Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-05-31

uress IN the Tabernacle , ~ my ad
dent Smiths emnhafi, was Pres
Those truths harmoni1a answer
a any an. any man to read both y,ato vns,
a i,n. men SHOW them to be in "rl oiI
ius' cohiiict' At Washington, ''F and
.or DUBOIS of Idaho, who baa Sena'
most lnlmical to me duriny I n,,. been
ii,s' never ceasing in his Icy Hey near
pace me in false lgbt 4 t,,s to
every way to get me tn so uied in
th1ng inadvertently. ana say some.
70 Withdraw it, so that he ron 5e' me
nle' When were you insprod1 ask
wheh were you not?' I saw w. w., and
pose from the start. and ,yo ms pur'
nined not to be drawn into on,, ueler'
stand by my answer. mad wy Trap
question, and which Senator nv w. MS
Oh ONO and Senator ATcro ro,dNer
maryland, the latter cartoim r,iaS OF
lrisndly to me, said was "inteiIioo nOt
and satisfactory" '''iseht
1T is charged that Won oro t..,
70 prevent free speech in the chung
ny accommodating those who T" nl1
their voices in opposition to v a,Se
will" " your
In my Tabernacle addrees H..
win That question:" was the renl T'a ~
Fald there that we will not fellowsbin
me ungodly. We will not felIowshipp
those who raise their hands aeoinat
God and His Holy Priesthood that TO
has restored to earth, and we bovo
right to say that we will NOT feIlow
snip such. Do we interfere with tbeir
liberty of speech? Not in the laa.,
we give them more liberty by with.
drawing from them the hand of fol.
IoWship, for while a man is connected
with a society, while he holds a stand
ing and association with it. he Is I'm.
der more or less restraint but to cut
him loose and let him drift. let him
80, gives him the utmost liberty of
Cpeech and conduct. No man has ever
been curtailed in his liberty by the
church. No mans mouth has beer
cealed by the Priesthood"
THE church does not disfelowshp
for free Speech" said President Lund
but for evil-speaking and libel"
"The church distinguishes, as do all
sensible men," said President Smith
between freedom of speech and H.
cense Of all speech. Moreover, no
member is exempt from the law of
the church. I am as amenable to it as
anyone else. If any man has a COM
plant against me, he has but to go
to the bishop of my ward and prefer
charges, but there is the proper per-
son and proper tribunal before which
to cite me, not on the streets and in
tions Of the people,"
rs there danger of a schism in the
church," President Smith smiled at
the thought. 81 know of none. / have
heard of none, nor do | expect one
At the general conference of all the
church, to be held here on April o.,
some crank may rise up and oppose
the sustaining of the officials. 1t has
happened in the past, but it will be
but the act of one man. Listen 10
this" Then the president read re-
port from one ecclesiastical division
setting forth that its representatives
to the general conference had been
instructed to sustain
Smith. President Lund told
of one large stake of Zion, with .,
of 10000 "Mormons'
whence it was reported that the
teachers had visited every family anu
had found but two persons who hae
of President Smith, anu
that only because he was connecteu
with so many corporations. So.
1--WE ask no favors," said Presiden..
Smith in oopc1uciOn Cali we want