The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-10
HURLS DEFIANCE AT ALL
WHO CONDEMN HIS LIFE

sion and danger and inconvenience sur
round them. II Is calculated 70 press then, ,
affections They have stood. hands
clasped. by the side Of oceans rage,
and duty. to the dictation of honor, and
hence fuifill the covenants that they. have
made with each other. And so | say
now. az before the world ten years ago,
that FOR myself / shall read my duty by
| the conscience God gives me, and / snail
respond TO the call Of love and honor,
and YOU may make the most of It.
Defends the Prophet.
II IS said by the gentlemen that no
man could whiiewasn or slolity or hide
the outlawry OF Joseph r. Smith. Cen
| tlemen his conduct needs no wlitewash- =
| position needs no defense; 1t needs only
TO be stated, And as YOU have not stated
1t, l Will Or. what Is better. let him
state it for himself. on a recent occa-
dent Smith said these noble words:
II have appreciated the magnanimity
OF the American people In not enforcing
the policy that In their minds was un-
necessarily harsh but which assigned The
settlement of this difficult problem TO the
progress OF time. Since the year 1890 a
flies have ceased 10 exist. until the num-
her within the jurisdiction OF this court
is greatly reduced. New violations OF the
law have been and now arc prohibited.
settled. and certainly. The result can he
easily measured by the family relations
In the old conditions that, they admit
have been generally left undlsturbed.
$50 far as my own case is concerned,
I. like others who had entered into sol"
emn obligations. sought 70 the best OF
quirements pertaining to the trying posi-
ton IN which we were placed. / have
felt secure In the protection or that mag
unanimous sentiment which extended the
al i1 RS
10 those old cases Of plural family re-
lationshlps which care within Its pur
view. AS 10 minc when l accepted the
manifesto oy President Woodruff, |
didn't understand / was 10 be expected
TO abandon and discard the sacred cove
nants and obligations which ] md as
have conscientiously tried To discharge
the responsibility attending them With
out being offensive to anyone.
81 have never Haunted my family re-
latio7s before The public, nor have felt
a spirit Of defiance against the law. but
on the contrary have always desired to
be lawablding citizen. In considering
the trying position in which have hcen
placed. | trust your honor VIII exercise
such leniency In your sentence as law
and justice Will permit"
say that Joseph r. Smiths position
needs only to be thus stated. and the
world and the manhood OF America VIII
applaud the Utah Ministerial association
to the contrary otwiths'anding.
HOT Blast foT PREACHERS.
Now, what IS the use OF talking in this
strain TO Won. gentlemen This is
question for statesmen. and you cannot
be accused Of possessing any OF those
qualities Laughter) That. however.
is perhaps your misfortune and not your
fault When ] take into account the in
tellectuai and physical capital with which
YOU started In he. | sometimes marvel
that YOU hav" done so well. Your Yoca-
tion Is not always left To your choice.
You are frequently or the position is fire.
quently chosen for YOU by your parents,
hiEing in View your physical and intel
generally recognized as a gcnteel sort
ot profession. II permits a certain So
cial standing 1t secures YOU from the
duties and sweat OF physical toll of the
o fthe professional He and struggle. and
axes you ont Of the turmoil OF trade and
commerce and ont OF the fierce contest
of political life, and from the danger OF
service in the army and navy.
And then, YOU know, your are not
physically strong-you are consumpttve.
neurotic. paranolc, and the like. and so,
this genteel profession nuie frequently Sc
lected for you by parents, YOU pass into
the schools and colleges aud universities
and there YOU follow rather kid-Eloye
IF mathematics; YOU Will need more OF
bellies lettres. and more Of metaphysics,
and OF languages and rhetoric
and etiquette. and so your studies arc
his course. YOU step from your colleges
nio the pulpir-to instruct the world. al
he same time knowing less about that
world than any other class OF men what |
,oever.
And then. going into that world, YOU
ire soon scnuestraied into A very narrow |
portion Of II. And rule YOU have
q deal most with christenings, with wed !
lings and with funerals. but YOU shine /
most al pink teas. So that neither bY [
'our original endowments, nor by your .
nor by your training are
-ou prepared to meet the broad questions .
hat concern humanity. and the great /
strife that men meet with in this ques-
ion confronting the Latter-day Saints /
: matter for men, statesmen %, blood /
md brain, SO II has been relegated 10 |
hem. For four long years you have !
'aked the country as with n fine toothed |
.omb Ia gather up your evidence and to !
,onvince body of men of blood and 4
,raln that they ought 10 follow your die |
ation and ought TO assail the Latter-day |
saints.