The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-03
A Caustic Criticism
on Smoot s Victory

Editor Tribune--An old saying is
to the effect that "good news travels
slowly" and bad news is no less tardy
when washed-out railroad is between
this outpost of Nevada S southeastern
mining boom and Utah s Zion-the ra-
dating point Of news good aud bad,
for all of Utah s self-exied citizens
here.
From The Tribune and other Salt
Lake papers we have learned the details
of the bad news-had for Utah-that
the monumental imbecile OF Provo, Reed
Smoot, who. by the grace of Joseph +.
was made Senator from Utah. has re-
tanned his seat in the Senate. We have
read how he has achieved this end by
the supine surrender of certain United
States Senators, who have stood for the
protection of concentrated wealth, and
for everything else under the heavens
that might strengthen their power.
We have also read of that outburst
of patriotism on the part Of Bishop
Professor Keller and the Brigham
young University students at Provo,
aud il excited mingled feelings of
amusement and disgust From Bishop
Eeeler S inspired utterances on the oc'
casion OF the parade of the students
and their cheers for the unholy triumph
of broken pledges, of deception and
brazen faced trickerY on the part of
prophets, secrs and rcvelators, We learn
how the victory of unparalleled politi-
cal treachery on the part of some of the
Mormon chiefs is to be used in hiding
the real issues, and in exciting the zeal
of the ignorant acknowledgements. be-
cause their only source Of information is
the Descret News According 10 Eeeler,
the upheaval in Utah and in the Nation
against Smootism and all that it repre-
sents, is just another attack Of the
hated sectarians on the Mormons.
And we have trlumphed, y shrieked the
large~mouth and pigmy- Drained profes
sor of the Brigham Young University
If any one has the curiosity to know
the exact size of the cramped brain
box of Bishop Professor Keeler. and
the workings OF his theo-sclentifc in
tellect, he should secure n copy OF the
bishop 9 greatest and most enduri ing eff
fort Foundation Stones OF tho
Earth, In that screed one may learn
how all the precious truths of geology
truths gathered through the centuries
by conscientious and intelligent men
are warped and twisted into a theory
that IS mistakenly assumed to support
an idea of the secondary origin of the
earth, aud falsely credited TO Joseph
Smith the prophet. And the curious
one will also learn of some of the alb
B, Y. U. students under the title of
Theological Science
Such misguided fanatics as Joseph L.
Smith, and such cool, calculating and
somewhat brainy but skeptical asplr
ants for the shoes of the immortal Brig
ham Young, as Francis Marion Lyman,
may affect to regard the seating Of the
Provo accident as being a permanent
frIu O1I,h of
decency and virtue. But there is
large contingent in the Mormon church
(larger than most people belieye) that
is in quiet but earnest revolt against
the policy Of those rcvelators who re
ceive no revelations and those prophets
who never prophesy, except after the
occurrences have become paragraphs
had the pleasure Of discussing Utah con
ditions with a Mormon sister III St
Thomas this State. The sister in ques~
tiou is a lady of unusual intelligence
and candor; and while discussing the
significant outburst of Keeler and his
disciples of the Foundation Stones ot
the Earth the St. Thomas sister re-
marked;
"From a letter from Harvey, my son,
who is attending the r, Y. T., learn
that he was disgusted with the hurrah
for Smoot, and with the discipline
which compelled many of the students
to participate in a celebration that was
hateful TO them.
The mother of Harvey is a loyal
Democrat, a close student Of current
events, and thoroughly Independent in
her analyses of them.
The great majority of the Mormon
people along the Muddy valley, from
ST. Thomas TO Moapa, are Democrats.
as they were in Utah. One of these
Muddy valley Mormons--life-long in his
LOYALTY to the basic doctrines of Nor
one year ago. while dis
cussing the question of ecclesiastical in
reference in the political affairs of
Utah, made the following pointed state
meDt:
NO matter how vehemently Joseph
i. Smith and others Of our leaders may
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