The National tribune., 1904-03-10

aHdtHeIH1 In lis -FOUR aw1ul woes an(
left to the world the matchless "Pindari.
Ode in which he summed up the majest,
and power of an avenging God whose
wrath was visited upon the lawbreakers OF
bld Isaiah, more than % centuries
ago, did some prophesying too. He said
| For the wisdom of their wise men shall
perish and the understanding of their pru
dent men shallbe hid. Wo unto them tina,
seek deep to hide their counsel from tn,
Lord, and their works are in the dark. amt
they say, WHO seeth US? and who know:
eth us?'
| From Moses to Mormonism is a far err
yet his promised land and their promised
land are, by them. clumsily connected
| through the long chain of years, while
Sinai and Salt Lake in the belief OF the
Latter Day Saints are synonymous
Believing in f"ReveIat ion" and "Inspi
ration" will they also. accept the doom
OF their iniquitous practices as pronounced
by Isaiah and Habbakuk?
twenty-five years ago the Congress oil
the United States. by the passage of the
Edmunds. Act defining the crimes Of big.
amy, pOlygaIuy, and unia Wful' .cOhabita-
ton, believed that it had forever throttled
p0lygamy in the domain of the American
Flag.
The sensational. trial now going on in
the room of the Committee on Privileges
and Elections OF the United States Senate
| shows how futilesw that hope. Mr..
Reed Sm0ot, a. United States Senator
from Utah, is supposed to be on trial for
his right under the laws of the United
States Government to q seat in the United
States >>nate, that right having been CON
tested by. million petitioners who have
declared that he is in open rebellion aga INST
the laws Of the land, and therefore unfit
ted to retain his seat in the, highest body
In the unfolding OF The evidence in the
Smoot case, that gentleman dropped clear
out Of sight, and for seven days the Nor
mon Church in the person OF it's "Presi-
dent and Spiritual Head Rev. Joseph
T. Smith, has been on trial. The Nor.
| mon Church, supposed to have been
| purged of polygamy, its fangs pulled, and
the tenets of it's peculiar faith made in
n0cuOus and wholly moral according to the
standard established by orthodox Chris
ltianity.
| These seven days have been full of sen
satiOns and painful revelations, They
have been shown that almost in the heart
Of the Union there is plague spot which
il left to- tester, will prove greater men
ace to the body polite than the yellow
perip' or Imperialism" Moral lepros.
is noxious cancer and must needs be up
rooted with merciless hand, for it's tin
lest root will grow again.
Mormonism is moral leprosy. That is
Mormonism with polygamy.
The things that have been going on in
the room of the Committee on Elections
and Privileges in the Senate. and the
scenes which have been enacted there In
| the last week are singularly un-AmericaI
and they smack OF the days of Solomon
and not little OF Sodom and Gomorrah
| of Nineveh and Tyre and Babylon.
President Joseph +. Smith. head Of the
Church Of Latter Day Saints, declared
upon the witness stand that he has five
| wives and that they have all borne him
children. These wives, he declared, live in
FIVE different houses; two of them
are sisters and were sealed te
him on the selfsame day, &c
or more years ago. OF course, Sol
ONION had more wives than that, and SC
have some Of the Mormon Apostles, but j;
rather shocks the sensibilities Of people
who are accustomed to consider s'biga.
mist" an 0utcast, to hear man speak
calmly of FIVE wives.
Doubtless the picture that the unin.
formed will get Of President Smith-he is
so addressed by most Of the members oil
the Senate Committees that he is big
burly, red-faced roustabout. He isn't
anything OF the kind. He is probably
| about five feet eight inches in hight
quite slender, with q well-shaped, head
which is getting just little bare-footed
on top. His thin hair is now gray, but
has been dark, and he has dark, kind eyes
which light up wonderfully when he
speaks. His face 10 rather thin, nose lit
tie prominent, but the whole expression is
highbred. He dresses well. AS he sits