The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-09
Washington time G p. m. st. Paul..
RIVER BULLETIN.
THEY, TOO. MUST GO.

No doubt tho moral sense Of the en-
tire American nation IS aroused to the
point of enthusiasm by the noble stand
taken against the practice OF polygamy
Congressman Roberts did not act judi
ciously either for himself or the admin
istration Of President Mckinley in not
holding to his original purpose to resign
his seat. He has made himself and the
peculiar institution of Utah objects of
ribaId jest and the butt of the moral on
slaughts which so fttingly proceed from
the very citadel Of private and public
morality, which. of course, is located in
the vicinity of the White house.
Mr.. Roberts will return to Utah divest,
ed Of his character as congressman-elect.
That much seems settled beyond all ques-
ton And his deprivation will come upon
him mainly because he is living in a state
Of unrighteousness obnoxious al. Ike to all
worthy members of the existing admin
istraion and of. the party of moral ideas,
as we'll as to many others besides. Tt
having been declared by statute that a
man bearing the relation which Mr.. Rob
erts does to mis- Utah wives is ineligible
for all public office, the fate of Mr.. Rob
erts as member of the Fifty sixth con-
gress is forever sealed. This is the de-
cree of the existing administration and
Of many super-virtuous congressman of
the Democratic persuasion.
Rut Mr.. Roberts is far from the being
The only offender. Unless current intelH-
gence is wholly at fault 1t is the fact
that not few of his much-married
brethren are at this moment holding Of
iice in Utah and drawing their pay from
the federal treasury. Indeed it seems to
be beyond dispute that they are doing So
under the commissions signed, sealed and
delivered by that very high priest Of Of
fetal and marital morality, the president
Of the United States. Of course thew
like Mr.. Roberts, must go. 1t must never
be forgotten by those who are so strenu-
ously holding up the hands Of the admin
istration IN the punishment OF this nm
blushing offender that, when those con-
missions were issued to Roberts COM
panions in sin, the good man who signed
them did not know that his appointees
were living in state of sin. Had he the
relnotest thought of any such possibility;
his arm would have been palsied ere he
would have done the deed. That much
1nCeed passes without saying.
The one feature Of the executive ac-
tion in commissioning offending Mormons
TO act as representatives Of this great
christian government of ours which is
incapable OF understanding without fur
Their light being cast upon it is how orr
good president, surrounded as he is by
thoughtful, highly conservative and
moral advisers of the Hanna, Plat and
quay stamp, could ever have been guilty.
o. The regrettable oversight of not in
curing into the domestic institutions
prevailing in the households of his en-
pointees. But even this lapse from the
path-of rigid and unbendlng morality
which IS the great characteristic of orr
national administration may be remedied
And now the world awaits with bated
breath the sequel to the noble stand
taken on behalf of all that Christian So
ciety holds dearest on earth, when tba
ether Mormon offenders wko beguiled our
unsuspecting federal executive into an
pointing them to office will disappear for
ever from the official world.