Show THE SHAME OF IT The bill of Senator Evans designed to draw all protection around the actual ac-tual practice of polygamy In Utah is but a rehash of 0 statute which was passed by the Territorial Legislature of Utah some forty years ago The purpose of that bill was to prevent Snterefercncc from the outside and to hold n perpetual club over women who had been drawn Into the polygamy net Now the object Is to protect all persons In tho defiance of the law unless un-less they please to plead guilty or unless one or the other of the pair Involved In-volved becomes jealous as to the sanctity sanc-tity of his or her preserves Mr Evans proceeds solely on the theory of Boss Tweed which reduced to words Is 1le have got you what arc you going go-Ing to do about it In his shamelessness shame-lessness he casts aside all the covenants nantw made by his people Including the highest officers of the church whose slave he Is and defiantly proclaims pro-claims to the people of the United Slates that the Mormons of Utah are p virtuous pcopleand do not propose to be disturbed in their practice of morality unless they complain against themselves To give emphasis to his claim he falls back on the beastly assertion that to do different from defying the law would be barbarous and Inhuman treatment to polygamous wives and forgets that In so doing he accuses President Woodruff of being barbarous and Inhuman In his lifetime Of course he lugs In how much ho I would fight any new polygamous marriage mar-riage and knows that he Is talking through his hat for he personally knows jail about a dozen such alliances ances right here I her since Statehood was obtained But the argument hoad I vances establishes his exact status i which is that of the original claim I cal 1 L I oC the rturch that Its ltrch thn people being I Gods people would do as they ploised regardless of manmade laws Hence Mr Evans Is really not worth discuss lng Any manwho would frame one law with the acknowledged purpose of being be-Ing through it able to defy a higher law I with Impunity has ao dim an idea ol the equities which control lawloving I and lawrespecting people that he is 1 j not wdrthy of extended consideration But the Mortnrnpeople I are dircctb y concerned IQ Vth1s matter for thc rpu I I taLon of their State IsInvolved i laht i I the certainty that the people of out elde States will judge them by their statutes and their acts What the people outside Will think can be understood un-derstood by the May the Congress of United Slates received a similar the Unied Slplel I claim from the llpn of B H Roberts r tho young men and women have I not the strength to protest against such work as ll Evans has bceji doIng do-Ing they will get their reward when I they seek outside recognition I I |