The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-02-10
REED sMooT AssAILED.

assigns himself Volney 4 .Hoggatt
has long article in the Denver Pos
which is intended to slur and dis
credit Senator Reed Smoot of Utah
While this paper is not in complete
harmony with Senator Smoot and In
politics is on the other side of the Re
publican fence, we resent this yellow
journal effort at discrediting Utah's
senior senator. Reed Smoot has his
faults, but the charges brought against
him by the Denver maligner are not a
part of his shortcomings.
The average reader can pick out the
absurdities in the following from Hog.
gatt's story:
"The tourist in Salt Lake ascer.
tains as a first fact that one can
hear a pin drop in the farthest cor
ner of the Mormon tabernacle, from
the pulpit. Do you wonder then why
II Is that Senator Smoot of Utah can
hear the rustic OF the least political
wind that blows from the White
House? The Republican party has
paid the biggest toll to this Mormon
senator that was ever exacted for n
vote from any United States senator.
He has weaved himself and his Nor
mon church,into the powers that be-
at all times and under all circum-
stances. He is for Taft as long as
patronage lasts, He is at all times
with the interests. He receives value
his constituents invariably demand
land-the public lands of the United
States.
Smoot has an organization that
knows the value, power and influence
of land The Mormons make the AS
tors look like small holders of land.
Let us look where the leaders of the
Republican party have placed him.
He is chairman of the Senate Commit.
tee on Public Lands. Land, he
knows, is the foundation of all wealth
lands in Utah means an invaluable as.
set to the powerful Mormon church
Ninety-nne Mormons out of every 100
are tillers of the soil. Nearly all of
Utah that Is arable and irrigable is
settled upon and owned by the Nor
mons. The church owns one.tenth Of
tan asset that will be in ten years
as valuable as the Standard Oil com.
pany. If you think this Mormon
Smoot has overlooked the opportuni-
ties surrounding his Craftsmanship of
the United States Senate Committee
on Public Lands, you certainly will
find an awful mistake charged up
against you. Pick up the Suggestions
to Homesteaders, a circular issued by
the United States General Land OF
fee, and on the back pages thereof
kindly read how satisfactorily the
land laws read relating to Utah and
ldaho-the western empire of the
Mormon church. There you will find
the enlarged homestead act of Con
gress which allows Mormons of Utah
and Idaho the privilege and right to
enter 800 acres of government land;
that allows n patent to be issued with
out any RESIDENCE of any kind or
character.
IAN that is required is that they re-
side near the land-ninety-nine MOI
mons out of 100 residents of Utah
and Idaho live near their lands. Hence
title is obtained without residence.
This same enlarged homestead law is
in force in poor old Colorado. but be-
fore title can be obtained on such land
In Colorado or any of the other pub
lie land states, a continuous residence
and cultivation of the. tract for a
period of FIVE years Ia required as a
prerequisite before patent is granted
by the government OH.
1T pays, doesn't TITO be Nor.
mon? Again, in New Mexico, a poor
devil OF homesteader entered 32C
acres under the enlarged homestead
act and because, by his thrift and
perseverance, he succeeded in finding
water by digging a deep well on his
homestead, and when this fact was as
certained by the land department al
Washington, d. c.. this homesteader--
the homesteader who, like Isaac, dig
ged" the well-was rewarded by the
United States government with let
ter cancelling one,halt of his entry
and compelling him TO select l6C
acres of the 800 acres aud relinquist
back to the government 100 acres Of
his 320.aere enlarged homestead en-