Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-09-22
IL A STAGE WHISPER.


Continuing he made the usual
charges OF Tribune editorials concern
ing the old parties and finally MADE
an effort 10 Justify all that he haS
done on the grounds that he i
friend 10 his own people. among ~hom
he was born and X not conducting
warfare for heir hurt IN low tones
almost 20 the point Of a stage whisper
he told the tale Of law that was
not passed In the National Congress
DISTINGUISHING the Mormon people lie
said:
Il am going 10 tell YOU a chapter
OF Utah history which has never been
put before the public before. and am
the last living witness 10 f. In 1883
after my first service IN Washington,
! came back 20 Utah and said 20 him
who sent me there--I may state that
| was there as secretary 10 the dele
gate In Congress. the Hon. john T.
Calne. and | hal gone there at the
same direction which had sent him
there, the direction which we VINO
were Mormons accepted az that time
While | was IN New York the tele-
graphic instruction came for me 10 20
10 Washington After the session was
ended ] came back. and to the courte.
Gus and dignlhed gentleman who stood
at the head Of the Church IN those
DAYS. John Taylor. I said, President
Taylor, you must give up polygamy.
The nation win not always endure IT,
And impatiently and with that splen-
did arrogance which set so wen upon
him. he set me aside and said: That
u In the hands OF God Many Of you
know exactly what that meant TO me
and many OF YOU don't know. SIX
years later received from the then
president ~ the Mormon Church, gen.
tie Wilford Woodruff. the authority TO
say 10 the leading men Of this nation
al Washington that IL they would save
US from the pending bill TO take our
franchise there would be complete
Inhibition Of pOlygamy.
In the summer Of 1890 / went to
taking that pledge. With
me, not openly. there were two or
.hree prominent men Of the Church.
The bill had passed the committee OF
lne house and was on the calendar
n the other house and was about TO
be passed 10 the calendar.
Il went 10 James G. Blaine and
rave him that promise, In the most
solemn way made TO me by the presi-
lent Of the Church. that there would
)e an absolute inhibition OF polygamy
n Utah and never would we aiflict the
nation, never more would we seem 10
De the unruly child At last we all |
wanted TO be Americans We wanted |
o keep our franchise. We had come |
Within the demands 81 the country. I |
vent 10 Plat Of Connecticut and told |
him the same thing. To Struble OF |
owa. 10 Cullom Of Illinois and told
hem
Blaine put his arm aroung my shout. /
er and said: Tell your people 10 keep /
heir word: they shall not be harmed /
his time, my boy
And they saved ne that time when |
he AK was Just about 20 descend. They /
.ept their word to- us. How has the /
hurch kept its word to the nation? 4
hank God for the American party, for /
ghen ] meet the men now that | then 4
lodged IN Washington. they will say.
you kept your word Of honor, even II
he church DID not
pom any one dead, VIII say for gentle
it'iu " ''hihiA anu iNl btplbc ". /
'annon that they kept their word.
For ten years they have been deny
1g IN Utah that any pledges were
lade. | myself was accommodated
rom tho church for recalling TO them
hat they lad made pledges and for
tating the additional fact that they
ad broken them.
There are growing UP here In Utah
oys and girls who will wish 10 God IL
ould he 10 them. My America Ex-
ept for them ] would not fight any
hurch or any church rule. But because
o man can take the chance himself
nd because OF the fact that the great
r his power the greater wrong he can
o 10 others, l rise against the one
ian absolutism In Utah and the one
IAN breaking Of the pledge which the
whole church gave, aud that man
imself gave TO the government OF the
nited States that he would live the
Nv and that polygamy would be for
vermore prohibited IN Utah.
And ! thank God for the American
arty for another reason. because II We
D not correct the wrong here It will be
directed by the nation"
Following this speech the American |
arty drum corps entered and played
lille the audience filed out. Musical |
umbers were furnished during the
llly by Held's band. by Mrs. {. G..
hummer and by n quartet OF ladies' |