The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-02-03

as h-re quoted. J. mad not seen the
papers IN this interval of four months.
I imme lately went to the committees,
and so far as possible, corrected the
statement to read, I'm another cell
was girl 16 years of age. the vie of
her own father. Her two-months
old babe had divided up
per lip" etc. This last is the
statement in my memorial to the
Senate as prepared by my own hands
and introduced into the Senate by SEN
ator Edmunds, September 21st. ten
DAYS prior to the debate on the House
to any fair thinker, this is proof that
the later publication in the Record was
a mistake. It occurred in this wise:
In the mass of material from which n y
secretary prepared The papers for the
committee was a sketch of two Nor
mon girls, one Is, The other l6s. each Of
whom mad married her own father.
This history had been furnished me by
parties thoroughly familiar with all the
facts. Ac identally this crept into the
COPY instead of my penitentiary notes,
aud l had no knowledge of the fact
until October Sd, it having been filed
in June.
AS 10 the truthfulness of the second
statement Warden Pratt went with US
also 10 this cell and introduced US to
the tirl, and l certainly understood
from M. Pratt the girl was II arried to
her own father, and that the father was
then in the Pen. on the charge of incest,
'as marriage ceremony did not justify
the relation"
Left alone with the girl mother,
held a long conversation with her. (as
did also the lady who accompanied me, }
and took notes of the girls confession,
which was that she was 16 years old,
was married to her own father. and
that the child was hers by her own
father. Together we fully discussed the
fatality of such union resulting in the
physical dtformity of the child. We
tried to arouse the moral sensibil1ties of
the girl to the sin she had committed,
not only against God and her own soul,
but against her innocent offsprins. She
protested with tears "she could not
help it, her father required it,"
"If herein The HERALD sees reason
as per editorial of November Is, also
furnished me by the Intelligence
Company of New York, to demon
mate my report of the girls confession
AS "Mrs. Newman's nastiness, what
of the fact?
Again-as to "astrocious false
hoods" with which The HEaALD
charges me. 1 have never in public
or private, made single representation
touching plural marriages, for which /
have not the most ample proof, as
furnished me BY Mormon witnesses.
Be it known, 1 have testimony suf-
icient to fill volumes, which has been
given me by the Mormon sufferers
themselves. which, out of regard for
the witnesses, have never used to
substantiate every word utter.
Be it further known, no one could re-
greet more than l any inadvertence
which would lead to color of misrepre-
ssntation. No one would go further to
correct an unintentional wrong.
To all the articles which have ap-
peared editorially or otherwise, in the
Mormon press-impunging both my
notices and my actions. l have been
silent, and yet, Mr.. Editor. as God and
the sngels are my witnesses. l have
been moved to action by as pure 6
philanthropy as ever stirred wOman's
| heart. The impulse to that action has
been the voice of Utah motherhood
How.oever polygamy and its attendant
evils may appear to those environeC
| thereby, to one reared in the Puritan
atmosphere of New England and com
ing year by year to the Territory, it il
inexpressibly lostbsome.
| What else, Mr. Editor, but divine
impulse could have moved me to sur
render lucrative profession and tc
work. through all these years, without
the compensation of penny moreover
to invest money, time, siren 9Th, myself
as il were, to bring as l fondly hoped
to the women of Utah higher facilltie:
| for the education of their children? tt
receive therefor the bitterest reproacf
from those for whom l had toiIed-aI
sacrifice so costly-it has only beer
possible by divine suppo u
Think of it as you will, the Mormon
people never had tru friend.
worked as l firmly believed for theil
emancipation from delusion which
involved soul and body. Believing tina
in that day which is sure to come t.
Utah, when a clearer moral sunligh
shall break over the mountains crest
they who shall then comprehend Ia
they will how dark has been the night
shall see with me, eye to eye, shall
know it was the system 1 attacked. no
lGS dQQGTeQIS, duu III I1db uhy IL uO
now, shall know it was the voice @
motherhood which plead for them
higher civilization-plead even at tn
shrine of the Infinite, as a mother 70
her wayward child, with tenderness
and tears.
Mr.. Editor, it is who have been mis-
understood. thwarted. Ny brRil
evolved plan for an institution for tn
whole people of Utah, which, execute
on that plan, would be to the Territory
to the nation, a lasting home.
To the recipients of its benefits al
avenue for preparation of life on hlg
plane, and by method which has in
no quality of compromise of the trues
womanhood. That it has not long ag
fulfilled its promise is no fault of mine
In the hope (which to me was hol
dreamy, that out of the chaos of advers
conditions there might yet by som
supernal power, be evolved an adjust
ment which would vindicate my hop
and the faithful few" who hav
''stayed my hands," L hsve.toiled.
If l pass to the beyond ere acE eIe
!, ment or converted sentiment concern
ing this enterprise obtains. know you
Gods work never fails. 1t may, hk
some weakling though dashing stream
in the canyon. disappear beneath som
threatening boulder, but further on
will some day reappear. and with in
creased volume and momentum NOV
to its destiny.