The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-07

chosen by the church and sent TO Wash
inGton TO force n Mormon elder down
the throat of the United States Senate.
They sent him, not as Reed Smoot The
citizen, but as Reed Smoot the Mormon
apostle, the embodiment and exponent
anal representative of Mormonlsm and
all il stands Tor, that the people OF
the country might be compelled TO re-
ccive and tolerate him. Normally ne
represents the State of Utah; actually
hc represents the Mormon hierarchy.
Nominally he is the servant OF the
State; actually he is the servant OF the
church Professedlv he is loyal to the
constitution and laws of the country:
actually his supreme allegiance is to
the Mormon church. If such man may
legally sit in the Senate Of the United
States, we can scarcely conceive OF
what would exclude him And yet good
men and able lawyers stood up. IN the
Senate and defended this man right
To sit in that body! Mormons the coun-
try over are laughing Mt the innocence
and gullibility Of these solous, and are
shouting over the victory the ehurch
has won in the Smoot case. Mormon.
ism has not had such n triumph in all
It's history II will he amazingly
strengthened b. this for the next move
il will make. and it viii not be long
I'm making il. The solution Of the Nor
mon problem has been made immensely
more diflicult, and Senators Knox, For
aker, Dillingham;, Bcyeridge and others
will live To regret the help they gave
the church in the fight 1T is making
against our institution.
In answer TO what we have sand, we
may he cited TO the speech made by
Mr.. Smoot in his own behalf The
flourish made over this by some of the
secular papers is amusing. Smoot is
listened to as if he were the judge on
the bench. instead Of the criminal al
the bar it is us if man accused Of
theft were allowed to declare that he
acquitted and applauded. No moro
credence is to be given Smoot than
would be accorded any other accused
man. Indeed, no faith whatever is to
be put in his statements on this sub
iect, He is a thoroughly indoctrlnated
Mormon, and the history Of that peo-
pie, as well as the teachings Of their
theology and ethical principles, shows
that they can not he trusted on honor
or oath, where the church is involved,
IL seems like hard thing to say, but
study of the history of Mormonism
and OF its teachings makes il plain that
Reed Smoot's oath to support the con
stitution and laws. Of the United States
would not he worth the breath it took
to utter 1t. If the matter involved the
church. To say that such man is en-
titled to sit in the Senate is amazing
The people should understand that
Reed Smoot is one Of the shrewdest and
olIlest men in the country. He is a past
master in the arts of the politician.
90 Ele is as mild hammered man as ever
scuttled n ship or cut throat He
is Just the man 10 play the part he has
been given at Washington His speech
was masterpiece Of deception. tt was
bold IN Its utterances, and in its con
demnation of lawbreakcrs among his
fellow churchmen and apostles; but all
this was for public consumption Be
hind the scenes, and especially in Utah.
he and his fellow Mormous will laugh
at the manner in which he pulled the
wool over the eyes Of the Gentiles The
Mormons understand him, and are
pleased. Some day the Nation will
come to its senses on this Mormon oues
ton. and then the mon who intensified
the trouble by keeping Smoot in the
Senate will get their reward.-Ed,toria
in the Pittsburp Christian Advocate