Show tr M The People of Utah Are Not Covenant Breakers F The Salt Lake is a Falsifier 87 It is almost a daily grind or knock by the Lake Tribune the people of Utah promised to abstain from polygamous in order to- obtain and that after state-hood was that the few Mormon broke their covenant with government by still living with their plural statements by the Tribune absolute are only intended to injure Utah and deceive the stranger within our I now desire to state to all strangers and to all have been misled by the Tribune that whenever any paper or states that broke its covenant with the by allowing polygamists to retain and live with plural wives they married six years before Utah became a tell either or When Congress admit-l ted Utah into the Union of it studied the polygamy phase very and it did ordain in the enabling act passed in polygamous or plural marriages are one word about polygamous and Congress knew difference between or plural polygamous V Congress Was Not was brought to the attention of Congress court had defined that or polygamous marriage was act or the marriage and polygamous tation was living with plural wives after If Congress had intended stop polygamous cohabitation it certainly would had sense enough to insert it in the enabling Congress also knew that no honest and honorable Mormon would leave or forsake a plural wife that he had vowed to cherish and for- ever Congress also knew hundreds of Mormons sent to penitentiary because they would not promise forsake their plural wives and Would Not Disown Their Congress knew that not one Mormon would have been sent penitentiary he had been vile traitorous enough Rand heartless enough to break the covenant he made plu-ral Congress knew that the polygamous Mormons' would continue to live with their plural wives Utah became a Congress knew that Mormon polygamists would not their wives if Utah never became a Governor Thomas Told I Arthur L. as governor of the Territory of in his report to the Secretary of the Interior dated years before the enabling refers to the subject- on page 4 will probably-be it may be years' before the practice of unlawful cohabitation will finally Utah Haters Informed Tom Wesley A. T. Schroeder Utah haters Congress that nothing but death or prison would ever a from keeping with his plural and under such conditions left out the words polygamous from the enabling Utah could honorably come into the Union of over laws Utah has passed against polygamous cohabitation that were not in the enabling have on the subject x Whenever a person proclaims that Utah J. nant with the government to obtain I repeat that person is an or is untruthful and is an enemy to A parallel In the legislature of passed that from and after the first day ol it shall be unlawful for any male person and female per- who are kin of the degree of first to be joined This act was signed by the governor and became It was shown at the passage of this bill that very f of first cousins were of weak minds or One was cited where intelligent cousins were mar in that some of their their their great grandchildren were driveling was shown that the fruit of the marriage of first cousins-was three fairly bright children and three- One speaker said it was crime to allow idiotic children be into the Nothing Was Said About Those Already In the above bill nothing was said about the who were married previous to they were allowed to continue to idiotic children into the It would been unjust and cruel and would have set at naught the post facto laws to separate these first cousin At the same time above bill was passed there were more first cousins in Pennsylvania than were in Utah was admitted as a j 1 I Suppose that Pennsylvania had been admitted in the- anti-cousin marriage law in enabling would the-Salt Lake Tribune wave the red flag of anarchy and the Ministerial association get red-mouthed and blatant and proclaim that Penn-sylvania had broken its covenants to obtain statehood because it allowed married first cousins to cohabit idiotic children the I It would-be much worse to cry against Utah than for everything else being the of polygamists just as' bright and intelligent as those of V. S. |