Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-01-24
rmE FACTS ~ rmE CASE.


The Saints Herald Josephltel adds 10
the -un ~ eastern mifinformailon con
corning Utah by publishing that,
This state has purroseiy enacted no
law hy which itn citizens may be- com =.
PEELED to live In accord with the proyi.
sion in the act under which Utah be-
came state. "polyHtmy ~ forever pro-
hibited." or ~ Hun.r punishment "
they fail to do II.
nh. Herald people ought To know
something ON this greatly miHrcprc-
scented subject. seeing that they have
had W. much 10 say about II. but u
appears they are ~ Ignorant rs the
people whom they attempt TO rnlightrn.
if not. then they are cndcayorlng Ia
use the weapons of fniHehond, NJ which
they have 10 complain when attacked
by their seoiarian ndVernarieH.
The Constitution ~ the state N Utah
not only cmbodles the provision rc-
auircd In the act under which Utah
became "a state, but irgialntes directly
10 give that provision practical effect
and provides for the punishment IT
those guilty Of ita violation This H.
the clause;
The act of the Governor aud LrRln.
iatiyu Assembly of the Territory ~
Utah. entitled An Act to Punish polyE-
amy ana other kindred onfensra, up-
rr.vcd Feb. I. 4. -. 1899, In M Tar nH
the sam. defines and impoarH penalties
for polNThmN. N hereby declared 10 he
IN force IN the state ~ Utah, 49, Article
N<iN, See, q
The law referred to above provides
that;
Every person who has husband or
wife Twins. who hereafter mnrfieH uu-
other, whether hurried or single, aud
any man who hereafter simultaneously,
~ on the same day. mariies more than
one woman, h guilty ~ pniyrNnY ana
shall b" punished by a nur ~ not more
than 500 and by imprisonment in the
state prison fur turm uf mot moro
than nve Year,
II will be seen from tho Foregoing
that this statute Tor the punishment
Of persons committing the oIcnsr uf
polygamy has been In force In Utah
for about seven years. and that Il ear
ries into practical eject the require
ment of the Enabling Act Therefore
the statement N the Lamont Herald
that the stat" NJ Uthh has "purposoly
enacted mo- such law" h false
IN toto, The prserA Ncws has not
only published this law before. hut has
mentioned II and quoted from n cdi-
torially. The Herald has had the pcs-
oret News TO refer to, and les ignorance
or worse on this question ~ deplorahle
to say nothing stronger, That paper
has now AN opportunity NJ setting this
matter straight by acknowledging its
error ana cndeayorlng 10 make known
the truth.
The crusade now being waged by
certain religious sects against the
church Of Jesus Christ Of Lnttor-day
Saints b. largely based on the unlruth
which we have here exposed Several
public Journals have given place 10 tho
falsohood here rcfutvd, which has been
set ailoat by the ministers engaged IN
the present night against the Mormons,
We do not know OF one that has been
fair CROUCH 10 give the facts after re-
celving proof that thoy We're In error
This has been the difficulty IN all the
controversies ON the Mormon question.
one fido only h given To the public by
the pulpit ana the press Of the ooun-
Try. and the truth IL purposely sup
pressed or concealed, and there have
been no more biased and one-slded
promulgators N error and oonoealers
~ the facts than those periodicals
which claim 10 be religious aud pro-
fess TO be Christian