The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-01-25

deluded followers put thousand miles
Of desert waste infested with savages,
beyond civilization. hd.ween their camp.
OF bgotry and crime yet the distance
was not too great nor were the hardships
too severe to daunt the spirit OF the
missionary OF the Christian church He
tracked polygamy and faced It in It's iar
The danites as cruel and pltiless band
Of cut throats as ever handlci the gilt
tering steel carried ON th, ldrderous
work OF the church sui the mission
airy tOiled on The blood atoners sllenced
forever IN death the voice Of apostasy. but
that hindered not the missionary. The
government practically abandoned ths
field, considering that Il was powerless
TO hinder that monster fortified In those
mountain businesses but tae American
Christian missionary with courage
that now seems sublime. with a fidelity
TO pupose that Is now ar aspiration
hattled on I'm the fear ~ God and for
the love Of humanity
But " the gentleman SAYS. we
took these women I'm good faith ans
should not abandon them There are two
thousand polygamous families I'M utah.
Provide for your plural wives. take care
OF your plural children. but refrain. FOR
Gods sake, refrain from multiplying the
iileg.timates I'm the new state of UTAH
Continuing Mr. Landls said: "Mr
Roberts has sueeed %, "a good and noble
woman. Miss Ncieu GoudJ who helped
TO organize this movement agaias. HIM.
When our boys rell from disease or I'm
battle. her millions wept And who knows
bui that today the same name that was
spoken so reverent'y at SANTIAGO. Mon
tauk Point by American soldiers Is lisp
ed in reverence out there in Utah by
those women. doomed by brutal bigots TO
tho beliefs that their celestial exaltion
will be I'm proportion as they ministered
90 the rotten and ustful notions of a cor
rupt priesthood.
81 say that the people OF this country
expect us TO turn him back" said Mr.
Lands. In conclusion. 81 protest against
his coming I'm. i protest on behalf of the
constituency that has read the ten COM
mandments and the sermon on ,he mount.
] protest on behalf OF the American
homes made by love and devotion and
holy by the virtue Of our womanhood.
protest on behalf Of the American mother
and her child and the American father,
ment and Dedication OF human passion.
I protest on behalf of the honest Mormon,
those who believe I'm keeping inviolatc the
condition on which Utah was admitte TO
the American union, The country ls
waiting for US 10 net. The people are
waiting Off I'm New England whose homes
have made "a pattern for this continent.
They arc waiting IN the broad sweep Of
ton of 0
country purged Of this very infamy
half a century ago. They are waiting IN
the new states OF the west, states whose
territory has been invaded and whose at
mosphere has been poisoned by this very
plague. And away down south, In Dixie
where honor Is religion, where gailantry
Is law and virtue Is the high IDEAL Of
beautiful womauhood they are waiting
today-waiting for the American cn'N-
airy to speak. ,,-
pouars republican. of Vermont. and
Miers. democrat OF Indiana, Tor the ma
iority resolution, Messrs. Snodgrass'
democrat. of Tennessee and Wilson Sill
yer republican. Idaho, for the minority
resolutions Mr Lacey republican Oh
Iowa. for his proposition TO eNpel without
8 wearing in. and Mr.. Crumpacker. repuD-
lican. Indiana, for exclusion 10y a two
Thirds majority. The speeches today
greatly strengthened the majority resolu-
tions. which seemed IN danger of falling
after Mr. Dtteheld's speech yesterday
and Chairman Taylor was confident to,
night that they would be adopted when
the house votes, tomorrow afternoon.
Mr.. Roberts was not I'm the house when
Mr. Lands spoke. Mr. Lacey. Of Iowa,
argued in behalf of his proposition for
the expulsion of Mr.. Roberts without
swearing him I'm. N he were driven to
choose between the procedures raised
by the majority and the minority he
would be for the former ON the ground
thav the exclusion means expulsion.
While he was speaking. Mr.. Clark OF
Missouri interrupted TO say that II he
had been Mr. Roberts legal adviser he
mann, was ON the roll He would have
had the whole concern in Fhe hole. But
he added "I was neither his legal or
spiritual adviser Mr. Lacey combatted
this statement, arguing that the members
ON the ron could have passed upon each
objection.
MT Miers. OF Indiana. a member OF the
special commi,tee, supported the majority
resolution, he denied vigorously that the
people of Utah We're TO be charged with
disloyolW TO their compact with the un-
ion. SO far as the state was concerned.
polygamy. he insisted was dead.
Mr., Mcpherson. OF 1owa, another mem
Der OF the committee also advocated the
adoption OF the majority resolution. He
said the minority report could nor sneer
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