The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-25

as his wife, nor she as her husband, un-
til 1897. Up to 1895 she lived under the
name of Shipp. 1 do not believe If any
marriage ceremony was ever solemnized
that 1t was solemnized prior to 1896. I
believe, ard he did not deny, that that
woman became his plural wife after
Utah was taken into the American
Union. And I charge here that Utah
came in as the result of a deliberate
conspiracy to free that people from the
heavy hand of the federal authority
and then enable them to live their re-
ligion undisturbed.
I'm 1896 Mr.. Roberts was a candidate
for congress, and the church disciplined
and defeated him because the time was
not then ripe for a polygamist to come
to the American congress. He became
a candidate for congress in 1893, and the
man who placed him before the conven-
ton stated lie ran by permission of. the
church.. In 1898 we were engaged in a
war with a foreign foe. American man
hood was absorbed in the country. Valor
was away at war. We were all under
one flag. They hoped, in this general
condition of magnanimity, to come back,
but this cheat was enabled to crawl in.
Let us hurl it back with the Indignation
of the American people (applause), and
in letters large enough to be read from
the national capitol to the Mormon
church write, No polygamist shall ever
sit as representative in the national
congress. (Applause)
MISSIONARIES APPLAUDED.
s'The gentleman from Utah (Mr. Rob-
erts) has been particularly severe on the
missionaries. 1 do not wonder at it. The
missionary has. given attention to the
polygamist, has stood in his path, has
scattered thorns in his way, and for this
he is branded as spotter and an in
former. History will bear out the state
ment that, although the fanatical priests
and deluded followers put thousand
miles of trackless wilderness, thousand
miles of desert waste infested with saw
ages, between civilization, between their
camp of bigotry and crime, yet the dis
tance 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 1T in its
lair The Danites, as cruel and pitiless a
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 sienced for
ever in death the voice of apostacy, but
that hindered not the missionary. The
government practically abandoned the
field, considering that 1t was powerless to
hinder that monster, fortified in those
mountain Businesses, but the, American
Christian missionary with a courage that
now seems sublime, with a fidelity to pur
pose that is now an inspiration, battled
on in the fear of God and for the love
of humanity. (Applause)
But, the gentleman says, we took
these women in good faith, and we should
not abandon them. There are 1900 po-
lygamous families in Utah. Provide for
your plural wives, take care of your plural
children, but refrain for Gods sake, re-
frain from multiplying the illegitimates
in the new state of Utah." (Applause.)
DEFENSE OF HELEN GOULD.
Continuing Mr.. Lands said:
'Mr. Roberts has sneered at good and
noble woman miss Helen COULD who
helped to organize this movement against
him When soldiers fell from disease or
in battle millions Wept. And who knows
but that today 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, doomed by brutal bigots to
the belief that their celestial exaltation
will be in proportion as they minister to
the rotten and lustful notions of corrupt
priesthood. (Applause.)
II say that the people of this country
expect us to turn him back" said Mr..
Lands, in conclusion. 81 protest against
him coming in. protest on behalf of
the constituency that has read the Ten
Commandments and the Sermon on the
Mount. 1 protest on behalf of the Ameri-
can homes made beautiful by love and de-
votion, and holy by the virtue of our
womanhood. I protest on behalf of the
American mother and her child and the
American father who. will never consent
to the enthronement and deifcation of
human passion. 1 protest on behalf of
those doomed to illegitimacy. 1 protest
on behalf of the honest Mormons-those
who believe in keeping inviolate the con-
dtion upon which Utah was admitted to
the American Union. The congress of the
United States must act. The people are
waiting, off in New England, whose
homes are being made pattern for this
continent. They wait in the broad sweep
of the Mississippi valley, section of this
country purged Of this infamy half CEN
tury ago. They are waiting in the North
ern states, whose territory has been in
vaded, and whose atmosphere has been
poisoned by this very plague. And away
down South, where honor is religion,
where gallantry is law and. where virtue
is the high ideal of beautiful womanhood,
states are waiting today for American