Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-27

wards of 600. TO say nothing Of the
90 stake presidents and numerous
patriarchs. included in her category
Of polNgamsts, In addition to the
apostles and first presidency. She was
asked " II was not a matter of fact
that at the Smoot investigation in
Washington II was made an item OF
record that there were scarcely TO
exceed 500 polygamists In the entire
church and this, too, despite the
fact that the opposition was raking
the country as with fine comb to
add to the list.
We believe that the great majority
OF them are polYramists, although We
cannot prove IT, declared Mrs Cohen.
especially the bishops: I believe they
are nearly all polygamlsts."
STILL SURE OF IT.
Mrs. Cohen was asked to go over
the list of bishops in Salt Lake CITY.
beginning With the First ward and
ending with the Thlrty-third ward.
and as each was named, 10 indicate
winch had been accused. even by the
most rabid anti-Mormon of being a
polygamlst The lady had 10 adj
NIT that the showing was almost en-
tirely against the statement that she
mad signed. and vet she maintained
That she still held to her previous
opinions
The citation in the pamphlet to the
erect that Senator Hopkins assertions
relative to Senator Snoot were I'M
rounded because sister of Senator
Smoot had made a certain statement
to the PRESIDENT of the Woman's Ameri-
can club as to her own belief, was
called 10 Mr.. Cohen's attention. and
she was asked IL she thought that cir
cuinstance would Justify Impeachment
OF Senator Smoot ana defeat OF Sena-
tor Hopkins.
Now you are begging the question. q"
SAID Mrs. Cohen, ignoring the fact that
IL was a proposition of reason and logic
reference being made to the thing
caIcd a church" an appelation made
by the authors of the pamphlet and
asked If it We're not an undeserved re-
nectlon upon the people for which Mrs
Cohen mad expressed a generally high
opinion and friendliness. she replied:
u think the word church applies TO
something spiritual. ana not an organi-
2atioh OF commercialism and material
ism. such as is the Mormon Church"
Mrs. Cohen was asked IL the members
of the Church did not lay claim to faith
and spirituality and by example and
precept come nearly proving the just
ness of such claim, and she said that
she did not feel like Contradicting such
a. proposition, and she admitted that
1t was neither sin nor shame for men
and women to honestly and honorably
care for their temporal welfare. while
they were seeking the souls salvation.
SHE SIDBSTEPPED THIS.
The following paragraph of the circu-
lar Mrs. Cohen disclaimed being the
author of and confessed that 1t could
not be read but as a justification or
the deed described
Before polygamy was an acknowl-
edged tenet Of the Mormon Church
there was something In the system
which your fathers in Illinois could nor
tolerate; rather. they killed the pre-
tended prophet who founded it and
drove the remnant of the band into the
wilderness"
Do you believe that the deed COM
mitted al Carthage. H.. was n thing to
he commended, that the good people of
that state today should be reminded OF
II in the way of praise, and that 1t
should he made one of the reasons why
Senator Hopkins must be defeated?"
Mrs. Cohen was asked
STANDS BY IT.
II would not put Il in that way"
Mrs. Cohen said. Il do not believe I'm
the shedding of blood; but stand by
that circular, every word Of it,"
Mrs. Cohen. in conclusion, said that
she could not and would not divulgc
all that she knew relative to the sub
ject under discussion. She had. she
stated. in times past been made the
recipient OF MANY condolences from
Mormon people" condolences that she
would not betray. She maintained that
the fight she was helping TO wage was
a conscientious one. so far as she was
personally concerned and she would
not have It thought that 1t was for any
pecuniary benefit.
WHO MRS. COHEN WAS.
Mrs Elizabeth Cohen perhaps more
been honored politically by the people
of this state or by the Democratic
party of which she was once a mem
her, the gerat majority of which are
adherents of the Church. She was
elected n member of the legislature by
the suffrage OF people whom she now
aSsais. was a delegate 10 81 National
convention as representative Of this
state ana has received other perfer-
ments of various kinds,
Her husband Joseph NJ. Cohen, is n
chronic officeseeker, and of all men Of
this state has been kept fat and sleek
from feeding on political pap. The
most notorious work he ever did was
to act as reading clerk in convention.
his voice enabling him 10 he heard
from Ensign peak to tho Jordan mar
rows.