Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-06-21
aInns oN MonMoNIsM

A Sew York paper has the following
spicy communication. on subject
that seems to disturb some Of the very
rious and precise people Of the great
and Immaculate commercial capital of
the United states. It DO headed Gibbs
ON M0rnouism."
Some Sew York people who are
afraid that Moum0uiHm viii spread II
CONGRESSMAN Roberts ls seated wrote
t1 oN-Govoruor Gibbs. OF Texas. asking
hiF help Go destroy polygamy. lie
wrote ln reply.
your letter received. ! would like 10
nes'Ht ln nearly any kind N reform.
hut in this u0lyrlmy matter ! think
fhH committee should first get laws
enacted that man should have his
wives uil recorded.
"AH ! understand ConarcHaman-olect
Roberts hHH 900 DIE wives recorded Ia
Texas $50 have sometimes had trouble
with the men who would not record
their wives and g1 by tho record.
- thought perhaps when the coun-
try WIS furnished with an kinds of
IIuullrlnr cosmetics fu u man could
have Die wife show uu differently every
week that marriage on the European
plan would De checked. but u seems
to go ON Just the same.
"1f we suppress Congressman Rob.
DriH and Die three wives what Will we
DO with some ~ OUR new American
citizens lu the Philippines who have
thirty wlycsT 1u that country they
don't have even millinery bills us a
check ou thlH pcfuiolouH habit. We have
mo- M1rm0nism ln Texas. 90 nomlnc.
and the other kind ls Ho hard 90 trail
down in state nyc times ne biz "a
Now York that Z would rather go up
against tho 10000 Democratic ma
iurIty. old settlers ten me that secret
MormonlHm BOO Texas is about statu
qur. We used 90 regulate such mat
tors hy vigilance committees. but We
have an advanced civilization now IN.
900 I don't believe I could organize one.
not even Co hang "a man Tor horno-atoal-
ms. much less FOR polygamy
Texas o. 100 miles from north 20
south boundary. Before the war by
some means they caught up with q
man here who had seven wives. and.
although some of them were 1000
miles apart. they rot Thorn an together
and made the man live with them all
in one house. Since then we have not
had many nvowod M1fmoua'
u don't mind helping you all DO up'
Roberts or any other Mormon aH they
have no votes 100 Texas. I viii agree 60
see that no man breaches u In Texas.
but won't undertake 90 stop the prac-
VIC" NNlNNN 7 NNN NNNNN NNN Ah"NNANNlN.AlN
campaign fund and the army now In
tho Philippine. Since receiving your
letter ! have studied The question from
h social standpoint, The women can
stop this business. because n the urst
wife has nerve there will be no more In
that family ! knew n a case Ia Ar
kansas whore there was only one wife
and whore u was u hrler patch husl-
ness 90 be- n Republican and aho made
her husband one.
perhaps "a man might be regulated
In this matter N his first wife would
Keep him broke from the beginning on
millinery bills. Tor Solomon and Rob-
orts and Young an seemed 10 have been
rich. N Wall street keeps cotton down
90 cents ! will have q comparatively
easy Job holding down the Texas Nor.
mons Four-ccnt cotton ~ Mormon
cNtermlnator.
"Haa the Utah congressman q rod
headed wlfc9 Solomon had several
hundred. but not cd-hended one
among them. They tell me that man
with red-hcndcd wife never has but
one wife. I told a farmer friend today
that Roberts was going 90 got IN all
three OF his wives FOR private Hccre.
tnrios az taxpayers expense. ana the
way he cussed makes me willing 90 bet
that the Grapevine precinct goes our
way,
"Bcforc we open this campaign we
want 90 get all the points. When a
man has more than one vito the Now
York companies ought not % allow HIN
20 get NE insurance. It's too great hn
incentive 10 suicide