The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-02-28
SOME BRAIN LEAKS
A few IDEAS pamIdte thrOgh the Brain
Of the Editor while IN a SOmnamhu-
IiStk State.

mormon hierarchy. 10 compliance
with this agreement the republican
party now has a Mormon senator
from Utah In the United States SEN
ate. This is In fulfllment Of a
| prophecy OF one of the former lead
ers OF the Mormon church. In this
revelation, which was distributed
among the people some years ago In
a little leaflet, was claimed to have
been revealed TO one OF the Mormon
prophets by the Most High, that the
time was not far distant when one OF
their number would he member Of
The United States senate. The seat
Ing OF this prophet Of the true church
would pave the way for the president
or the church to become president or
the United States. In part this
prophecy has come true In the seat
Ing OF Apostle Smoot. At the time
this prophesy was given to the
world even the Idea OF one of their
number being admitted to one of the
highest law making bodies of the
United States was looked upon with
the same degree of ridicule as 1t is
today considered that there is pos
sibility OF the presidency Of the
church furnishing the president of
the United States
~.
For the last half dozen years 1t has
been maintained that there was a
collusion between the Mormon bier
archy and the leaders of the republi-
can party. This theory is largely
substaDtlated In the almost unani.
nous party vote for the seating of
Smoot. This In face Of the fact that
the women of the United States, re-.
CARELESS OF party ties. had sent petit.
lions containing over five million
names against such sacrifice of all
that Is decent and honorable In poll.
ties. Those democratic senators,
who voted with the majority in seat
Ing Smoot, should and will have the
condemnation OF the masses Of their
party. After twenty-seven years of
an honorable career In congress, In
both the house and senate, Teller of
Colorado will retire, at the close of
the present term, the object of pity
and contempt In place OF the love
and great respect Of the people of
Colorado. No doubt 1t Is true that
many OF the republican senators sac
rihced their honest convictions to
carry out this diaboical bargain at
the behest OF President Roosevelt.
To many people Of this nation the
president of the United States has
been the personi tication OF honor and
Justice, the synonym for everything
that was pure In thought and deed.
The influence which he has exercise
In the seating OF Smoot brands him
as a politician of the most venal
character and a statesman OF the
Stun stripe.
".
When we come to peruse the his.
tory OF the Mormon church, not the
masses Of the church, but its leaders,
and then TO be brought to realize the
fact that one of their prophets has
been seated In the greatest law. max
Ing bodies In the land II should cause
the face OF every patriotic American
citizen crimson with shame. Smoot
does not represent the people OF
Utah, Smoot does not represent the
republican party OF Utah, but he does
represen political-religious oIgani.
zation, whose leaders have been
traitors to the government which has
given them protection. 1t is not
necessary to go back, In their history
beyond the time they settled In
Utah. When the government first
sent troops to protect the Gentle
settlers against the arrogance and
sillianous conduct OF brigham Young
the Momon leaders sought to am.
bush the forces OF this government
In the canyons of the mountains.
When the government was trying to
force the seceeding states back in the
Union and thus preserve the integ-
rity OF our nation, the sympathies OF
every Mormon man, woman and
child was with the South. Yet the
republican senators and be 1t said to
the shame OF the party, some demo.
cratic senators, prate Of the patriot
ism OF the Mormon hierarchy aud
give one of their leading apostles
seat In the senate OF the United
States.
-.
In his great speech before the
United States senate, Senator Du
bcis made use OF language which we
believe the republican party will have
cause to remember In the future. In
he said, In the South the
republican party can depend for sup
port upon the Negro, aud he believed |
the time was not far distant In the |
future when the only support the |
party could depend upon In the West |
would be the Mormon votes and those