Show FOR abs tbs trans con congress dress Ds do dires clares in faor ol of it BOTH SIDES OF CF THE TEE 1011 ably di umea by Talen talented tei from thi van various us states and terr territories it borics just before jerore the close of the great reat convention of westerners a vote was taken upun the questions of staw statehood hood for the different terri all were unanimously in te re commanded for admission but bill utah ulah and tile standard gives ives a brief synopsis of ottic the arguments used for and si 1 0 the following re resolution 0 in resolved ISe solved thal I 1 he territory of utah is competent for fir local ael cek f govern went and lully fully entitled to admission on to statehood IV e therefore urge ur gotlie the national congress to speedily admit adail it to statehood when this was proposed judge C C foodwin raised an objection and a I 1 wordy nordy war ensued mayor baskin of salt lake city 17 gained the floor and spoke as follows the vote you vou give ive on oil that qu question tion is properly without the jurisdiction of this body it should not exercise jurisdiction on matters of purely local import on which there i is stivis division I 1 am opposed to the ad of utah for cogent reasons cries give them there is a liberal libor il party here it was established in there was no other party liere here then under organization of liberal party wo ire in tend lend ca d to continue until tile the local affairs were settled and then wed ired go auk to partied parti eq aft ate arn billant gi llant nt struggle str ung c lo 10 on the part of this party we secured the pa passage aage of the edmunds tucker laa gawu when wo ire assumed power capi capital began bean 0 to flow in and the result you cm can see bee here and when 3 ou on go to salt take lake there are arc moral forces at work which will prepare altah for a state the peoples party disbanded and asked us to do the same we refused because we needed ome tome t pledge that th the e church keep its hinds hands 0 off arof of politics the church issued a proclamation a against n poly polygamy 0 amy why just to aid tile the mormon mori non people in escaping the penalty of the tholan lair Th the liberal eliberal party was formed to crush the theocracy existing here I 1 ani am not disposed to discredit the statements of tile the mormon people but we say let them thein prove their sincerity when you consider that these peo pie defied not only the liberal pal party tv but the entire nation you should r not dot be basty in accepting c their assurance anti anil sudden cha changes nes n n es give us credit for a i little judgment ju dment and discretion Th the dream edream 0 of statehood has existed for twenty years in in utah why lecause because of the peculiar conditions odthe people her c creating D anomalous conditions and the esta ble aliment of un american im institutions the mormon people are us as honest in their convictions as any a one tic sincere and true to their religion and have made wonderful sacrifices for it in the face or of tile the derision odthe of the whole world that much I 1 will say but bilut while you von can t touch their belief we ire have har e a right 0 to step in when that belief is put into practice in opposition to the laws of the h land and anti and say sav top stop I 1 li 1 I this very honesty lies ta the lie danger to their belief has not cli cl aged n 0 cd and should they be given t tie ie opportunity to put again into portico their honest belief would hi y not again n authorize the practice of polygamy there is where the statehood danger lies let the present moral forces work on until tile the condit iotis ioris are arc truly chang changed ed in the literal sense of the word if you pass this it may undo what it lias has wien so many years to accomplish the bitterness of the past is ia working no t out do not act hastily and biake 11 a ke a fatal mistake after tile liberal representative of salt kilt lake la ke sat down col john I 1 the great democratic orator of the pacific co coast ast arose ile he said paid this is a wider question that than that at A mere lucre locality it is a 11 question ot of I 1 right ight t to b bo c represented in our le isla tivo halls ila alls this question pl eStion must be dealt with in a spirit of wisdom and with no no narrow arow views views or bigotry the very evil of which the gentleman complains has arisen through th roush the persecution which lias has caused them to fly to tile tho church for pro I 1 tand stand s here for t the ie majority mapo rity of utah as settled at t the h pol polls 1 s a vote or of four to one they t h Y have h a v e expressed themselves in fa favor vor ot of statehood yet 1 l et you come hero here and ask the trans mississippi states to keep out of the upion union a territory that voted against forstate for statehood you say the moral forces are working moral forces indeed list not among these mora moral I 1 influences that of the U S illar marshal who connived with infamy and was ivas finally deprived of his office cheers outside of this one feature polygamy there is no more moral people on the earth than that of the mormon pe people ople the people settled here in the wilderness and the church under tinder its rules huilt built homes bornes fur for its people and founded civilization through their industry they piled up tip anti and accumulated wealth these men who bo still cling to the past pait came hereto here to enrich themselves on the profits of the toils toila of the cormons mormons Mor mons the ecclesiastical authority of the church has by its acts relinquished land and disavowed dic dowid the principle princ ilAc of polygamy aud and the people has sustained them if ag a mr baskin says they are tin an honest people then why gionest in one thing and hypocrites in another less than 1 per cent of the male population of utah ever entered into polygamy the influences influence i of polygamy yo by bv actual contact lias has touched less leas than afian I 1 per cent of the male population of the tha mormon church I 1 was surprised to hear that statehood was avas to be given t to new mexico and to arizo arizona a but atall was to be left out and be refused her rights ri 0 ats if congress 0 shall refuse to reco recognize za nize the rights or of the territory and continue it in this condition because of the petition of one to four it v will ill but intensify ii the tha c it 06 odthe y fie fedei federal al ax cod fa na itu ma 1 1 i I 1 r ife B a felony and punished under a retroactive tro active law lav those who were guilt gul ity of something c which when committed was not a crime I 1 say in this the mormons cormons have shown a manhood seldom equaled they have come up to the courts and said if a plural wife before there was a law against it is a crime then I 1 am guilty but I 1 will never put infamy on the wives s I 1 have taken or illegitimacy on oil the children they have roared me when we ire can see the infamy as it exists in ohp world today I 1 say to you that the men of utah the he highest eulogy that one ana nan u can pass upon another when refusing n to stamp their wives rives with infamy and their children with illegitimacy lc 6 preferring to walk to t the he penitentiary when the law called on them to separate they IM did so io but no wife was left ir in infamy or a child in beggary bey t gary for tile the mor 11 or mons threw their protecting arms arm around them let us not say then that they deserve infamy when they ROWS the highest highest characteristics that form tile the adornment of man I 1 the federal 6 government ex exercising effis t jurisdiction over this question ha has s said the church by the oi only ily system it could denote reformation declared polygamy abolished abolish e 1 I and it is abolished as a far is as can be shown you say that by state law they will legalize polygamy no they wont the rho heads of the mormon man church known that if statehood were used to legalize 0 tiny amy or to practice it without wi legalization there stands over utah the federal control which by law makes the restoration of polygamy as impossible as that of slavery there is not one man here bu but t who rho knows that should aboul d it be attempted and they go back ori on their pledges 0 tile the last state would be wor worce se than tho the first they are sensible people they want the dignity of statehood they want tl the le representation and the ri rights 0 lits accorded to others let us receive them as aa faith keeping men and as countrymen I 1 want to LO sav say that if you stand egand by the minori minority tyas as against the ma majority bority you stand by 1 a I system of persecution 1011 against 0 at wt a system of religion I 1 ap appeal eal to lo your laith faith in man and a all I 1 I 1 t eliat a t is n manly your a ly within y you on to stand kt a n by tho the 2 wb who 0 favor statehood hood and confer on this fair territory all the benefits of a place in in the sisterhood of states 11 C 0 goodwin of the tribune then said you Y ou know nothing of the situa tion in utah had colonel irish not laid liis his ancestors had been persecuted I 1 should have thought liim him a paid attorney for lie u used etl not the thoughts of colonel colone 4 irish hut but the same panic old lingo that had been drilled into the ears of men for years ohio illinois and other states deny that the mormons cormons have been persecuted the mornion mormon church is a political machine colonel irish said that polygamy is dead that is another proof that colonel irish knows no nothing thinly 0 about it then the speaker went into his usual tirade on tile the mormons cormons as to their religion 0 practices etc and declared it was infamous to say pay that the gentiles had come here to reap tile the bene benefits fiLs of mormon prosperity when the fact was that the coun country was barren when the gentiles came c hero here they got out gold and silver boo bought lit mormon lormon L supplies anti and brought 0 p prosperity ro As to the majorities be said paid that if three days before election some old veteran had gotten bottei I 1 up in the he tabernacle and said he had a I 1 telephone ines message sage from god that statehood was not the proper thin tiling there would bave been 0 votes cast against statehood instead of for it cries of no no po no this congress has bas not tile the right V to pass on fitness for statehood lie ile closed with ati an au ati peal for tile the true and sincere men odthe of the liberal party and to be let alone without any any expression on oil statehood by th the congress their doctrines have been a theocracy and polygamy poly n Ramy arny lias has been the dirty cement that has held it together ether I 1 would suggett th that at a contribution be taken take it up to purchase a book of mormon and doctrine of covenants and pre present them to colonel irish 2 colonel irish I 1 accept the present of the gift and I 1 should also like to have presented to rne me at the same time a copy of the document which judge goodwin claims is republic republican can a declaring that they 1 h AT IT constitution Clie cheers ers lion ilon david evans of ogden was given the floor and 1 F said ai 1 I 1 have been born in utah I 1 have stood side by side with judge good will mil and mayor baskin and have aided in bearing the brunt of the battle but buti it tsee seems to me that even in the hialit to of history some men cannot and will not see the truth b let us see sec the truth are we to go back into the early history of utah to find a reason for our unfitness for statehood tha young men of the territory are lookin looking g for tile the future senator stewart appealed to us to strike for liberty and yet when we no as men of U I 1 tali appeal to you yon to L give us the power to aid you ill striking for for liberty we are met inet by tho the proposition that you cannot help us why not show the game genc generosity anti and liberality as was shown the defeated lefea ted party after the war the legislators 0 which met last winter actually passed laws making 0 penal tile of tenses complained off when the law was passe passed d mayor baskin voted against it why because they did not ilot w want nt the situation settled bett led it was with him as with judge Goo goodwin divin they were after tile the spoils of office I 1 tell you these men are even opposed to biting upon national party lines in ill you your r states is religion T a test for 1 political oli qualifications fica eions cries of no no y these men have fought so eo long Iong r that their minds are in a groove and they cannot get out of it they are arc in a ru rut t as are many of the older mormons cormons Mor mons but young utah is asking for help hell wo want it give it to us and wo we will aid you judge II cyburn of idaho said this question b had ad no right here and then spoke aoa against ilist tile the adoption of the resolution resolution lion ilon F S richards richardr of utah spoke to the ro resolution solution ile iio regretted to see bee the congressi congre bored with this local question but now that it had arisen this congress could not refuse to pass ution unon tho resolution ile ho bellowed that thousands of liberals who had fought tile the INI mormon ormon people were in favor of statehood taking 0 the same position its as the M mormon ormon people here you have involved human rig rights ats do you vou know what that means unless you have lived in utah here we have a governor with an absolute veto power who can call counteract with a single no the desire de sire of a quarter of a million of people what are tile objections that polygamy is not dead and that church rules the state why ia not polygamy dead the gentlemen gen jr hii cannot cite a single binale 0 ca casi bince thy in manifesto ani festo y governor thomas rep repeated eted the aser tio that tho the mormons cormons would vote its told amid cries cries of no and reviewed utah bistor history y he H at polygamy was dead lie the ne cormons mormons had been cincere sine e re in sustaining their kiei I 1 19 isu ipg 4 his manifesto in the request foist statehood was but the aoa of politicians at no pic election did the liberal day barty i p poll oil Is aa anany many votes voles as when J fiven aen again against t statehood hood at the I 1 iiii t 06 election ci orf the d li liberal boral voters pay 41 per cent of the nazeg of the territory Goke go geror Roi thomas homas said further that the thero ro ire are many thousand citizens WE tzou I 1 d ole obey 1 the voice of 06 bu b u t there are votile lio not t morin 0 arn m ment ent iet ii ialine alone everything will warl 1 0 out lie denied that there allt ibe n any persecution in utah t 11 fo r the vete power that c ame i with WI ith 1 t the he organic act and 13 ayoung ng cac it for novem ars 1 ETRAL Patter patterson mn the demor benjo cratic of colorado next lie ile saif I 1 think iol hoone one here will ivill regret that 1 I 1 thia di discussion discuss sc ion has boo cue cured I 1 na b za appreciation lafo 0 1 ami aid genine a af utah chiy eshad ey had ad before az that 7 haa boen been erab d tn bv mormon m I 1 0 r lad d gendill alivoy i ba have ve convince convinced d us tha x bonor ablo gentlemen and I 1 have met found half of the ae of tile the JC must say oay that i in n a in 1 a r aa I 1 iti an and I ste gnit 4 tha peers of their gentile gentil ft lend 61 Atone A ton etin timo 0 I 1 was wag totally appos 0 to fo utah statehood aided i crime B alor 1 ei I 1 hav dISO an antiste of utah s of e I 1 J ad a it anita kly d ion heffy mair I 1 is a household dha word 7 r throughout my state and IT whether e t her mormons mons have been seen in their cities on their farms or in the buttof huts of the mountains mining the auh universal ursal testimony has been that the hospitality of this people has never been excelled on the face of the earth do they 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