The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1907-11-30

from citizenship in 1889, have now SO gained in
wealth, power and influence that, with the same
oath OF vengeance upon their lips and in their hearts,
they can now become lawmakers for our country?
Mr.. Hopkins says, in his speech, which have quoted
from, at page 20: The oath that taken by
Senator Smoot when he became a member of the
Senate of the United States supersedes any oath that
he may have taken at any period previous in life"
How does that statement of law agree with the de-
ClSlon OF the Utah court? If Mr.. Hopkins is right
in that, then the court is wrong in saying that the
endowment oath incompatible with the oaths
necessary for a citizen to take.
The truth of the whole matter is that the Mormon
society is determined to gain control of this Govern
ment; they determined, if possible, to make
spectacle their teachings of poygamous slavery They
do control absolutely Utah, and with the balance of
power in at least two three other States they hope
to elect Mormons, some of whom will be Repubi-
cans and some Democrats, but when the test comes
and they have balance of power in the United
States Senate (and we have frequently seen when
two three could furnish the balance of power
between the parties) then the industrial and political
differences will melt into thin air-then the Repub-
lican cloak and the Democratic cloak will be torn
aside and the men who sent to the Senate to
carry out the present schemes of that church may
be Republicans, Democrats or Americans but above
ALL they will be MOrm0nS first last and all the time.
| told the other day that my objections to this
church merely sentimental | do not admit
that, but in considering questions of law no man
can be entirely deprived Of sentiment The Ameri-
can home is the greatest of American institutions.
That we lead the nations of the world in the march
of civilization is due to the high standard OF the
American home, and no more disastrous blow can be
struck to the American home than the seating of a
United States Senator who teaches degradation of
American women. The standing of every nation in
the world, far civilization is concerned,
be determined by the treatment awarded to the
mothers of the nation. Who is to govern this
try in a few years? The boys who today getting
the inspirations of patriotism from their mothers
Can forget the statements of Lincoln, Garfield
and Mckinley, every one of whom said in substance:
All that | am, | to my mother" For half
century the of this country have been obliged
in shame to acknowledge that polygamy is practced
under the flag of our dear country and that in
States there is not enough public sentiment to pass
and enforce law against it.
The President has appealed to Congress to amend
our Constitution that Congress may deal with
polygamy, and the Senate of the United States
the Presidents message to the dead-house of the
Senate committee, and rebukes the very suggestion
by seating of the heads of that organization,
and his vote, under the Constitution, will be equal
to two affirmative votes upon the question of sub
hitting that amendment for action
Very WE'LL ladies and gentlemen, let it be under
stood that there is sentiment back of my opposi-
ton to this organization 1t is the sentiment pre-
vailing in practically every American home. Why,
when millionaire, some who gets suddenly
rich, puts away the wife of his youth who struggled
with him to acquire the fortune that he may marry
some ese he is despised by everybody; but in the
Senate of the United States today, Mr.. Reed Smoot,
who by his evidence upholds a worse condition
of affairs, teaches the right of open violation of law
and the degradation of the American home, is today
making laws for your family and your country.
The Democrats IF Ada County ear1y in t1,e