the hold of
President Smith, close-herd the Mormons, and leave them ready
politically to be driven hither and yon as seemed most profitable
for Church purposes.

Gray, wise, crafty, sly, soft, one who carries mendacity to the
heights of art, President Smith gives in all he says and does and
looks the color of truth to this explanation of his frankness. He
would not prodigiously care if Smoot were cast into outer Senate
darkness. It would not be an evil past a remedy. He could send
Smoot back; and send him back again. Meanwhile, he might lift up
the cry of the Church persecuted; that of itself would stiffen
the Mormon line of battle and multiply recruits.

President Smith looks forward to a time when one Senate vote will
be decisive. He cannot prophesy the day; but by the light of what
has been, he knows that it must dawn. About a decade ago the
Democrats took the Senate from the Republicans by one vote -
Senator Peffer's. In Garfield's day the Senate, before Conkling
stepped down and out, was in even balance with a tie. What was,
will be; and President Smith intends, when that moment arrives
and the Senate is in poise between the parties, to have at least
one Utah vote, and as many more as he may, to be a stock in trade
wherewith to traffic security for his Church of Mormon and its
crimes. Given a balance of power in the Senate - and it might
easily come within his hands - President Smith could enforce such
liberal terms for Mormonism as to privilege it in its sins and
prevent chance of punishment.

There be those who, for a Mormon or a personal political reason,
will find fault with this work and its now appearance in print;
they will argue that some motive of politics underlies the
publication. It is fair to state that in so arguing they will be
right. The motive is three-ply - made up of a purpose to
withstand the Mormon Church as a political force, limit its
spread as a so-called religion, and buckler the mothers and
daughters and sisters of the country against an enemy whose
advances are aimed peculiarly at them. The morals of a people are
in the custody of its women; and, against Mormonism - that
sleepless menace to American morality - these confessions of Lee
the Danite are set in types to become a weapon in their hands. It
was the womanhood of the nation that compelled the present Senate
investigation of Smoot and what Mormon influences and conspiracies
produced him as their representative; and it is for