Show JOINS t MORMON S 1 I A member of the colonial parliament Is baptized A it short timo ago it dispatch ii as received purporting to be ba from victoria utona british Coli Colu nibia stating that a gentleman named anthony maitland stin sten binuso member of th the colonial parlia mont mint from tile iho district of 0 comox bad resigned resi itin d his seat in tin the liono uble body for it il e purpose o of casting Mil iiii in ili his hi lot ni uth ith tho the latter day it is bissu so rate mo that a man of 0 high political icil anil and social standing blinding 1136 asido liia his worldly anit ami ti rs t 10 certainty of of obloquy being t tyronn apon ins his name to units with etli all unpopular buge and people that no ne en pertained ia soine doubt ns its to tho the state mont wo we have before us hon r e copies 0 1 0 C of I 1 lin lulish ilish claburn hio hi o iii it pis 1 I h e tile it i aill mattei in their columns appears a copy 0 of nn an address from mr stenhouse to ins his con on being approached by bv a press reporter on oil the tha abject mr all willi said it is ia true that I 1 arri am about to join the mormon church I 1 le have no intention int antion of practicing practicing polygamy but buit I 1 accept ard wl will I 1 firmly maintain it as a doctrine md ai d am fit in nu no way dinv inv ashamed of tt it tile mar riago contract n bether single tin sli dual or plural should 1 lie held sacre eacret dand and should bo be vigorously enforced in in every case and under the sanction tion of than tire ri n provided for any aily class of ofru offen lawies fB against women under such buch conditions I 1 rin am confident that nothing short of an all powerful religious motive could ever eer induce it ft husband to multiply his response res responsibilities bill ties and thus the tha britne anine us as it to ia call edof bigamy would be most effectually stam stamped ped out ont in gentile corn tied tho the choin Co oin complimented compliment oI mr stenhouse for thus placing his hia position po squarely before the tl 9 country in allut alluding ling to an aspirant aa to tile the seat so 0 o recently vacated by the iho gentleman named i tho ali same barne paper di dra awing draining a com comparison be tho the tro says eai s he 1 has none of the high spirit that characterizes mr Ron house it appears that the latter stands hilgh in the estimation of the community in fit which he resides reaid as an intelligent and honorable gentleman |