The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-01-11
CARLISLE WANTED BIC
FEE IN ROBERTS CASE
Thought $4,000 Was About Right. Couldn't Get 1t
and He Withdrew From the Prosecution.
Remarkably Brilliant and FOrceul Speech Made by Utah
Man Before the Committee

contain a review Of the source Of the
hostility to him and a tribute to Utah
and the Mormon church in the follow
ing language:
Tribute to Utah and Church.
when this question of polygamy
was regarded as settled and every one
seemed satisfied with the terms Of its
settlement and Gentle and Mormon
were approaching together, and the So
cial distinctions that had existed in the
past were breaking down, and Gentiles
were visiting MOrmOns and MOrmOns
were visiting Gentle homes, and inter
marriages between the classes were
quite frequent
All at once it was discovered that
the contributions which had hitherto
supported missions and mission schools
Of a sectarian character in Utah We're
failing off, and hence these parties
raised the cry that polygamy was be-
ing revived in Utah. They name no
distinction in those things between
which there was a distinction in Utah,
namely, the cases of unlawful cOhabita-
ton, which came down to Us from
marriages previous to the settlement Of
the question, and pOlygamy or new
plural marriages. The country was
fired with a belief that the Mormon
church had REQUIRED to the practice Of
performing new plural marriage cere-
monies and that the old polygamy evil
was again revived
How Agitation Was Renewed.
THAT was the condition that the peO-
pie of the United States were made to
believe existed in Utah; and 10 the east
these agents came to gather in the
shekels, to continue what was made to
appear as necessary warfare on the old
evil Of polygamy.
Now, that is how the agitation Of
that question came to be revived. and
il hindered the progress of Utah But,
Notwithstanding that, I undertake to
say that Utah has made wonderful
progress toward being assimilated with
her sister states comprising the Amer
lean Union I offer it as a reason why
this agitation ought not to have too
much influence with either the house
or the committee. that soon after the
disaster overlook the Maine in Havana
harhOr, there was an agitation set on
foot in the east that looked to the COM
memOrati0n of those brave men whose
lives were lost by that sad event. by
the erection Of a monument in their
honor
"a committee of gentlemen was
formed in the city of New York to take
charge Of the enterprise, and they sent
out literature to all the churches. ask
ing that they should set apart, I think
it was one Sunday in May. when the
contributions Of the people for that
day should be set apart for the cree
ton Of a monument to those dead he
roes.
Mormon Church Overlooked.
"The Mormon church was overlooked
5r-rr l4rn f7TN to
my good fortune to call attention to
that omission and to resent it in some
public remarks that I made in Salt
Lake City. Those remarks reached the
chairman of the committee in New
York, and he made an explanation of
how the omission took place and stated
he would be glad if 7 would point out
to him the way in which the apparent
neglect could be remedied.
Il did that. He followed the sugges-
ton and the Mormon church was in
vited to participate in the erection Of
that monument. The church called
upon its branches to set apart day
to cOnsecrate offerings that might be
made, with the result that the little
Mormon church, whose patriotism is
supposed not TO be at par. and COM
posed Of less than 100000 people. con-
tributed One-fifth of all that the
people have contributed to this fund,
and W. received the thanks Of the COM
miJtee for the response that indicated
the patriotism existing in the hearts
Of the Mormon people.
Answer Call to Arms.
when President Mckinley sent out
his call TO arms in the recent war with
Spain, Utah responded by offering three
times the number Of her sons that were
called for. Her batteries were sent to
distant Manila, and the dark night
when the battle of Malate was fought
and the success or failure Of the battle
hung in the balance, it was Utah's
guns. manned by Utah men. whose
flashes mimicked the lightning flashes
Of the fierce simeon that was raging and
covered the infantry that was march
ing 10 the attack. In more than a
Utah's SONS did honor TO the state Of
Utah and honor to our country
'The sorrows of this nation are the
sOrrOWs Of Utah; its battles are her
battles; its Institutions are her insti-
tutions; and, therefore, she asks for
fair and proper treatment before the
congress Of the United States when she
sends her representatives, possessed Of
all qualifications that any other rep
resentative possesses. and who is not
disqualified by any provision of the
of the United States; by
any United States law O, law Of his
own state, and when he Jas been hon
estly and fairly elected IS in the Rob
erts case, by the people Of his state"