Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-21
MORMON PROBLEM

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Idaho, recently, defeated by a
~ coalition OF Republicans and Nor
mons for e-election-Attorney Borah
of Haywood trial fame being the sue
cessful manufactured at Aurora, ILL.,.
recently on the true inwardness of the
Mormon problem. The senator, more
than any man in the limelight today,
knows the intricacies of the troublous
problem. and when he asserts 1t has
come to be a question of partisan poll
tics. pure and simple. it is time the
people Of all parties sat up to notice.
The Mormon hierarchy is the most
despotic as well as the best organized
governing power in the world It's
tentacles reach past city, county and
state lines, out into the farthest re-
cesses of mountain, forest and plain,
and ever with an increasing power to
command the servile labor and vote
earlier history the church depended on
the blind religious zeal of the follow
ers, but the advance of Gentle immi-
grafton forced it into politics in self
defense. and all the cunning and craft
that distinguished its so-called spir-
itual dominance are transferred to the
militant fight of raw politics, and the
results prove its agents to be masters
in the game. Slowly, stealthily, they
have crept up from weakness to virile
strength not from any inherent virtue
that could bless the land but from a
position where they hold the balance
of political power in the northwest,
and are therefore to be reckoned with
by the Republican administration and
the Republican majorities in both
houses of the national legislature.
Anti-Mormon sentiment crystallized
into the american" party would un-
seat Smoot, but the church fell back
on the administration for support and
Smoot was victorious. Anti Mormon
sentiment, regardless of party afrilia-
tion, would have Dubois as senator
sale made in Washington elected
Borah, and it took the aid of cabinet
ministers to do it.
Oregon, Nevada, Wyoming, all are
in the grip of this church power, and in
the near future the people of the ma
tion will see the Republican party
caressing Mormonism, that it's vote
and strength may come to it's sway
All questions of right or wrong in poll
ity or policy are sunk in the-to them
greater question of political power
and as result, the Republican party
stands sponsor for this disloyal, GRIM
inal hierarchy and all that it's wicked
history means.
1t is publicly acknowledged by
Joseph Smith, the leader of all Nor
mons. that he now has five wives and
forty-f1ve children; by Brigham Rob-
erts that he has several wives and
many children, and it is of recent oc-
currence that Smith paid fine on con-
viction of his offense. The same condi-
tlons honeycomb the whole mass of
that people, and the administration
knows these things to be true, yet it
threw its great aid into the scales
with these confessed lawbreakers and
obtained two senators for its service
No senator, governor or congressman
may be elected in Idaho or Wyoming
against the wishes of the church. and
1t will not be long till the same power
will control all of the northwest. These
are indisputable facts, all of record
and cannot be controverted The i'm
mense values of mining and other in
terests, particularly the cooperative
stores of the Mormons, have given
them great wealth, and their remark
ably perfect organization gives them
great power. With these they have
conipassed the subjugation of all ter
ritory they occupy and are reaching out
for more. immigration, the fountain
head Of their supply, is open to them.
notwithstanding the outcry of the
nation, and while they can force the
hand of the administration with their
political support they will continue to
multiply till they gain the balance of
power in congress, and then-maybe-
the nation viii awaken to the situation.