The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1907-12-07
Polygamy and the Presidents.

hardly be denied that the President OF the United
States, ex-oficio the first representative of the Re
publican party, has used the tremendous political
influence of his position to convey aid and comfort
to the Mormon church and to encourage polygamous
practices in Idaho and other mountain States
The President of the United States has employed
the power delegated to him as a perquiste of his
high position in support of a hierarchy made infa-
by its violation of the laws of God, the laws
of society and the laws of the country which
the President presides He has exchanged the sup
port that entrusted to his keeping, through mil
lions of cean-handed pure-minded citizens of the
republic for the support that the Mormon church
was able to confer upon his political party by virtue
of its autocratc power.
Through the trade for must employ the terms
of barter in fair discussion of the subject, the
party fhe President able to direct the elections
in one two or three States of the far West. In
the mind of the leader, control of States seemed
ample justification for practice that is beneath
question.
Although advised officially and reliably that the
contest in of the States he intended to betray
into the hands of the promoters of Infamous doctrine
not between the political parties, but was
struggle between virtue and vice and being
waged on the side of virtue in behalf of the
and children of Idaho the President departed not
from his implacable intention.
lie sent from washington into the State his choS-
en- representative a high official of the Government
who advocated from the rostrum the cause dear to
polygamous hearts, under the guise of appeal
to party eaty, and assisted in placing the State of
Idaho under the political dominion of the Mormon
church
Not many weeks ago, in the commercial city OF
Mormondom, paid officials and employees of the
Government, created and maintained by and through
the fundamentally of the President of the United
States and representing the system of the admin
stration devoted their best efforts to the success
of a polygamous ticket, and failed
Men and women of the Mormon States striving
through precept, example, prayer and faithful en-
deavor to the evil to their present
and future find themselves confronted by the forces
of the National administration, from the head of the
government down to his humbest subordinate, in
collision with hierarchy of moral spoilsmen who
have promised their votes to the party of the Presi
dent in return for his political support,
Many years ago. after several futile efforts to
cure for his followers admission into the Union of
the States that they might escape the penalties of
Federal laws against polygamy, Brigham Young,
head of the Mormon church, counseed his people
in these words:
Do not be discouraged by your repeated failures
to get into the Union as a State. We shall
coed We shall pull the wool over the eyes of the
American people and make them swallow Mormon
sim, polygamy and all.
We shall drop the old issue between the Mormons
and the Liberals in Utah, ally ourselves with the
great National parties, dividing ourselves about
equally, so to fall in with the in power We
don't know and don't about the issues.
We must be at peace with them in order to get
into the Union After that snap fingers
in their faces, restore the good old times when
dwet undsturbed in these valleys of the mountains
and cast out devils as we used to do
These utterances, wrung from the rancorous heart
f Rrioham Young were prophetic Admission came