The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-12-25
HE PLOTS SEDITION.

The Tacoma Washington Ledger
reads, in the arraignment of Reed
Smoot by Senator Burrows, chairman
of the Senate Committee on Privileges
and Elections. "a severely plain and
truthful statement of facts justifying
that committee s action in reporting a
resolution 10 declare the seat of Utah S
senior Senator vacant
The Ledger does not arrive at this
conclusion without a careful study Of
the speech of the distinguished Sena-
tor from Michigan, nor without ample
knowledge Of the conditions in Utah
which made that scathing accusation
a necessity. The Tacoma paper pre-
sents this array of irrefragable and con-
elusive assertions:
Utah obtained admission as State
upon it's pledge TO enforce the laws OF the
land. including the laws against bigamy,
the application for Statehood. a great
show was made Of renunciatlon OF politi-
cal interference on the part Of the Nor
mon hierarchy. Utah was TO be a
Lat,er-day Saints was TO keep It's
hands off the government. and the
people were 10 ne permitted TO rule them
selves, How these pledges have been
broken. the testimony takn by the SEN
ate committee amply shows. Mr.. Bur
rows pointed out that AT the very next
election after Utah S admission 1.-The HE
rarchy resumed Its domination In State
affairs" and that never since that time
has II been possible for any person 10
obtain important office In the State with
out the approval OF the twelve apostles"
Republican government, guaranteed by
the Constitution Of the United States TO
The people OF every state is in Utah
State are ruled by a secret oligarchy.
which claims and exercises supreme au-
thorlty. temporal and spiritual, and which
insultingly dedes the United States Gov
ernment and the laws of Utah.
There can he no disproof Of any
word Of this charge. 1t is the common
knowledge of all people in Utah that
these are the lamentabIe facts; and
despite the fnlsehoods of the high
church witnesses who attended the in
vestigation at Washington. the testi-
mony which they volunteered in a spirit
Of brazen defiance or which was cx-
torted from them when they resumed
their old cunning attitude. furnished
conclusive evidence 10 all the reading
people of the land.
Utah lost great deal when she
gained Smoot She will gain great
deal when she loses smoot For when
falls the political power of the HE.
rarchy then Will fsll the blasphemous
misuse Of God 5 name for the financial
and social coercion Of the mass here;
and then will fall, too, the organized
conspiracy. in the profaned name of the
Divine Master. to annul the laws and
the constitution of this commonwealth.
The election of Reed Smoot to the
Senate of the United States was alto
gether evil in its intention: but it has
contained this much of good. The in
vestigation thereupon ensuing, due to
the protest Of nineteen brave citizens
Of Utah who dared social. political and
business ruin TO vindicste the name Of
their State-has proved TO all men the
truth of the charge which was being
muttered under the breath in Utah, and
! which was being strenuously denied by
! the leaders of the Mormon church and
| their supine Gentle allies; it has
proved that new polygamy was RAM
| pant among the young men and women
of the church. it has proved that the
| authorities of the church exercise ab-
solute and unquestioned political domi-
nation in Utnh-that no law is passed
| which they oppose and no law fails
of passage which they approve; that
| they obey or disoboy law at their
PLEASURE that they enrich themselves
by the gain Of one-tenth of all the
annual production of their people,
| filchcd from the toiiers in the name OF
God and misused in the service of
mammon; that they are reasonable to
the Government Of the United States
| and that in the maintenance Of their