Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-09-20

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Mr. Borah can vote upon his reten-
ton or expulsion. Is there any
doubt how he would vote?
The real question in Iadho, then,
is not whether President Roosevelt
shall be sustained, but whether
Apostle Smoot shall be sustained.
And behind it all is whether the
Mormon $50 called) church, which .
is but a political and commercial +
machine, shall Withdraw its high
priests from the political control OF
their people, or whether they shall
have full power in this inter-Mor-
mon region to vote their thousands
of subjects like machines, and
fasten more firmly their lawlcss- I
ness, their naStiness and treason
upon these intermountain states.
In Utah a new American party is
fighting this power. 1t has taken
this city from its control. If laho
is wise it will do what it g &c
throttle this power while yet il ;ari.
There are Americans enough ir
Idaho to do the work if they deter
mine to.
MAKE THE PROTEST NOW
For the honor and prosperity of
their state and the future peace of
their children, they should make
their protest this fall. Mr.. Borah
says the discussion of the Mormon
question will be subordinate one
in the campaign. - 1t ought not to
be subordinate; it is all the real
IF
for the democrats of Idaho indorse
all that President Roosevelt has
tried to accomplish.
Ipr.sume that MIR. Borah would
admit that the republican party is
his efest solicitude. 1 tell him
that If Mr.. Smoot goes back to
, Washington with the full iradorse-
, ment of Utah, Wyoming and Idaho,
: and the apostle retains his seat,
the republican party will not be
: sure of the electoral vote of either
one of these states in 1908.
{ Of late 1 notice that some prorni-
/ nent men and journals have beer
: seeking a justification for indors-
5 ing Apostle Smoot on the ground
/, that he has but one wife and that
= his has been a clean life
The fight is not upon Mr.
, Smoot, but against the open ane
Y secret defiance of the laws of th'
S church, or the 1 s high officers o
d the Mormon church, which, ii
n truth, are the church, of their CLAIM
a is that they are guided by revcls
O tions from Almighty God ever
Il day.
e B. H. Roberts was cxpclle
t from congress by the unanimou
c vote of the members of the hOus
# of representatives because he was
l. poiygamfst Mr.. Roberts does nc
IF believe in the divinity of pOlygarn
IF any more than does Apostle Smoot
is He does not indorse the suStainin
as of high officers in the church VIII
lie have taken new wives since til
n manifesto any more cheerfully tina
tie does Apostle Smoot-
e, WHY SMOOT WAS CHOSEN
G Apostle Smoot was ''set aside
oi manipulate the politics of tt
church because he was not a pOlyg;
l. mist The church has many us'
for special 1ieutenants, and the c
=. fort is to get the right man for eaC
place. But really polygarny is b
the cement of the system The re
objection is the determination
- these self constituted rulers to be
- law unto themselves. That ma
their trouble before they admits
the polygamy feature, and Brigha
-. Young was not a more despot
-. political boss than is Apostle Srno<
a though he had vastly clearer jud
mcnt.
Suppose some a1ien-sornc citiz
= of an established kingdon-had
- power to come from Seattle to ST
kane and dictate who should be I
state officers of Washington Hs
-. would the Americans in Spoke
=. like it? Suppose such a m
- should, because of his ccclcsiasti'
power, have himself elected 81
ator, how would the men OF s.
- kane like it? And suppose so
citizen of your city should aspire
- be senator and, being on a visit
80, Boise, should there give out an
- tervievv that the question of ecc
rule in ro1iticS was sub