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Show SATURDAY, AUGUST 12 Entered tbe Iost Office at Salt Lake City. for tranmuLslun through the mail, as eeoond class matter. t Subscription Rotos: One year nirlctly in advance VI. 03 Six montha, strictly In udvatice To all countries embraced In the Universal Postal Id W Union, one year, strictly In advance dfscddtlnilartceii If the paper h not desired beyond the date subscribed for. tiotlde by letter should be Riven at least two week? before the term expires. All arrears must 1m paid. Advertlataf Rates: The Hee baa the largest circulation of any weekly news paper published In Utah, aud Is therefore an advertising medium of recoRnlaed merlti Rates will be made known oil rippllcdtlotl. fbmlttances: Post Office or Express money orders and Letters should Ik addressed anti made payable to All Drafts. Keg-Ister- ed BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. 67 Commercial St., Salt Lake City. Publisher NEWMAN LIEN EDITORIAL. ; The Case of 1 Congressman yl s i Roberts, a u t0 the prescnt time r 11 e VOL II. NO. 25 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. Bee has been silent on the Roberts case. We have been asked to define our position and; therefore will present the situation from the standpoint of an outsfder. There can be only orle ' conclusion Mr. Roberts should never have been elected, and now that he has been, congress should lose no time in evictingdiim when he walks in to take his seat. The election of B. H. Roberts to congress has attracted the attention of the whqle nation. This attention is not due to the greatness of Mr. Rotr erts personality, but rather to the multiplicity of his domestic relations. Duripg the campaign judgment was suspended. Some supposed that the charges against Mr. Roberts were untrue, and- that he and his friends would meet them by showing either that he was a monogamist or that though once living in polygamy he had since his course of treatment in the penitentiary and the promulgation of the Woodruff manifesto, been obeying the laws of the state and keeping the covenants of his church. Even after Mr. Roberts and his friends had virtually acknowledged that he was living with more than one woman in the habit and repute of marriage, judgment was still suspended. The general feel- ing was that he would he defeated at the polls. Such a defeat would have been taken as evidence that the peo ple of Utah were tired of polygamy, bent on discouraging polygamy ami determined that no man living in polygamy should represent them before the world. The election of Mr. Roberts in spite of his illegal and illicit with his plural wives, was a disappointment to t he friends of Utah. Men who for years had been saying, only he patient, polygamy is dying; you can trust the people to lay out the remains, were at first chagrined and worried. During the months which have since elapsed, chagrin has changed to indignation. This feeling of indignation has gathered force so that the people of the United States have become more and more conversant with th e situation, No man likes to he duped or tricked out of concessions, and the American people are no exception to this rule. They understood when they gave Utah statehood that polygamy was to he forever prohibited, and by polygamy they meant polygamous cohabitation no less than new polygamous marriages. It never entered into their heads to suppose that men like Apostle Grant and Elder Roberts were to have forty years in which to dose out their stock, not to speak of replenishing stock illegally gotten, as Mr. Roberts since his incarceration in jSg. None are more indignant over this breach of faith than those who have insisted that Utahs present attitude toward polygamy should be judged of by the manifesto and oath of Presidents Woodruff and Snow and the reach of her constitutional and stature-tatio- ns lias-don- e tory law. It is no small matter to interest the nation in the affairs of one of its less populous states. It would he fortunate indeed for Utah if the election of a congressman could turn the eyes of the nation toward her progressive spirit and the attractive character of her undeveloped resources, but no Utahn who loves his state can find any such reason for congratulation in the election of Mr. Roberts. He has the attention of the people of this country, but that attention notes not a progressive leader, but a of progress, and it rests not on the undevelop- hanger-on-the-whee- ls rd resorces of Utah. but on the undeveloped resources of Mr. Roberts connubial code. Outside of this state Mr. Roberts represents hut one thing, and that out! thing is dogmatic, pragmatic and pigheaded polygamous cohabita- 'This may not he fair to Mr. Roberts; it certainly is not fair to Utah. One of the notable changes in the attitude of outsiders toward the. Roberts case is, that while at first there was more or less unreadiness to believe the charges against him, there is now no such hesitancy. Even the theory that he merely support some extra wives In; had lelt over from the balmy days before the manifesto, has had its day. T he difficulty now is not to get the people to believe that he is living tion. and associating in the habit and repute of marriage with three wives, but to keep them from giving other rumors and suspicions which come to them the force of facts. It is quite common in the east to hear the assertion that Mr. Roberts has four wives. You cannot, however, expect all newspapers in the United States to have affidavit backing for their assertion, yet it isevident that there is evidence in abundance somewhere which Mr. Roberts has not cared to unmask. As one said the other day: Of course, he is living in polygamous relations; if he were not he could clear his state of the odium which his election has brought upon her, and he certainly would do so. Does Utah want such attention during the coming years as she has had during the past few months? If she does not she will heave a sigh of relief when Mr. Roberts resigns or is evicted from congress. The Fight on Engineer Kelsey People who doubt that personal spite prompts the contemptible fight upon Engineer Kelsey shouid look up the records of the last council session. Having failed utterly to prove that the engineer had been and lacking guilty of any wrong-dointhe courage to simulate a belief in his guilt by voting for his removal, g, allies ordered his and Mr. Kelsey to make a detailed report of all his expenditures, Of Howe |