| Show REFUSED TO BE t 1 ONE M r of o Hernando D cs Not Believe Bellevo ln In CI H I I SAYS IS ALL Scandal TraIn their flatteries Their Time Tile editor of The Promoter published at Hernando Mississippi having been re requested lue loo to sign one or of ortho time tho Petitions elre circulated l ted throughout the country countr for tor Sunday school children anI and other persons equally qU to 10 on the subject ot of excluding from his sent lent a member of Congress made time tho reply In his hili paper UI I refuse to be n a to such unfairness illegality and persecution Mr Ir has hns spent his Imis life lite 11 in prior to time the passage of at the Edmunds Edmunda act ho hI had married d three Ill Ia dies die who vimo also no b 1 Vels In pol gamy Since the passage ot of this act which did nut nol annul but prohibited polygamous s lie he has haa publicly lived hived with and eared for these wives s hl his life lite wa was an open book and yet et his hla peo file mis II him to nt them In om n p nn n Congress Is a professed Mormon Ills 1119 not only but com cent command manIc mand plural marriages He Ha In It III as ho he has shown by his conduct Io Ini may be believing In something that thatIs Is not only uninspIred but Is nio wrung socially and Jut hut he b be It That la Is You may maybe bo be your our brothers keeper but you OU are aro not hIs Judge lie has halt a 8 right to wor worship ship his according to the dictates of at hIs hili con conscience clence In tact fact I believe this determination to worship God ac according cording to IndivIdual con conscience clence gave Impetus to time the opening and nd settling of this country I further r recollect that the framers ot of our Constitution eon oon this matter ot of worshipping God GodliS Godas liS as any individual deemed fit ot of so eo much importance that thc they Incorporated In Inthis Inthis this memorable document Q a e granting to oer every individual In this country the right to worship 0 r hl II God ac according I cording to his hla own conscience i Much mIght be said Mid against poly polygamy gamy gam from a social standpoint loly I gamy gam would cause touch scolding and I sera scrapping Piling oman among time the wives and the II average man has hns a pretty hard time providing for tor ono one wIfe Hut Dut If I roo ro member bIblical history those patri arelis archs and nud gages I es closest to God were not satisfied GUs ed with monogamous marriage Like Ilko they found moro more ot of happi happiness ness nels in III tho cares and loves of many wives Abraham J Jacob cob and Solomon sar nw wrong In takIng unto themselves man many wives WIVeR Yet they drank from the fountain or of divine It there thero was no In such ott on the part of these men wh why Is It from a biblical stand standpoint point so 80 wrong for tor Roberts to marry two three or II ft dozen women Grant that thal time tho Edmund Edmunds act would militate against then I soy say h hs would ha have 9 be bet 1 lola than a man to hue have given up either of his wives Iros tn in obedIence to the tho laws command lie Ho had hod his troth and contracted these marriages marrIage prior to time the passage ot of otan an any law women hind given gleo hIm their heart had I t their homes and had imad given hUn him children I honor hIm for tor clinging to and caring for Cor them law or no Ill law Had HOlI he been Hn constituted like some Ime of our orthodox he would have eagerly seized the opportunity to rill rid ot of these that ho he might seek eek 11 0 fresher love That I he did stand by them item is 19 evidence to my mind lint lie he Is a manly mann worthy or of time tho JoVI ot of three and n a seat In Congress Robertl 1111 elected led b by people who knew him Ills HIli life had been spent nt among them They thought hIm worthy worth or of honor and nd gave It to him Who Is the better jud judge o of at fitness for Congress CongressIonal lonal Ional place ploce than the people of If his on or you ou or of North orth Mis The people of oC Utah are oro not In Inthe inthe the rear real of at the van ot of material and mental progress They ore are tully fully caps capa capable ble ot of exercising the right or of suffrage It II a exercised In the cue case of at What hu has to annul that The people of the Congress lanai select led their own the power is II not nol tn in Congress cnn can expel Q a men memo imet hel for tor but oil el dently the only mIsbehavior of which Congress can enn take tog cog la Is that engaged In after afler a mont mem member monther her ber has been en sworn In What Is by disorderly behavior I will not nt at attempt tempt to explain but It having three wIves supporting and acknowledging them constitute behavIor then Congress should hould bl be fair ant and It If It should exercise fairness many mem hers would be expelled hao sev e oral concubines considers and I loves 1011 th these three women os as his wives Ian or the other who believe In only one wife ha have man many Is II not Roberta n a better belleI man than such uch sucha II a tn member Roberta believes he it 18 right time the other Congressmen know the thear they ar are wrong wron J Ie tall fair reformers Do not traIn your whole hole battery on Take fake your our guns gun ort off ot of hIm lie III II I do doIng doIng Ing right according to the light given glnn hIm TraIn and ond fire your our Gatling guns gunson n non on the fornicators anti and adulterers |
