Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-04-01
A SCATHING ARRAIGNMENT

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The Rexburg, Idaho Current Journal
has scathing editorial headed Fred
H. Dubois" II Is founded on the inyi-
tation extended to him by the Mothers
Congress at Washington to speak TO
the ladies' on the subject OF "The Pur-
ity OF the Home" That paper re-
marks:
What an inspiring thing 1t must
| nave been TO these well meaning moth
ers to listen TO this pure. clean, spot
less representative OF the American
| home throw mud at the people who
helped elect him TO his high Office.
Could they but have read the
secrets Of his life and heart, and seen
| the Interior Of the whltened sepulchre,
how they would have hid their faces
IN horror, and cried out for very
| shame
The Current-Journal then proceeds
to eXcorlate the Senator from Idaho
for his defamation Of the Mormon"
people before the good women OF the
Congress, and gives brief history OF
the course pursued in reference to
plural marriage, showing that only a
very few persons in idaho are now in
that relation, and what II has cost the
"Mormons" 70 conform to the demands
Of the country, and says further;
And yet Senator Dubois and 9TH
| ers like him are not satisfied, they
| nave heard OF two or three sporadic
cases Of pOlygamy since the manifesto
| was adopted, and the whole people are
| held up 10 reprouch, and designated
as law breakers. How unklnd this Is.
how unjust. Again, because some
! aged brother still calls the mother of
| his children by the sacred name OF
| wife, and visits her he is to be sent TO
prison, and the unhappy wife Is to be
sent into the wilderness, like Hagar
| OF old, to perish OF thirst and hunger.
| All sympathy and love is to be for
| over withdrawn from her. and she Is TO
| be henceforth looked upon as an out
| cast This Is the program outlined by
| Senator Dubois. and eagerly endorsed
| by the Christian Mothers Congress
| and other reform associations through
out the land. And all this is for the
protection Of the home and the adj
vancement of Christianity"
The Currcnt-Journal thus turns the
| tables on the Idaho politician and COM
| pares his character and career with
those Of the great body of the peo-
pie whom he is engaged IN malgning
when Senator Dubois prates about
| the purity OF an American home, we
| cannot help wonder what Kind OF home
| he was brought up IN. what could
| have been the teachings Of the home
| that has afflicted his fellow citizens
| with such a product. In all Latter
| day Saints homes the children are
| taught to speak the truth to bear
| false witness against no one These
| taught him, or else he has
long since forgotten them, for
| no one could tell more un.
| truths about his neighbors than he did
the other day before the Mothers Con-
| gress I'm the homes Of the Latter-day
| Saints children are taught to be tenn
perate 10 leave strong drink and to-
bacco alone. Senator Dubois was eyi-
IDENTIFY not instructed I'm anything or
| this kind, for he Is no stranger to the
saloon. The Mormon" home teaches
| purity and virtue It seeks to instill m
| TO the heart OF the boy that he must
|
| Was Senator Dubois ever taught that
lesson2 n 40, he has not always re-
membered Il. The Mormon boy IL
| taught in his home TO fear God and
| love his fellow-men. Our senator must
never have learned anything OF that
kind IN his pure Christian home, for he
loves no one except HIMSELF and fears
neither God nor the devil The Nor
mon" home teaches love for country
and fits institutions, a respect for INC
flag that symboizes Its glory, and the
boy IL taught that he must not only
be willing to die II necessary FOR his
I country. but must be willing to live
for Il, and help maintain the liberty
which II guarantees. Were such les
sons taught Fred Il. Dubois? Evident
" not, or he would not be engaged In
trying 10 deprive one-thlrd OF the citi-
zens Of his state Of their political
rights. We hope that there is no Nor
NOM home that cannot develop bet
ter character, as n result OF It's teach
ings than Fred T. Dubois,
THE Mormon people are to be dis
franchlsed II this enemy Of liberty has
his way. And why? one reason thai
he gives, they have changed their pol
tiles During Cleyeland's administra'
ton they were all Democrats, and nov
| IntN are lAtUuhllAhloH VI NFNAf' ~
is as false as his other statements, NJ
doubt some OF the Mormons. like
other people sometimes change thell
politics But II there Is one In theil
entire number who has changed Oft
ener than Mr.. Dubois we would lik'
TO know his name. lie would be a po
utlcal curiosity. We are OF the opin
ion that our senator has belonged L
as many parties In the last twenty
years as any man In the United States
II a change Of political opinion Is {
crime, then MIR. Dubois ought to be on
Of the first to suffer for It. He shoul'
have been dsfranchised long ago.
The article concludes with defens
OF the people whom i. T. Dubois ha
so grossly DETAINED, and asks what in
ducement he has offered to gain thel
support for his political ambitions, am
whether It seems strange to him tina
"Mormons" do not fall over each othe
10 help him take away their rights
The entire article makes good reading
and we regret that lack Of space forbid
our reproducing II In It's entirety,
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