Show ROBERTS TELLS OF Denunciation Falsehood and Force Arguments of Mormons WILL NOT DESERT WIVES Arthur McEwen Gives lis V ulon or of an In InI Interview I with Ul hs Representative Sl YS lIE HE IS NOT VICIOUS Is III tIIe Rut anti u a Lender ender hubert und antI D De 1 Me 1 Ewen has n a t article In American says sars n a speciAl In whIch ho he tolls tells of an Inter Interview view he had with Congressman It Iii Is said here that the tho statements statement made by Mr lr Roberts In the interview wll be used M as n a basis by tho Ta ler lerIne Ine investigating committee Mt MO 1 artIcle fa Roberts talks even enn better In private than In public lie He Is easy earnest and Were IVere he not n a Mor Morman mon man nobody w uh that hint he Is isa a gentleman and sTare It Ilo possible for tor him to remain In the House his trains would soon place him among the lead leaders ers ere or of his whIch Is very much itt III want ant ot of leaders Ito Ho does doLs not deceive himself about his chances and Is sore to the tho soul not because ot of balked am ambition apparently but from ruin a sense or of outrage I 1 con can understand the sentiment that has been aroused against me lie he said Asa 8 a Mormon I have had so 10 much ox ex that new nel manifestations do donot not 1101 take rno me unawares I 1 can put my myself self Ir tn in the pia e or of the sincere who cry out against me but I seldom find anybody who sho cami put himSelf lii III my place Nace or who will lil even try to do that On being told that the courage and ability with whIch ho he faced time the house on Tuesday had won him him re respect Roberts a 11 rather sad and said lIE HE JS IS USED TO BEING DATED BATED I am to being bated you ou know my may childhood I have been used to the obloquy and hatred that ono one who professed td an unpopular lar faith So little time WM was given mo ate anti and I had to leave unsaid so 0 man many things that I wanted to say and should be sAW that I I have bae no vary clear Idea hiss or of what hat I did 14 say I was confused with the unsaid things he clenched his hand and smote emote the tho d desk sk n a soft blow While his eyes oes fired upI would sign a bond to give ten years ears ot of my lifo It this louse would grant me two to hours In which to address unInterrupted hours hut ot of course IUNe th t not to be 00 hoped for It would require unanimous con conseaL seaL Of his hili wives arid and children said Mid You must place yourself where we Wa art are In order to comprehend rom rommy my earliest days J I was taught the rightfulness of plural marriage That was part or of In my religion Nobody ever eer tried to me Many Ian have come t to Utah ministers of various forms torms ot of religion but no one ever sat down with inc and In n a Chris ChrisIan Ian spIrit sought Ought to convInce me mae that I was vas wrong ABUSE ADUSE FOR FOn ARGUMENT T or persuasion was not In their method but and at peals to the law to apply force As the editor ot of n a magazine I Invited cl clergy clergymen men ot of other denomInatIons to show how us our errors It they could but there was no response We are not to be converted but suppressed If we ml mis mistook took all this for tor n J I hardly think we are to be greatly blamed A seat tn In Congress does not mean much for tor me personally though J I will do m my dut duty In asserting and demand lug Ing recognItion ot of time the rights ot of my State but my tI ties and obligations n as asan an honorable man meAn everything Whatever sacrifice may Inay be required ivill 11 be met noW as before It is III demanded demand d that I shall put owa away m my wh wives Consider that these mo men came to mo mc In the blOom or of their youth Tho They were wert moved largely large b by religious feeling a as I 1 wn was The They have hao been mIne and I 1 theirs through these years Their life lito and m my life hl have e been omme I hn have done what I could to pro protect teet them from time tile storms that have its 9 When Congress made It a crime for tor forus us to 10 lire the life liCe our Church made mado right the they were branded with shams hams as tar far u as the law N could uk do It Men went to Jail for time the sake ot of their wIves mini children In utah I 1 could hl have stood tood trial and escaped In 1887 1557 had hadI I ch chosen n But I to Ip spare Nt these women omM all th the alt all the court Inquiry that It was In rn my power to ID spare pare them So I ended matters 11 by pleading guilty IJ lIE OF IllS JUS WIVES These women have 1130 stood Il IJ by rne me They al are Ro good n and tle true women The bw ha has eald Id I 1 thal shall part from them My Iy Church has haR bowed to the command ot of Congress and relInquished the lie prime ice of plural I marrIage nut But the law cannot pum tre free me mae front obligations us mis It spoke No power can cando cando do that that Even were the Church that sanctioned the these marriages and pr per performed tonne formed the tho ceremonies to turn Il its back upon us UI and say the marriages are nt not valid now and that I 1 must give those gO good and loyal women up II 11 wi wIll b be damned If I would That ml might ht ha have ben been either time the 0 ox pr of religIous convictIon I as to In the next world or swearing I 1 think It was swear In tog and quie quIte In the tho fashIon ot of co con who are strictly monogamous tf in their views Anyway wa It WI was f reao lute luto and from the race face or of the serious on man who I it IUt nut I should hould sa say that you OU might apply to tor Mr r or treat him to the t taste te teor or of the tho rk rack without changIng his hll miami TEARS ErS EnS IN ROBERTS There Thero ere ten tears In hl eyes eye when he spoke ot of the goodness s And loyalty of his we wives I It wa wax after the tho manner ot of otone one dwelling on the bride ot of hil hIs youth the mother of Df his suns and amI daughters the companIon of Jill hits manhood the tho or of hIl his struggles nt and the tho depend dependent eat ent of lifes decline I It moved rae rne I 1 quite fort forgot the plural plum number moe and r respected rt a 11 devotion which alla always ough ought to but seldom does 10 lark mark tM thC h husband band who ho marries eAl eArly ha has reached th the age ot of t tO and Is sti a young oung man Whatever else de M nay nay be lii Mon I I I i mon Is not a viciouS man Thore are areno areno no traces ot of dissipation abt about hil hIs br bright ht i e eyes and clear skin nothing I ot or hIs domestic from the normal you would take him to be just what he Is n a lawyer ot of go good ability and an cuB ous 11 lie Congress HAS COWARDS FOR Fon ENEMIES I expected plent or of nn and opposition ot of course cour saId anI anti ho sPoke wih with bitterness But Dut I looked for mor more courage I It dos deems not COt cost II mae much effort to face u for tor I always have lied had to 1 that and It Is for tor mo me to ralie the state of oC mind of mon men who cower I muI tremble before n a clamor for tor which they have no genuine respect t ot of them I mel mean Some I 1 nm am sure are sincere In their attitude ad adfor and for thos those one can have a certain o es esteem tm teem Ar Are you ou nt not tempted I 1 Inquire Inquired or of him to retort upon tho those who you know have no rIght night to st set up a as tOt tori of morals smie That Is an 0 olti story Wo We hare I borne al all that In Uth Utah through the whole WI war that has been n mails madl upon us UI We ha have honed our women tie de denounce toul foully and ourselves as vile wretches by men who whose own lives le wor sore ot of a kind to too notorious to tob tobe b be described No theres smal small tempts ion to retort In that way the theus ton us use Is 10 so gO good a talker an and so eo sowell wen well supplied with pluck that the Dna Dem orts oets are grieving oe over him ham lie He 1 be B a prize to theta them In the House Ji N riet in L I Contrasts the the tho It East i Mi Adah Roberts has hns been Inter interviewed viewed If we tn In the estern eastern and she talks very Pt directly und and earnestly says lOS saysa n a Ronald erald special In 1 may home 11 In Salt lt Lk Lake CI City says YS Miss 18 Roberts I was wasa 8 n a very er unimportant I came Ind and went I Io inured l about BaIt Lalo City J I visie visited throughout the State Wint vent to Denver and other places anti aM wa was never regarded as a or some ome something thing to be stared n at t During m my short hort stay In Washing Washington ton I have been extremely embarrassed ferl times Time and agaIn I have has overheard the r rudest remarks concern lag Ing m myself elt and tny my father In elevators In time the corridor corridors or of the Capitol ott the streets I 1 have been lade made the subject t ot of ope open continent comment M as It If I 1 woo were an object of exhibition Not ot the slightest restraint seems to govern gOorn these I leople that their audible remarks marks might aught be distasteful to me meOn meOn On the contrary I know that on cn sev e oral eral occasions the rude People who In Indulge In thee these spIteful sayings Ying were highly gratified o by reason ot of the fac fact that I her heard anti and the of their canoe canle o jet jests Contrasting the East and the West WestI I inive this to say NY That were I nt at home were I among tIme the men or of the Vust ost not ten even the bitterest enem enemy ot of m my tether or ot of our OUSe cause would pr per permit mit rae me to be 1 so persecuted Men of the style arid fashion ot of the East do not flourish In the Wal Vest Ther There Is a vIgor Igor vIgorous ou ous manhood there which would not stOll stOol to hurt a feelings I belIeve It II is customary to M say that women delight In the of their sister sisters Surely this proverb hn has grown grownup up In the East I am loud to la say that n no mater matter how bitterly my stem sisters or of the tho nut East oppose rn my father tather or any policy which he tn In Part represented the th would never make mo me the victim l I am certainly surprised at m my ex cx In the tho Ft East I It I Is a as differ eat ent to me as n a foreign countr country The Ind Indecency nc or of th the behavIor ot of Buten Eastern people wih with who whom I have hae come In con contact tact h Is beyond I It trams n all legitimate curiosity I might go up an and down the Wot West alone UI on protected aDI and In ab shoe lute h hostile te to tn 1 my tAther anI and myself and fe never b lx subjected to sch such annoy annoyance anc ance mind and In insult ul Our II certainly different A woman S is Im something tar far her atone sacred In rn my country than Ihan here beret I It such little Were I to Ii our occur the there ur ore big strong men maca out there who ho so 10 tm press th the lelon lesson on ho Offenders that Iha t the theIr would tm remember nt not to otel agaIn even Ir if they Wire 8 eo tent dense And Ignorant that they dil not the indecency of Offenses we did not expect an aimy favo favors or leniency from or our polItical op we f at least expected justIce We at leet lout expected that the tho would be observed I lam lila thle cN case nail and WI we felt certain tha that my may presence here would uM never noer b b made an addo added lurf source ot of JW sorrow and anxiety to him hummi We expected the courtesy we 0 ar are prepared to grant |