The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1907-12-21
THE IDAHO SCIMITAR.


bers by thousands still secretly practcing the
same
"The secret reasonable oath was not allowed to
in evidence you very we'll know. SEN
ator Hopkins, of whom you have SO kindly spoken
tonight defended Smoot and adroitly shut out the
OATH The President wrote letter to Hopkins, and
congratulated Hopkins for his able defense.
Nov I will serve notice on you Mormons that
that issue is not closed If you Mormons elect
other to Congress or the Senate, especially
apostle, that oath will come up again, and when it
does you people going to get the worst of it.
know and many citizens know, why that oath
not permitted airing in the Senate. | am glad
you have been so frank tonight You asserted that
polygamy was divine That the only reason why
your people did practice it was because the laws
of our country forbid it.
NO. sir, everybody knows that with views like
that, if you people become the balance of power
IN our Congress, and the ruling power in that great
body, you will proceed to undo all legislation on
polygamy and make them harmonious with your So
called divine teachings. And you now have control
OF Utah and Idaho, and large portion of Arizona,
and other portions of the Pacific Coast And see
how Roosevelt, Hopkins and others have bowed
down to your clamor, even with the power you have
when, today, if fair and impartial trial had been
unSedted.
You said while ago that large families were right.
You said that Joe Smith, your present president,
had now five wives, and that his family was model
one And that Mr.. Watson, of Efdngham, Ill.
had been in Joe Smiths family and had written an
article euogizing his orderly family And Watson
you say is one of Rooseve1t's postmasters You
also SAID that Mr.. Roosevelt was favorable to large
families
Now, if you mean anything by all this talk YOU
Justify the belief in polygamy as the panacea for
the social disorders of country and that Roose-
welt is with you people on poygamy Now let me
tell you something A. J. Hopkins of Illinois, is
a dead statesman His defense of Smoot killed him
And you let Roosevelt cheep this Mormon business
IN the direction you speak of tonight and his DO
litical popularity will fade away as rapidly as it has
risen mountain high
You boosted of the goodness and loyalty of the
Mormon church tonight. You spoke about the
honor and the liberty-1oving spirit of your people
and how proud you are of your churcls record and
how your people had been prosecuted What about
your record in Nauvoo, Ill? Look at the hundreds
md thousands your people tortured and killed in
hat country Look at the robberes your people
committed How your people plundered homes and
tole cattle, sheep, hogs and horses, and money by
he thousands of dollars WORTH until the people be-
~ % Nniaseu lldl lley rose up and drove you
crosS the river and killed your divine prophet.
mink OF the Mountain Meadow massacre Look ar
ne murders you people committed in Utah and the
property you conScated, until the influx of Genti1es
las made you decent Don't you come here sir.
cling about the goodness of your people, when YOU
ave your own fiendish way. The history of YOUR
hurch, where you have ruled supreme is a history
I 1nfamy and shame, the recital of which is enough
make angels weep, and devils in hell tremble
Or shame