| Show MADE NO PROMISE such Is dr rogers claim his bis explanation and statement to the court editor enquirer 1 in your esuo isido ol of march appears I 1 the b CIO following lowing in in large and conspicuous letters lettera viz dr rogers irom I 1 so avail illin much also under the samo same caption remarks by tile I 1 loner honor judge li enderson which seems to have led dome to think that I 1 had made some kind of a promise inconsistent with ill I 1 the falth aud and practices ot of a 0 latter day saint now BB as my statement and plea pica to the court was entirely read from manuscript I 1 desire you to give g oil publicity in 7 your our columns co limina at as early a date late lie as possible my statement was not made especially with a view to please either saint or dinner ainner but to my mind Is entirely con 81 tent with tile articles of 0 fill faith ill of tile the church of jesus christ of latter day Saint sto which I 1 have lave had bad the lionor honor to belong for over fifty years and I 1 dont believe any man it IS cut off until lie commits a crime which cuts ats himself off air I 1 shall therefore the retora still consider ton sider myself an integral n t I 1 g part of the King kingdom doin of a and d v ill L 1 yet fir prove ve to A all honest men that eliat I 1 am rightfully hit entitled titled to my illy standing tit in the if church h CIL regardless of the ilia efforts of the enemies ot of truth and blinded pi prejudice to tho contrary the apparent delay in calling your atten attention on to this 8 matter is 9 entirely due T no to ilia fact that I 1 could not resist marshal D dyers y we pressing g invitation to lay jay aside ray my most irein important r duties butic and d accept tit the hospi 1 I till tali ties of 0 ill the 0 government allot hotel n near ea r salt bilt lake city lor for a term of three nut months hs 81 as a small mall iemand for aws and supporting my families I 1 fing herewith lere with forward you a terii adm copy cop of my statement and plea ns its produced pro produced duceY in courto mittin nothing save gave his honors a aimless wan wanderings IT cringe outside the ilia chargo charge u upon which I 1 was arraigned viz un uon lanful yi ful cohabitation with my illy wives it M pleasant grove june 13 1887 cory COPY OP OF AND PLEA MADE BEFORE SENTENCE it if your honor please I 1 would like to express to this court in as few words as an po possible i b ae any my condition m ahen lion arrested and ud f for some a years previous I 1 entered into my illy marital relations many years ago without it a thought or intent to do an anything thang that would bring me anio bonnici jiin ino lanski my cone country try believing then aw an I 1 do today to day that tho principle of plural or celestial taught and practiced by tile the latter day saints is a correct doctrine revealed from god for a great benefit to the human family physiologically morally and religiously in all innocence I 1 lived with my wives and raised children by them endeavoring to provide lor for and to educate them respectably A until the decision of the supreme celli t of the U ain aia the reynolds ease case brought me face to face with a law that I 1 vas very poorly poorly prepared to comply with however nt at once abandoned my iny profession anti and business separated 11 mv v families and situated theta them each on a farm of their own with a view to live jive within tile the requirements ot of the law M my y first and third wives a soon con tired of a country or farm life arid and removed to pleasant grove city oie bessie three or four miles still farther from my he home ine leaving me ma the only alternative to live with ill my illy second wila wife or nono none at all As AB a sequel I 1 have made my lily exclusive homo home avith hei for the past six or seven years earb at unit first I 1 was waa led to believe that even in this I 1 would be 10 in accord with tho the requirements quire ments of 0 tile the law as aa I 1 was realer really on only living i with one wife and was still sit I 1 furill urther e r confirmed firmed in my belief by a ruling of lila ilia honor elonor judge zane in the alwo of A al musser where if I 1 mistake not ilia hii lionor honor ruled that a man ill might Ight ino livo with either wife but must confine contine himself to only one I 1 am aware a are that afterwards the rulings were different and in consequence of this I 1 have bein been impelled to plead guilty atall although all neither it 1 ither in this thia case nor dorany any other agn in all 1 1 my life have I 1 willfully willi ully dis obeyed obe cd any law of my country neither do 10 I 1 believe that any man has it a right to violate any law of the land under any pretext whatever but I 1 believe that it la is my privilege anti and my duty to oppose in in mt ft a legitimate way with my influence W with ti I 1 in my means and through the ballot b box alt aror or any law which chith does not commend men j I 1 its itself to my judgment as conducive to tile the greatest public rood good and in it to labor zealously lor for tho the speedy repent repeal of such imis and the enactment of more liberal ones in their stead I 1 have not at any time attempted to evade arrest or to in in any way obstruct the due course of the law and have been H willing illing to render the officers olli cers all the aid I 1 could so far as their duties in my case were concerned I 1 have also a rather largo large family of dependent deren de n t children to provide for with a ren limited I 1 in i ted income to meet the demand in view view of tho the foregoing foree facts I 1 ask our honor to at least suspend sentence bour in n my case that tile the innocent may not buller fer for the acts of others which to my illy mind are acts rendered criminal by an over oer strained construction ol of law arid and are not crimes crimea Intention intentionally committed alIT court what are your our intentions intent I 1 iona tor for the future ans alia my ily intentions are ara to do as I 1 think all nood good citizens should do and arr arranga aligo my family affairs so as to avoid a conflict convict with tin thi laws ot if my country the court after some re rem markst irks suspended sentence for ono one week I 1 w vas a not called again however ho eer until tho the 2 1 8 t ot of march NY lien hen I 1 was 8 again called bo fore the lie court and asked 1 hat I 1 had to say aay why sentence should otio tild not be ba pronounced up upon 0 n me to flinch I 1 answered nothing your our honor save what hat is contained contani ert tit in my former fi riner statement hero upon pan I 1 was ft as sentenced to three months it n tile utah iilah penitentiary and here I 1 ivill leave tile tho matter for friend and foe to comment upon anti and criticism criticise critic ise to suit themselves as I 1 have hao no desire to make tiny any changes in in it they were etere my sentiments then they are mine to dagand dagand by them I 1 shall 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