The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1907-11-02
THE IDAHO SCiMITAR.

victim of natures memorable psychological forces
His early experience with the lax enforcement OF
the civil law, as exempli6ed in the death of his
father and uncle, not only engendered in him I'm
reasoning contempt and hatred for democratic
form of government but inspired him with devotion
to centralized power, the highest type of which is
necessarily the kingdom of God Thus we are en-
abled to understand the mental process by which
Joseph F. Smith justies himself in disregardng
those laws of men that would prevent him from
obeying law of God that was only suspended be-
cause of the pressure of human laws Gin the fore
going there is attempt to analyze the mental pro-
by which it deemed better, or more digni-
fed, to escape the concession that the Almighty had
met His Waterloo by the Intervention of revela-
ton suspending poygamy than by graceful SUR
render to the inevitabe)
ct is hoped, President Smith, that you will at
least concede the honesty of motives in the foregoing
attempt to shield you from the scorn and seemingly
merited contempt on the part of good men and
who fail to understand that broken pledges
less than treachery because perpetuated in the
name of religion.
1T is not necessary to go further back in history
than 1890 discover the causes of the present I'M
rest among thousands of our people, and for the
welding together of fully one-half of the residents
of this city, irrespective of politics and religion into
a united compact and unyieding organization known
the American party.
"You will remember that hundreds of Our people
were in the penitentiary for polygamy and for I'm
lawful cohabitation Some fifty or sixty of our
people were in the criminal dock of Judge Judds
court at Provo awaiting transportation to the pen
tertiary 1t was early in September of 1890 In
words that breathed kindness and charity for those
self-confessed law-breakers, Judge Judd said to
them: Except for the offense for which you have
received light sentences you are a good people
Your faces not those of criminals. But the law
has said that your offense is a crime And [ want
to impress this fact your minds. Uncle Sam is
top in this territory and you take your choice
of three alternatves-obey the law, go to the peni-
tertiary or leave the United States"
within less than one month from the date of
Judge Judd's unequivocal fiat the manifesto 'sus-
pending polygamy issued and adopted by the
Mormon people The manifesto was the outpour-
ng of an honest, tender soul that was surcharged
With sorrow for the suffering of his people Presi-
lent Milford Woodruff honest and upright
nan. But his manifesto was made the initial pro-
eeding in a conspiracy to remove Uncle Sam from
on top, and to relieve certain polygamists from
he three alternatives laid down by Judge Judd
The manifesto received in good faith by the
Mormon people, and with the same interpretation
he surrender of unlawful cotabitation that was con-
eded in the petition for amnesty December 1919
nd before the Master in Chancery, and that was
7rung from you by repeated applications of the
enaorial force pump before the committee on privi-
eges and elections
The manifesto operated act of wholesale
Increment Hundreds of modern Hagars were
riven forth into the wilderness of and strange
xiStenCe In some instances in order tO soften tIe
low to their families, ceased to live with any