| Show CONGRESS DID A I IL L WRONG TO UfAH a The Tho State Has a Right to In That t Body PLAIN TALK nl and 1 lii III lu 10 lallon or of Employed to the tue Injury or Stale Siale Mr Ir Roberta noberta appeal of his hll Oe case tram from C Congress to the American people pl Is an anable able address not without but lacking In entire frankness says MYS the Denver lost By right ho should hould have been an investigation or the seat hOt claimed by him shoUld hould im hao been declared vacAnt The Tho State ot of Utah Is entitled to this Congress did a wrong zot to Hobert but to Utah Ulah Utah Ulah is t sovereign State and nu no matter mattor what Mit fe Offense imputed put putto ed to her In the past tho th ut I majority of at her who voled for tor ns as well IIi as those thle who opposed hiving in as strict obe obedience to the III laws ws o as ore the tho tants of any other State in III lite Union people a to 10 Uon itt In the Houle ot of It If is II eligible he ha should 10 bu unseated without unnecessary Sr delay In order that the electors of the State may b by Imm Immediately selecting another make the period of their n brief as 81 possible As A It is II methods and ond In violation ot of pr precedent have been em to the Injury of at aU ata entire Sta State DENIED NO In hi his address Bs Mr my noth lag Ing that Is untrue n nr r does doell he deny ought aught that Is trUe But Dut n a just HU esti mate of conditions In Utah cannot be obtained obtain from his words any more than It can be from the Utterances of the Who ho are fighting nob Ott Mr Ir omits to mention nil the vital In tao case In Utah means one thing In th nation another to the Utah statutes the of polygamy Is committed when a man having one wife marries But Dut the tho stis taming of with Ith halt a dozen plural taken before beCore the po polygamy at nil all In Utah That constitutes un lawful cohabitation the tho ulf nse Mr Ir so 10 glibly says las Is n a triable IJ by a Justice And Ami ho is III right Yet this Is thit very cr essence of tile tho charges against lam hlll find and the State so 10 that When he denies that the tho corn com pact with to en Into b by the State Slate with the United Slates lies hRS been broken he is II onlY toll tell trig Ing the truth from II a Utah Ulah understand Inc ing of the tho meaning of Nearly the truth yet et trot not quite the tue truth for there Is II little doubt that sev oral eral hll have e been since the tho admission of the State Still these thesa are arc not suf In number tl to jus justify tit th the branding of the entire people COPie as aa persisting In an offense they thoy had forsworn The never gave gae up wiVes hI l Th They 1 ne intended to nor did the non lor mon community expect them to do so 10 It was said the they were nearly allot nil of them men Inca advanced In years and peo pIe were ero willing to rink at their trans transgressions SO long as the they obtrude themselves on the public too In an capacity Besides It good policy to lie be to captious N Nei the tho most Influential men of the State Were Ire to bl be found among those leaders of the dominant church who do de voted themselves to pUblic To attain and hIgh office In the Mormon church Until recent years ears u a man ot of necessity had to enter am amy It was 01 as essential liS as any other qualification NUMBER GROWING Yet while polygamist have been een the tho most influential factor in III the State whIle the he have controlled conventions nam named candidates outlined party part poll cl des I directed legislation and not intro held profitable public the time since Ince tile Iho Wood rutt manifesto their number has steadily been growing less It is II bt be there were never more than men involved In the practice when nt at Ua its height In the then thun Territory There Thero are probably apt now and man manot many ot of these are tar far advanced In the sere acre of life lICe Polygamy has been becoming ox ex as 1111 rapidly as death could romo remove Involved In It It I is unreasonable to expect that within Q a corn com brief span of years ray my will become as rare In Utah U us It is II In Now ow York And then the real Norman Mormon problem Will be lII as tar far tram from solution as al ever eer unless In the meantime It Is solved by the Mormon people themselves the people of Utah are struggling for tor is political tr om They desire tle privilege of settling for tor themselves such Buch pUblic questions us as may arise A citizen ot of Desirer might live a dozen years earl In Snit Salt Lake and reo re remain main uncontaminated vero every Mor Cor Cormon mon inca practicIng There would be nothing occur that would offend his hll sight or affect hIs morals moral nut But when II a single Ingle church churchman churchman man holdIng II a religious office ciTies that him tar far above every civil ot of tidal compared with whom In the eyes of oC the devout the President ot of the United States vale Into such a man has strong political convictions and heel heal tale to give them utterance then the tho cItizens rights lire are bound to be invaded The churchman political view leI be become come the belief of those who regard him as Infallible and ond the result Is nn any election he is 8 interested In lOOtS goes 11 as ho he desires This Is 18 the real live Jive Utah problem Many Ian brave brAC devoted inca have been bending themselves to the solution for years GROWS Happily the tho future grows grow brighter for them thou though h the end ot of the tight Is still tIlT tar In the distance was once a factor In thu movement but he deserted the cause att after r th the most thor thoro thorough ough identification with It Ue Mo roo re received his hll rewArd when he was aa fat Cor Conr Congress 1 Ire WI vs elected because there Vils as really no choice among the candidates and ond he poll political Ilea I principles nt at least that were dear clear to the majority In his hll tIght light for tor admission to the house Houie he hu has not hInd lInd the moral support ot of the progressIve members ot of hll hi own party Crt Those Democrats hate allowed d him to defend himself III as but best he ms may They have done nothing to hamper him because they regard the contest as 41 having originated ted In partisanship They have seen Feen the who began tile the Roberts fight supporting pol 41 O open as but without a tithe of oC hIs blA doing It 11 unblushingly Hence the they have 0 retrained from lien Iden with the crusaders although the they will not regret the annihilation of lii ambitious hopes the domination ot of the Church In polities politics I Is the great m menace nace to high 11 Utah becoming only Incident an That the tho union ot of church anti and state will finally be there can bo be no doubt It is a principle that I is u as dear to MGr f mon IU as to Gentile And Ind happily there are re toda today as many Mormons as non lor Inon who contend for It With n a cau cause based in justice and right BUch as theirs they are bound ultimately to triumph |
