The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-25


SIT down 10 breakfast in that family?
ILaushter.l Snow Is now living with the
youngest and last wife by whom he had
MS youngest child during the winter Of
lSyb-y, 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
dren. one on Jan. s. 1899, and the other on
Jan. III, 1893. They just lacked three days
or being twins. IGreat laughter.1 Mr.. Rob-
erts truly said yesterday that Moses
thatcher was by majority Of the mem
bers of the Utah Legislature rendered u
seat In the United States Senate, and that
Moses Thatcher having more discretion
tnan Mr.. Roberts or the people of Utah, de-
clined the honor, stating that he would add
fuel &c the flames already kindled by Mr..
ROBERTS. SO you see we had a narrow es-
cape from having trouble in both ends of
this Capitol. Laughter and applause1
Pages might be written" continued Mr..
Lands, "of the violation of the compact
by which Utah was given a star. Ah Mr.
Speaker, that star is a fallen star; il does
not shine with the brilliancy and luster of
her sister stars 1t shines by cunning and
by deceit, by treachery, by fraud. 1t
speaks OF crime and of violation of the
most solemn covenant ever made between
a Territory and the Union" [Applause.l
MAN WITH THREE WIVES.
I'VE have as a Representative from
Utah man with three wives, the last one
taken. the report says. as near as we can
ascertain, before 1890. 1t is in evidence
that he did not hold her out as his wife,
nor she him as her husband until 1897. Up
to 1895 she lived under the name of Shipp
and under the roof of Shipp. / do not
believe If any marriage ceremony was ever
solemnized that it was solemnized prior
10 1876. L believe, and he did not deny,
that woman became his plural wife after
Utah was taken into the Union. And /
charge here that Utah came in as the re-
suit of a deliberate conspiracy to free
that people from the heavy hand of the
Federal authority. and then enable them
to live their religion unhindered. In 1896
Mr.. Roberts was a candidate for Congress
and the church disciplined and defeated
him because the time was not then ripe
Tor polygamist to come to the Ameri-
can Congress. He became a candidate in
1898, and the man who placed him before
the convention, stated that he ran by per-
mission of the church.
I'm 1898 We were engaged in a war with
a foreign foe. American manhood was
away from home or all absorbed in coun-
try. Valor was at war and virtue was
at prayer. The North and South under
one flag. They hoped in this general con-
dition of magnanimity to come back and
1t was then this perjured cheat attempted
to crawl in. Sir, it came by itself, but ii
will be hurled back boldly and in the open
day by the outraged Indignation of the
American people [applausel and across
yon threshold will be written In letters
large enough to be read from the national
Capitol to the Mormon Temple. No polyg-
American Congress- tApplause.l
MISSIONARIES DEFENDED.
1.-THE gentleman from Utah [Mr. Roberts]
has been particularly severe on the mis-
sionaries. 1 do not wonder at it, The
missionary has given attention to the po-
lygamist-he stood In his path, and scat
tered thorns along his way and for this
he was branded as spotter, an informer
and a spy. History will bear out this state
ment, that although these fanatical priests
and their deluded followers put thousand
miles of trackless wilderness, a thousand
miles OF desert waste infested with saw
ages. between civilization, between their
camp of bigotry and crime, yet the dis
lance was not too great nor were the hard
ships too severe to daunt the spirit of the
missionary of the Christian Church. He
tracked polygarny and faced Ii in its lair.
THE Danites, as cruel and pitiless band
or cutthroats as ever handled the gilt
tering steel, carried on the murderous work
Of the church. Still the missionary toiled
on. The blood atoners silenced forever in
death the voices of apostacy, but that
hindered not the missionary. The Gov
eminent practically abandoned the field.
that monster. fortified in those mountain
Businesses; but the American Christian
missionary, with courage that now seems
sublime, with fidelity to purpose that
Is now an inspiration, battled on in the
fear of God and for love of humanity. Zap
plause.1
But the gentleman says, we took
these women in good faith, and we should
sand polygamous families in Utah. Pro-
vide for your plural wives. take care of
your plural children, but refrain, for God
sake refrain, from multiplying the illegiti-
mates in the new State of Utah." Zap
plause.l
Continuing Mr.. Lands said ''Mr. Rob-
erts has sneered 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
to-day the same name that was spoken so
reverently at Santiago and Montauk Point
by American soldiers is lisped in reverence
out there in Utah by those women who
have been brought by brutal Digots to the
belief that their celestial exaltation will be
liz proportion as they ministered to the
rotten and lustful notions OF a corrupt
priesthood. GApplause.]
A GLOWING PERORATION.
1T say that the people of this country ex-
pect us to turn him back" said Mr.. Lands,
in conclusion. II protest against his COM
ing In. protest on Denalf or the conStitu-
ency that has read the Ten Command
ments and the Sermon on the Mount. I
protest on behalf of the American homes.
made beautiful by love and devotion and
holy by the virtue of every womanhood.
protest on behalf of the American mother
and her child and the American father,
who will never consent to the enforcement
and dedication of human passion. l pro-
test on behalf of those doomed to illegit-
imacy. 1 protest on behalf of the honest
Mormons-those who believe in keeping in
violate the conditions on which Utah was
admitted to the American Union The coun-
try is waiting for US to act. The people
are waiting off in New England, whose
homes have been made a pattern for this
continent. They are waiting in the broad
sweep of the Mississippi valley, section
of this country purged of this very In
fanny a half century ago. They are wait
ing i'm the new States of the West, States
whose territory has been invaded and
whose atmosphere has been poisoned by
this very plague. And away down South, in
Dixie where honor is religion, where gal
lantry is law and virtue is the high ideal
of beautiful womanhood, States are waiting
to-day, waiting for the American chivalry
to speak" Loud applause.1
Mr. Roberts was not in the House when
Mr.. Lands spoke.
Mr. Lacey argued in behalf of his prop
osition for the expulsion of Mr.. Roberts
without swearing him in. If he were driv-