Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-12-27
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The following appears In tho regular
Associated Press dispatches sent over
the wires last night;
KANSAS CITY, Doc. GA special to tho
journal from Topeka, Kan, say-;
ltichard W. Hart, Bishop OF the MOT
mon Church At salt Lake city, member
Of the Territorial Legislature aud prac'
ticing lawyer Of some note ~ ms region
stopped over nj Newton to visit some
relatives yesterday while en- route nom
his homo 10 Georgia.
10 n ropro.entative OF the local paper
he granted an interview, In which lac cA-
pte.scd some opinions which viii be re-
coivod with ~. enlistment by people VINO
had supposed the Mormon Church had
permanently abandoned polyglmy' Ac-
cording 10 Sir. iIarrs view Of the situa-
ton, tho Church will Of once take ~ lho
practice whom Utah has bCon admitted as
aSnto. lie says
"Thoro does not SOON to be a clear
conccptiou of what Utah intends doing
after January ith, when tho proclama-
ton will boz issued declaring that Ter
ritory a State. There seems TO prevail
an Impression that tho Church has
abandoned all control and that tho
OF tho power that mato a garden out of a
desert. No greater mistake can be made.
There arc In U,ah nvn Of our people to
one Gontilo, and In thirteen OF tho
twent y.ono couutie. there n not n single
man OF any other faith than our own.
Whether Democrat or Republican, there
will not be a state officer OF other than
our faith, either elective or appu.ntivo,
unless We 40 will Ii. There will not be u
H..
Hibility TO tue Laltor-dny Saints,
"with two exceptions there will not DO
shenn In Utah who Is not Of our num-
Dor.
"You ak n plural marriages have
been abandoned. That ordinance was of
God, and a. one OF His commands must
be oboyod.
"PTesident Woodruff, by divine In
struciop, suspended It, but did not re-
peal II. In Statehood, when We are Tree
from Federal Interference, the Temple
will witness the solomnizatiOn of the
marriage rites that have heretofore been
suspended.
"'The penitontiary will no longer DO
filled with men for oboying Gods laws.
''rhoso who have endured persecution
for having plural wives snd raising up
children TO tho Lord, have provided
for their own all these years. aud hero
nowcd.
"This subject OF plural marriage l.
much mlsundorstood. Not more than
10 per cent OF our members nave moro
than ono wife. A. a mau prOspers tho
Church admnnishes him 10 take TO him
self additional wives, according TO his
prosperity, and he oboys a. "a religious
duly, always with tho advice and full
consent Of his first wiiO. They live
happily together, for 1t Is tho Lords
WISH"
II lie safe to say that no such inter.
view was ever had, Just "a thsro ia no
Bishop Hart la the Church, anu no
Richard w. Hart who has been
member OF the Territorial Legislature
ora prAotielng hwyer In this region.
And yet We suspect that there has
been an interview, though not any.
thing like the one published;
we further fancy that there will
DO very mad Utah lawyer,
ex.legislAtor, aud district Judge.elsct
when no reads the publication and
sees what consummale simpleton he
has allowed some newspaper duiier 10
make Of him. II this incident does
not cause the gentleman from Utah
that we have In mind hereafter IL
maintain a sphiI x'llke dsmesnor
toward country newspaper reporters
when travelling, then we are mistaken
in our idea OF his capacity for learning
by painful experience.
We do not know that the genll man
referred to has oOnveued with the
KansAb reporter; but he could have
done 80 innocently enough, ana ,hen
have been mirquoted Ia the outrageous
manner he must have been II he talked
At all, u the reporter can get no nearer
The true sentiments Of the individual
interviewed than he has done the
name In the present case. We
rather think that CHARLES IL. should
be substituted for Richard W.; and
The reporter having been wrong with
Two OF three names which Identity his
victim has done equally as much bung.
ling with tho conversation, ami has
done gross injustice to Mr., Hart. We
make this suggestion Of the possible
Identity Of the interVloRei from hav.
ing received Information that lew
days ago Judge Charles II. Har. Of
Logan lett on visit 10 the Atlanta.
Georgia, exposition. II he has been
talking at Newton, Kansas, there viii
DO no one more astouishod OK cha.
grlned than he Of the alleged inter.
v.ON; for Mr.. Hart mover could have
made the statements attributed to him;
he is q man OF probity and intslli.
gence, deseryedly held In high esteem,
and too well.lnformed 10 make the
baseless ami absurd assertions he Is
credited with.
Ga some OF the points named, II ia
quite easy to zee how Mr.. Hart could
have made a very proper statement
which the reporter bungled or change
10 suit his fancy, Perhaps he said that