The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-07-14
9aiIY Eagle
A BLOT That Is Hard to Wipe one.
N. 81. MURDOCK. Editor.

A Blot That Is Hard to Wipe Out.
trouble Utah and the name Of the woman
at the bottom of tits Cannon suffrage
Utah and also pOlygamy. The Cannon woman is
state senator and she has just baby The charge is
pOlygamOus wife Of President Cannon The
papers are printing picture and
there denying her superior looks She is both brany
and pretty And SO. presumably, the baby. whose
with suspicion that the prominent
candidate for the United both the hus
father These surmises and have led to
subsequent arrests and which, taken with the
rigamist Roberts elected last fall to con-
gress openly admits that he has more than
two wives and maintaining that he will take his wives
to Washington him. and that he will take his seat in
congress- arousing and pulpit which unit
ing in pOlygamy must be crushed There
is no pOygamous marriages still hold good in
Utah. religion spite the federal laws to the con-
trary unseating Roberts probably would be an un
constitutional act and precedent But he should
be expelled there appeal redress. The con-
gress admitting Utah to statehood
or that did not postpone admission until the plural
wife expunged from the creed Of the
Latter Day Saints. It's than the men Of
Utah who said hold to this doctrine and practice
polygaous being strongest advocates of it. The
holding by the grounds Of religion
and conscience renders the problem a difficult one
However this baby with state senator for mother
promises bring matters to focus An overwhelming
majority of this country hold that since the
suppression blot the nations escutcheon
has damnably black the Mormon marriage
sacrament viewed and deemed outrage relig-
ion obiquity and legal entailing unmit
gated evil women casting shadow upon the lives Of
children marring the holiness of marriage, and tend
ing undermining of the purity Of all social relations
admitted to the Union the express stipula
wife plurality would be abandoned to which that
people openly it with mental reserva
keep up the sly within the church AS it is
legal crime have two three wives in Utah
it such a number in Kansas there is COM
ing the marriage law in that state
trouble The pentenary is going to
catch some The difficulty is the penitentiary is
not moral reformatory. Those condemned will esteem
themselves martyrs sake therefore fail
to realize they convicts of crime 1t hoped
and expected Gentle majority, with the
ghenment coming public system would sink
the inquty is. missionaries to
Mormonism are everywhere There these
in South Kansas today They were City only
Further, the fact that with three wives
could be- elected congress only last fall by
majority Of both the and the of
district strong the hold of old Brighams
upon that whose benightedness
their seclaimed enlightenment and righteous
ness The claims suffrage that
with acknowledgment would right all Of her
wrongs of Utah, otherwise poygamy is a
wrong which IS liked by the Utah However thet
may be- pcygamy not liked by the who represent
the this country large,
open advocacy cease also its practice
continued. federal prisons e
filled with Mormons sake or what
not