The Lamar register., 1907-02-20
SCORE SM00T
UTAH MINISTER ANSWERS sENA-
TOR KNOBS SPEECH.
PLEA AGAINST PoLYGAMY

GenttI6 oI0C VI kuC Nu0sb'Sh SS'stS-
versy Presented by Dr. Paden Of
Salt Lake city-Address at WASH
inaton AntLPoiysamy Meeting
Washington.-Polyga was scored
and President Joseph Smith and the
leaders of the Mormon Church in Utah
were denounced by the Rev. DR.. VIII
liam NJ. Paden, pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church OF Salt Lake
City and president of the Ministerial
Association of the Northwest. at an
anti Mormon meeting held at the Met
ropolitan M. E. church in this city
Sunday night under the auspices of the
National League of Women's Organi-
cations. DIR. Paden devoted most OF
his speech to reviewing the minority
reports submitted to the Senate in the
Smoot case. and declared the stand
taken by Senator Knox of Pennsylva-
MIA was nothing more nor less than
plea to the American people to acqui
esce in the polygamous practices in
Utah.
DIR. Paden presented the Gentle side
of the Mormon controversy, declaring
the law-abiding citizens OF Utah VIII
take the Senate's action. If Senator
Smoot is allowed to retain his seat, as
an Endorsement. of the policy OF polyg-
amous living He declared the federal
legislation of 1862 against bigamy in
the territories had never been exc
cuted The law was defective, no
said. in that it made no provision
against the crime of polygamous liv-
ing.
got vNrIx. my G
the paper on which it is written" con-
tinued the speaker, unless it also
deals with polygamous cohabitation.
We cannot this day prove Joseph
Smith is a polygamist. but only that
he is a polygamous cohabitator."
DR.. Paden commended the Edwards
Tucker acts as the only laws which
ever made polygamous living crime
to be prosecuted and not to be &C.
quiesced in or tolerated. Thousands
Of cases were prosecuted successfully
in the Utah courts. he decided
when these laws were being enforced
by the government and they were the
direct cause of bringing the polyga'
mists to their knees in 1880, when the
church capitulated and made uncondi'
tional surrender"
The speaker said President Joseph
oCNCiai oPOSeiSS "a $50
church have had children born to them
by their plural wives since the mani
festo prohibiting polygamous living
laws issued.
Throughout his speech DIR. Padep
referred to Senator Smoot as Reed
Smoot, apostle, prophet, seer. reve-
lator Of the Mormon Church"
In concluding, DIR. Paden said:
This federation of polygamous liv-
ing means the federation of polygamy,
the federation of adultery, with relig-
ious sanction. Acknowledging, as we
may. that the majority of the people OF
Utah do not dare to do other than ac'
quiesce, that Senator Smoot acquiesce,
is no reason why the people of the ma
ton should acquiesce. Senator Knox
calls upon us to let pOlygamous living
alone and to call our being so satisfied
as no more than religious federation.
Reed Smoot is In harmony with
the quorum to which he is subject
when he acquIesces In the continue.
ton of this crime against God and
man: but can 1t be possible that Sena-
tor Knox is in harmony with his con-
stituency in Pennsylvania, in harmony
with the moral and religious will of
the people of the United States. when
he becomes the DEVILS advocate before
the Senate Of the United States anu
makes a plea for the religious tolera-
ton of polygamous living as he did"