Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-02-14
A FEW SAMPLES TESTED.

1. The church has made solemn
covenant TO keep it, power aud inru.
once out Of politics Il made that
pledge to the nation. ana Ia the same
breath nbrolvcd the Mormon people
from the obligation that had always
been upon them. 60 obey the Priesthood
In political affairs. The present cnort
ON the part Of some of the high Priest
hood IL to take back that freedom from
,. Coupled with this is the deter
mlnAtioa to restore polygamy with all
Its old binding force. and To reserve
rhe h0nora and cmOlumenta of u
state and county ana city officers for
poiyEnmlHta.
II has been demonstrated that an
over Utah are polygamoua wives who
were not wives In 1896. we hnd that
Apostles arr whipping In the people To
obey the Priesthood even to taking
more wives. We mud cases WHERE hus-
bands had separated from their polyg-
nnou~ wives after the manifesto, who
have been whipped back to live their
religion. within the past eighteen
months. We ind where women az
church meetings are urging young EirlH
TO go into polygnmy.
I. The situation " made clear that
the nomination and election NJ hohcrta
was To- make test cnse. that inscts~
he could be seated In Congress, II
would either he an implied notice BY
Congress that poiygamy was not OBJ
jectionable 10 that mody, or that u was
impotent TO Interfere.
8. The answer H. plain. n N necessary
becauso II ~. u n because fam has
been broken with this nation. because
faith has been broken with the Gentllct
IN Utah. because Il has been broken
with the Mormon" masses. Broken
stopped. because the taking of new
wives has not been stopped. because
hlxh Apostles are directly interfering
with politics and using their pfiestly
Offices 10 Influence votes. because the
old preaching OF the necessity ~ obcdi-
.nce IN all things has been resumed;
because the pliEhted faith ON which
Statehood was obtained II being tram.
pied In the mire. and the old detcrmi-
nation To carry an matters regardless
Of the Republics laws u In fuil force.
A. TO the first paragraph above We
hear great deal now-a-dnyn about
solemn covcnantA' and sacred cons
tracts which the church II said to
have cnicrcrd into. Hut We do not
rcceiv. n syllable Of proof In support
Of those arsertlona.nor do we learn who
were the other parties TO the contracts.
Never mind that II In the dissolution
part OF the alleged contract that We
wish TO notice, and the purportcd "ob-
hRation mat had always been upon
the Mormon people" The Mormon"
people know very well that they we're
never placed under any obligation TO
obey the priesthood In political AZ
falra" Therefore they Ind nothinr OF
IN" KIND To De abrolNed from The
present cnort TO take back that frc"-
dom " AN unknown quantity. Mo-
hohy mas seen IT, ret H. heard
OF II unless thoN have read
pt u IN tho anti Mormon
sheet. who knows anything about
such nm cnortf What Is II, who II
making H. who u affected by ~ Noon
shine would be too substantial u name
Tor III" idiocy OF the anu-"Mormon"
paragraph We have quoted.
The second paragraph II like unto II.
The determination To restore polygamy
with all IL old binding force Who
exhibits ~ Who IN bound bSitiwho has
The power Ia do any restoring, except
Wv Wv H"N NhN hsAh lNaAfN HANnN'h
On record most emphaticaliy against
itR Hut how about the 'old binding
torcc'. An awful force" was II not,
when but a small minority ~ the people
supposed TO be under the force" were
ever bound" by ~.
nut the third paragraph aims TO
support the second by alleged evidence.
What II itg Why. we are told that 'nll
over Utah are polygamouS wives who
we're not wives In 1885," This Il said 10
be- demonstrated" Where is tho dem-
onsiraliunY Who knowa anything
about ~ These wholesale charges arr
spread ALI over the Union. where
are these newly we'd pnlygnmous
Wives Who KNOWS anything about
thcmf or course Dame Gossip-thc
respectable old lady from whom the
anti-"Alormon" sheet obtains It's chief
reliable Information" has chartered
about private family AFFAIRS that she
doesn't understand. ana the anti-"Mor.
mon" sonndal-mongcr repeats the sus-
nlcionH thus ret ailoat, with eNaggcra-
lions and additions. But why not set