The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-18
SMOOT WANTS
SUTHERLAND
Why? Because He Is Bound Into
a Season of Unguestion-
ing Seryitude.
THEIR RELATIONSHIP is
LIKE TIMES OF OLD
Is Sutherland Less a Mormon in
Point Of Service Than
SnO0t?
BY MAC.

BY MAO.
In the days of old England there
were two distinct types Of Inhabitants
the thames and the thraJls The thames
were freemcn and very often were land
owners. They served as warrior com
panions to the kings and nobles and had
a voice in the assemblies They owned
slaves who were known as thralls.
These continued ip thralldom unless by
some famous service they were cufran-
chiscd
Thralls very generally had collars
welded 10 their nccks on which were
engraved their name and that of their
| owner.
Had the same state of citizenship and
| servitude come down 10 this day the
relationship between the senior and the
| junior senators of Utah would be as
the thane TO the thrall, And the
collar of the junior would bear these
words. George, surname Sutherland,
thrall to Smoot, thanc of Mormondom.
No warrior whose life had been
spared on his agreeing to become 4
| slave Of his cuptor ever served his mas
ter with greater fidelity than Suther-
| land has served Smoot. He protests
that he is freeman. lie is but an en-
franchised slave; that is, he votes or
seems 10 vote. He has never given cvi-
dcnce of independence. He is a strik
ing definition of an antomaton. Ou
rollcall in the senate ''Smoot comes
before "Su. hcrlaud' and inst as regu-
| larly as the scpIor voted 'aye' the
junior voted ''aye, too. When it was
"no with the tbane ii was mo with
the thral.
And this is called craftsmanship!
|
Men who know the two Utah senators
tell Of a great difference in the tenn
perameDt Of these citizens and say the
private views of Sutherland are an
ltagoDistie to those OF Smoot. If meas
ured by the standard of service for the
I dominant church. the one has been no
less devoted than the other The father
of Smoot was a high priest and polyg-
amist The father Of Sutherland was
a member of the lesser priesthood and
ii missionary. Suthcrland's S father
ceased his Mormon activities when his
| IlluStrlous son was young and IT Is
claimed by the non Mormon friends OF
the Junior senator his name does not
stand on the Lamb S book of life. -
| From every point of view one may
| take TO Judge whether or not Sutber-
| land is Mormon type, 1t Is most DUN
cult to say he is not Il Mormon. 1t Is
not sufficient for him or his friends
|
| the Mormon activity in politics. Nor
| that he has not attended services nor
| held up his right hand in the sustain
| ing of the authorities in the tabernacle
In the economy of Mormonsm this
counts for nothing, Saints have often
rebelled. They are now rebellipg, Thou
sands do not attend the regular nor the
special services. They may pay their
| tithing, but the records of the tlthing
| office are as secret as are the marriage
records in the temples Yet they arc
| saints.
a man may be no less saint because
he outwardy appears to be an ,apoS-
cording to the highest church authority,
and it might have been added that I'VE
| resort to many queer things to reacn
our desired ends.
Does anyone believe that Ed Loose,
| for instance, is not q Mormon In good
standing with the authorities of The
church? Yet TO Gentiles he denies II.
The line where one ceases to be Nor
mon and becomes a GENTLE has never
hcen discovered, save, only when service
for thc church absolutely has ceased
| One who was born In The church ana
who remains in the service OF the priest
hood. either IN business or i'll politics,
cannot convince an cxpeUenced non
Mormon of his sincerity when he de-
clarcs he is not Mormon Too MANY
have been ''set apart TO assume the
thing they are not, and. so many cases
Of masquerading have been uncovered,
that ever men who arc really apostateS
find ii requires years to establish goo"
faith.
George Sutherland 5 father was born
in England and was Mormon MISSION
ary there. He was so taken up WIN
the idea that he WAS called on to help
establish the kingdom of God temper.
arily "in the valley Of the mountains,
and later in jackson county, Missouri,
that he came to Utah with his family,
among whom was his SON George, The
Sutherlands located in Utah county and
George breathed the same atmosphere
that was breatbcd by Reed Smoot'
When be grew to manhood he had pont-
ical aspirations, Beng IN harmony
with the general order OF things he got
himself elected TO congress. serving IN
the house. IL was then he felt the call
to the senate but he had made such II
lusterlcss record men smiled when nc
mentioned his desires.
Smoot lived in Provo aud SO did
George. George watched tho unmerited
elevation of Reed to an apostleship and
then to n scuatorship. He saw The com
try was not pleased with the latter
movement of his fellow townsman ana
he Joined in the protests. He howled
long and loud and having an acquain-
iance Mt Washington, Smoot became
alarmed lest George put the rollers un-
der him in u manner that would be an
moving. He knew that George could
tell things that would be hard to e1'
plain.
The apostle is said TO have had
meeting with Sutherland and to have
promised the English missionsry's 's son
that he would see to it that Sutherland
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