Show NAILING THE LIE in this issue wo publish a portion of delegate john T caines speech made in the house of representatives on the ath dinst at the time when so much discussion was participated in over a proposed appropriation of for the utah we have already published the manly speech by senator call delivered at the time on the bill the portion of delegate caines speech in this issue will prove as equally interesting during the time the bill providing this appropriation was pending and indeed several months before mrs angle newman probably in conjunction with others sent one or more memorials to congress praying that the appropriation might be made and giving some of the reasons why in her or their opia government should place in her or their hands the sum sought for in the memorial occurred among others the following statement one lady missionary in a town of inhabitants last year visited in polygamous families in one cell at the pen were avio girls one 14 one 16 each married to her ov n father both with babes A girl 16 years of age the wife of her own father her 2 months old babe had a divided kuppr lip and no roof to its mouth and yet polygamy is a lost art eix women were also found in another part three of whom had babes under six months of age who were incarcerated for contempt of court in refusing to acknowledge the paternity of their children last wednesday the following dispatch appeared in the papers that more fully confirms the debased position this saintly reformer mrs angio F newman has assumed NEW YORK october 23 on the last day of the convention of the comans womans christian temperance union the first cession was chiefly devoted to the reports of organizers mrs mary B deesee spoke of the temperance canao among the indians in the territories among the speeches was an address by mrs angie F newman who lias charge of the work among the mormon women her graphic description of the shocking condition of the mormon women elicited horrified exclamations from all parts of the house he told of two sisters mormon girls one 16 years old and the other 14 years old whom she saw in a squalid condition both with babad in their arms and both the girls were wives of their 0 father another case mentioned wasil bai of a man who had married besides a wife outside his family liis own mother his grandmother hia daughter and his granddaughter all these wives were living at the same time to what awful depths of depraved falsehood will abo self elected of utah altairi descend the cause which mrs newman advocates must bo in a perilous state when she a christian woman will permit such black lies to have the endorsement of her such a story as that told in the above dispatch could not have its origin in any mind but one dishonest and impure beyond ordinary conception we do not believe that mrs newman concocted it such baseness would be too horrible for any woman professing ordinary decency to commit the lie was doubtless prepared for her by political adventurers but what shall be said of her for giving it utterance she must bate her sex to libel them in this inhuman manner for the sake of gaining a mere purpose |