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Show CHAPTER VII THE CAMPAIGN OF 1907 During 1907 the final favorable case. On February 20 vote came in the Reed Smoot the Senate voted to allow the Utah Senator to hold his seat. Soon after the decision in the Smoot matter was felt by the First Presidency be clarified before the world. was written in Church.l a that the Accordingly, an conciliatory spirit explaining pledges, and that it had done Specific charges which had been taken up and discussed the Church was tive of the the First "Address to the World" the it that it made was attempted a past history of the oppressive or in the the Church against Denials were that Mormonism or was a in destruc that the tithing sys The loyalty As defense against charges of continued plural marriages, Presidency to American ideals and to the National Government. stated that inasmuch as the Mormon of as they God, and inasmuch was were made that political reaffirmed the wonder strict ad past. arbitrarily enforced. was of the commercial rather than marriage covenant, that it give to exert undue employed deceptive methods, sanctity so Presidency. anti-education, that it religious institution, fluence, that by announced it position of the Church should It served notice that the Church intended to herence to 'its tem was was that there people had accepted the authorities the law as had sacrificed for many years in its were not more -153- plural marriages, not that one defense, some |
