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r M Goodwin's Weekly. Vol. II. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, NOVEMBER 29, 1902. No. 3. (&! C. C. GOODWIN, Editor. j T. GOODWIN, .... Manager. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. Subscription Price j Fo?6 Months Advance. Address all communications to Goodwin's Weekly. P O Boxes 1074 and 1020. 'Phone 301. 117250-231 Commercial Club Bldg., - Salt Lake City GET THE RIGHT GROUND. A good many Eastern newspapers are moving to oppose the seating of Apostle Reed Smoot in case of his election to the United States Senate, en the ground that he believes in polygamy as one of the cardinal doctrines of his creed, and that he only awaits another revelation to advocate it openly. That is not, legally, tenable ground on which to found an objection Of course the Senate can make it an excuse for refusing Mr. Smoot a seat, j tut it ought not to for it is the highest law-making power in the Nation and hence should be careful in its proceedings not to resort to illegal meth ods for in point of fact it has no control over a nan s opinions. It would violate the spirit of the Constitution to make a man's opinions a subject for punishment But there is a legal obstruction in the way of Mr Smoot which ought to cause the denial of a seat to him in the Senate of the United States. He is not, except in name, a citizen of the United States. His real fealty is to another temporal Government, the very opposite of the Government" of the United States in every respect This Government to which be belongs is per fectly organized. It has its president, its courts, and when a Legislature or City Council of Mor taons is elected under American forms, every bill of the Legislature, every ordinance of the Coun cil has first to be submitted to the first presi dency of this kingdom, or, in its absence, to a quorum of the apostles, the next body In power to it first presidency. More than once in recent jears after a case between Mormons had been tned m the civil courts, under the forms of the Republic and a judgment rendered, the parties vp been summoned before a bishop's court a nrt of the kingdom and the case retried, not oaler the laws of the Republic, not by men learned fi t law, not by any legal formula, but by the kun of an unlettered bishop, and these bishop's won think nothing of reversing a judgment ren e in a District court of the State. Sow Apostle Reed Smoot Is a citizen of that &gom. He believes in making- Legislatures and rJ Councils subject to the instructions of the &4 of the Mormon nation; he believes it right for z tost op's court to reverse a judgment of the courts ? tfc- Republic, and is vastly more an alien than 15 aa Englishman of Frenchman when first landed fe tfct United States, for while the Englishman Frenchman might have no love for our coun- w its institutions he would, upon landing, l himself subject to our laws while hie re- BlBHHHIHHHHMHHHHHHIiH mained on American soil. In case of the apostle's election to the Senate the attack upon the legiti macy of his claim to a seat should be on the ground that when he has taken repeated oaths of absolute fealty to a Government hostile in form to this Republic, he became an alien and all the more an alien because that other Government is with in the Government of the United States, and the only restraint upon it, all that keeps it from over throwing the Government of the United States, is want of power. Mormons who are not too discreet openly as sert that one purpose of sending Apostle Smoot to the Senate is to try an experiment, to see if the Senate of the United States will tolerate a high officer of their church, bound as he is by his oaths of fealty to another temporal Government, in that body. The Roberts episode settled the matter of electing known polygamists to Congress; if Apostle Smoot is sent home, the experiment of sending high officers of the "Kingdom of God on Earth" to that body will be abandoned. Citizen ship is something which all nations are most jeal ous of. That is the ground on which Apostle Smoot should be fought when he reaches the Sen ate, for in spirit and in truth he is bound soul and body to a Theocracy, which claims that the Government of the United States is an usurpation, which stands in the way of the government of God through his priests on earth. And now T. Kearns is getting a corner on all the saddles made. He wants them for the "Philli-ponies." THE SENATOR TROUBLED. With the purchase of the Senatorship two years ago there was also an alliance, offensive and de fensive, formed by which the combined church and machine were to make merchandise of the officers and control the politics of Utah. It seems that while Senator Kearns was laying the foundation for his fortune in the deep levels of the Silver King, he did not take the trouble to read the daily .papers and never learned the rather solemn truth that the chiefs of the Mormon church never make covenants with Gentiles except for what they deem to be their own advantage, that they are here for the Mormon church only; that they are not in fluenced by affection, gratitude or any of the other generous traits which ordinary men count upon, and, moreover, that even their solemn promises are subject to frequent revisions. They permit ted Mr. Kearns to have the Senatorship because it was only delivering goods for a valuable con sideration. Had they written the receipt for the Senator to sign, it would have read something like this: "Received, Salt Lake, January , 1901, for the sum of $1 and other valuable considera tions not necessary to stipulate, one United States Senatorship," and signed, THOMAS KEARNS, Per RICHARD KERENS, Agent. The other "valuable considerations" included many things. One was the purchase of the daily Gentile newspapers of the city, and reducing them to organs through which no criticism of Mormon church methods should ever be made. The business ran smoothly enough until the late elec tion. Then the Senator discovered several things. One was that with the Gentile press smothered, the saintly chiefs at once ceased any pretention to American citizenship, forgot every obligation of good faith and common gratitude and were going J ' i,uH to run business from the old 1880 stand. The rer t f ' jL lfl suit is that Senator Kearns is practically out in jj fc'ity Jflfl the cold. He will be the real Senator only until 4"J, il his successor appears on the scene on the 4th of J i jCJffl March next, while his prospects for 1905 ought to . L ) fM be most disquieting if he has any desire to sue- $ ilifl ceed himself. It is said that he is engaged trying jLjtlfl to solve the problem of how Apostle Reed Smoot f .tffH can be defeated in his Senatorial aspirations. If i ! fjffiH he was as brilliant as he has heretofore been lucky J ! , IjIiJtH he would know that Euclid could never solve that If lll'ffiB problem except in one way. j j9fl If his attorney would go to the office of the first fjfl presidency and say in effect: "Mr. Kearns is most j ) M -$M grateful for the honors that have been given him, f lKH and is most anxious to show his gratitude. He j EBB desires to see the erection of the great memorial f J tal building in honor of Joseph Smith begun. For h &jfl that purpose he has set aside $50,000 wherewith to Z f jfefB have the foundation put in and the first story !i!k UI erected. But he thinks that in that case he should m WxwKk have the naming of the next Senator, and has lipirH asked mo to come and confer with you to see if an (m fijfl arrangement cannot be made." 3 & WH That might win. It would be easy to get a dis- JriiSH patch from Yokohoma from Apostle Heber Grant wllMI asking that Apostle Smoot might be induced to J' P1M join him, to help teach the youth of Japan to sing, J JjM "We Are Thankful, O Lord, for a Prophet," and tH Apostle Smoot might be induced to put his Sen- ? ,1 U ill atorial candidacy in cold storage for another two i !i $9 years. 'i t,t9 We are not sure that the scheme would win, ' J J'flXH but we are absolutely sure that nothing else can I'MBh put off destiny and beat foreordination to a finish. I CpH And we give the Senator notice gratis, that even "''4-SB with that accomplished, it would only make his I fjj&lsB prospects for 1905 all the more desperate for to riLifsfl the chiefs of the Mormon church all Gentiles are m Wwtm but as Philistines or Midianites to get the best of : m rSH whom is a religious duty. , k''M9 Drop down and take a look at the City Council I : USB In session. That ought to be enough to teach you jJgltH how to vote next time. JflSl9 THE KRUPPS. 'IfrlIBB The Krupps should have a monument like the I WfflMU one to Von iloltke. In the rehabilitation of Ger- I irH many the part the great steel wizard bore was as zZ&WM necessary and as great as statesmanship and gen- J.-illBH eralsbip could carry through. Thirty-five years tfHB ago Germany was but a system of disjointed J HH states; not one was powerful save Prussia, and she - &Jpjl was still under the cloud of the first Napoleon's I JPHW conquest sixty years before. ll99H But in five years Germany shone out as the 1 llifSH very greatest of European powers a colossus, TkHIH suddenly, as If from the ground, emerged, and the $ W 1 dictator of the Old World. The chiefest praise for f I fH the change has been given to Bismarck and Von J, JF 9 Moltke. They surely were a wonderful pair. Ger- 1 H many had needed to have her states bound under J fDH one confederation with a ruling head. Bismarck W had planned and built the stately edifice ol Ger- iiSflH man Unity. But the work of Elsmarck would have ISfll been in vain except that Von Moltke had so reor- SnflflH ganized and trained the Prussian army that its IffiHi invincible power drew the states of Germany In- XfllO sensibly toward Prussia as a common center. But IflHI Von Moltke could not have done that except that HIB he was able to so equip his army that any power HB opposed to it would have to fight at a dfsadvant- SIHHm