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islied is it not just to hold him morally respon
sible for the maintenance of a condition that is
obnoxious to the sentimental side of the people
0f the country? Shall the man who has put into
execution that which Smoot helieves to he a de
cree from God. he the object of public vengeance
wliile the advising apostle's wethers go free
and he he loaded with high political honors?
Mark you, I say nothing for or against the prac
tice or belief of the Mormon system of marriage;
but if Roberts may not represent Utah in Con
gress because too often a concurrent husband, by
what parity of reasoning are we to condone or en
dure the aspirations of an apostle who was free
enough to advise the expulsion from Congress of
bis religious brother, but who now seeks a higher
office because he himself has had less courage to
give effect to his belief?
If I send my daughter to a school where the
teacher inculcates immoral doctrines until respect
for her personal virtue becomes extant, or if she
and a youth yielding to natural desires, guard
themselves by no restraint and fall, because the
moral barriers have been destroyed by the teacher,
shall I hold the fallen ones responsible or the
teacher?
Now I do not say Apostle Smooth is a polyga
mist. I say that his statement that he is not a
polygamist does not appeal to me as necessarily
true. Whatever reply the exigencies of the occa
sion might seem to demand from him, that is the
answer I should expect him to give. There have
been polygamous marriages solemnized since the
Issuance by the church authorities of the so-called
"manifesto" against further plural marriages. This
is known to me and it is known to others. I do
not think I could prove it. Perhaps others could.
There are other cases also, but such is
the faith of young women who have entered the
relationship that they would admit .themselves
husbandless and their children illegitimate rather
than seem to betray the church or to jeoperdise
the liberty of the men to whom they have been
plurally sealed; and the men, to their eternal and
infernal shame be it said, would suffer the women
to do this so as to escape responsibility.
It matters not whether Apostle Reed Smoot is
a practical polygamist or not, the public effect is
precisely the same. By reason of his ecclesiastical
position he stands for all that the principle rep
resents. If it be an ennobling one he should face
it and declare his faith. If Its effect be degrading
and its tolerance infamous, then he stands for all
that is degrading and infamous in it. His denial
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of personal culpability is the attitude of the craven,
the cur and the beggar of one who crawls for
place and begs for it on this ground: "While 1
am a leading member of those whom ye oppose, I
am personally free from the wrong doing which I
uphold and advocate."
It will be a liberal education to note the atti
tude of the people both of this State and the coun
try at large as to the aspirations of the new ec
clesiastical freak coming forth from the Mdrmon
stronghold, and it will be equally as interesting to
note to what extent leaders of the Mormon church
will continue the plain support they are now sur
rounding the Apostle Smoot with. DENNIS B.
Uhe Knocker.
By Alan Lovey.
Oh, thou disseminator of truths that hurt, it
is written that in the time to come there will
happen an event, and thou who know all things
will wot not of it. Yea, verily, there shall be a
happening, and thou, oh luminous one, shall be
elsewhere. And when it shall come to pass that
thou hast discovered that this mysterious thing
has occurred, and that thine all-hearing eye had
been glued unto other and resultless keyholes,
and thine all-seeing ear been close attached unto
soundless cracks, then, even then, shalt thou, in
thy meager mind, realize the "futility of human
endeavor."
And in thy puny breast shall rise such unseem
ly storms of passion such unholy tempests of un
requited inquisitiveness as will seem to rend thy
quivering frame, and tear into a thousand flutter
ing shreds thy shirt and chest protector. And
when it striketh thee with force both full and
strong that this eventful happening (which per
sons other than thyself would deign hold sacred),
shall have gotten by thee, then shalt thou hie thee,
to the stillness and solitude of thy chamber, and
thou shalt beat thyself rudely, and with penitential
harshness, and thou shalt tear thy beauteous hair
from out thine head, and in many ways shalt thou
punish thyself for this most unusual lapse of
watchfulness and care in this, thy self-appointed
duty.
And when, exhausted, thou shalt cease to flay
thyself, thou shalt sit thee down, and in the gath
ering gloom shalt thou cogitate. And thou shalt
then and there resolve in thy small soul, to ferret
out, after the manner of the silent and resourceful
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sleuth, this bit of private information, which oth- j m i M H
ers, In the hardness of their hearts, would keep f f -1H
from thee, the wise one. I 1 ;I jH
And thenceforward, thou shalt be doubly watch- I JL. k 48
f ul. But, in the language of the unbelieving pa- j $ ; jH
gan, shall thy rubbering be in vain. Useless shall j Ws, IfS
be thy stretcn, and to hinge shall avail thee not. IhIH
And thine eye shall lose its luster. And from thy If' &M'H
cheek the bloom of youth shall take Its flight, and I f '' ' H
thine alabaster neck shall become awry and rival j jJ$ifril
that of the meek swan, who peeketh not, and mind- T - m flfl
eth only the business of her mate and of the plan- h,t ft Jfl
ning pot-hunter, and who slngeth as she dloth. l lj ikil
And again shalt thou sit thee down In silence, ,i! 1.& ! $
and In company with thyself shalt thou bo alone, I i I rfH
and thou shalt ruminate. And thy weak thoughts E f If jfl
shall wander back to that period of time when thy ' si I' k!9
record was as new-washed linen, and naught did j! fh(B
happen that thou didst not note and mark down W'y B
in uncertain and scrawling legend within the spaci- f m H
ous vaults of thy hollow ad accommodating skull, 1 1 jVJ B
to be brought forth at later date and scattered j j 1 1j H
piecemeal to a waiting and over-anxious world. $ f H
And then, oh thou earnest carrier of the un- i f jw2I I
sought for, wilt thy hallow brain burn with the - i!$"vgB
consuming fires of remorse for a duty left undone, 1 I jfilJH
and thou shalt rave, and rant, and even shalt thou I i pfn! wfl
eat of hay in the field. And again and again shalt it ( r&ifB
thou go forth In strenuous endeavor, searching ever J jJTIfjB
for that fleeting thing which seemeth foredoomed wt 3B
to escape thee. And thou shall delve and delve, even 1 J $ ilfl
into the remotest privacy of the remotest human V M'-ftiM
soul, but thy delving shall be in vain, it is written J. BpjpifiB
that In this dim and distant future, shalt thou y (8 jjjH
realize that thy course has run that for thee there ' fffotLlllB
is naught doing and in this knowledge shalt thou ll llfeHH
be broken. 1. tCMjnH
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fly on the wings of the lightning's flash, throwing iff IH
far and wide the seeds of thy insidious gathering, f J Ifj9
to take root in welcome ground and bear unpleas- f 'f ,h'f!8
ant weeds and tares. Thou wilt have fallen in thy I i IS
chosen path, and on thy tottering limbs shalt thou f 1 i
crawl slowly and painfully to the dark and dismal Sm lljH
rear and assume a reclining posture befitting both 9 K1H
thyself and thy undone duty. 3!! ffwffl
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of good thoughts and pleasant pictures in the liSxVB
smoke of a good cigar. There isn't much comfort I'SSSSH
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