The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-05-23

if they would retain him in the senate But there
a grave moral issue at stake. To vote for him
was to support the Mormon church, Joseph F Smith,
his lawless associates and all their unchrisan prn-
cples for this is what Apostle Smoot does To vote
against him to stand record as opposed to
the criminal life of the Mormon hierarchy and their
interference in business and politics; to stand with
the two million women of this nation who sent petit
tions to congress begging for the removal of Smoot
that he might not be allowed to make laws for them
and their children; to preserve the purity of
hood the legitimacy of childhood and the sanctity of
the home. The republican senator's knew the facts,
and some OF them strong, true enough
to stand out against him; such Hale of Maine
and LaFolette of Wisconsin. Senator Burrows,
the republican senator from Michigan, and chairman
of the investigating committee, made decisive and
eloquent appeal to unseat Senator Smoot. He said
IN closing 1T is submitted, therefore, that the Sen
ator, by becoming member of and identifying him
self with such organization has disqualified him
self for membership in this body. An organization
that fosters and encourages crime trampes upon all
law, human and divine practices polygamy and poly
gamouS cohab1tat1On deSeCrateS the home, debases
manhood, degrades womanhood, debauches public
morals strikes at the Christian civilization of the age
undermines and shakes the foundations of society
and government, destroys the sanctity of the mar
rage relation, defes the authority of the state and
national government registers oath of hostility to
the American Nation, and brings the name and fame
of the good people of Utah into disrepute, and shame
and humiliation to the American people, submit that
such an organization is not entitled to have its rep
resentative in the senate of the United States"
Yet he is there now. Did Senator Piles of Wash
ington vote to unseat him? No. Did Senator An
keny vote to unseat him? No. Neither did Senator
Hepburn of Idaho, Senator Sutherland of Utah.
nor the Senators from Oregon, Montana and Wyom-
ing. Was it not for fear of political consequences?
We want true men in the senate. Not miserable
puppets yet selfish slaves of politics, who dare
stand sponsor for such crime and ndecepcy.
There is but remedy possible for these
evils. This must come through national interven-
ton. We need an amendment to the federal consti-
tuition, prohibiting polygamy and polygamous CO.
habltaton, that may break the backbone of this
degrading organization, and free Our states from
these abomnable practices We want men in the
senate who will secure this amendment, and it is in
the hands of the allpowerful voter both nominate
and elect these Idaho is struggling in the tolls
of the enemy For the sake of right and honor shall
we not WELD our ballots for purity and PATRIOTISM
justice and freedom? Christian manhood and
Womanhood will conquer, must conquer in this far
western land
Shall we stop that we may not hear?
Shall we hide faces that we may not see?
Shall we sit motionless while triumphant wrong
rides by unchallenged? No. Not so long as Amer
lean blood throbS in veins and gives us strength
to raise our against the foe of purity and free
dom, the tyrants of state, the destroyers of home
Not so long as it is in power to send forth the
men who will protect this nation from criminal con-
splracy, save your state and mine from the power
of degraded tyrants and thus preserve in purity our
sacred homes