Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-01-25
DECIDE ROBERTS CASE
House Of Representatives Begins
Final Debate on Question Of
Excluding Roberts.
Large Number of Members Give
Their Views Vote to Be
Taken Today.
Generally Regarded as Certain That
He Will Be Excluded The
Senate.


speaker on the last day of the Roberts
debate. He argued In favor of seating
and then expelling. Johnston, Of West
Virginia, favored expulsion. Brosus,
OF Pennsylvania, said the technical
considerations We're such as could not
be put aside. Circut, of Vermont spoke
In favor of exclusion and 'ralbert. Of
South Carolina, thought that technical-
tiles should not weigh -idamson, of
Georgia, thought Roberts was rather
entitled to membership In the peniten-
tiary.
The speech of Lands, of -Pennsylva-
mia, yesterday is easily the most elu-
quent that has been delivered on the
Roberts question. He is receiving many
compliments today.
Toward the close of his speech Lands
said:
In 1896 Roberts was a candidate for
congress and the church disciplined and
defeated him because the time was not
then ripe for poyganiist to come 10
the American congress. He became a
candidate in 1898 and the man who
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stated that he ran by permission of the
church. In 1898 we We're engaged in a
war with a foreign foe American man
hood was away from home or all ab-
sorbed in the country Naloi Was at War
and virtue Was at prayer The north
and the south We're under one flag They.
hoped in this generous condition of
magnanimity 10 come back, and ii was
f,na ~. a
crawl in. Sir. 1t came by itself, but it
wll be hurled back boldly and in tho
open day by the outraged Indignation Of
the American people. CApp,ause.) And
across yonder threshold will he read in
letters large enough TO be read from the
national capital To the mormon temple:
NO polygamist shall ever enter as al
member of the American congress .,
tApplaIse.)
Continuing. Mr.. Lands said;
Roberts has sneered at Il good and
noble woman tNliss 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 rever-
emily at Santiago, at Montauk Point,
by American soldiers, Is lispad in rev
erence out there in Utah by those wo-
men, doomed by brutal bigots 10 the
belief that their celestial exultation
will be In proportion as they minis
tered to the rotten ard lustful notions
of a corrupt priesthood. (Applause.)
Il say that the people of this country
expect US TO turn him back protest
against his coming in. protest on be
half of the constituency that has read
the ten commandments and the sermon
on the mount. l protest on behalf of
American homes. made beautiful! by
love and devotion and holy By the viN
tue of our womanhood. protest on be-
half of the American mother and her
child and the American father, who
will never consent to the dcthronenent
and dedication OF human passion !
protest on behalf of those doomed to
illegitimacy. / protest on behalf Of the
honest Mormons, those Axho believe in
keeping invioate the condition upon
which Utah was admitted to the Amer
lean union.
The country is waiting for us to act.
The people are waiting off in New F.n-
gland whose homes have been made q
pattern for this continent. They are
waiting In the broad sweep of The Mis-
sissippi valley, a section of this conntry
purged of this Very infamy a half CEN
tury ago. They are waiting in The new
states of the west, states whose terri
tory has been invaded and whose at
mosphere has been poisoned by this
very plague And way aewn south IN
Dixie, where honor IS religion where
gallantry is law and virtue is the nigh
ideal of beautiful womanhood states
are waiting today, waiting for the
American chivalry 10 speak.
In concluding he adjured the 1000 po-
lygamists in Utah TO take care of their
plural wives. but in Gods name to re-
frain from multiplying their infamy by
bringing more children into the world
Addresses on various phases of the
question how best to get rid of Roberts
were also made by Ray of New York
Brisk of Indiana. Moody Of Massachu-
setts. Grosvenor of Ohio and Morris OF
Minnesota.
The senate.