The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-01-25
IgN1IS makes TRADE
AGAINST The MORMONS
Ek Btler DenunCiatiOn Of Roberts Raises Hopes Of
Taylcr to High Pitch.
wilson Of IdahO While Opposing POygamy, Strongly De-
tends the Latter-day Saints.

CrOXaH, a fifth WIFE by whom he has
had two children, and he and all his
wives live IN a suburb near Salt Lake
City, having No neighbOTs, and it is
known as CannOnville. (Laughter)
Mr.. RaWliEs might have said that
Joseph F. Smith, second cOuselOr 10
the presidency, has three women among
whom he distributes the tide of wife.
Mr.. Rawlins might have stated that
Lorenzo Snow, now prophet. president,
seer and TevelatOr and at the time Of
the signing Of the petition for amnesty
president Of the quorum Of the apostles,
Is also trampling under foot the solemn
compact made by the government
He took his first two wives in Maui
VOC, H., over forty years ago. by one
and the same ceremony, in block Of
two, as it were. LaUghter.) The elder
of the two women has since died and
he has since married, in the order
named, Sarah. Harriet. ElinOT, Mary,
Phoebe Minnie and Caroline laugh
teri
President Shows Family.
Would not you like TO sit down to
breakfast in that family? (LaughteT)
Snow is now living with the youngest
and last wife. by whom he had his
youngest child during the winter of
1867. six years after the manifesto
pledging the faith and honor of the
church had been issued.
Moses Thatcher, one of the apostles
Who signed the petition of amnesty, has
three plural wives, two of whom bore
him children one on Jan. S, 1885, and
the other on Jan. II, 1899. They just
lacked three days Of being twins.
Great laughter)
Mr.. Roberts truly said yesterday
that Moses Thatcher was by a majority
Of the members Of the Utah legislature
rendered a seat in the United States
senate and that Moses Thatcher having
more discretion than Mr.. Roberts or the
people of Utah, declined the honor,
stating that he would add fuel to the
flames already kiLdled by Mr.. Roberts.
So Won see we had a narrow escape
from having trouble in both ends Of this
capital daughter and aTplaUse.)
Violation of Compact.
Pages must be written" continued
MI Lands, "of the violation Of the
compact by which Utah was given a
star Al, Mr.. Speaker, that star is a
fallen star, il does not shine with the
DTilliancy and ulster of her sister stars.
1t shines by cunning and by deceit by
tTeachery, by fraud. It speaks of crime
and of violation OF the most solemn
covenant ever made between territory
and the Union. (App.ause.)
I'VE have as a representative from
Utah a man with three wives, the last
one taken. the report says, as near as
we can ascertain, before 1890. It is in
! evidence that he did not hold her out
as his wife, nor she him as her hUs-
I band until 1897. Up to 1895 she lived
under the name of Shipp and under the
roof Of Shipp- I don't believe if any
/ marriage ceremony was ever sOlem-
nized that Ii was sOlemniZed prior TO
+ 1896. I believe and he did not deny
! that that woman became his plural wife
after Utah was taken into the American
/ Union.
And I charge here that Utah came
/ in as the result of d deliberate cOnspir-
/ acy to free that people from the heavy
I hand of the federal authority, and then
/ enable them to live their religion uh-
hiudered.
Roberts Candidacy in 1896.
"In 1896 Mr.. Roberts was a candidate
! for congress and the church disciplined
: and defeated him because the time was
not then ripe for d polygamist to come
. to the American congress. He became
a candidate in 1895 and the man who
/ placed him before the convention said
/ he ran by permission Of the church.
an 1883 we were engaged in a war
/ with a foreign foe. American manhood
] was away from home or all absorbed in
+ country. VaIOr was at war and virtue
/ was at prayer, the north and south
/ under one flag. They hoped in this gen
/ eTai condition of magnanimity to come
. back. and it was then this perlured
. cheat attempted to crawl in.
Sir. it came by itself, but it viii be
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/ by the outraged Indignation Of the
/ American people. (ApplauseD And
! across yon Threshold will be written
! in letters large enough to be read from
the national capitol to the Mormon
/ temple.
NO polygamst shall ever sit as a
[ member of the American congress.
7 (Applause)
Defends the Missionaries.
THE gentleman from Utah CAIr. Rob
eTts) has been particularly severe on
! the missionaries. / don't wonder at it.
The missionary has given attention 10
the polygamist- has stood in his path.
has scattered thOrns along his way. and
for this ne is branded as a spotter an
infOTmer and a spy.
History will bear out this statement
that although these fanatical priests
and their deluded followers put thou
sand miles of trackless wilderness, a
thousand miles Of desert waste iHfest-
ed with savages. between civilization
between their camp of bigOtry and
| crime. vet the distance was not toe
great nor were the hardships too Sc
we're to daunt the spirit of the mis-
siOnary of the Christian church He
tracked Dolygamy and faced it IN its
lair The Danites. as cruel and pitileSs
a band of cutthrOats as ever handled
the glittering steel, carried on the muir
derOUs work of the church. Still the
missionary tOiled on.
The blood atOners silenced forever
! in death the voice of apostacy, but thai
hindered not the missionary. The gov
eminent practically abandoned tht
field. considering that il was pOwerlesS
TO hinder that monster. fortified in
those mountain Businesses. but the
American missionary. with a cOurag,
that now seems sublime, with a fidelity
to purpose that is now an inspiration
) battled on in the fear of God and FOL
the love of humanity. (Applause)
But the gentleman says: We tool
these women in good faith and We
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