Show THE ROBERTS FIE As Mr Roberts Is to bo expelled from the Hour of Representatives It will probably mako but little difference wJI 1 te him through which door he is flrcdSL ISfredSI Louis GlobeDemocrat > < t 0 I Congressman Roberta were a woman lie would now make woull arrangements to ap pear on the lecture platform or the stage Milwaukee Wisconsin a B Tho claim Is frequently put forth that seine prominent politician or nucccsaful business mnn was mado by his wife In the crtsc of CnnqrcsBnian Ioberls it laity bo said tniit he was unmade nJn by thrco wlvcsSt Iouia GlobeDemocrat D O Some Illnatured people said when lichen Gould look up the light against admittIng Roberta to Congress thai she admltn know anything nhout tue ubJcct This ubJect assertion would ceem to be without bun dation for Miss Gould has nresoiucd to the Now York library tho Hcrnll collec tlon of works on Moi monism Including 550 volumes 300 pamphletu and Incildln p tie volumes of newspapers e > 0 Roberta It should bo borne In nlnd has been dniw ug C ConprefiHmanK 111nl I reStn1n pay lllCO March I Ipj and while that doesnt whie thnttl0Cllt muko hlnl a lilcdBed ConSroHsium ho probably wouldnt objnct if It continued IndelmltelyDotrolt Journal contlued 0 0 0 I Tho majority otthc Roberts committee indents exccccllnKly cogent reasons for slopping Roberjs short llt tho doorLos Angeles Exprc 0 0 U I Mr Roberts will ho obliged lo I confess to his consttLiients to conijtltuems that tho prospect of Utah New York I rivaling rr Ohio In po Hlcnl Influence 19 still ery lemoto stl JCmolo Washington Star S 0 0 ROBERTS AND HIS CIHJRCIT Speaking of President Snows iccent I Snfwt manifesto In which mollf ho pays hat tho Mor mon church does lfOr Uan not now a vino or up hold polygamy and that no plural > nigos have been nanctloncd bv I the pliiiroh mar nancloncd slncp IKK the Philadelphia Times very Justly says that If Snow Is Hlncro he can easily olvo the problem of Utahs prohlel iij j j > I rcnontatlon in the lower oltaUol house er TO hOURO con grcss by requesting Mr Robert to with draw his claim to a wlh clnlm I scat IUI hat body and then > bol anl recommend to Mormon vcitcra tho election of some one who IR not living 1 In open loUition of the lnt lving 1Jln < l violaton laws figalnst DO J i inuy bo that Prcald > nt Know will crutl y reply to this thut UH J honcl wi tho Mormon rhurch he nns nothing in do wIth POIUICS but overybolly1 K OWK that thi Mormon priesthood dors nowJ a great ieul to do with politics What hey tAll counsel I 18 n vor dleoboyod bv a tc I Mormon In good standing it vvouiil bo J U = t t very easy for President Snow to conn i sol Roberts to withdraw his lalm cr reIgn I re-Ign Should fiuch counsel come to him from Iho church authorities HchcrtH t Would not hosltato for u lomont about getting out of tho way So long IIM Roberts continues H 1 Iw light for a spat tho net may be taken ns prlma I ache evidence that ho is l aecrotly encouraged en-couraged to do BO by the Mprmin church authorities It is their light Ihnt he In authorltcs I I making more than his own They could pull 1 him off hiBlanter by merely dropping a hint that iho intorflsls of Jln church I I roqulrod him to throw up I lie I pole i Minneapolis Tribune I 0 S STAGGERING BLOW FOR POIiOA Polygamy In Utah find adjoining Stnten received what will probably prove lo ben be-n mortal blow when the committee of tho 1 Houso of Representative voted unanimously j unani-mously against pcrmilUmr Brlgham H I Roburts 1 < hold a scat In Conprcsi Them Is a divIsIon In tho committee an to whotlior Mr Roberts ohall be dcnlod nd miiision to a scat absolutely or vheiher he shall bo adtnftt ant then fxpelled But there Is I no conlllct as to tho claim that he Is I lawbreaker and that 1 law l lrosiker has no right to a seal In a uw maklng body Thero 1c 1 no locbt that tho report of the committee will ho iloplod I bv him HOUHC of Representatives and that III I Roberts will be hont back to Utah in disgrace I I I Tho decision of this case Is a drcldod gain to morality rind decency I Is tho t most staggerIng blow polygamy has re I celvcd tamerlnf I wi be the most conclusive I I proof the Mormon church cun have that I this iVfttlon will not tolerate the practice I of plural mariaiiiB When lie pol > gu mists of Utah decided lo llaimt ihoir do I ilnnco of llnh and public opinion In the 1 face of the Nation they picked out their I I shrewdest member to rcpredciit them J Thoio Is no doubt that Urlcrnam 11 Roberto Rob-erto la 1 an able an exponent of the doc I trine of pol > K ny as tho Mormon church contain Ho him demonstrated his shrewdness and capacity to explain Mormon I Mor-mon tcrglvorsatloiiB on a ood mutiny occasions oc-casions Ho believed tint his capacity was equal to ono mere tax that of per Kiiadlng the national HOse of Roprcsen I trtlvet that a man and C State can violate a kn and a pledge and mill be hold guiltless by the Nation gulth Bu ho led And his failure n i thor I I tho-r ost distinct victory for the forco and Influence of public opinion this country has witnessed in n generation Mt Rob crIB comcK from L State among tho nia Jorltv of whosio population no public opinion opin-ion exists Thov arc accuhtomcil to accept ac-cept tli word of their church as lnai and not bother themselves about nl i w listlnc Ions In law or morals Mr Roberts mistake was In siupiioslnsr that the same conditions ex 1st I all over the < oinitrv Ho expected to Ibid tho vamo low average of I IntollfRoncti cer whorf that lie fminil in I hlK own community Ho knoxv < his iiis take now And lu will xo bark to Utah with a livelier ienp of tho pouor of public I opinion than he CVT had ir his 1II > whatever what-ever ho does and whatever his future course may be no will never ueno o again that a mal or a Stato iin taken n nacrcd plcdgo uiul tearing It Into rlts n look dcllantlv In tho Uico tf the American 1 Ameri-can people and snperlnnly I ask l what thev arc going to do about I No polygamist will attempt to do what Mr Roberts has wI ulcmpt been punished for trying to accomplish r In disuibutlng tim praise for tuo lefvit of Roberta It should ho rmnomborcd that a large share of tho credit for the result belongs to the Gentilo population of Utah and particularly to Tho Salt Jako Tilb Ilartcularl une If time Gentiles of Uiat Slate had GCnlle6 tne not I tiLe courage to grapple with the crisis brought about b Mr Roberts election to Congrosa and hud they not bad a fearless new = papor to voIce their opinions opin-ions It Is J a question whether Iho pOf Iy amlot8 would not have been victorious and lie Nation been disgraced They nt and awakened wpnt to work energjtiruiv public opinion tn thoroughly that Congress publc gross was brought to act promptly and rljhtly in the matter It I N I an Impressive lesson of what public opinion can do In sol country of tree discussion and It is Ian I-an Impressive lesson to every polygamist I amid Sawbreaker of the punishment In toro for thin if they trespass too far I on the patience of tho public Philadelphia Philadel-phia Press |