The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-13
ROBERTS EXPOSE
OF LIQUOR DEAL
Continued From Preceding Page.

a secret rakeon or his employ yces wages
Moreover, the senior senator is posed as
an anti-polygamy reformer In our state.
and while he sat In the senate house sew
eral OF the leading senators of the Unit
ed States, put him In TINS attitude oe5orc
the nation, For instance, Senator Bey-
eridge thus characterized the attitude
OF Senator Smoot towards this subject
THE evidence shows and II is finally
admitted that this accused senator Us not
4 poygamist-the word Is too foul TO ut
ter, except on compulsion-never was
that base thing" Again he states, For
poygamy have hatred. made stronger
cused man Is not a practicer OF this re-
voting crime. but its enemy. Again
Senator Hopkins Of Illinois said OF Sen
ator Smoot: "In his position as mem.
ber OF the church, and as an apostle ana
preacher OF the doctrines OF the church,
he has done more TO stamp out TINS fouI
blot upon civilization OF Utah and the
other territories where polygamy has been
of the church The whole life
OF Senator Smoot is a protest against
gagged In. either in the church or outside
OF H. Is a condemnation OF it." And 9th
er senators likewise made reference 10
the same subject In much the same spirit.
Now, my friends ] appreciate the fact
that | am discussing a very delicate dues-
ton and doubtless these words or high
praise for the senator and these very
stern rebukes and this very terrible de-
scriptiou OF that system which gave the
senator his existence. exalted him In the
eyes Of the nation as very great re,
former. In an anti -polygamy way, and
doubtless they thought him worthy ol
very great credit. and IL settled in their
hearts an affection for this mighty cham
pion,
The only trouble with the whole
thing Is that 1t Is as false hell not
word OF truth in II. (Appiause.) SO that
he received credit for that which he dld
not deserve, and received these high
honors without being entitled to them
Now. that is the Mormon Side or
the business. VIII you tell me where
the senator gets Oft on the Mormon slde
of 1t? CLaughterD
! will not presume to enter into the
secret consultations that the gentleman
holds with his conscience, and pass CON
but remember the fact that his high Of
fice in the church has TINS peGullaE
distinction In II that separates 1t on
by itself and that is that those who hold
it are consecrated 10 be the witness for
God Amighty's truth. and whatever our
fortunes as Mormons may be with ref
erence 10 this subject, that has brought
to us so many trials and heartaches, and
caused so much OF sacrifice, IL is by
the Mormon creed and faith and by every
sincere Mormon In the ehurch. helo TO
be- no matter what the world may say OF
II, a sacred true principle to them
(Applause)
Roberts's Excoriation of Smoot.
Now, had I occupied the position OF
the senior senator, in relation TO tAis
subject. and had sat there while these
powerful senators henped upon me TINS
undeserved praise. and this bitter -
nunciation of the law of marriage. which
gave me birth. l should have thought
that was sitting silently by sorne craven
coward, while these mighty mon pinned
upon my mothers breast the scarlet let
ter and branded my fathers honored
brow WITH San dSnon0T b tes pses and
tlemen. but that would have been my
conviction, and I cannot help but feel
that the man who can occupy these tWo
charged against him and the federal
bunch. with reference to this liquor deal.
To sum the matter up In brief. and TO
cerned, forever dismiss him. (Laughter.l
AS an employer of men he grated
upon their wages,
AS an anti -polygamy retormer he ac-
ceptcd honors undeserved and under false
pretenses AS a witness for Gods truth
he was recreant to his trust.
AS a son OF honorable parents he was
craven To their memory.
AS senator OF the United States he
mas been content TO be the tool or the
trusts and a trckster In the politics CT
his own state.
There et him lie. (Applause)
Serious business. this Yes. ! know
business to usurp the powers of the state.
defeat the will OF the sovereign people,
undertake TO lord II In a commonwealth
and corrupt legislature: and keep in
commotion a people that ought to be at
peace one with another (ApPausc.)
And now Mr. Chairman just a few
words in conclusion, and shall have
done with this Issue that has confronted
us for the past few days. and that have
felt the burden OF for years, for the time
has come fer someone TO speak: and to
bring matters to an issue In this state,
so that We may night through these dis
agreeable things. push aside the nists
That surround us today. that the light
of better, days, may break In upon trop,
bed Utah. (Applause.) ] have thought
often OF the Mormon church, and
what l would like to see her be
come and II few people
who are not in sympathy with that
church Will bear with me Just a moment,
! want to say to you that for me she
bears the ark OF the covenant: with her
is deposited those truths that ought to
be believed, those precepts which ought
to be accepted, those ordinances which
ought to he obeyed I feel sometimes
as If | had lived with her from the be-
ginning, because I am familiar with her
history from tho time OF the first vision
uf our DrODhet until now. i have known