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

you now from page 20 in the Senate report in the
Keed omoot case, and will say to you that this
same oath was not only found to be the identical
oath taken by Reed Smoot but was found by the
United States Courts of the District of Utah be
Endowment House. | will furnish upon the request
OF any lawyer the citation Of the case if you will
simply ask me for it on postal card l have not
the book and page with me. This is the oath:
You and each of you do covenant and
promise that you will pray, and never cease
to pray Almighty God to avenge the blood
Of the prophets upon this Nation, and that
you will teach the to your children
and to your chdrens children unto the
third and fourth generation"
Now, ladies and gentlemen, in how many of the
Presbyterian the Methodist the Baptist churches
you find syllable in their articles of faith
creed which teaches such open and fragrant treason
this Some of us have been received into the
fraternal societies of country and venture the
assertion that you never took oath obi
CATION in any society under this flag, except when
you are told at the very threshold of that society
that nothing you shall be called upon to subscribe
to shall interfere with your duty to family to
try or to God Now | again say that until Mr..
Hopkins point to other church
other society," who teaches their children to pray for
vengeance against this Government he has right
to put this organized confidence game" known
the Mormon church in the category with those
who teach loyalty and patriotism
Those are the prophets of the church for whose
blood they would pray for vengeance against the
Government you old soldiers went out to maintain.
Why, you would think to read Mr.. Hopkins descrip-
ton of the flight from Nauvoo, ILL.,, of those organ
lied scoundrels that were robbng the honest farm
of their wives and daughters, the flight of
honest pilgrims seeking liberty and the right to
worship God according to the dictates of their own
conscience And you would think the Pilgrim Faith
ers that set sail for rocky coast to seek pure
shrine the march of freebooters and pi-
rates compared with the scoundrels who teach the
doctrine OF slavery for women. Mr. Hopkins said
in his speech, and | again beg any to correct
me if | mistaken, that there has been no polyg-
amy in that Mormon church since 1890. Let me
explain to you. Utah territory and, under
polygamy Finding that the institution
gained treason against the Government, the Gov
eminent took possession of their property by
celver. The only thing then, that they could hope
to do to get their property back and exercise their
right to slaves, calling them wives, to petit
ton Congress to make them State, and in order
prohibited polygamy and by absolute promise agreed
that polygamy should cease. Under that shrewd
and artful trick the Government of the United States
was deceived, admitted Utah State, which took
away the right of Congress to pass laws prohibiting
poygamy. Please understand that by Consti-
tuition today, Congress cannot pass law prohibiting
poygamy in any of the States, but could pass such
law, and did pass such law, prohibiting polygany
in the District of Columbia and all territory outside
of State organization In moment of forgetful-
ness, being deceived by this manifesto which Mr..
Hopkins speaks of, they were admitted a State.
Therefore the Government law could not apply and
instead of stopping their polygamous habits they
have gone on, and Mr.. Hopkins, if l quote him
rectly made a most serious blunder which, to say
the least, is ineXcusable to state that polyg-
amy had been known since 1890, when the manifesto
went into effect The majority of all the so-called
twelve apostles living polygamous lives To
show you how utterly Mr.. Hopkins is mistaken, I
will read you statement of six of the twelve
apostles that have been guilty of violating their So
,alled manifesto since 1890:
Abraham H. Cannon, who married Lillian Ham
in his fourth wife, in 1896 This marriage being
reformed by Joseph F. Smith, the president of the
hurch.
Opposite George Teasdale married Marion Scoles a
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opposite George w. TAYLOR married Rhoda and