tribune)
Archie Ito intimate frisnd)-Td propose
TO Miss Jarvis in a minute If / WASH Z
afraid. DO you think I'D stand any
chance. old chap?
Intimate Friend--Why. of course YOU
would. She'd say either yes or 40,
wouldn't she7
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-21
Rather Up Than Down.

(St- Louis GlObe-DemoCrat)
The Mormon habit of making obedience
&c the laws subject to divine revelations
TO an individual is a poorer excuse than
emotional insanity or Il was drunk. Yer
honor" A bigamist's revelations are mole
apt 10 be handed up than down.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-21
Records Don't Show.
new York Press. )

When the Mormon apostles tell the sen
ate they would obey their revelations
when in collision with the law Of the
land they cannot De doubteu-. but what
happens when the revelations come in
collision with a united command from
their wives does not appear on the record.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-21
Postical Proposals.


from correspondents as TO the best and
most efficient way for young woman so
take advantage of the leap years privi-
lege and propose, the following cOmmends
itself:
\ girl who was quite an adept,
As to Reginald's elbow she crept,
Whispered into his ear
This is leap year, my dear.
Do YOU think you could help?-And he
'-lept''
But i'm case this plan doesn't work, we
suggest the following:
A girl made believe she was crazy.
And one day when the weather was hazy,
She grandished knife,
Screamed. WED me. or your Hfei'
Take me- said the fellow. quite May.
A FEW on MATRIMONY.
There was a grass widow named TOtteu,
Who stuck 10 divorces like cotton:
When they asked WHO Is hep
She answered. Search me
He's husband. perhaps. I've forgotten. "
There once was a Ionesoms, lorn spinster'
And luck had for years been g'inst eE;
When n man came To Ourgle,
She shrielxed, with n surgle.
stop thief. while I call in d min SteI.
The chic Nottingham Corso.
Had her ball gown cut low. only more so;
When she asked. "How's the dress?
Her husband said "Bess
Don't you think yOu'n eaten cold in your
tOrso?
There was. young husband named
Whose wife firted morn. noon and
nightly;
He murmured. Dear. dear!
I would fam interfere.
II 1 knew how 20 do IL politely"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-21
No Congratulations.
~ York MaiI.l

At last accounts the Mormon president
had received no congratulations from the
other one on the able attitude he has
taken against race suicide.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-21
BREAKFAST FOOD
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Whv the ExeitementP

Now what is there rare in a day I'm June
That we should throw fits and fail seven
ways2
Doesn't each year bring US at least one
June7
And doesn't each June contain thirty
days?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-21
Wink at Crime.

The idea of the AIOrmOns appear 20 be
that IL is a sin not 10 preach the observ-
ance Of the law, but a crime TO prac-
tice il.
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Glow Would YOU
CWashIngtOn POst0

w dou4nStOn fOSt.j
How would YOU like to be a Mormon
elder, with eight wives and forty-fIva
children. mostly girls, along about Easter
bonnet timer
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April debts
Bring May regrets.

The Vladivostok squadron has van
ished. 1t is not known whether it
went W or down.
Secretary Taft has not only set us
right on the Philippines hut on the
Panama canal as well. This is kind of
him, and we are impatiently waiting
for his views on the war in the far
east, the Smoot case. the labor situa-
ton, the new spring hat and the Cor
bett-Britt fight.
Sully has at last got into the Joe
Letter class.
The moral of the Fred Grant. Incl
dent is that army officers should dis
continue the practice of getting meals
away from home.
As both factions have been instructed
for Roosevelt, the administration is
not likely to interfere in the war among
Ohio Republicans.
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Sully has at last got into the Jot
Letter class.
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NEXT ATTRACTION and sat
urday and matinee. Denman Thompson
in The Old Homestead"