Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-09-23


to convict him on circumstantial evil |
dence and make the world believe it, |
1t is well known to all that DR.. Paden |
is not a married man. There are |
many places where they do not employ
married man. Suppose that DR.. Paden
should apply for such a position and
someone would ask Senator Smoot, sis
DR.. Paden married MANI" and Sen
ator Smoot should reply: 81 am an
lgnostic. l have heard this and |
have heard that and some persons
make the unqualified statement that
ne is. Utah Mormons, however, con-
slider it remarkable, if not incredi-
ole that man should be a member
Of the Ministerial association and yet
not live in the married state True,
we cannot see how Preacher Paden
can live his religion ("Multiply and
replenish the earth") or go on to per-
lection as a member of the Ministerial
association without doing as they all
| 10 for they are all married except
| Preacher Paden. For the Lord God
| said it is not good that man should be
alone. will make him an helpmeet for
him. And the much married Mr.. Sol
)mon said in his Proverbs: Whose
indeth wife findeth a good thing,
mi obtaineth favor of the Lord and
or that reason people believe that
Preacher Paden has wife somewhere
perhaps out in Pennsylvania.
Preacher Paden cannot be living in ac-
,ordance with the laws of God and the
Ministerial association unless he has
a wife,
Senator Smoot could get this last
statement verified by every Presby-
terrain old maid in Salt Lake City.
On November "a, 1903, DR.. Paden
said in the Philadelphia Press: "Of
I'll the thousand and one phases of
his Mormon matter the one which
most interests the investigator is the
principal present-day revelation. At
irst glance this seems merely mat
er of doctrine or of church practices.
When l was told in Salt Lake City
Of its practical bearings upon, say,
The administration of justice, it be-
came a different thing altogether.
Here is way Gentle business man
put it to me, and by Gentle l do
not mean a member of Protestant
church, for this man is not such. In
Utah everybody who is not Mormon
a Gentle. Paradoxically there even
Jews are Gentiles. Suppose said my
acquaintance, Mormon is on trial for
L crime with twelve Mormons in the
jury box, and in some parts of the
state the people are almost solidly
Mormon. The evidence is clear. But
llong comes one of the priesthood who
testifies that he has received rev.
elation that the accused is innocent.
That settles it. The latter-day reve-
lation is accepted as final by good
Mormon and the guilty man goes free.
Do you, not see how this peculiar
| .enet enables them to nullify all laws
md sacred pledges. l tell you," con-
.inued DR.. Paden growing somewhat
excited, If the Mormons once get
control of the judiciary in this state
and they have everything else,
shall hire a special train to carry me
md my family beyond the borders as
quickly as steam can make locomo-
tive CO."
DR.. Paden, what an awful traitorous
| falsehood you told the people in Penn
sylvania in the above. Yc cannot
mention a case in all the history of
Utah where a culprit was released
On a Mormon revelation, where rev.
elation was ever used to influence a
| Jury or judge, and yet you said 1t is a
present-day revelation and has prac-
| tical bearing on courts of Justice. You