The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-12-12
SENATOR HOPKINS HARD fight !
Ex-senator William f. Mason is Giving the Illinois VUle SOle
thine to Think About on the Mormon question:

never CEASE W pray -
avenge the blood OF the propne.s up
IN This nation, and that you Will
teach the same TO your chIiuIell an
to your cbildren's children un'o Vic
third and fourth generation.
Now. ladies and gentlemen, in how
many of the Presbyterian, the Meth
dist. the Baptist churches can you
find one syllable In their articles OF
faith or creed which teaches such
open and fragrant treason as this.
Some of US have been received INTO
the fratetnal societies OF our country
and | venture the assertion that you
never took an oath or an obligation
in any society under this flag, except
when YOU are told at the very thresh-
old of that society that nothing you
shall be called upon to subscribe 10
shall interfere with your duty 10
family, to country or to God. now
| again say that until Mr.. Hopkins
can point to some other church or
sore other society, who teaches their
children to pray for vengeance
against this government, he has no
right 10 put this "organized CONN.,
dence game" known as the Mormon
church In the same category with
those who teach loyalty and patriot
ism.
Those are the prophets OF the
church for whose blood they would
pray for vengeance against the go'-
ernment you old soldiers went out to
maintain. Why, you would think to
read Mr.. Hopkins description OF the
flight from Nauvoo, ILL.,, Of those Or
vanized scoundrels that were rObbing
the honest farmers of their wives and
daughters, was 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
Fathers that set sail for a rocky
coast to seek a cure shrine, was the
mere march of freebooters and pirates
compared with the scoundre's who
teach the doctrine of slavery for
women. Mr.. Hopkins said in his
speech, and l again beg any one to
correct me If l am mistaken, that
there has been no polygamy in that
Mormon church since 1890. Let me
explain to you. Utah was terri.
tory and, under our constitution,
congress passed laws prohibiting po'
lygamy. Finding that the institu'
tion was an organized treason against
the government, the government
took possession Of their property by
receiver. The only thing, then, thai
they could hope to do to get theil
property back and exercise thei
right to own slaves, calling then
wives, was to petition congress tt
make them state, and In order Il
secure statehood they passed a con
sitution which prohibited polygamy
and by absolute promise agreed tina
polygamy should cease. Under tina
shrewd and artful trick the govern.
ment Of the United States was de
ceived, admitted Utah as state
which took away the right of con
gress to pass laws prohibiting polyg
amy. Please understand that by GU
constitution today, congress canno
pass law prohibiting polygamy II
any of the states, but it could pas
such n law,and did pass such a law
prohibiting polygamy In the distric
Of Columbia and all territory outsid
Of state organization. In a momen
of forgetfulness, being deceived b.
this manifesto, which Mr.. Hopkin
speaks Of, they we're admitted as
state. Therefore the government
law could not apply and instead o
stopping their polgamous habits
they have gone on, and Mr.. Hopkins
liz | quote him correctly, made
serious blunder which, to say tn
least, is inexcusable, as to state tina
no polyaamy had been known sine,
1890, when the manifesto went int,
effect. The majority of all the so
called twelve apostles are living 20
lygamous lives. TO show you how
utterly Mr.. Hopkins is mistaken,
will read you statement of six O
the twelve apostles that have beer
guilty Of violating their so-callet
manifesto since 1890:
abraham II. Cannon, who mar
ried Lillian Hamlin, his.fourth wife
in 1896. This marriage being per
formed by Joseph +. Smith, the pres
ident of the church.
Apostle George Teasdale marrie
Marion Scoles, 1895
/ Apostle George W. Taylor mar
ried Rhoda and Roxie Yelling, sis
tiers, at the same ceremony 10 1895
he having three wives In additio
ut the time.
Apostle NJ. ]. Crowley marie
lletty Harker, l900."
In addition to these, Brigham
Young. an apostle. married abb
stevens, 81 a plural wife In 1898, an
, Apostle Owen Woodruff Marie
Avery Clark in polygamy in 1900.
, This shows that Mr.. Hopkins
| either mistaken or has a verp.shnr