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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-10-31


Sir: In the far west you have
the reputation of going at things in
direct and straightforward man
ner, to the end of actual accomplish
ment. That reputation you have
honestly earned and, therefore, the
west has faith in you. 1t is the be-
lief out here that when subject of
great public moment is clearly
brought to your attention, you will
give it your prompt and candid at
tention, and exert yourself to put
into operation the forces nee
essary to do the thing which is
needful and right.
The people out here were almost
to man in favor of national legis-
lation to assist in the reclamation
of the arid lands and when the law
for that purpose was enacted. they
rejoiced. They expected, and had
right to expect, that great good
would result therefrom. If they
are growing less expectant--if they
are beginning to doubt the ability
of the national government to ad-
minister that law practically and
benefcia1ly-it is because of things
which they see and methods which
they observe.
For some two years, large bands
of alleged irrigation engineers, sur
veyors and geological experts have
been roaming up and down, side
ways and cross-ways over the State
of Idaho. They are elegantly ar
rayed in leggingg, slouch hats,
hunting coats with game pockets,
spectacles, shotguns, fsh-hooks and
lines. They talk mysteriously and
conduct themselves very generally
like a squad of Pinkerton detec-
tives out on still hunt for cached
treasure. Nobody here knows what
they are trying to do, and, by all
the gods at once, they don't know
themselves.
If they are not actually engaged
in the comprehensive and useful
work of hunting sage hens, fishing
or riding about in Pullmans, you
may find them squirting through
spy glasses, mounted on three leg
ged stools, taking elevations or pro-
gnosticating the kind of weather to
occur next July. Occasionally
they have the clerks put down some
figures in note book, and write
hereunder: Here is mighty good
place for a storage reservoir, and
the engineer in charge recommends
its withdrawal from the public do
main to the end that it may be
more. particularly fshed and hunted
for a generation or two. After
spending five Or six months in the
feld-by the lakes and woodlands
during hot weather, the engineer
ing corps goes into winter quarters
at Washington D. c., to prepare
report in four volumes, beginning
with a critical examination Of the
history of irrigation in Egypt, under
the Pharos and Ptolemies. Along
about the middle of the third vol.
ume, they reach Idaho and learned
ly dilate on its geology and topog-
raphy, and speculate on precipita-
ton and the influence of vegetation
on the water supply. They con-
clude with a suggestion that the
State presents uncommon possibil-
tiles for the performance of great
engineering feats, but more critical
examinations and more elaborate
surveys will have to be made before
anything definite can be determin-
ed. Now, Mr.. President, as man
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-10-31
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THE CALDWELL TRIBUNE Calo
,,sl, Idaho. Mr.. ED1roR:-Youl
o,t;c1e. entitled "Small Politics.
was copied in the Post of Paris
rd.bo, Oct. 1st, but it did not come
to my attention until yesterday
sveniug. Let me say that l also
hove been disgusted with some O
the politics to which you refer. A
man who is really specimen o.
"The noblest work of SGod," should
have enough in his record, his in
tellectual qualifications, his expert
puce, and in the principles of the
marty which he represents, to com
mend him for popular support as g
public official.
But l wish mainly to speak fol
the ministers of the gospel to whom
YOU refer, and I can perhaps do SC
BY defining my own position in re-
latiou to Mormonism. I am deeply
interested in the welfare of the
Mormon people. and would moi
willingly have them deprived o.
any privilege which is properly
theirs; neither do l wish the Nor
mon religion to be crushed out by
legislation. Let me say, however
and give such evidence of the cor
rectness OF my statement as will
speak for itself, that polygamy is
not properly doctrine of the Nor
mon church. Part of the evidence
Is this: That, although Bible en-
dorsement is sought for the practice
by calling it "Patriarchal Mar
rage, yet the Book of Mormon
denounces polygamy as radically a'
the strongest opponent of the sys
tem could desire-even including
in the sweeping denunciation, sucf
practices on the part of David ano
Solomon! You will find these Book
Of-Mormon teachings in the Bool
Of Jacob 1:1s; 2: 22-29; and 3: 81
Joseph Smith practically admitted
the unqualified, anti-polygamy ma
ture of these teachings, by his late
attempt latter, as is said-ever
Brighamite Mormons being obliged
to admit it-he himself became ;
polygamist) at offering lame apol
ogy for these "grosser crimes" OF
the part of the aforesaid David anC
Solomon. Why was such apolog!!
or defense needed for these particu
lar men, unless the Mormon prophe
saw that the earlier teachings c
the Book of Mormon upon the sub
Ject, made David and Solomon t
appear in the light of warnings in
stead of examples? Why did h
not prefer to mention Abraham ant
Jacob, the lrogenitors of tn: Israel
itish people?
This is also shown by the late
Mormon methods of defense agains
the charge of polygamy. In tn
Gays when indictments were issue
against polygamists, the court rec
oFos show that even tair represents
tlVes of the practice almost invaris
Oly plead mot guiltyp' OF cours
II is out of the question to-suppos
'nat people are acting according
the proper dictates of conscience
practlclng polygamy, when tt
same consciences allow them to te
ialSehoods as means of protectin
themselves from the legal cons
?uences of the practice, Good tret
10 not bring forth such frui
Matthew 7: 1920.
Let us call another witness I
'"o' A returned Mormon missiol
SFy was asked if the, practice
p0lygamy by his people was not
serious obstacle to his work wht
VI his mission. mo" was II
reply "our leaders teach US, befo
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-10-31
WE ARE NOT
P0LYCAMISTS
But The Question Of Morals
Does not Enter In

we start on missions, to deny all
that" This may be religion, ac-
cording to Mormon standards, but
it is entirely divorced from right
eousness. There are certain prin .
ciples of morality to which all re-
ligions must conform in order to
! have any claim upon civil recogni-
ton. A returned missionary ad-
mitted to the writer that he told the
people that "polygamy is no longer
practiced in Utah" But" said
he, Il meant that it is no longer
practiced in the sense of allowing
neaO polygamous marriages to be
contracted" If you have read the
testimony taken by the special COM
mittee Of the House of Representa-
tives, at Washington, D. c., on the
B. H. Roberts case, and the speech
of Representative Charles B. Ian
dis, OF Indiana, you will know that
even this is not true-even some of
the Mormon "apostles". having
taken plural wives since the MAN
itesto" of prohibition in 1890?
Much more evidence of a similar
nature might be submitted if it were
needed, but the above is enough to
indicate the real situation. It is
easy to see that polygamy has no
claim upon legal federation, even
from the Mormon standpoint, and
that those are not the real friend
of the Mormon people. who favor
such toleration. AS I have said,
we do not wish to- crush Mormonism
by legislation (although that is the
way in which the Mormon leaders
persist in interpreting it). We
wish Mormons to have every right
which we ourselves enjoy, but po-
lygamy is supernumerary, and is
defined, even in the Book of Nor
mon-as already referred to-as
one of "the grosser Crimes" We
may surely be excused for urging
legislation against "crime," espe-
cially when our State Constitution
contains the pledge to Congress
that "The practice of polygamy
within the State of Idaho will for
ever be prohibited, and laws tor the
suppression of this and all kindred
crimes will be enacted by our Legis-
lature'' words to this effect
Mr.. Editor, why have not these
promises been kept by our oath
bound legislators? May we not
hope for members of the Legislature
who will be conscientious enough
to consider themselves oath-bound
in fact as we'll as in name and toI M
Surely this is not aiming too high
Yours in the effort to befriend the
Mormon people in the best sense.
R. P. BOYD
Paris, Idaho, Oct. 22nd, 1903.
We do not know Mr.. Boyd, bu
we are glad to know him. He talks
like a sensible man talks, and seems
to have good at heart.
In respect to polygamy, per Sc
THE TRIBUNE has no hesitancy
whatever in saying that we are un
alterably opposed to it, and woul'
be lust as much opposed if ever!
line in the Old Testament, the New
Testament, the Book of Mormon
Doctrine and Covenants, Pearl Q
Great Price and the Millenial Sta
declared for it in the most unequlV
oca1 terms. We do not credit ou
attitude on the subject to any ST
perior virtue or disposition to asce'
: icim, like some people do. If tn
f contraction ofpolygamous marriage
we're legal, we would probably b
! battling for our rights under tn
. law as strenuously as any puris
e vou ever saw, even unto senate
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-10-31
TO
THE PRESIDENT
Engineer Wanted who Can
Do Something.

and a rancher, don't you think
there has been enough of this scien-
titic tomfoolery? Don't you think
it would be pretty good thing to
take the boss engineer into your
private Office and say few things
to him. Tell him that the people
of Idaho are crying for water and
not government reports; that they
need help, not scientific disquisi-
tions; that if something real and
tangible is not done forthwith, there
will be some painfully radical chan
ges in the personnel of the engin-
eering corps. The fact of the mat
ter is, that nine-tenths of the en-
gineers sent out here are not irri-
CATION engineers but literary en-
gineers. They can write a report
that would bear dramatization.
Poetry flows from their typewriter
like oil, but poetry will not raise
potatoes in arid Idaho. If it be a
good thing for the Republic to have
those learned and eloquent reports
in order to preserve the language of "a
irrigation and the traditions of en-
gineering, all right. Keep the en-
gineers at Washington and let them
pile up the tones. What the arid
west needs is bitches, and dams and
every farmer knows where the
bitches and dams ought to be, and
how big. Send US to Boise Valley
one sensible young man with a
transit and tape line and let him
associate with the people instead of
the sage hens and mullets, and in
three weeks, he will drop you a line
telling you just what ought to be
done, what it will cost and the pro-
fit that will accrue. We, out here,
feel that we have had all the liter
ary irrigation that is good for us.
We have already sacrificed much to
get posted on irrigation in the VAL
ley of the Nile from eoo8 to 2o1 B. .
c., and did not complain. But,
now we feel that we ought to turn
our attention to more present
things. Some of us are getting on
in age. The boys and girls are
growing and they have good ap-
petites. 1t takes world of pota-
toes and buttermilk to satisfy their
inward cravings. We want some
of that money spent in digging
bitches and building dams and
would like to see it done before we
are laid away beneath the sage"
brush and the greasewood. Give
us a little help now when, and
where, we need it, and every dollar
of it will be covered back into the
United States treasury. Help us
get the water that flows to waste
through the river channels out
upon the plains, and we will soon
have a country here that will TEEN
with gladness and prosperity. You
have lived in Montana; so have we.
Montana is all right, but it is no more
to be compared to Idaho than Nod
to the Garden of Eden. Lots of us
are here little too soon to see the
Boise Valley in the full glory of its
possibilities. Somebody had to be
pioneers.
Now if you have any influence
with the present administration, we
do hope and pray, you will exert it
to inject some plain commonsense
into the Department of the Interior.
There has been surveying enough
done here to depopulate all our
streams and drive the last sage hen
to that bourne from which no sage
hen returneth. Now lets stop mon
keying and begin to throw dirt.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-10-31

do not put it altogether on the high
ground that some of Our Mormon
friends do. We do not think that
all Mormons in polygamy cling to
the status because of the moral OBJ
legation they feel to tenderly care
for, provide for and support their
many wives and children. Often
the old man hangs on because he is
the beneficiary of that loving care
and support himself. There are
any Gods E:nber of us puritanical
monogomists who have other rea-
sons than high moral ones for cling
ing to wives and children. All the
courts in the country would be kept
busy night and day cutting the
marriage knot if there was nothing
to hold husband and wife together
but the moral obligation to shelter,
feed and clothe. What is the use
of concealing this fact? Where is
the justice of trying to enforce a
moral code against polygamists that
every monogomist knows, in his
heart, that he would not stand to
himself? At this time the majority
of US have come to believe that it
is morally right for one man and
one woman to live together in the
relation of husband aud wife. What
if legislature should pass law
saying that it is a crime, and a
prophet should declare, Nou must
stop it, and God himself should
turn aside the curtains of heaven
and condemn it, do you, does any
honest man think we would quit,
unless something were done to alter
our natures?
Let us concede that good many
Mormons still continue to live in
polygamous relations, and then
candidly search Our own hearts and
blame them if we can.
What we want is for such men as
Mr.. Boyd to look at the thing from
the human side of it, and in char
ity, and join us in showing that the
Mormon people are not monsters,
but men and women following nat
ural lines-doing exactly what any
other people would do under similar
circumstances. Help us in prevent
ing wily-and cold blooded schemers
from making political capital out Of
the unfortunate situation which in
wolves a quiet, industrious, generous
people. We need not condone po-
lygamy Or any other evil to do this.
The writer has probably fought po-
lygamy as hard, according to his
ability, as any man IN the State.
We have never hesitated to condemn
: what to us seemed wrong in Nor
mons or the Mormon church, even
when to do so involved considerable
material loss and some unpleasant
experiences. But as we are now
Convinced that there is movement
on foot to turn persecution of the
Mormon people to political account,
when they are honestly laying aside
the thing which is wrong, we are
dead against that movement. 1t is
absolutely dishonest and mercenary,
and every minister of the gospel of
Christ in this State, as he values
his own religious liberties and prays
God to be merciful to his weaknesses
and short comings, should condemn
it and proclaim against it.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-10-31

Ouoo1s, 81 Donnelly or the Boise
Statesman. While the question, Is
marriage failure? remains polemi-
cally undecided, we have seen
enough to absolutely convince US
that too much contemporaneous
marriage is bad thing. So bad,
indeed, that we are unable to agree
with the Hon. Bourke Cocran, who
says: IF we must have polygamy
or divorce, give us polygamy."
We believe that in some instances
polygamy is practiced among Nor
mons. We also appreciate how al
most impossible it is to bring a
practice like that to sudden termi-
nation. Without entering into the
theological phase of the subject
whether the Bible or Book of Nor
mon teaches tive know that hum
dreds of Mormons have believed
earnestly and conscientiousIy that
polygamy was a divine ordinance.
NO doubt many of them still be-
lleve it. You cannot legislate, pros
ecute or persecute polygamy out of
a Mormon's faith any more than
you can by the same means elimi-
nate eternal hell fire from the faith
Of some Presbyterians. But the
civil law has nothing to do with
mans belief. That is a question
which every man must settle with
his God.
But coming to the practice of
polygamy: Let us look at the
thing in the light of human nature
with all its weaknesses, its blem-
ishes, its loves and its passions.
Suppose the case of a good, So uare
everyday man imbued with a desire
for his souls salvation and utmost
exaltation. In the hope Of attain
ment, he became Mormon and a
polygamist. The family status is
established. Along comes a Dep
uty United States marshal with a
warrant; the husband and father is
dragged into court. His lawyer
tells him he must not iucriminate
himself; he pleads not guilty, and
acting under his lawyers advice he
puts up for himself the best defense
he can. Involving no small amount
of subterfuge and prevarication.
He is just an ordinary man, and
bas no appetite for martyrdom. He
does what the average man always
does under similar circumstances,
gets out of the scrape if he can,
not scorning to lie little if the oc-
casion demands it. Next comes
the manifesto. That hits him in
another place. He knows in a
way that, at best, the manifesto is
only a stroke Of divine policy. 1t
means to him that no new polyga-
nous marriages will be sanctioned
by the church until there is a
change in the situation. But it does
not mean that he shall break up his
family, and forever more escheW W
those peculiar relations which have
been established between himself
and his polygamous wives. 1t does
not mean to him that his various
families shall be broken up and
scattered. 1t simply means that he
must not gather to himself any new
wives. There are a great many
things which tie him to the wives
he already has. Every woman has
some charm peculiar to herself.
Then there are the children, and
the property, all urging him with
compelling force to live it out. We
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-10-31
Notice..

The taxes for the year 1903 are
now due and will become delinquint
on the first Monday in January
1904 and unless paid prior thereto,
ten per cent. penalty will be added
thereon with such other costs as
are provided by law.
G. 7. HAMILL,
Assessor and Tax Collector.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-02-07
COCHIsE TOWN GROWING
Serious Talk of Erection of a 100 Ton
Smelter.

The work on the Cochise and Naco
road is being pushed, and nearly six
miles Of the grade between Pearce and
Ccchise has already been completed.
says the Prospector. Cochise is rather
lively at present on account of the
grading outfits being in and out Of
there, and the number of mines being
opened up in the adjacent country. a
rUi1or vas heard that a 100-ton custom
smelter was going to be built at that
point. A representative of the smelter
company was in that city recently and
TALKED the matter over with Mayor
Rath, and 4 bonus was offered to the
company provided the work was started
within ninety days.
There is no doubt that a sneiter or
that CAPACITY could be kept busy on
ores from that locality, as many car
loads are shipped weekly from Dragon
and Cochise to the III Paso smelters,
while the opening Of the Gleason dis
triCt by the new road will create a new
field.
Considerable building is going on IN
Cochisc, and town lots are in demand.
Many of the buildings being built are
very substantial. The population of the
place is continually increasing, ana the
hotels and lodging houses are doing a
good business.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-02-07
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Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-02-07
TEMPE

Il. b. Osborne Of Illinois is a recent
arrival in Tempe and is Il guest at the
HoUgh residence.
r. G. Andre and wife were the guests
Of Phoenix friends yesterday.
John Wilbur oc Prescott is sI5stitut-
ing in the Wyatt barber shop during
the illness of Mr.. Frame.
The Maricopa train was over three
hours late yesterday
master Paul Daggs is Ill with the
humps.
The services at the NJ. E. church
south Sabbath morning at II o'clock
will be especially for the children.
There viii be special music rendered
by them and the pastors sermon viii
consist of a series Of Bible stories. In
the evening Mr.. Mowre viii preach
from he second commandment
Mrs. F. NJ. Schuerman and Miss Min
ME Goodwin visited Phoenix yesterday.
Tom Kee:er was in Phoenix yester-
day in the transaction OF business.
MS Z. Schmidt IS III at her home
on east Eighth street.
The NJ. z. church of this city has just
raised the last OF its Indebtedness and
viii celebrate the fact next Sabbath
at the hour Of the morning service by
burning all old notes and mortgage.
Rev. Adams who raised the funds foT
the building OF this the first Protest
ant church in Tempe will preach the
sermon and assist in the communion
services. All other services viii be as
usual.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Cham
hers Yesterday n baby how
Those registering at the Casa Iona
yesterday were as follows: Ed +.
Ford. Kansas city; II. NJ. Hunter
Kansas city; I. NJ. Sloan, Phoenix; J.
+. Emmcrt, Prescott; S. J. Sma!!ey
Los Angeles; Frank Thomas, w. Z
Ellswanger, Phoenix.