Show ROBERTS MID GOOD FfllTII It seems by one of Mr Robertss recent re-cent speeches that he does not like to have tho lastt plank in the Democratic platform criticised It seems that Mr I Roberts is still oblivious to the fact that he has made the people of thin State much trouble or If he does realize it evidently all the regret that he focls IH on account of his own misfortune in not being able to convince the Congress Con-gress of tho United States that Inns1 much as he got Into the habit of dc lug the laws before Statehood was BC j cured it was not right to expect Ihut ho would change his habits later But In airing his grief he should not make I mlsstatcmonts lie says that after he was elected a conspiracy was formed to ouot him Does it require a conspiracy con-spiracy to try to have the laws of the I tailed States vindicated The truth Is that on the next day after his nomination nomi-nation The Tribune pointed out Just what would be In case of his election I and kept telling the people that all through the campaign In those days according to Mi Harris Mr etcher j and other promInent Democrats Mr Roberts repeatedly declared that he r j i could explain the whole business to the i satisfaction of friends and toeS But It serins lie never could and when the matter camo up for final adjustment ho gnt the worst of it It seema he Is bitter at heart but that is due to the Instate selflnhness nf the man If there was a generous impulse in Ills natute ho would now be saying to the Mormon people You greatly honored me I hoe caused you much humiliation and disappointment 1 beg you to take no more trouble on my account But he will not do that He Is not I big and generous enough to do that but I prefers to toll the people that when Congress fires out from the House of Representatives a man who has be nand n-and still Is a defiant breaker of the laws a great Injustice is done them 1 that Is If the man fired happens to be himself He further Insists that there was no bad faith Will he at his next I I meeting answer a question or two on his honor Does he believe that an enabling en-abling act to give Statehood to Ltah would have been secured in 3 95 if at that time Congress had been assured that in 1SOS the people of Utah would I I nominate and elect to Congress a man solely because he has three wives that he lives with In Utah Does he believe that the representations representa-tions made to Congress the solemn word of Delegate Rawllns that pol > gamy ga-my was dead the testimony of President Presi-dent Woodruff the pledges oC the amnesty am-nesty petition docs he believe that the Impression made on Congress and the President was that he and all other polygnmisis had not In the least changed their manner of life What were the evident Impressions of both Presidents Harrison and Cleveland Cleve-land to judgeby their amnesty proclamations procla-mations Whatwas the impression of the first IegislaluVo of the Slate of Utah overwhelmingly Mormon whcnT they passed the statute legitimatizing ehll dren born up to certain date What about the plural i marriages that have been solemnzed since Statehood wo obtained was there no bad faith It all will not do Air Roberts knows well enough that the faith was not kept and more that lie never meant to keep it And now that he has discovered dis-covered that the unanimous sentiment of the Nation as expressed by the Nations Na-tions representatives does not approve of his determination to defy any law that he does not like would it not be the fair thing for him just on account of the Mormon people to take a back scat and not further disgrace them by claiming that a Constitutional Injury has been done him |