The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-10-28

the now famous manifesto surrender
ing the practice of plural marriage,
Under that domestic relation children
were born and reared, and ties just as
tender, and love just as pure and holy
as any passion that eyer had birth on
this earth, had been formed. Upon
thousands of homes where peace and
happiness had dwelt, that manifesto
fell with crushing force. Wives who
loved their husbands with all the ten
derness and undying devotion of which
woman's nature Is capable; women
who would have died by the most ex
quisite torture rather than part with
domestic relation that had placed upon
their brows the holy name of wife, and
upon their heads the wreath of honor
able maternity, bowed their heads in
the presence of a sorrow Infinitely
worse than death. But the sacrifice
had to be made. The tender ties of
matrimony were sRndered- and the as
sociations ofyears were discontinued
The WeIl-known forms OF husbands and
fathers no longer entered the doors
where once his coming brought Joy to
the wife and happiness to the children.
Alone in their sorrow those women
have pursued the pathway of life. The
only rays of light that have come TO
them are those that through the mis- t
and darkness have struggled through
| from the other side. No one but He
whose sympathetic being notes the fall
ing of a single sparrow, understandable
magnitude Of the terrible sorrow that
has come to the hearts of thousands in
Utah; no one but the Father has read
Alright the motives that haYe prompted
them to endure. The passionate out
cries have been stifed in faith that
looks forward to infinite reunions In
the world to come.
So quietly have those things taken
place, that the world has been almost
or totally unconscious of that feature
of the surrender.
Those things to which we have
briefly referred were done in the inter-
est of peace, and no one but the most
heartless bigotts will not say those
tremendous sacrifices should haYe the
reward tor which they were made,-
that Of peace.
The surrender of the principle of
plural marriage paved the way for di.
vision on party lines. 1t rendered un
necessary any further union of church
and state, or rather an united vote OF
church members against those VIII c
were not members. Prior to the time
of the surrender, that which appeared
to be union of church and state was
imperative. Since then there has been
an impression that there are no bars to
the people Joining either or any party.
During all those years of trouble, the
people had regarded the national de-
mocracy as their friend. The only
voices that in congress, were raised in
defense of the Mormon people We're
| those of democrats. The only ones
| who asked that the enforcement of the
laws in Utah might be tempered with
mercy, we're democrats. When eT post
5dcto laws were enacted, and the con-
stitution strained as means to an
end, and the Mormon people carried
those same laws to the Supreme court,
the only ones in that august body that
| declared tor strict construction OF the
constitution, were the democratic mem
bers. The only ones that voted against
those acts of conistication were the
democrats. The people of Utah
learned in those decisions of the Su-
preme court that the democrats were
strict constructionists of the constitu-
ton and chat it must not be strained
in order to accomplish even what was
regarded by the nation as laudable
end. The people ofUtah learned that the
republican party was willing to tram
pie under their feet that great pa
ladium of the peoples rights that Was
inspired by Jehoyah and written by
Thomas Jefferson. Thus the people
of Utah had learned great and prac-
tical lesson in the first two
principles of democracy, viz; personal
liberty and a strict construction of the
constitution. Thus it happened that
the people of Utah became over
whelmingIy democratic. 1t was not
because of their ignorance of politics, as
has been charged by our brainless
neighbor and other small souls on the
other side. but because Of their knowl-
edge. Ignorance of the fundamental
principles of politics would have led
them into the republican party.
At the time of the division there
was a republican administration. 1t
was desirable that Utah go into the
union at the earliest possible date.
President Joseph T. Smith voiced the
feeling of his party when he said that
if he were the republican party, know
ing as he did that Utah were domo-
cratic, he would shut the door in her
face, In order to insure statehood to
Utah it became necessary that Utah |
politics should be in line with the re-
publican administration. Thus it was
that Apostle John Henry Smith took
the stump for the republicans. Thus
it was that George F. Gibbs carried
4 letter to Cache valley" said letter
the declaration that it was
desired by the first presidency that
Cache county 90 republican because of