Graham guardian., 1899-03-31

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only one wife, and where it wa
q brier patch business to be reput
liean, aud she made her husban
one. don't know much abou
Mormonlsm or about Washington
, City, and my people voted that
was too good to go there, but from
what ! hear, | am not uneasy abou
the Generalization of other con
gressmen by Mr.. Roberts. Per
haps man might be regulated il
this matter, if his first wife woult
keep HIM broke from the begin
ming on millinery bills, for Solo
mon and Roberts and Young al
seemed to have been rich. If Wal
street keeps cotton down to -four
cents, | will have comparatively
easy job holding down the Texas
Mormons. Four cent cotton is q
Mormon exterminator.
| We had best keep this reform on
a non-partisian basis, so as to work
in proclamation frcm both Nc.
kinley and Bryan which down
here has more weight than Pau's
famous eplstle on the subject. /
am enthusiastic, but pestered about
the best method to pursue. L was
against the present regime on this
and many other points.
Has the congressman red head.
ed wife? Solomon had roo, but
not red headed one among them.
They tell me that man with a
red headed wife never has but one
wife. | have gone to work. r
told a farmer today that, Hon.
Roberts was going to get in all
three OF his wives as private sec.
retaries at tax payers expense, and
the way the farmer cussed, makes
mo willing to bet that the Grape
vine precinct goes our way. / see
trouble with the social mugwumps.
who won't want to go to the root
of this evil.
Before we open this campaign,
we want to gel all the points.
When man has more than one
wife, the New York insurance com.
panies ought not to allow him to
take out policy on any of their
lives; and if he marries them in
Texas, it would he good business
not to allow any on his own. The
ram:fcations of this question are
numerous, but am somewhat of a.
veteran, as | have fought both re.
publicans and democrats to al
finish.
Can't we get on our side the
men and papers who got up the
embalmed beef racket Get Mr..
Hearst to have picture or two OF
Congressman Roberts wives beat.
ing the third one and she beating
the Congressman for paying for a
better spring hat for one than for
TIE other. A campaign lie well il,
lustrated is next to campaign
funds. I guess we an,i.polygamy
people are mostly poor, as reform
ers generally are.
They tell me these priests are
easily spotted, as they are always
looking around for another wife.
The New York headquarters must
tell us how to ca,ch them and what
TO do with them. How does
Governor Roosevelt stand ON this
issue2 / would have been a rough
rider, but was afraid our people
over in Cuba wouldn't get any
kind of beef, like the Confederates |
at Yicksburg.
When we get through at Wash.
ington City, what will the league
do in the Philippines? Maybe
they can stop 1T there by killing
all the husbands. | am willing to
tote my own skillet in this fight,
but | would like to know who is
toting the "rocks," necessary in
every successful campaign. On the
right basis | am willing to obey
orders and give your committee
the glory. Gould we amend the
constitution and charters, SO as
not to allow any man to hold of
fce or government contract who
is suspicioned of having more than
one wife, recorded or recorded
This move would be deadener.
One weakness must be played |
against the other. shall continue
to theorlze on the question and |
await orders.
Yours for reform,
Barnett Gibbs.
P. S. Can't'we pack the next
census appointments, or are these
people too strong in Washington
City? How is Puck on this issue2
/ will ask the legislature to include
the Molmons in the anti prairie
dog and auti.Johnson grass bill |
and if there IS any here. unless
their sin is too secret, u govern.
ment bounty will get 'em--I think
am on the trail of one of those |
secret missionaries who has been
telling our people in Hawley's
district, that the more wives a man
has, the more cotton goods be will
buy and the higher cotton will go