The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-02-06
LIGHT FROM IDAHO.

Some OF lhS RGpuDllCdnS IN ludnO
have seen great light, II is not
long since, according to the Weiser Sig
nal. when Mr. Reese Davis. editor OF
the Caldwell Tribune, was insisteutly
proclaiming that there was no Mormon
issue In that State. Now the Caldwell
Tribune says.
And again, the ever-bloomiug Mormon
question. This VIII be a promlnen; issue.
probably paramount, In the next
campaign. aud II Is likely that II will
loom Up I'm a somewhat embarrassing
form. The question presented to the
voters may be. Are YOU In favor OF
an amendment to the Constitution OF the
United States prohibiting the practice and
preaching OF pOlygdmy in any State or
Territory OF the United Statcs?' And AS
that question is answered by the voters
so viii be the complexion OF the next
State administration
But there is that eighty volume protest
and thcre is behind that protest the Ida
no test oath. which laid down the prinCi-
pie that membership In an organization
which teaches, breaches, encourages,
sanctions or practices bigamy, polygamy,
plural celestial marriages Is of Itself
onensc sufficient to warrant disfranchSe-
ment and consequent disqualification to
hold public Office Then, there is the tes-
timony OF the president Of the Mormon
church confcSSlng himself the posscssor
OF Ave wives, With each and all CT whom
he proposes 10 cohablt hereafter In def
ance OF civil law and divine revelation
And Reed Smoot believes In his heart and
breaches 10 the world that the president
OF the Mormon church is Il prophet, seer
and revelatOr, and the NiceSerent on
earth OF the Almighty God In heaven.
At last they are waking to their dan
ger This paper has been telling them
for some time past that the conjunc-
ton OF politicians with the ecclesiasts
would destroy Republican pre-eminence
in the intermountam country If not
soon stayed No party can carry the
burden of Smithism and SmootiSm The
people of Idaho, resident there today,
and those who arc rushing I'm by tens
of thousands, win not consent that the
political organizations TO which they
belong shall be burdened by the public
treason and private crime OF a self
constituted priestcraft Only that party
may succeed which shall disavow all
afNliatlon with and responsibility for,
disloyalty polygamy robbery of the
poor and tyranny over the minds OF
men
And as the Republicans of Idaho are
ptlIS dlouSth W Alit IiNuhtt, hpbli II
not be we'll Tor the thinking men
among the Mormons 20 sense that the
end Is near at hand? Because the cry
of wolf" has been sounded many
times they have been prone To believe
that the real wolf would never come
But i'm all their past experience the
threat has always become a fact. There
were mutterings at Kirkland and the
prophets promised-but the promise
failed. and the people fed. there We're
mutterlngs i'm Missouri and again the
prophets promised-but the promise
failed and the people fed. there were
mutterings at Nauvoo. and again the
prophets promised-and such OF the
people as did not die of wounds or
sickness fed; there We're mutterings In
Utah and the prophets promised-but
Brigham Young Syas deposed and the
civil scoundrels," representative of the
Government occupied their civil Of
fees From 1862 10 1882 there were
mutt terings and again the prophets
ptomiscd- the promise failed the
long threatened law became operative.
aud after tens OF thousands of impris-