Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-08-09
A poLYeAmOUs CONGRESS-.

APOLYGAMOUs CONGRESS-.
The San Francisco Alta is amusing
sometimes. 1t is but rarely SO; still it
occasionally comes to the front. Its lat
est disquisition was upon the election in
Utah. 1t did not want the people to
vote, and yet it did. There was no tell
ing what tbs Alta desired from what it
said. We could only judge from the
surrounding circumstances OF the case,
which were that the people of Utah did
not vote to suit the Alta. The vote was
not welcome to US any more than it was
to the Alta. We desired, like any other
good citizen. that an ayowed and prac-
tical polygamist like George Q. Cannon
should not have been allowed to disgrace
the House of Representatives and the
people Of Utah by being returned to
Congress. But there he is. The peo-
pie, We suppose, urged on by motives
that it does not become a newspaper to
discuss, chose to vote for and elect him,
and, if he is not disqualified, We expect
that he will represent Utah in the next
Congress. We regret this. We deplore
it. We cannot but record our protest
against placing a man in high official
position that by his expressed belief and
practices shows that he wishes to degrade
women to the position of merely satisfy
ing lecherous desires. This villainous
doctrine cuts to the root all the hopes OF
those who desire to raise the human race
to high and intellectual standard. No
man can degrade woman without him.
self sharing in the sin and shame. Yet
these polygsmists dare to say that they
wish to promote morality and virtue!
II is nothing of the kind: they only wish
to reduce the other sex to become merely
q qualification Of their sensual appetites.
Congress, il it had done its duty, which
it never for the last ten years has done,
would have stamped out this horrible
crime against the other sex. Congress
did not do this. The men that formed
the majority of that assemblage had
neither the morality, decency or the
courage to assert the cause Of the weaker
sex. They talked and paved, and namby
pambied around, but when it came to
voting, large majority Of them forgot
they had wives, sisters and mothers, and
did anything but curb, stamp out and
stihe the villainous, horrible practice Of
polygsmy. This blessed Congress that
the Republican Congressional Committee
is Dragging about, could not, would not
become the champions of womanhood
and save their sisters from infamy and
degradation. They stood quietly by and
permitted every scoundrel to indulge his
brutal passions at the expense of the un-
happy, the weak and the defenseless.
That is what the present Congress did,
and not woman in the land who re-
spects and loves the dignity, the honor,
tuc Jusl Sithius VI ucf seA, out suouiu
spit upon, should spurn the dirty COW.
ards that had not the manliness, the
courage, the common decency to shield
their sisters from infamy and oppression
A man is to be judged by his works ant
tree by its fruits. So Congress passed
an act that really amounted to nothing
because it did not clearly and directly
denounce and render punishable the vii
famous crime of polygamy. 1t did moi
do this, the only benefit it could confel
on Utah. Yet, after noting the refusa
Of Congress to redress the cause of the
helpless and oppressed, then comes this
stupid Alta and says the people Of Utah
are ''insolent" because they did not vote
to snit it. They would be fools if they
did. Anything the Alta, or the tribe i
supports, wants, is sure to be wrong
Harry Thornton once said, when ht
was arguing a case in Austin, aftel
referring to the efforts of the other side
THAT blind hog would sometimes
stumble over an acorn" So with tn,
Alta. 1t may occasionally blunder OIL
the right side, but its instincts are no
that way; it would not be fair if it could
As an instance, nothing would NOR
sufficiently show its folly when it talk
about the "insolence" of voters. W
tell the Alta, tell the World, that al
American citizen has the right to deposi
his ballot for whom he pleases; and th
man that talks about 'insolence'' b.
cause those ballots do not suit him. is
fool, or insane, and ought to be put OF
OF harms way. There is no doubt tn
election of Cannon as a representativ
of the people of Utah is a mistake. Tht
hisconstituents ought to be ashamed c
placing an avowed Polygamist in so e,
allied position. They, however, chos
to do so, and when the Alta talks abor
''insolence. it ought to be birched int
decency, as we'll as the conspirator
against their mothers and daughter
ought to DO scourged into feeling, an
expressing a proper respect for the otht
sex. A man who does not honor and wi
not protect lady is dirty knave; b,
ct the same time man who says anoth,
citizen has not right to vote, as to biz
seemeth best is equally foolish and REL
rehensible; and that is what the Alta die