Coeditor of the reed smoot hearings and investigation of a mormon senator and the making of American Religion who is reed smoot reed smoot . He was a Mormon Apostle back in the 80 or late 1800s, and in the early 1900s he was elected to the senate as a republican and once he was elected to the senate, a lot of people had a problem with that because not is he mormon, which was a big problem the rest of the country. But he was an apostle. So one of the hierarchy in the church and one of the themes people were worried about were that the church basically ran politics because the church ran the economy in utah the church ran society in utah and so reed smoot as part of the hierarchy of mormons at the time people were saying, well, what are you doing bringing the mormon hierarchy into the capital america . And so a lot of people found that very worthy of distrust. And so that led to a whole series of hearings that lasted several years. And so thats kind of what this whole book is about, is n
To have of investigation of the making of an american religion. Guest he was an apostle back in the late 1800s, and in the early 19800s he was elected to the senate as a republican. Elected to the senate, a lot of people had a problem with that because not only was he mormon, which was a big problem to the rest of the country, but he was an apostle, so one of the hire or around around key centers. One of the things people were worried about was the church basicallyec ran politics. The church ran the economy in, society in utah. So reid smoot, people were saying, well, what are you doing, bringing some mormon hierarchy into the capital of america in and so a lot of people found that very worthy of distrust. And so that led to the a whole series of hearings a that lasted several years. And soo thats kind of what this whole books about is not just so much about the hearings, but what is the heed . Why were they so concerning to people . And so thats kind of what the book is seeking to get
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With help from our Comcast Cable partners we will ask for the history of the city. Visit the Brigham Young University Museum of paleontology the hear about how one man changed the way dinosaur skeletal remains are displayed in museums. Mr. Fluhman the metal rods the support of the animal are hidden within the bounds. When you can hide the armature in the steel supports, the animal looks more alive. Later, see artifacts recovered from one of provos early structures in the story they tell about the lives of the towns first settlers. Mr. Scheetz when we look back at how our ancestors lived, the little bits and pieces that we uncovered tell that story. We begin the hour i taking a look at the settlement of provo and how it is changed over the years. Mr. Fluhman provo has a difficult early story. Of the big narrative of mormon settlement of the region is about coming into this place in aching at work even though earlier american and even british and other explorers never chose to settle her
Occur for elder smoot before he would be allowed to sit in the senate. They called on the testimony of leaders of the church and others jobs receive smith. He was called out to testify and when they would ask him a series of questions mostly about the practice of polygamy. At the time president smith was a practicing polygamist. Theres some good political cartoons related to this time period and in looking through the papers, unfortunately, i did not see any that reed smoot kept or not part of his original papers. Heres a few that relate to this time period, some of these might be related to the fears that were going on. Some of these relate to the testimony of president smith. There are some things that were said that kind of put the church in a bad light or put him in a bad light that maybe werent the most helpful to reed smoot, to senator smoot at the time. This one showing how smoot may have felt after hearing president smiths testimony. But they were all over. There were Many Poli