The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-07-19
POWERS OF DARKNESS.

u believe the Lattcr-day Saint peo-
ple TO be the best people on earth. and
time and again | have testified TO that
fact. Many people have doubted lhlS
assertion and have asked me TO eN-
plain why my statement and the gem
orally accepted idea concerning this
people are at variance. I informed
them that from the first vision Of the
Prophet Joseph Smith. the powers OF
darkness had combined against him
and his followers IT Is as natural as
anything i'm life that where truth arises
there must be a conflict against cNll'
and this will so continue until our
Savior comes 10 earth TO rule as hing.
Ii any Of the Saints have thought that
our parents and forefalhers have suf-
fcrcd all the prosecutions there Is TO be
suffered then you have mistaken
idea. for as long as YOU stay with the
faith YOU viii meet with opposition
and persecution. Gods people never
were as other people and never viii
be unless either the people repent
and come 10 the church or else the
Saints apostaJize and become as
others"
The foregoing Is a report i'm the
Mormon church organ Of a sermon
delivered by Senator smoot before the
conference of the Weber Stake OF Zion
al ogden on the 10th day OF July,
1906. II should he filed as supple
mentary exhibit in the Smoot ease at
I Washington. with the additional en-
lightenmcnt and Interpretation which
! can he afforded by the testimony given
on the witness stand by the prophets
seers. and reyelators OF the Mormon
church, this utterauce OF Reed Smoot
| is amply sufficient 10 vindicate all the
| charges OF disloyalty which have been
| brought against him. Senator Smoot
| deliberately sets apart the Mormon
people as being entirely different. in
! every essential from the rest of the
people of the United States he warns
them that they must continue TO be
| in all essentials different he combines
! all the rest Of the people or the United
! States and all the rest OF the people of
! the world and their governments
under the title of the powers OF dark
| ness" and he testifes that the warfare
between all these and the Mormon
people must continue until the rest OF
! the world "repents'-unless the Saints
apostatize and join with tho world.
| There IS not in that sermon one line
which indicates n consciousness OF this
Nations rights 10 an existence or a
consciousness OF the fraternity which
prevails among mankind Boiled
down. that sermon by Senator Smoot
merely says "Wc Mormons represent
God and exercise his authority on
earth. All the rest of the world be-
longs to the devil. The fight between
our supernal handful and the hosts
of darkness must go on until one oil
the other is destroyed"
What more does an anarchist teach
than this? He insists that the little
brotherhood TO which he belongs is
blessing coming humanity by cxter-
mlnatIng the rulers and the institu-
tons OF the world He also is at wal
with what he would call the power!
OF darkness" He would destroy with
bomb and bullet and stiletto the evi
agencies which are arrayed against
the enlightenment Of anarchy
The minority OF the Senate Commit.
tee on Privileges and Elections ought
TO read what Senator Smoot says wher
he talks as an apostle, and should
realize that they, as a part Of the
powers of darkness" are assisting tc
maintain Smoot-who confesses tha
he is one of the best men in the worlc
in position from which he car
make a holy war on human institu'
tions, including the Government OF
this Republic