The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-30
The RAwLlns RESOLUTIONS


Senator Rawlins has put test upon
the sincerity of anti-Mormon agitators.
He proposes an official investigation OF
the practice of polygamy, not only In
Utah. but in all places subject TO the
jurisdiction of the United States gov
eminent This investigation will be
welcomed by the Mormon people-ft will
place before the world the facts which
are better for them and more salts
Z factory to all than the indiscriminate
charges of immortality and the hyster-
zeal harangues which have been
launched against the people of this
state for year er.more.
Those who have knowingly and will
fully libeled the Mormon people will
doubtless object 10 an official inquiry,
naturally preferring the exaggerations
of an irresponsible Mormon eater to the
pruth In fact, the.local Storm Starter.
seeing its fairy fabrications ieopardized
By a demand for facts, has already
tllrred its mud batteries of abuse upon
Senator Rawlins for asking full, COM
plete and disinterested investigation of
the practice of polygamy.
And what are these resolutions which
make the Salt Lake Tribune squirm,
which il characterizes as too silly to
notice and for the introduction of
which it hurls its epithets and billings
gate at the senator from Utah? Here
they are:
sep. - ~a-o1,-n5 t,1 +la eo,ata IF +ba
United States that the committee on
judiciary is hereby instructed to in
quire into and report to the senate:
.sFirst.-To what extent polygamy
is practiced or polygamous marriages
entered into in the United States, or
in places over which they have ju-
1isdiction
"Second.-Have polygamists, or
persons reputed to have more than
one wife, been elected to Office by the
people of Utah, and if SO, was such
election for the purpose of encour-
aging polygamy or in violation of
any compact between said state and
the United StatesP
.sThird.-Have polygamists, OF per-
sons reputed to have more than one
wife, been appointed to Office by the
president, by and with the advice
and consent of the senate, or in cases
where the concurrence of the senate
is not required, and if so, have such
appointments been made in aid of po
Alygamy OF in violation of the COM
pact between the United States and
the state of Utah, with reference to
that subject?
.sFourth.-What steps, if any
should be taken or measures enacted
for the prevention of polygamy in the
United States and in places over
which they have jurisdiction.
Is there anything in these resolutions
FOR any honest opponent of polygamy
10 find fault with? After all that has
been said and done to bring the Nor
mon people into~disrepute in the nation
isn't il little strange to note that
Mor,nons do not object to an official in
ouiry while the local Storm Starter is
the first 10 set up a howl and send up
prote st against the proposed investiga-
ton?
If the president has not knowingly
appointed polygamists 10 office why
should his friends and defenders object
10 an investigation OF the matter? II
there are other places subject TO the
i,,r;sdiction of the United States where
nolygany is rracticed and protected by
The flag why shouldn't the facts be
known?
After a request for such a thorough
investigation OF the subject-that facts
instead of fiction may be laid before the
congress of the United States. was there
eyer a statement more absurd made by
n ,,affied iibeler about to be cornered
swim q rcfutation of his <alsehoods and
an exposure of his hypocrisy. than the
srateaaenS from our morning contem-
,,orary TO the effect that the demand for
an ofticias inquiry is "a strained effort
All through 10 deceive the congress of
The United States under the hope that
II viii win because OF the ignorance OF
congress of the true status of the
case
1t clearly demonstrates that the TriD-
une IS more afraid Of the investiga-
ton than are the people it has ma
ligned: that it counts upon the ignor-
ance of congress of the true status of
the case to aid its crusade; and that
d is opposed to the only method Yet
advanced 10 remedy thar ignorance
II which it takes ccgnizance.
No member of the dominant church
III Utah has opposed this plan to inves-
tigate the situation in reference to po-
lygany. The chief crusader alone is
alarmed