Smith expresses "one drop" rule on temple/priesthood access for Black people as an opinion.
Meeting Minutes, January 2, 1902, George Albert Smith Family Papers (Box 78, Folder 7), University of Utah Marriott Library Special Collections.
And the question in President Smith's mind was, when shall we get light enought [enough] to determine each case on its merits? He gave it as his opinion that in all cases where the blood of Cain showed itself, however slight, the line should be drawn there; but where children of tainted parents were found to be pure Ephraimites, they might be admitted to the temple. This was only an opinion, however, the subject would no doubt be considered later.