The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-04-11
An Unauthorized Critic.


al published in darkest Mormondom, to reassert
in the presence of the late Supreme Court decision
that "the Latter Day Saints obeyng the law and
intend to do so in the future" and that there is
absolutely truth" in the charge that the church
dictates how its members shall vote
great deal of evidence has been produced and
reproduced-the sworn testimony of members of the
Mormon church. in which there is proof that what
the Rexburg paper says is not true, is true. 1t
on account of this evidence that the Democrats of
Idaho organized anew to contest the right of law
breakers to the privileges of citizenship their entire
contention being based 1nmstakable violations of
the law that had been kept in concealment until
witnesses in the Smoot case made it so plain that
the crime must be assailed or condoned.
1t is further asserted by the Rexburg paper that
No Mormon will vote for Dubois, any
that stands for his un-American attitude.
If the Rexburg paper will take counsel with its
sense of veracity if it has any, it will be able to
convince its readers that the object of its criticism
has offended only in insisting the enforcement of
article in the Constitution that the Supreme Court
has just said must be enforced.
When a member of an alien, theocratic govern
ment, based upon relic of paganism that somehow
intruded itself upon the rules of dawning christian
ity declares that qualified citizen of the American
republic is un-American because he advocates obed
fence to the fundamental law of the state it is time
for the real Americans to array themselves more
strongly in opposition to cult that SANDERS their
government
To be truly American according to the Rexburg
interpretation one must consent that class of peo-
pie be permitted to violate law that another class is
prohibited from violating. To all the residents of
Idaho, outside the Mormon church, bgamy is a crime
and is avoided as crime by non-Mormons
The Mormon Glass; of which the Rexburg paper IS
an exponent insists upon the right to practice this
crime and when citizen proposes that the represent
atives of that class shall obey the same law that
others obey, he is said to be un-American.
1t is the boast of distinguished Mormons that their
church represents a government within govern
ment. This is convenience of expression that has
been forced upon the spokesman of an organization
founded in reasonable intentions. Without doubt
they look upon the apostles and the presidency as
their government, though circumstances compel the
presidency and the apostles to yield outward ODE
dience to the government whose property they and
their people have occupied.
They planted the foundation of their Infamous in
suton on foreign SOIL intending to establish their
kingdom in an alien realm, but the exlgenc1es OF
war changed uncertain boundary lines and they
brought within the jurisdiction of nation they de-
spise and against which each Mormon with an en-
dowment house record has registered oath of
blood atonement.
These are the kind of people that bestow upon
genuine American citizen the epithet of "un-Amer-
lean" and with no other basis for the charge than
that he advocates the enforcement of the laws of his
country and state.
By the Rexburg paper it is stated that any other
church would do the same the Mormon church is
doing were it threatened with disfranchsement.
Speaking of course, of the impossible, for no other
church bases its right to exist upon dsfranchisabe