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we'll as the taking of new wives, and
yet this head of the hierarchy declares
7 his purpose to continue to defy the law
| of the land and public, decency, sub
mitting only to the laws of the state
! government under his complate thrall-
/ dom, backed by public sentiment, which
l he declares is content to permit him to-
revef in the debauchefiesef his haTens
Iaunquestioned and unmolested. NJ
| Married in! Secret.
| It is shown; by the testimony, be-
You'd all controversy, not only that the
i majority of the apostles are living i'll
shpolygamous cohabitation, including the
president Of the twelve, but that this
practice prevails to an alarming extent
turnout Utah and in adjacent states
l this practice, nothing definite can be
! known: Plural marriages are performed
I IN secret in darkened rooms, on the
highways remote from habitation, and
frequently in Mexico and other places
without the jurisdiction. of the United
States. The guilty parties then return
pie of their president and the majority
OF their apostles, live in polygamous
Capitalization, in full fellowship and
communion with the Utah Mormon
| church. The doctrine Of monogamy,
that zone man should have one wife
and one woman but one husband, has
been taken from the book Of Mormon
by this Utah sect, and the doctrine of
| Il oh .+c VII II
+ when President Snow in 1900,
stated that the Mormon church had
abandoned the practice of polYgamy
and the solemnization Of plural mar
riages, and that the church. did not ad-
wise or encourage polygamy on the part
OF an any Z, of it's members, Apostle Can;
unlawful cohabitation. as unconstitu-
t1onal. expressed the fear that fsome
sneaking whelps might use this decla-
! ration of President Snow as a pretext
for deserving some of their wives. If
they, did, they are the fellows who
ought to be disciplined
| r smoot Their Colleague.
"Joseph F. Smith, the sainted head
! of the church, pardoned for his crimes
upon the pledge of his honor to- obey
the law, after his testimony before the
committee, wherein his po1ygamous re-
latlons were disclosed, and as recently
! as 1904. declared in a public address
| IN the tabernacle at Salt Lake City
that if he were to discontinue the po-
wives, he should be forever damned
and forever deprived of the compan-
lonship of God and those most dear to
him thruout all eternity. r. !,
-''The very year and hour the senior
senator from Utah (Smoot) voluntar-
1ly Identified himself with this gov
erning body Of fifteen man, fourteen of
the number were living in polygamy,
and the members of this hierarchy were
able, jointly, to muster a harem Of
sixty women, whom they claimed, rec
ognized and cohabited with as their
wives. .~.s.. ~.. .- -
| IT think T am justified IN saving
that from the hour that Brigham Young
and his followers entered the territory
OF Utah, in lS47, until this hour, the
| organization Of the Utah Mormon
church has been a criminal one. The
vital question, therefore, becomes this:
Can one become a member of and iden-
tlfy himself with band of law-break-
ers, knowing them to be such, partic-
iipate in their rcounselsg and sustain,
tthheim, and yet escape responsibility for
have understood perfectly well the
character of the organization and the
crlminality of the members with whom
| he was to cooperate and commune
when he Voluntarily became one of the
governing body Of the church.
Helped Elect Smith.
zone Of the first acts of the senator
after his elevation to the apostolate
the elevation of Joseph F. Smith to the
presidency of the Mormon church of
Utah, with full knowledge that he was
living in polygamy. He has since re-
peeatedly voted to sustain HIM, and even
after full knowledge that Joseph F.
Smith had asserted his intention. to
the laws of God and man. And at no
time has he uttered protest against
the conduct of his associates il the
government of the Utah Mormon
church, but on the contrary has sus-
tanned them in the encouragement Of
polygamy: both by his acts and by his
silence. In view Of. the law and the
evidence, Go not see how the conten-
that the senator is entitled to retain
his seat in this body. .
".Suppose the senator instead Of
having his credentials presented
by fellow member had offered the
same in person and had said to the SEN
1 eLe, uoSlIo 10 % onClrely frank with
1 this body, and therefore wish to state
that while hold the certificate of cleo
ton from the legislature of the state of
Utah in due form, yet the senate should
know that I am member of the Utah
branch Of the Mormon church and one
Of a self :perpetuating body Of fifteen
men, cons Stuting the ruling authorities
i Of such church; that while I am not a
practicing polygamist, yet majority of
my associates are and are now living in
i polygamy; that, while am not a polyga-
mist, the head of the church is today
living in -polygamous cohabitation with
five women and is the father Of forty.
three children; that no one high in au-
thority In the church is permitted to
be a candidate for or accept public
office without permission of the head of
the church; that received such permits
sion from Joseph F. Smith, the recog-
nized head Of the organization. before
becoming q candidate for the senate,
without which permission L could not
have been elected; that the Legislature
electing me was composed Of a major.
ity of the adherents Of the Mormon
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