Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-08-01

gospel as TO discriminate in favor q
foreign pauper labor" and agains
''home industry" in the same line.
On Thursday last, the ClevelanC
Leader, the avowed exponent o
Mark Hanna. alias the United states
government as now administered
printed this editorial article.
He Should be Expelled. =
Angus NJ. Cannon. the president o
the Mormon Church OF [ tah, ha:
just been fired one hundred dollars
for being u p"tYgamist. to which
offense lie pleaded guilty several
days age
The fact that the anti-polygamy
law is violated will not create sur
prise. 1t has been known for some
time that leading MorTnons We're
violating the law as we'll as the
pledge given when Utah asked for
admission to the Union. 1t was
known that Roberts was put forward
by the MormOnS as their candidate
in the Congressional election of last
fall, and that he was supported by
the members Of the church because
he was polygamisG.
|'But the plea of guilty entered by
President Cannon and the imposition
of the fine III his case makes clear
the attitude of the church with re-
spect to polygamy, and emphasizes
the necessity of radical if not arbi-
trary action by Congress when he
comes to apply for Il seat. Even if
he cannot be denied his seat in the
first place, it may be possible to expel
him afterward.
Such brSZen impotence on the
! part of the Morm0ns as has been dis
played by President Cannon should
| De rebuked, and the more emphatic
ally it is done the better"
Likewise the other administration
journals and its holier- -than-thou
supporters generally are holding up
their several hands in horror at the
spectacle that two American citizens,
each having Il small plurality of
wives,-not more than three or four
apiece at the outside, are elected
members of Congress, and their
prompt expulsion is demanded. AT
the same time. this same administra-
tion is not only not ''expelling" the
Sultan of Sulu,--foreigner that he is
although he is a polygamist, and who,
presumably, (that is if he lives up to
his privileges,) has a much larger
plurality of consorts, aud although
he rules over tribes having like
privileges in this respect. but, on the
contrary, pays him tribute to rule in
the stead of our government as its
viceroy in his islands, with a promise
that he shall be immune" against
interference on account OF the very
practices for which Cannon and
Roberts are so unsparingly con-
demned.
Here then is clear case of dis
elimination against the home market
aud in favor OF those miserable for
eigners, against whom Mr.. McKin-
ley has used SO much breath in talk
ing. It is utterly subyersive of the
cardinal doctrine of protection,-so
much so that if the policy had been
set on foot by any rulerles infallible
than ours the patriotism of his mo-
tives might justly be suspected. In
any event, it stands the President in |
hand to see that his eastern policy of
expansion don't,-in more ways than |
this, eat up his western policy ofpro-
lection; both can't be right, but of |
course the latter must be.
There is another point to which l
must alude in this connection; L am
almost ashamed to speak of it, be-
cause the authority which / am
about to cite is so antiquated and
/ refer to the 18th |
to the Constitution of
the United States, which prohibits
all our borders every form
Of slavery or involuntary servitude,
except in punishment of crime. I
would not refer to this amendment
ut all were it not that it cost great
many lives and much money to en-
graft it upon our organic law.
A government processing to be adj
cOnstltutionally and of
whose constitution this amendment
is a part, has not only absorbed
i'll whose islands coolie la
Dor contracts having long years yet
TO run are specifically enforced by
the courts, and this on sugar plan
the output of which COM
petes with the cane raised by free
labor in Louisiana, but now sends
'backsheesh" to n slave-driving
princelet of a slave-driving people,
with a promise,-according to his
proclamation, that their peculiar
i. e. slavery and polyg-
amy, shall not be interfered with.
And so it is that consistency be-
tween public professions and public
conduct are thrown to the winds,
along with constitutional safeguards,
the Monroe doctrine and the fare
well of Washington to his people.
And all this because they stand
across the path of a policy which, in
its inception, seemed likely to be
popular enough to insure second
lease of power to the administration
which adopted it. To reach this end
there has been, there is, and there
will be, no hypocrisy too gross, no