Show 1 SOME LITTLE HISTORY I j I When President Woodruff issued his proclamation it was received with i j much doubt by the Gentiles who were familiar with the customs of Utah They said It was evasive In its wording I word-Ing They believed truly it was Issued because there was a measure pending beCouBe hre j in Congress which threatened the dls I franchlseraent all Mormons But President Woodruff testified under oath II I I that he meant It should be the stoppage i I I stop-page absolutely of polygamy and of alI al-I polygamous practices in Utah Joseph F Smith testified to the same thing So I did one or two more of the apostles j The Gentiles who had been here for along a-long time and had seen the orders of I the First Presidency obeyed implicitly r accepted the statement tinder oath by tho president of the church and went I to work to help get Statehood for Utah That that was the understanding I throughout this Territory by 1 the Mormons I Mor-mons Is proved by the birth rates That j was the positive promise given to Con t grass Tho proclamations of amnesty j by both Presidents Harrison and Clever 1 J landshow that that was their understanding I standing It is plain enough now that 1 I it was all done for the purpose of drawi ing around Utah the shield of State I I sovereignty for hardly had the Constitution Consti-tution been adopted when the old practices 1 prac-tices were revived the only difference tces I being that when the Saints wanted to i take new wives they went out of tho I State to have the ceremonies performed 1 That simple history and the movement I move-ment of Abel John Evans In his bill Is simply a continuation of that same 0 contnuaton r fraud and deception and when he gets up before the Legislature and charges I other people with a design to deceive ho adds Insult to the perfidy which attaches at-taches to him and to other leaders of his creed The whole nasty business Is n monumental dishonor to the whole outfit and It renews the suspicion that r the vhojc institution Is but a vast commercial com-mercial political machine with po I Sam I Sa-m as the cement of the nefarious system |