The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1911-10-12

money that father left her when he
died"
Not many men would be low down
enough'ato take advantage of their
mother. but as have said financial
panics are based on the selfish theory
of competition or everybody look cut
for himself and let his Satanic majesty
take ths unfortunate individual in the
rear Mail & Breeze.
"A Great National Party.
Yesterday the president spoke in the
Tabernscle at Salt Lake City to an
audienca almost solely Mormon, many
of whom crossed the plains to Utah
before tae railway appeared, and some
of whom emigrated to that locality be
fore the civil war. In those days there
was a conflict between the inner circle
of the nsormons and the Republican
party which appeared to be irepresible.
In the fxst national platform that on
which Fremont stood in 1856 the party
coupled polygamy with slavery as twin
relics of barbarism. Brigham Young,
the heal of the mormon Church in that
day disIked the Republican national
administration of 1861-65 SO intensly
that he urged secession for his locality
and a joining of forces with the South
ern CoIdederacy. From 1862 to 1887
series of laws were passed by Congress
against polygamy most of which had
Republicans as their authors, and all of
which had practically solid vote of
the Republicans in each branch behind
them. For a quarter of century Re-
publican presidents appointed officials
to the Territory of Utah who could be
relied on to enforce the statutes against
that practice. The principal obstruct
ion to statehood for Utah during many
decades was Republican dominance in
Congress and in the presidency.
Yet nobody need be surprised that
Mr.. Tsg.saaaade an .address in. the Nor.
mon tabernacle yesterday. The
circumstance, too that he received a
welcome there from thousands of Nor
mons can readily be explained. The
Republican party's hostility to Brigham
Young and his sect in the old days
was due to the vice of polygomy. Aside
from that practice there was nothing
inherently Objectionable in Mormonism.
After long contest polygamy was alb
andoned by the Mormons. At a genera
conference in Salt Lake City in 1890
the church formally renouncedit it. Presi-
dent Harrison and the Republican Con-
gress believed that the Mormons were
acting in good faith and hostility to the
statehood movement gradually relaxed.
In January, 1898, President Harrison
| issued proclamation granting amnesty
to those Mormons who were liable to
prosecution under the antipolygamy
acts. Congress soon afterward passed
an enabling act and under it Utah was
admitted to the statehood in 1896. The
Republicans have allowed bygones to
be bygones, and neither Mr.. Taft yes
terday nor any other Republican in
authority in the past decade and a half
has, in any offensive way referred to the
long fight which the party made against
Mormonism's peculiar institution"
In Utah's state constitution polygamy
is prohibited and the Republican party
has taken the trainers of that instru-
ment as it did the authors of the anti
polygamy prounciamento of 1880 at
their word.
Here are some of the reasons why
the president felt just as much at home
when talking in the sanctuary of the
Mormons yesterday as he did when
speaking in the public halls in St. Louis
Omaha, and Cheyenne. Here too, are
reasons and why the welcome to him
of the capital of Morrnondom was as
sincere as that which was extended to
him in Council Bluffs, Topeka or Den
yer. He was welcomed as the head of
the government of the entire country,
who had just as much interest in Utah
as he has in Massachusetts or Missouri.