Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-02-20
ed on our national horizon the cloud or
war with Spain.

90 on our naJlonal horizon the clouu u
war with Spain.
Points to States War Record.
"Side by side, shoulder to shoulder
with every other state in the Union,
Utah furnished her full quota Of
American soldiers and offered more.
There was no question of religious
distinction or dispute then. The Utah
light artillery was composed of men
of different religious beliefs, including
Mormons, who had partaken
of their church ritual known as the
ceremony.
Major Richard w. Young, the COM
manding offlcer of the Utah light in
fantry was one of these; Sergeant
Harry A. Young and others who gave
up their lives for their flag were among
this number.
"And insofar as the endowment cere-
monies may have relation to this gov
vernment, an unreserved and indis>
putable, accurate Interpretation Is
given by the record Of the Mormons
mustered in the Utah light artillery
which served in the war with Spain
and during the subsequent Philippine
instruction. No man has right to
question that Interpretation; no true
American ~ill do It; It IL inscribed In
letters of fire with the history of many
battlefield.
HurIs Back Insinuations.
"And here in the senate of their,
countrymen, upon the incontrovertible
witness born by the brave survivors
and the heroic dead of the Utah light
artillery, 1 hurl back the charge of
the defamer that there ever was a
word or breath of hostility in the sa-
cred religious ceremonies in which
they or any other person participated
as m rbers " the Mormon churcn.
ut is not an infrequent occurrence,
Mr.. President, for some one, often a
person of prominence, to come out with
declaration that this or that other
thing is menacing' the life of the re-
public; that we are following the path
which brought Rome to decay; that
our wealth, our industrial combina
lions. our free speech are crowding the
nation to destruction
SCOTS at Dire Predictions.
Notwithstanding all these dire pre-
dictions, mono of which is more absurd
than the myth of Mormon 'fiierarchar
domination. the American Tnions is
going to stand; it will continue free
and enlightened government. 1t is
formed on the popular will of liber-
ty loving people.
1T discusses it's public questions
and decides them according to rules
of tolerance, humanity and justice. II
is built on undying principles of hui
man rights and human freedom
CAS- such it will advance. 1t will
grow 1t will increase. 1t will pro-
gress. No other nation will prevail
against it, 1t has the favor of God
and the gratitude of its own people to
perpetuate 1t along the centuries to
come as they have maintained in the
century that is passed.
Pledges Loyalty TO Country.
Those who lament its political over
throw or SILVER in apprehension of its
being swept away, will not live long
enough to view as a realty the fan
cied cause of their lamentations and
apprehensions: nor will their chill
dren or grandchildren.
"The church will withstand every
obstacle and so far as am concerned
I formally and solemnly aver in every
vote and action as United States SEN
ator I shall be governed in the future
as have been in the past only by my
convictions of what is best for the
whole people of the United States
under my oath. to support the constl.
tuition and the laws of this nation.
TN closing. that under my obliga
ton as a senator that what have sait
under oath before the committee.
have never taken any oath or obliga
ton, religions or otherwise, which con
fiicts in the slightest degree with m,
duty as senator OF as a citizen.
'T owe no allegiance to any charcl
or other organization wa in an,
way interferes with my supreme az
lIegianee in civil affairs. to my coun.
try-an ALLEGIANCE which freely. full
and gladly give"