Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-02-05
UNJUSTIFIABLE DENUNCIATI0N

agogical speech OF Senator burrows IN
support Of the majority report OF the
senate Committee on Privileges and
Elections, against Senator Reed smoot.
we take the liberty OF copying the
article in FUN for the benefit OF our
readers. 1t is as follows;
.Drhe Hon. julius c. Burrows, OF
Michigan, delivered a speech IN the
Senate OF the United States. on Tues
day. December II. The Senate had
under consideration the resolution re-
ported from the committee on Privi-
leges and Elections, That Reed Smoot
IS not entitled 10 a seat In the Senate
as a. Senator of the United states from
the State OF Utah
THE Senator's speech was mostly If
not entirely. directed against the
Church OF Jesus Christ OF Latter-day
Saints, It's doctrines, and its leading au-
thorities. from the days OF Nauvoo to
The present time, His only objection TO
Senator Smoot was that he is one OF the
authorities OF tho Church His speech
IS compilation OF unfavorable and
mostly entirely unjust criticism from
sources antagonistic to the Saints. and
gathered principally from revamped
tales published In our own state-tales
promulgated by a combination Of min
isters assisted by a. local paper whose
chief owners and writer are dlsgruntled
politicians. Scraps of sermons. re-
marks and statements by leading
Church authorities, are separated from
their context and made to show the
position of the Church in false light.
Irejudlced reports OF former early
government officials, are, repeated TO
prove his false contentious. Much that
was said and done IN the early sos, IN
time of frontier excitement and con-
1entlon, great deal of It being irres-
ponslble Islander OF the Latter-day
Saints, Is carefully woven into the
speech of the Honorable Senator, so as
10 apply to The Latter-day Saints then
and today. Here is an example.
Speaking of the Saints he says
eFrom the hour they took possession
of the Territory IN lsi7 the denomina.
ton of this Mormon hierarchy in civil
as well as in so-called religious aatfirs
has been absolute and supreme, and
there has been inaugurated and car
,ied on for over forty years a carnival
OF crime In this Territory unexampled
in the history OF n civilized state
Then. passing over the more recent
history of the state up TO this time. he
makes this utterly false charge against
the Latter-day Saints:
can organization that fosters and
encourages crime. tramples upon all Law,
human and divine, practices polygamy
and polygainous cohabitation, desc
crates the home, debases man, de-
grades womanhood. debauches public
morals, strikes al the Christian civili-
zation OF the age, undermines and
shakes the foundations of society and
government. destroys the sanctity of
the marriage relation defies the authors
iiy OF the state and National Govern
ment, registers an oath OF hostility to
the American nation. and brings the
name and fame OF the good people OF
Utah into dlsrepute, and shame and
humiliation 10 the American people--I
submit that such an organization Is
not entitled to have its representative
in tho Senate OF the United States
And | will heartily agree as to the
last abatement. But without attempt
ing IN this little space TO review or
answer the Senator's falsehoods, ] do
declare. what Is well known here, that
IntIt IN 10 uiEdulHdAlOfl VI illdA hillI
tn Utah nor among the Latter-day
Saints. and further. the Church neither
las. nor seeks TO have. a representative
an Congress If one of it's members Is
sn Congress. he Is no more representa-
tive of the Church than Methodist, or
Catholic. or Presbyterian who may
he In Congress is q representative OF
the church 20 which he belongs, The
federal officials elected from Utah were
elected by the people Of Utah. and by
the political parties that chose them.
and the parties are composed Of all
classes. Tho Church had positively no
voice in the matter, and took NO action
in their election al all. The Church aud
state IN Utah are separated effectively
and completely.
Again Senator Burrows says in his
effort 10 show he domination OF what
he terms the hierarchy In political af-
fairs:
"There has been no case In which
candidate for high Office In Utah has
obtained the consent OF the Church to
run aud has been defeated, and there *
no case In which one did not receive
such consent and has been elected, The
consent OF The hierarchy ~ command
OF the Church
And yet he declares in the same
breath. that in the Legislature OF 1890
"rhe Mormon Church made deter-
mined effort 10 elect ono MIcCuue,
Gonille, but failed. Tho truth OF the
matter Is that the Church neither made
determined effort In this case, nor
failed Tor the reason that the Church
had no voice IN the matter Neither
IN there a member OF the Church In
Utah who believes that the consent Of
the Church authorities TO any Of their
associates 20 engage In civil, political
or business, affairs Is command OF
the Church. What members do IN these
lines Is their own affair, and the
Church and its officers do not COM
mand, either by consent or otherwise.
Then, as 20 the character OF tho PEG.
pie OF the Church, ho says
~ think ! am Justified IN saying in
the light OF history and tho testimony.
from The time Brigham Young and his
followers entered the Territory OF Utah
w 1877 until this hour the organiza-
lion has been criminal one.
"0n the contrary. all who know the