The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-03-12

snip and hospitality, and has found the
people honest and sincere. it would take
a colder heart than 1 possess, when [
saw them entering upon a path that
means danger. that would not counsel
them to call a halt. AS I look into the
eyes of you all. L look into the eyes of
friends. / say no word in bitterness,
but rather in friendship
Mr.. Van Horne then reviewed the
history of the polygamy prosecutions.
calling attention to- the fact that it
was next to impossible to prove the
contraction of pOlygamous marriages,
and that the cases rested usually on the
proof of unlawful cOhabitation. He re-
called the stringency of the crusade,
the bitterness and the woe. the causes
of the manifesto, and the provision in
the enabling act and the constitution
against pOlygamy.
Il ieave it to you,' he said, eff it
viii help the Mormon belief if it is
shown that the Mormon people were
not sincere when they agreed to the
passage of Go present law and the
constitution.
You may say, some of you. that the
country viii pay no attention to what
we do here. But 1 tell you, believe
the passage of this law viii be fol-
lowed by a constitutional amendment
allowing congress to pass laws regulat-
ing marriage and divorce, and that
congress viii pass laws more stringent
than the Edmunds-TuCker act. The
difference will be that the prosecu-
lions will be under the United States
law, and those who are convicted will
be sent to Fort Leavenworth. or Gov
ernors island, or any other govern
ment prison where it is selected to
send them.
Il want you to compare the peace
that has lowered over Utah in the last
ten years with the rancor and dissen-
SION OF 1881 to 1891. 1 have had Nor
mon friends come to me and talk of
the possibility of resisting the govern
ment troops in these mountain fast
nesses. But this suspicion of disloy-
atty has been wiped out on the battle
again to revive the idea of disloyalty
TO the Union-the idea that the Nor
mon peOple are unworthy OF belief?
IF you pass this bill and the state
is filled with suffering and woe. what
can you say2 In the after light I can
look into the eyes OF Utah and say,
in the words of Macbeth. Shake not
thy CORY locks at me. Thou canst not
say L did it, -
As Mr.. Van Horne took his seat.
Representative Williams OF Salt Lake
rose N his seat at the rear of the
room, and said he differed with the pre-
V1ouS speaker as to the effects of the
passage of the bill.
7 believe it will bring peace and not
Woe he said. THE people who are
~ s1LASSISu = InlS Dill are per-
fectly willing that it should become
a law. L say, let it pass"
Polygamist's Plea.
From a seat across the aisle from
Representative Van Horne and at the
front of the house arose the patriarch
of the assembly, "Uucle' Archibald
Mcfarland of Weber county.
I am in favor of this BILL" he began
I came here today from the sick bed
OF one of my sons, born of a plural
wife can't understand why this bill
should cause trouble to anyone. 1 have
had been watching me this week Sup
pose he should bring complaint against
me because l had been to the home of
my plural wife and had sat there
suppose l couldn't be convicted of anv
crime, at any rate 1 would be brought
before a magistrate. and it would be a
great expense to me.
Now, who would be injured by this
law? Doesn't the law give the injured
the right to complain? I broke nc laws
when L was married, but when new
laws came, 1 was sent to the peniten-
tiary. A revelation says we must not
break the laws. The charge of hypo-
cTisy and lying is false. have Shout
dered a musket in behalf of my coun-
try and am loyal to my country, 1
shall vote for this bill"
BIZ GlaSmann then read from the
proceedings of the constitutional con-
Vention and made the claim that il was
intended to permit cOhabitation on the
part Of husbands and plural wives
married before the manifesto. He
quoted a speech of Representative Van
Horne, VINO was member of the con-