Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-01
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II was to be expected that the ogden
STANDARD. non-"Mormon" paper
which has expressed the most liberal
aud consistent views on tho situation In
Utah. should be misrcpresentcd by
those who are engaged Ia the new cruz
SADIE. Because :, has expressed the
opinion that. while poiygamous mar
tiarca must not be performed In this
state. the old relations existing pre-
vlous to statehood should be permitted
TO remain undisturbcd, II has been ac-
cuscd Of endorsing poiygamy. To that
charge the editor thus responds:
THE present editor has not endorsed
poiygamy and does not believe IN
polygtmy, and the Standard proposca
TO DO 40 loo o. power TO prevent polyg-
amy or plural marriages. There IL now
mo- excuse fuf a Mormon ur any other
ps raou 60 90 into uolyrumy, The laws
20 the United states. the state OF Utah.
aud % thn Mormon church prohibit
plural MARRIAGES and 10 must not be
pfncfictd lu the future, There Il much
falk about plural mnrfiagca guing on
by consent % the church Some time
aro the standard offered a reward %
500 fHr tho proof " one such plural
marriage performed since statehood.
That reward II stili unclaimed. We be-
licvc the Mormon people are true to the
manlfesio and We are willing 90 glvc
500 to learn that the standard is de-
colvcd on this question. DO not DE-
backward about claiming this fioo. The
standard editor viii swear out the wur-
rant for the arrest OF any parties that
entered plural marriage since state
hood"
This brings 90 mind the Offer. now
renewed. which that paper made at the
timo when the assertion was continual
~ repeated BY the paper In this city
that has caused 20 much strife. that
Utah was milling up with plural wives
who were not wives when statehood
was acquired" The Standards o1cr
affords a good opportunity Tor such per-
sons as pretend to know so much on
this subject TO gain thcir reward. But
they will have 20 furnish proof instead
Of gossip. und 20 mako a ease beyond
question. In the place of repeating some
soandalous story or indulglns In iiighta
of the Imagination.
The ogden STANDARD makoa the fol-
lowing extract from tho bingham iul-
letln. also nom Mormon paper,pub-
lishcd Ia Salt Lake county:
There are Gen,lics In Utah who did
not vote for Roberts, but now prefer
| that he DO seated. They do not en-.
doFae his course ~ a p0lyEninist. but
nrc disguised with the Intensity OF th,
| Tight that has been made uralnTt him
by sontimontnllHta who do not under
stand the polyEamy question na % l'
understood by Ia rtuh opponents
/ 'MurmunH who nru making u struggle
| to support their old families are emit.
| lied TO some credit. even though there
| - occasional evidence that they do not
| strictly obey the law. Their crime.
should not be cnndonod but are not
n whit worse than social lagaes o. Tho
! very nounie whn have been lying
/ awake nights Matching plans TO pre-
vent Utah from being represented In
| the lower House. Tho following com.
mcnt IN the New York sun IL sensible
and to degree nta the cas-. 'Thvrl
H. beyond question vast amount oi
! humbug and Hypocrisy In the oppnsi-
ton 10 seating Roberts. II all tn,
protcatnnts who are living In ccncu-
hinnEe or who have nyaiied themaclyc'
| Of our frcu-and-carv divorce laws "a
got new partner" were to be- ruled
out ~ public life or forbidden to pos,
as consorH Of morality, there would b,
| ~ ~ N'.fAtAlN NAAAhNANf W wv HteN''
mcnt'"
Commenting on the foregoing from
tho Bulletin. the standard has this e
say cdltorlally. and we bollcvc its Re-
marks viii receive enlargement from q
vast number OF nom" Mormons' In dif'
fcrvnt garts Of this State:
"The Standard congrntulatcs IN,
! ON al al
expression On the Mormon question
The Bulletin, like the standard, doe,
not believe In pulygtmy and wants VI
stamped out, but. like the standard
the Bulletin believes the Mormon peo'
! p'c have done nohly In living up to IN,
manifesto 20 we'll. II even thinks III,
support ~ the Old pOlygamoua fami
Hes by tho husbands u credit I,
them. Right you are. Are there ans
other GENTLE papers IN Utah who wan
Ia put down future gnlyEamous mar,
ftnifcs and nc the same time be fair ant
| human toward tho old plurut fumtllVHg q