Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-01-25
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legal in Utah. but being illegal under
the common law of England.
SOME CASES CITED.
Mr.. Lands contended that Mr.. Rob
erts was not entitled to admission be-
cause he had violated Utah's compact
with the United States.
Mr.. Lands resented as unworthy of
belief the charge made, he said, by
Senator Rawlins that the President had
appointed notorious polygamists. The
Senator might as we'll accuse the House
OF indorsing polygamy. since it had
passed bill appropriatlng $4,000 for
the Agricultural College at Logan,
Utah
The president of that college" said
he, lis polygamist, living in open and
notorious polygamy with three wives.
One of the leading professors Is po-
lygamist, living with two wives. The
trustee Is n polygamist living In open
and notorious polygamy with seven
wives Qnughter), and they have bless
ed him with nine children. (Laughter).
He further asserted that three of the
members of the first presidency and ten
of the twelve apostles who signed the
petition for amnesty We're polygamists.
''Of these fifteen leaders, who solemn
~ pledged their honor and faith for
the future obedience to the law of the
Church of Jesus Christ and Latter Day
Saints, three have probably kept their
pledges, namely, Wilfred Woodruff.
Franklin d. Rogers and Anthony H.
Lunn.
George O. Cannon, first councillor to
the President of the Church. also IS
morally guilty. and he and all his wives
IL In ctll,t ~, L, 20 Ia,
After detailing the polygamous rcla-
tons Of other Mormon leaders, he con-
tinued:
COMPACT VIOLATED.
Pages might be written of the vio-
lation of the compact by which Utah
was given star. All. Mr. Speaker,
shine with the brlllancy and lustre of
her sister stars. 1t shines by cunning
and by deceit. by treachcry, by fraud.
1t speaks of crime and of violation of
the most solemn covenant ever made
between n territory and the Union.
(Applause).
we have as q representative from
Utah q man With three wives, the last
one taken, the report says, as near as
we can ascertain, before 1890. be-
lieve and he did not deny that that
woman became his plural wife after
Utah was taken into the American
Union And charge here that Utah
came in as the result of a deliberate
conspiracy to free that people from the
heavy. hand of the Federal authority,
and then enable to live their religion
unhindered
FACTS ABOUT ROBERTS.
I'm 1896 Mr. Roberts was IL candidate
-f,,. 4 l..
and defeated him because the time wsfs
not then ripe for u polygamist to come
to the American Congress. He became
u candidate in 1898 and the men who
placed him before the convention stated
that lie ran by permission of the
church. In 1898 we were engaged In a
war with II foreign foe. American man
hood was away from home and all
absorbed in country. Valor was at war
and virtue was Mt prayer. The North
and the South under one flag! They
hoped I'm this general condition OF
masnanimity to come back and II was
then this perjured cheat ATTEMPTED to
crawl In. Sir. 1t came by itself, but It
VIII be hurled back bodily and in open
DAY by the outraged indignation of the
american people. (Applause)
And across yon threshold Will be
written In letters large enough to be
read from the National Capitol to the
Mormon Temple, No polygamist shall
ever sit as n member OF, the American
congress- (Applause).
WHY HE HATES MISSIONARIES.
THE gentleman from Utah (Mr. Rho
erts) has been particularly severe on
Tn missionaries. do not wonder at 1t.
The missionary has given attention to
the polygamist, has stood in his path.
has scattered thorns along his way. and
for this he is branded as spotter. an
1nfcrmer and spy History will bear
out this statement. that although these
fanatical priests and their deluded fol-
lowers put a thousand miles of track
less wilderness, thousand miles Of
desert waste. infested with savages. be-
tween civilization and their camp
OF bigotry and crime. yet the distance
was not too great nor were the hard
ships too severe to daunt the spirit OF
the missionary of the Christian Church.
He tracked polygamy and faced it in
its lair
The Danites. as cruel and pitiIess n
band Of cut threats as ever handled the
glittering steel, carried on the murder
Gus work of the church. Still the mis-
sionary toiled on. The Blood Atoners
silenced for ever in death the voice OF
Apostacy. but that hindered not the
missionary. The government practical
ly abandoned the field. considering that
1t was powerless to hinder that mon
ster fortified in those mountain fast
nesses. but the American Christian
missionary with a. courage that now
seems sublime. with a fidelity to pur-
pose that is now an inspiration, bat
tied on in the fear OF God and for the
love of humanity. (Applause).
WOMEN TAKEN IN GOOD FAITH.
but. the gentleman says, we took