Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-11-02
DO NOT CONDoNE CRIME.


No, senator, the Gentle women IN
the Mormon counties Of Idaho are not
different from other good Christian
women ana you may depend upon
them 10 guard the moral Influences
surrounding their homes and post their
husbands brothers and fathers II
such marriages are being contracted
and you can depend on them to see
That prosecutions are begun and
pushed 10 q successful conclusion
Polygamy consists Of man living
with more than one wife which Is big
amy and u.s. our penal code section
i3gi defines bigamy and as section
1929 provides q punishment FOR II By
fine not exceeding $1,000, and by im-
prisOnmeut IN the state prison, not eX-
CCedlng three years, the safety Of the
community and the purity Of the home
seem TO be fairly wen guarded from
that crime, especially as under our
constitution no bgamist or polygamlst
can act as Juror Dear senator ! re-
sret 10 think that YOU are simply try
ing to fool The people
PoIygamy Is % crime. All political
parties are opposed % crimes, 80 yCu
need lose no sleep as to the final Zee
suit The Republican party on the Sth
OF November next viii elect los
state and legislative tickets. lf the
present laws are not sufficient they
win DO as they always have done.
enact others The Republican party
Of which you at the time We're "a
member enacted the test oath ana
afterwards embodied 1t ln our state
constitution, not In the form of ll
OATH but as part of the qualifications
of am elpctor The official oath WAS
stricken from The statutes after Idaho
became "a state because it had been em-
bodied In the organic act and for the
further reason that the women OF Ida
no We're given the franchise, the
right to vote and hold office. No dis
t.nction IN that respect being now
made on account Of sex, therefore the
Official oath, which was a part of the
territorial statutes, was stricken from
our state code for the reason that we
could not ask our wives, our sisters.
our daughters or those OF our neigh
bOrs To subscribe 10 am oath that they
were not crmInally intimate with
men Had this oath been continued
no self-respeCtng woman would have :
qualified for an official position, or
would have gone 10 the polls 20 cast
ballot while liable TO be subjected UNI
der the law 10 such an insult The re-
pealIng and modifying OF this oath Is |
the only change made IN the Idaho
statute with relation tp crimes be- /
tween the sexes except that a Rapub- |
lean legislature unanimously enacted |
am age-0f.cOnsent law.
That some OF the old Mormons had |
contracted polygamous marriages. be- /.
fore we We're admitted into statehood, |
We an know, and that you understOoa |
that fact IL evidenced by your repiy |
10 Senator Hale, page 1862 of The |
Congressional Record, Feb. 3, 1905
which was I'm part as follows;
81 live among those people, ana 20
iar as ! know there has not been IN
Idaho d polygamous marriage celc-
1rated since the manifesto was s-
sued. And ! have yet ~ find a man
In Idaho or anywhere else who viii |
say that a pOygamous marriage has
been celebrated anywhere since the
ISSUANCE Of that manifesto" To this
Senator Hale replied. Then a. must
'ollow from that as the years go by
and as the older people disappear.
1olygamy as "a practise, viii be prac-
icany removed