The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-25


result of deliberate conspiracy to free
hat people from the heavy hand of the
h'etleral authority, and then en-
.nhindered. In 1896 Mr. Roberts
Was II candidate for Congress
aTm the Church discipline had de
feated him because the time was not
thsh ripe for Il polygamist to come to
etAe, American Congress. He became a
candidate in 1898. and the man who
placed him before the convention stated
that he ran by permission of the church
In 1SslS we were engaged in a war with
foreign foe. American manhood was
away from home and all absorbed in
country. Ealor was at war and virtue
was at prayer. The North and the
South under one flag. They hoped in this
general condition of magnanimity to come
back and it was then this perjured
cheat attempted to crawl in. Sir. it
came by itself but it will be hurled back
boldly and in the open day by the out
ragged indignation of the American peo-
PIE. (Applause.) And across your
threshold will be written i'll letters large
enough to be read from the national
capitol to the Mormon temple, No
polygamst shall ever sit as member
of the American Congress. (Applausel
THE gentleman from Utah
{ Mr.. ltoberts) has been particularly Sc
we're on the missionaries. | do not wond-
er at it. The missionary has given at
tCntion to the poly gamist. has stood i'll
his path, has scattered thOrns along his
way and for this he is branded rs IL
spotter. IN lnformer and a spy. History
will bear out this statement. that al
though these fanatical priests and their
deluded followers put Il thousand miles Of
trackleSS wilderness. Il thousand miles
of desert waste. infested with Savages.
between civil Zation, between 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. he Danitcs as cruel and pltllcSs
band of cut-throatS as ever handled the
glittering steel carried on the murderous
work of the church. Still the missionary
toiled on The Blood AtonerS Silenced
forever in death the voice of apoStacy,
but that hindercd not the missionary.
The government practically abandoned
the field. considering that it was power
less to binder that monster fortified in
those mountain Businesses; but the
American Christian missionary with a
courage that now seems sublime with
fidelity to purpose that is now an in
spiration. battled on in the fear of God
and for the love of humanity. zap
plausel s. " But the gentleman
says. We took these women in good
fai+ SI,o
There are two thousand polygamous
families in Utah. Provide for your
plural wives, take care of your plural
children. but refrain, for Gods sake re-
frain; from multiplying the Nightmares
in the new State Of Utah. (Applause)."
Continuing, Mr.. Lands said:
THE CANT OF BRUTAL BIGOTS.
Mr.. Roberts has snecred at good
and noble woman Miss Helen Could
who helped to organize this movement
against him. When our boys fell from
| disease or in battle. her millions wept.
And who knows but that today the same
name that was spoken so reverentially
at Santiago and Montauk Point by Amer
lean soldiery. is lisped in reverence out
there. in Utah by those women. doomed
by brutal bigots to the belief that their
celestial exaitation VIII be in proportion
as they minstered to the rotten and
lustful notions Of Il corrupt priesthood.
(Applausel.
Il say that the people of this country
expect us to turn him back. said Mr..
Lands in conclusion. Il protest against
bis coming in. ! protest on behalf of the
constituency that has read the Ten Com
mandments and the Sermon on the
Mount. ! protest on behalf of the Amerl-
can homes made beautiful by love and
devotion. and holy by the virtue of our
womanho0d. | protest ON behalf of the
American mother and her child, and the
American father who will never consent
to the cnthronemcnt and dedication of
human passion and of those doomed to
illegitimacy. The country is waiting for
YOU to act: from New England, whose
homes have been made Il pattern for this
continent to way down South III Dixie
where honor is religion. where gallantry
is law aud virtue is the high ideal of
beautiful womanhood States are wait
ing today, waiting for the American
chivalry to speak" loud Appause)
Mr.. Lacey La.) argued in behalf of
his proposition for the exclusion of Mr..
Roberts without swearing him III.
Mr. Clark (Mo.l interrupted to say
that if he had been Mr.. Roberts legal
adviser he would have had him on the
first day of the session, object to every
member whose name was on the roll
Then he would have had the whole con-
Germ in the hole said Mr.. Clark, "but, y
ne added Il was neither his legal ror
spiritual adviser
Mr. Lacey combatted this statement
arguing that the members on the roll
could have passed upon each objection.
Mr.. Wilson Qdaho) challenged some
of the statements made against the Nor
mon people. He said he represented
thirty thousand Mormons. who. in good
citizenship equalled any other con-
stituency and they had lived up to their