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terian assembly doesn't believe in such
discrimination, as the following dis
patch will show:
Los Angeles. Cal, May 29.-The one hun
| dred and fifteenth general assembly of the
Presbyterian church dissolved this after
| noon at 4:45 o'clock all business before it
| having been completed.
| The assembly today unanimously adopt
| ed the following resolutions reported by
| Rev. Dr. w. w. Holloway from the stand
ing committee on home missions, to which
| the question of Mormonism had been re-
| ferred
Whereas. This hierarchy, the church of
| Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, per-
| sists in the active encouragement and
| practice of the crime of polygamy in dis
| regard of their own pledges and oaths to
| the contrary, in contempt of the clinical
| convictions of the American people and
| in defiance of the laws and constitutions
| of the state and of the United States, and
Whereas This hierarchy recently JAN
| 20, 1903. through the Utah legislature, has
| had elected to the United States senate a
| high ecclesiastic, one of its chief authori-
| ties. the Apostle Reed Smoot, in direct vio-
| lation of it's pledges to the nation to re-
| frain from interference with the affairs of
state, and
Whereas, This apostle, Senator Reed
| Smoot, is direct representative of polyg-
| amy, born of its system and in cordial
| sympathy with it as a divine institution
revealed as a law of primary obligation
| and made mandatory by the most solemn
| sanctions and has encouraged its perpet-
| uation and practice by his personal infiu-
| ence as an apostle, and
| Whereas, In thus doing this the apostle
| senator aids and abets criminals men
aces the American people, is unfaithful
! to the laws and constitution of the United
| States, pays his first allegiance to the
first IN Eybi
he belongs and is a reproach to the honor
and dignity of the American senate;
| therefore,
Resolved, That this assembly most re-
spectfully but earnestly calls upon the peo-
pie of the United States to use their ut
most endeavor, employing all honorable
means, to secure the expulsion of Apostle
Reed Smoot from the halls of the national
senate and urges the senate itself and
each member thereof to exhaust all legal
means to this end and in accordance with
the provisions of the federal constitution
This assembly also calls upon the people
and congress of the United States in both
houses and each member of each house to
employ and exhaust all legal means to Sc
cure such an amendment to the federal
constitution as shall define legal marriage
as monogamic and make polygamy under
every guise and practice crime against
the United States punishable by adequate
penalties, including observation-disclosures
and disqualification to vote or hold office
in the United States or in any state or ter
ritory under the jurisdiction of the United
States.
"UncIe Joe's" Joke.
A really good anecdote is rare.
"Uncle Joe' Cannon, the next speaker
of the house of representatives, is
fine raconteur Evidence of that fact
is given in the following extract from
the New York Times:
"Uncle Joe" Cannon tells of a constitu-
ent of his out in Illinois who has but re-
Gently returned from a trip to Europe
The traveller was proudly relating to an
admiring group of fellow townsmen the
incidents of his trip among which were
visits to Lake Geneva and Leman, where
upon some one interrupted with:
care not Lakes Geneva and Leman
synonymous?"
THAT, my dear friend" said Cannons
constituent Il know very well, but are
you aware that Lake Leman is the more
synonymous of the two?'
The Foreigners Advantage.
There is at least one item of our ex-
changes with foreign nations of which !
we pay out many times more than we
take in. 1t is probable that American
tourists spend abroad more than ten |
times the amount expended by foreign |
tourists in the United States. This |
year our disbursements of that sort |
will be very large. An expert puts the
aggregate at $100000000, sum that is
as likely to be below as above the ac-
tual. From the single port of New |
York there will be siXty-seven sailings |
Of first class steamships for Europe |
each month from May to August in
elusive. They will carry approximate |
ly 21,500 cabin passengers month, or !
$4,000 in the four months of the season. |
Enough tourists will sail earlier or
later, it is estimated, to bring the total
to 125,000. For their passage this |
army of travellers will pay $31 100000 |
and for their living and other expenses
a good $70,000,000 more, or total of at
least $1O0O00OO0 The fact that for
eigners control most of the steamship /
lines insures the lodgment of the great
er part of the outlay in foreign ex-
chequers. But this outlay does not
bring the country to the verge of bank
ruptcy, as we usually send abroad sew
eral hundred millions-say, from $780,
100000 to 100000, ,O00-worth of goods
in excess of the cost of our foreign
purchases.
An Old Acquaintance.
There is nothing which cheers one
mp more while tabernacling in this vale
Of tears than to run across an old ac-
quaintance whom we like. The Wash
ington Post reintroduces Mr.. Spratt in
this pleasant fashion:
That man Spratt who wants to be mayor
of st. Joe, Mo-, ought to be able to clean
the platter if he can get his wife to help
him.
Imprisonment For Debt.
Imprisonment for debt is unquestion-
ably relic of barbarism-a well nigh
idiotic performance 1t will surprise
most people to learn that person
may be clapped in Jail in Massachu-
sets for debt. In most states it is a
thing improbable. In this regard the
old Bay State, which is supposed to be
the cradle of liberty. e., Faneuil
hall in the o. B. S. Island to contain
all that is most progressive and most
precious in modern civilization, is
away behind most of her sister states
The suggestion of debtors prison
brings to mind many old and familiar
characters, among whom are Wilkins
Micawber, ESQ.,, and Colonel Rawdon
Crawley, husband of the immortal
Becky Sharp. If anybody doubts that
a citizen of Massachusetts may be
"clapped up in prison" for debt, to use
a favorite phrase of Queen Mary,
daughter of James H. and wife of VIII
liam Ill, let him read the following
excerpt from the Boston Advertiser
and be undeceived:
Out of 175.00O polls in Boston less than
$4,000 was collected this year. In the last
three years alone some $1,000 has been
uncollected in this city. There are plenty
of cities in Massachusetts where an un-
paid poll tax is the exception. In those
cities the law is enforced, and the man
who deliberately refuses to pay his poll
tax has to serve a Jail sentence That
could be done here in Boston, but the first
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