The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-10-28
AS TO high BCcLEsIAsTs. -

! The Smoot "'Mouth, - which has been
publicly pilloried by responsible people
! as ga lying, infamous, villainous
Sheet appears to be lonesome because
The Tribune has not said as much as 1t
would like to see in these columns
against the high ecclesiasts. And it
| imagipes that the reason why we are
not saying so much about them Just now
is because 4. II. Roberts is on the stump
for the Democratic party. Which is
rather humorous view to take of the
situation, as we'll as being permeated
with the usual talsehood which
attaches to anything that appears from
the Smoot "Mouth -
The Tribune has endeavored to make
very plain it's opinion of Apostle Smoot
and of President Joseph T. Smith and
all others, who are, in fact, the high &C.
clesiasts OF the church that defy the
law and rob the poor. II has done tlIs
without cessation, and there IS no dis
position on our part TO let up III the
least on that line So that in this the
"Mouth' is, no doubt assuming
lonesomeness that it does not feel.
We have been paying some littis at-
tention OF late to President Nephi l..
Morris, President McLachlan, and
others Of the lesser ecclcsiasts OF Jae
church who might fairly pretend to rank
along with r. II. Roberts. In so far as
B, H. Roberts is speaking. however, we
have not observed that he imnoses upon
his audiences his ecclesiastica Office.
nor that he speaks TO them officially as
President of Seventy. Ii is differ
ent, however, with President Morris,
President McLachlan, and the rest Of
the Republican" ecclesiasts who are
trying TO dragoou their Democratic
church followers into voting for the Re-
publican candidates. They openly,
avowedlv aud distinctly. as ecclesists
and in the performance OF their office as
such, come ont determincdly and openly
in favor OF the Republican candidates,
They do this in their priesthood meet
incs, in their Improvement Associations
where they preside, and In every Way
add TO their efforts the weight of I'll lir
ecclesiastical positions. When Presi
dent McLachlau of the Pioneer stake, in
a meeting of The high council III The
Temple, read out the names OF three
Democrats detailed TO work for the Re
publican ticket on election day, be did
this as president of the stake and with
in the walls OF the Temple where none
but those qualified by church rule and
recommendation are entitled TO go. 1t
was vastly 10 The credit of one of those
Democrats that he arose instantly in his
Jlace and declined the detail, stating
that he was a Democrat and intended |
to vote the Democratic ticket. But |
President McLacb|an g offense was none |
the less great on that account His mis-. |
use of his ecclesiastical Office was none |
the less marked, nor should the con. |
dcmnation that might properly be Wis |
tied upon him be any the less, because
he did what he ought not TO do within |
the Temple and IN that meeting of the |
high council. Nay, we think that the |
very occasion magpi6ed his offcnse, and |
that be ought 10 be all the more Sc. |
verely rebuked for it.
In the meantime the Smoot 80 Mouth, !,
need not suffer from vacuity. for it Is i
constantly filed with lies. And if it |
Will attend closely TO what The Tribune |
is saying all the time il may learn some.
thing. And it will see that our con.
demnation of Snioot aud OF Smith and I
OF all the gang of traitors, pledge
breakers. robbers. and adulterers. has |
not in the least been modified, nor has
the Vlgor OF our expression towards !
them in the least been relaxed.