The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-21
Maid Of Orleans or a Black Prince, is
the supreme figure of battle.
CULLOM APOLOGIES.

In an article in the North American
Review under date Of March 10, 1907
the Illinois Senator attempts to vindi
cate the action of the Senate in vot
ing TO retain Apostle Reed Smoot as g
member Of that body.
The learned lawyer and statesman
Cullom, speaks Of the confusion IN
which the case has been involved III
the public mind; and then proceeds to
further confuse il. He says; "We
cannot afford TO allow the evil breath
of either Gpolygamy and hierarchy to
influence the course Of a single State or
the smallest part of any State in our
commonwealth" And following this
declaration he attempts to Justify the
presence of Reed Smoot by the assump'
tion that polygamy is obliterated, and
that the hierarchy is not dangerous
when represented by hierarch-
If proof were wanted Of the taint,
it would be amply forthcoming in the
article of Senator Cullom.
Think Of this conclusion as the pro
found, deliberate Judgment of Senator
Cullom, expressed in the North Ameri-
can Review after the testimony which
was delivered before the Senate Com
mittee on Privileges and Elections:
I am satisfied that polygamy, for ex,
ample, has been practically obliterated; |;
that the last OF IL lives In the midst OF
dctestaton, even from Its fellow Nor
wholly abolish the miserable remnant
that remains but the spirit OF decency
which forced intercourse With the true
and honorable has instilled through the
very heart of Mormonism and must con
tinue TO Instill without the aid OF eX-
tcrnal agitation. Incidentally ! am sat
shed that Reed Smoot has never prae-
ticed poygamy, but on the contrary has
always set his face against it by both
practice and precept,
Polycamy is cbiiterated, he says, cx-
cept for the dctestation in which IFS
final remnant lives in the consideration
of Mormons. And the chief polygamist
Of the world today is the head of the
Mormon church, is honored with more
idolatrous devotion than is given to
any other prince or potcntate on earth,
The remnant of polygamy abiding only
in the detestation of Mormons' When
recently two apostles were dismissed
from their quorum for having been
- found out in new and frequent
plural marriage. there was wall
throughout the Mormon community that
these men had been punished for ''liv-
ing their religion Recently prose
cution was brought against the presi-
dent of the church for living with his
five wives. the youngest of whom had
lust given birth to his forty"third child
in his plural marriage relations; and
throughout Utah and all the surround
ing country where Mormon influence
dominates, President Smith was re-
garded as a martyr and those who pros
ecuted were held to be prosecutors.
Senator Shelby NJ. Cullom either does
not know the proper meaning of words,
or he does not understand the faintest
aspect of this Utah question, or he js
willfully misleading the people of this
Republic.
Throughout Mormon church circles
the detestation' is for those who
oppose polygamy and the idolatry is
for those who engage in ii. That is
the plainest and the all-permeating
of community existence in
the intermountain country.
Over his name as statesman and
n publicist, Senator Shelby NJ. Cullom
tells the people of the United States
that Reed Smoot "has never practiccd
but has always set his face
against il.
There are ten thousand men IN Utah
better Informed on this subject than
Senator Cullom, who knows that Reed
Smoot has never uttered one word III
opposition TO Polygamy that has
reached public attention in this State
or in any other Mormon community.
On the contrary, they know that he is
one of the responsible promulgators of
the explicit teaching of polygamy, as
that teaching appears in an alleged
revelation from God issued every day
by authority of the hierarchical body,
Of which Reed Smoot is member They
know that Reed Smoot voted TO induct
a polygamist into the apostolic quorum
three years ago. They know that Reed
Smoot sustained as president of the
Brigham Young university, of which
Reed Smoot is the guiding spirit,
They know that when this
was compelled to fee, Reed
Smoot selected another polygamist in
his place to act as an cXemplar and
preceptor unto the youth Of both sexes
Many OF them have shared the local
understanding family and neigh
borhood understanding-that Reed
Smoot went through n sealing ceremony
to Emma Daniels, after the death of
that esteemed Young woman, for the
purpose Of establishing to her in the
eternity the relation Of husbaud-in ac-
cord with the Mormon church doctrine
Of the eternity and plurality of the
marriage covenant; they know that
such rumors so originating arc rarely
if ever false; and they assume that this
is true since no other apostle of the
church preceding Reed Smoot but was