Show ELI PERKINS APPEAL TO THE PRESIDENT where hemn astop Mcl villo D landon EM eli perkins the somewhat noted danbury news man inan lins has had the credit of being A very intelligent mail buthi but liis slate late movements would indicate the contrary as witness the following which lie recently wrote to an eastern exchange yesterday y c esterday I 1 had a long talk with bishop cannon and bishop hiram clawson at tho the lion house I 1 went thero there as a friend of the mor for mons after studying alie mormon status for a week I 1 am satisfied the castio i 0 f I 1 oly poly garny ls not to be easily settled when I 1 asked hirani hiram clawson CI awson who is one of tile the muot conspicuous mormons cormons Mor mons lie being ft ith brigham Brig liim young find and joseph smithy and at present the alic husband of two of brigham nin youn youns youngs s daughters when I 1 naked asked him if the mor mons would under any consideration give up the practice of polygamy lie said eaid firmly 0 no o polygamy is our religion it was waa instituted through it a divine revelation we will never div civo it up I 1 but suppose it interferes with the law of the couil country try I 1 suggested geli ted it docs interfere with the laws of the country said mr manson Cla weon but what of that tile christian religion iun with the laws of jerusalem but the christians christiana held on to their religion wo will hold on to ours against all law I aaker nel cd yes yc e sir the united states can put us in jail I 1 have just been imprisoned for months but I 1 havo have corne come back to my wives I 1 shall never leave them if they are arc tick bick or need counsel I 1 shall be with them I 1 can call lie be arrested again tomorrow if I 1 am I 1 will ivill suffer buffer cheerfully there are sixty mor mons in prison now and when they are arc out they will all go back to their wives but bilty 1 I ne bcd it will you not say eay that you are arc opposed to future polygamy let nio me write that no sir you need not write that I 1 am willing that you should write that I 1 have no objection to tile government punishing further po lyga mists 11 but suppose tile government arrests over overy y polygamist is utah then they will have to build more jails there are arc about mormons cormons who are polygamists there are arc hardly penitentiaries aries enough to hold all of them these mormons cormons have from two to twelve wives each I 1 vt would buirl v all allting stand tind arrest fore giving up lip polygamy I 1 askel asked certai certainly ly we wilf will all be mar ayrs to our religion now mr president I 1 and there then are arc about cormons mormons in in utah I 1 idalio idaho and arizona they are arc growing very fust fast ten kilnes faster than the gentiles they outnumber the gentiles in utah twenty to one if utah were a state it would be overpoweringly ii a mormon state with a mornion mormon governor and a lAor mormon nion legislature the Ifor cormons mormons mons are arc also strong enough to carry idalio idaho and arizona to multiply and increase 13 is preached every sunday by every mornion Af ormun I 1 find the of butali havo changed in eight yeara enthey Th then they were opposed t to polygamy X little so called persecution on the part of the government has united the mornion mormon wort women icil in favor of bf polygamy gamy thousands of Morn cormons mormons ions are not sensuous sensuously sly but religiously it lias has been preached to the women that it is their duty to bear many children aind and finally outnumber the gentiles gentile I 1 asked two mormon women yesterday if they were in favor of poly polygamy 9 adiv they said yes yee it is our religion it is our duty to raise large families wo we shall get our reward for it would you like to have your husband when you voll got get old and wrinkled bring other and fresher wives into the household they have done it one said the other said my husband will take faie a new wife next week we will be glad to have our husband take ten tell wives if it is as 19 we believe carrying out the revelation of god B by y and by we will the gentiles mr president what can call be done alesc p 0 pa 41 TI alio 10 few 1 im in have solidified the them 11 1 into a rellious wall I 1 know from pe personal rhonal examination that of them will go to jail as religious fanatics before they will give up lip polygamy like stephen they like be stoned like st paul they are arc happy in prison they extend front from yuma atthe at alic mouth ft colorado river up lip through 0 the northern pacific railroad at garrison tile utah it northern is lined biti their farms I 1 called on one farmer A t lo 10 login log 9 in utah who biad twelve 1 wives where shall polygamy atop how can call it bo be cured D L ano FL 1 Cs salt like city utah may |