The San Francisco call., 1899-07-20
OUR OFFICIAL HAREM.

called on the A1ahOmetan SuItdn WHO IuO0 'i1O '
to receive his submission to the star-spangea Odiiie
This Sultan rules about two millions OF poy8dHiou'
Mahometans The Koran permits them to have tour
wives aniece. and under certain circumstances, they
NAV have reinforcements and auXlares. AS they are
far distant from the Shek ul Islam who oversees the
morals and manners OF the Mahometan world, these
islanders may overItay the limit both IN wives ana
side issues The reports from them warrant the state
men that they live up to their religion IN Doth re-
spects and if holy zeal impel them to extremes OF de
votion they face the future with fear that an extra
tally or two will be laid up against them professor
Schurman called on the Sultan OF these SuluS ana
told him the United States desired to be known as the
SOVEREIGN OF his country and assured him that this
Government would protect his religion and the Gus
toms which it permits and enjoins. OF course the
chief OF them is polygamy The potentate said that
he had no objection to becoming Yankee II there
was money in it, and his harem was let alone and his
people were permitted their usual plurality OF wives
Professor Schurman assured his Majesty that II any
thing gaddened the American heart it is to see
Mahometan Suu sitting under his oriental vine and
fig tree surrounded by his four authorized wives and
auxiliaries suited to his station in lie. These aSsur-
ances having passed. the professor agreed to pay the
Sultan $4,000 American gold and an annual subsidy
in the coin for admitting that he belongs 10 TINS
republic with all his wives and concublneS.
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its credit supported imperialism 1t has justified the
dishonorable violation OF the promise made by this
nation to the world when warred on Spain by
saving that God ordered things and had made us
faithlessIv lie to the world. 1t has dug up texts
and disgraced its profession by quoting the guilty
conscience Of the country with the that the
bloody slaughter OF and children and the murder
and deIowering of women in Luzon was done by
Gods command to carry out his inscruablc purpose
OF sending to those people the blessings OF Christian
civilization! With such blasphemy it has pro-
NOTED violent adventure foreign to the purpose OF
Our Government, and in defiance OF its fundamental
law
The people now want to know few things. If the
hand of God is in all this, which hand directs Our off
cial recognition of polygamy in the Sulus? Is God
on the side OF the morality OF the OF Mary or
the son OF Abdalah? Is it Christ or lIahomet?
The pulpts OF this country have rung with denunci-
ations OF Congressman Roberts of Utah because,
according to the custom enoined by his religion, he
has three wives and each has litter OF children The
House Of Representatives has been ordered to refuse
him seat Our Declaration OF Independence says
that we hold these truths to be self-evdent that all
men are created equal and endowed with certain in
alienabe rights among which life, liberty and the
pursuit OF happiness. Lincoln made OF this equality
a very vital issue He declared that il slavery were to
II a man south OF Mason and Dixons line were per-
mitted to own slaves the right must be extended
to every man north OF that line, else slavery must
cease and the whole land be free and every be
made equal in all his rights with every other man.
Slavery was in the South and polygamy tolerated
by the National Government in Utah. With that
raised vision which is the gift OF men inspired by prn
cpes the founders OF the Republican party in its first
platform denounced those twin relics OF barbarsm
slavery and polygamy" What would have dared
foretel that the Republican party, consecrated by
Lincoln to equality of all men under the flag and
within the jurisdiction OF the republic, and by its high
utterance to the extrpaon OF slavery and polygamy
would ever compel the submission OF subject races
and without even the consent Of Congress take the
money OF the taxpayers to subsidize a poygamous
Sultan and get his harem under our flag by furnishing
the cash to restock it and promising protect it in
the future!
What better right has this insular stallion to a
harem than has Roberts OF Utah? Roberts has not
asked the taxpayers to subsidze his seraglio but
it at his own expense.
What has the imperialst pulpit to say in the pre-
mises?
The people are going to have something to say, and
if matters go the Republican party will be their
mouthpiece When the old farmer goes home at the
close OF his days toll and is met by his wife, made
plain by life OF labor they think OF their son gasp
ing in the Philippine hell and wonder why they are
called to give him up and the same time spare out
of their scant earnings money to gewgaw the women
of the harem OF the Sultan OF Suu! They have been
content with each other. Their romance rises and
tints the simmer OF the twilight They have earned
their bread in the sweat OF their faces and believed
in God and their country. Let the pulpit make them
believe that the same God and Government is en-
forcing eternal justice by sending American to jail
in Utah for having two wives while indorsing poly
gamy in the Suus and taxing them to subsidize it.
When the pulpit has done this it prove that Christ
and Beia1, God and Mammon, are one and that truth
and lies are interchangeable.