The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-11-25
AN UNGRATEFuL HYPooRITE

| What a braZen falsiier and what a
fawning hypocrite he Is In Joseph +.
Smith s statement to Judge Ritchie ca
| Friday, when he appeared Defors the
| court to make his little settlement for
| cash. he spoke Of "tacit understand
ing with this country under which lie
had continued his polygamous relations.
And he smirkinGly talked of his graft
| tude for the "ma gnanimity' shown by
| the people of the United States in por
mittine him to hive with five women IN
the conJugal relation.
President Smith s intimation that
there was any such tacit understanding
is a rank falsehood. He personally
pledged his word of honor 10 the Prcsi-
dent of the United States that he would
not again disobey the law which for
bade his living with his plural wives, if
the President would grant amnesty for
his past oifenses and thereby preserve
him from the penitentiary. That pledge
IS In writing and is a part Of the i'm
perishable history of this State and OF
the Republic. In the face of that cove
nsnt made by him in order to secure
immunity from prosecution for his pre-
vious violations of the law, he needs
something more than the blasphemed
name of God to cover his present decla-
ration that amnesty was granted with
a tacit understanding that he was to he
permitted to violate his word of honor,
to violate the conditions Of the pardon,
and that he was to continue to break
the law of the land, the law of his God
and To disregard the seDtimentaity Of
the whole country. The claim is so alb
surd upon its face and is so character
istic of the squirming hypocrite-it is
so insulting TO the conscience of the
American people-that no one but q
besotted tyrant, no one but a willful de-
fer Of God and man, could utter it, II
is at once an insult TO the memory Of
BENJAMIN Harrison, President of the
United States, whose patriotism and
whose Christian life will stand as an
imperishable proof that Joseph +.
Smith falsiGes when he says that am
ncsty was granted with tacit under
standing that it's conditions were not to
be obeyed. 1t Is an insult to Wiford
Woodruff. president of the Mormon
church, whose truth and whose sincerity
stand forever to denounce this belated
claim of Joseph T. Smith " is au in
suit TO the whole Mormon people, for
Joseph T, Smith, over his own sigma
ture, pledged their honor that he would
obey the law and comply with the con
ditlons OF the amnesty. 1t is an insult
TO all the citizenship of the United
States, for Joseph F. Smith was dis
frauchised lsw-breaker when the am
nesty was granted, aud by that ma agnaui.
nous document his franchise was re-
stored 10 him; he uses that franchise
dence of the country by defyinG all the
conditions upon which his rights of |
citizenship were restored.
And the people of the United States |
should know that when he fawniugly |
speaks of their magma nimity,' while
pleading for mitigated sentence from
his judge. he is insulting them by his
hypoeriticsl deceit. The favorite word |
of Joseph F, Smith concerning the pco-
pie of the United States is enemies, -
In his addresses he frequently uses the
word TO describe the citizenship of this
Republic. In sermon at st. George he
designated the Gentilcs (snd with him
this term includes every Christian and