Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-01-25

This statement, that, although these fanatical
priests and their deluded followers put 1UJ0
miles Of trackless wilderness. 100 miles OF
desert waste, infested with savages. between
civilization, between their camp OF bigotry
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 lair. The Danites, as cruel and pitiless
band Of cut throats as ever handled the slt-
sering steel carried on the Inurderous work
Of the church.
Still the missionary toiled on. The blood
atoners silenced forever in death the voice OF
apostacy, but that hindered not the mission
gry. TIE government practically abandoned
the field, considering that il was powerless TO
hinder that monster. fortified in those noun
tain fastnesses but the American christian
missionary. with a courage that now seems
sublime, with a fidelity to purpose that Is now
an inspiration, battIed on in the fear of God
and for the love of humanity. lAppiause.l
Bat" the gentleman says, we took these
women in good faith, and we should not aban-
don them There are 800 polygamous fa1nl-
lies in Utah. Provide for your plural wives,
take care Of your plural children, but refrain
for Coos sake refrain, from multiplying the
illegitmates in the new state of Utah. Zap.
piause.
Continuing, Mr.. Lands said:
Mr.. Roberts has sneered at d good and noble
koman Miss Helen Could who helped to
organize this movement again4t him. When
our boys fell from disease or in battle her
millions wept And who knows b.tt that TO-
day the same name that was spoken reyer-
emily at Santiago and Montauk Point, by Amer
lean soldiery, is lisped in reverence out there
in Utah by those women. doomed by brutal
bigots 70 the belief that their celestial cxalta.
tion win be in proportion as they Ainistered
a tHa ROTTEN and iDatfi1l notions of "a TruDt
priesthood Applause.l
/ say that the people Of this country expect
US to turn him back. protest against his
coming in ] protest ON behalf of the constitu-
ency that has read the Ten Commandments
and the Sermon ON the Mount. protest on
behalf of the American homes, made beaati-
~ful by love and devotion, and holy by the vir-
tue of GU. womanhood. protest on behalf Of
the American mother and her child and the
American father who viii never consent to the
enth1onement and dedication of human pas
sions.
! protest on behalf of those doomed to lille
gitimacy. ! protest on behalf OF the honest
Mormons, those who believe III Keeping inyto-
late the condition upon which Utah was I'D
mitted to the American union. The country
is waiting for rs to act The people are wait
ing off in New England whose homes have
been made pattern for this continent They
are waiting in the broad sweep Of the Missis-
sippi valley a section of this country purged
of thiSvery nfany half century ago.
They are waiting in 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 i the high ideal oil
beautiful womanhood, states waiting to
day, waiting for American chivalry TO speak
loud applause.