The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-02-02

IN N"NHN
upf rIief tfe rast when romndis
afe ended
20, se.lnf the Var Witch isis cr hope
depended
" vac teInttei hv he people of uiab
ue ihDr representative bS fhs suh lane
flhl plurality uf 5000 votes An snufi
was made by what ! believe tb b. an
anrnnai futluu1l aNd unprecedented
process to exclude m, from Oh, iiOusc
~ Representatives. IN behalf Of my
sell abi my naiitueuts rnmprItiuE
The entire population OF The State of
TITAN. ) did Hll ! could % maintain the
pUsplen to uhich they had elected me.
but fhc House at Representative under
the whip and spur OF popular sCnti-
meut have decided 10 exclude me from
the House. ! have couteudpd for my
rights and the rights oi my c0nstit-
uruts single handed and alone. 20 the
best of my ability but have been over
whelmed by force OF numb crs.
Notwithstanding an that has been
said the people OF Utah are not law
less people. Those of them who have
been involved in the past In the plural
marriage system, one taught and sane
toned by the Church of Jesus Christ OF
Latter Day Saints. are not wanton
yiolators OF the laws; but finding them
selves In the position where the law
commands them to do one thing. and
moral obligations, sacredlv entered into
under the sanction OF the Mormon
church, command them to do another,
they are placed In a very trying situa-
tion. and some few of them, including
| the member from Utah, may have
found 1t necessary to regard their
moral obligations as more binding
upon their cOnsciences than their tech
meal Obedience to statutory law. Such
position, however, is but transitory
IN [ tan, and comes down to the Nor
mon people from conditions growing
out of the plural marriage system OF
the past. The condition here referred
10, however, is rapidly passing away
From authoritative figures officially
collected recently by the Mormon
church, it has been ascertained that at
the time OF the diseontinuance OF plural
marriages under the authority of the
late President Woodruff's manifesto,
in September, 1890. there are 2.451
pofygamous families throughout the
whole Mormon church Since then II
has been ascertained THAT 90S of these
families have ceased to exist through
death, divorce or abandonment, 1eav-
ing at the present time but $40 pofyg-
ANGUS Families in the church through 4
out the world and as most of these are
we'll advanced in years and all beyond
middle life the system will soon bel
obliteratsi from the earth; and unier;l
these circums tances there has been lit
tie excuse for the extraordinary efforts |
put forth throughout the country to
crush Al system Of marriage already |
practically dead and abandoned.
The election OF the member from |
Titan to the House of Representatives
was no effort ON the part of the Nor
mon church to revive polygamy nor
stuff it down the throat of the Ameri-I
can Congress or American people.
Of TIE kind was contemplated
IN either mis- nomination or election, ALI
reports to the contrary notwithstand-A
ing. The alleged statement often quot
ed to the effect that Brigham Young,
on July =, 1886, Or at any other time.
declared that he would make the
people follow Mormonism,
polygamy and ALL and that the election
of the present member-elect from Utah
was an ehort TO fulfill that prediction,
- absolutely untrue. He made no such
itterance and the recent agitation re-
specting Mormonism and it's being a
menace to the purity of the American
nome is utterly unNarranted by the
acts in the case. t
Congress has been made to believe. |
however, that such was the intention OIL |
lormonism, or at least have been awedl 5
nto aequiescence that such were its
Intentions and hence have been led to J.
ote to exclude the member from Utah r
here is not virtue enough, il appears.
n the American House OF Representa-
ives to stand fer their convictions as
o what is right in this matter. Only
his morning the representative from Fl
cab received communication from a a
erson who is evidently member of the D
louise of Representatives since the let a
er Is written on House stationery and d
ant to him in an official envelope OF
ne House Of Representatives, although
he signature is a Republican friend. y
fter citing the member from Utah to p
speech delivered by the Hon. James OF
=. Blaine, in 1875, with reference to a
olygamy, he says: Il
I" 1 regret that | am not at liberty 81
} vote as my conscience dictates on
is question (the Roberts caee) for rea- T.,
ms which you fully understand. Pres ~
,ent Mckinley and Speaker Hender- -
IN have made the support of the Tay- al
Il resolution the test of Republican Ct
and am obliged to wear the s'
Ike til
SO far as this matter is a personal tn
fair I may say that whatever hap as
ms the member from Utah can con- Gu
atulate himself that from obscure in
nth and the conditions of iron for of
ne, and in spite OF having espoused =.
unpopular faith, he has fought his =
ny upward until he reached a suffi- r
ent prominence to be the decided u
dice of the people of sovereign state 4
represent them in the American
'use of Representatives From that
mint he was hurled down by the
'use under a spasm OF prejudice, arts
3 from Misrepresentation and false
cd as to conditions existing in Utah.
at action will not ruin him. Con-
GUS of the rectitude of his own in
ltions, he will face the future undis-
lraged by this incident in his career,
will weave again his fortunes; he
II face the future with n light heart b.