The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-01-22

IT WONDER rev Mr. g. II. R0e~-tg' in-
III sssa.s11s ara asar@sSezs Yea know
III - . sAs c9xxxTessr1&n frezn SAT-
Lake WHO has three xrtvea SID
are szzEsa sEr.As tas xzvi-zs4exa might Re
worried. ~E1n e. Fl Roberts ard wives"
h4. - = e.a1zAer o. card party, where eAea
sAzs e9s@zsa the invitations rssgat read,
-asr Roberts ard Ne. J. or mfr. Raaesrts
AID No. Z" jsEst as the hostess srssgEst
pssAs~. ] Should Eat envy NJ. Roesrzs Il
nts sSr~s wives Eoi 20 dsssEr2lsng about
ferTss taAs sometimes bother wives o. con-
sressEsess- La h.sd enough 10 be nzgge3
b ers @-.a Ia Washington. best 70 BE- sal-
He4 BY three so<x3 destroy al tas csaas-
Ex~s ~ posStacs-
A good saany people think tfa. oCr gov
@r-zss5s should Cot seat as CONGRESSMAN
A s-ag wao "a rct only a S-csygaSnist 1t
ezs VIA has tire courage OF his eonvlc-
I@szs ard takes Ms three wives rigss under
TIE 3grae 81 tns capitol Mr. Roberts fas
been regularly nominated and elecss1. In
tie EaFSS -s3Sath congress a Law w1e passed
making LIVING With two OF more women
az wives psnstsntiary o.Tense tn Utah.
un3ss tsais law Mr Roberts was fGed, put
Il prison ard GEsfranch.sad, There vas al
amnesty psociaEnat Lon OF President Cieye-
land ard P-essden; Harrison pardoning ali
Ao=nons who put away their wives, tut
NJ. Roberts Esyer surrendered any OF his
Nov VIII ta-s congress permit dlsfsan-
ehsseS citizen To occupy a seat?
Mr.. Roberts contends that he does not
bsssk aha -aw as long az he does not take
mere wives than the three original ones
Mr.. Roo<gts really believes Ii the Mormon
religion and IL gfea. churehrnan- He 5
al eloquent speaker. and were ne less
posygatuoua would be e great addition TO
congress In point Of education. and ability.
4 GOOD many people think that the cleo
ton % Mr.. Roberts Is the thin edge
VI tbs wedxs 10 keep Mormonlsm in this
country. and that be has intro<ig ed uEder
tie Disguise OF Pity an insait to the ladies'
xho 1--we a. Washington ard receive the
wives CT congressman. What @.u Mrs.
Mckinley do, confronted with the trio 81
wives? She will have 10 be diplomatic and
eazuie all three as Mrs Roberts, making
our of the trio a sort of ceroeras, three
persons III ore. According 20 the law ef
the United States q man may nave but one
legal wife: then what are two out of the
three women presented 20 Mrs Mckinley?
We DO Lot expect the wife Of cur chef
executive 20 converse with Questionable
wnncn On the strsets: then why should The
frs. lady In the land be expected to asso-
csate with women whose methods could be
questioned In the White HOUSE?
Theirs have been no rev poiygainous
marriages since 1881. The only way that
Mr.. Roberts can be expelled fr0m the
Fifty-slx;n house Of congress would be
that two-th.rd. Of congress vote 10 expel
him on the grounds that he Is living IN
open violation of the general laws which
govern the United States.
THE unspeakable Turk says Ia "Fati-
nsxa'. man shoa.d have as many
wives as he wishes. but take them on the
American plan--one at q time. MIR. Rob
erts, although representing certain part
OF America. as ne does in congress. Goes
not adopt the usual American quantity. but
1is2orts himself numerousiy wherever he
goesl
There - one thirg 10 be thought Of in
this triple alliance. When Mr.. Roberts
travels hack and forth from Salt Lake to
Washington he carries a whist party al
his own. He never has 10 wander around
cars seeking a fourth hand for euehre or
cineh. All he has 10 do ia 10 shuttle the
cards. and the three danes do ths rest.
THE. Able CoyzaIuzzi. assistant librarian
at the vatican. has lately discovered
an original treatise by Calico on the tides.
II was written In the MedIcl gardens in
1878 TIE pope has also unearthed some
documents which throw much light on the
question OF Spanish domination in America,
especially I'm cuba. That dear old poten-
tate. Leo XIII. does not know now 10
whom to offer these documents. Fer, just
as he Was atrou; 10 offer them 70 the queen
Of Spain. America corzsummntfd her VIC
tory at Manila. and So he Is preparing to do
a very wise and sust thing. He is going
10 have two lovely copies struck OF and
give one 10 Spain and one 10 the United
States. Pope Ieo is always wise. There
was A little boy who went 10 church ons
day and returned home and told his mother
that the minister had told such nice
story about two ladies' who both wanted
one baby and as there WAS bat one baby
and two ladies there was terrible 10 do
about II. "And what was doneY the
mother asked the boy. ''oh. the minister
said that th. wise king took a sword and