Show MORMONS toNS IN ARIZONA fly n the tue courtesy of lIon Hon Joseph Hov Hovell ell congressman from Utah wo we have booth been favored d with n a copy of ot the leport of hearings before the tho Hous Committee on WI Territories s In relation to tu the bill for Cor the tho admission lon of ot Arizona and a 1111 New Now Mexico Me Strong objections were raised b hi speakers from Arizona against tho ho proposed union of ut thol Territories as ns ono one State They were vera cogent and nn emphatic The Tho claims of Arizona to statehood for tor herself alone vere elo strongly put The rho population u sources wealth schools public lions telegraphs telegraphic tel Irrigation wOrks c were vaie thoroughly gone gono Into Inlo and anti among tho tito prominent advocates lor or admission lon was wag wn Hon lion J F I Wilson In his closing remarks refuting the tho vari various ous one stories told toM as ns objections to onas admission ho lie noticed thin tho opposition and nail wo we ro re that portion of his hl hii argument verbatim as II follows I notice now tiow another objection that Hint Is tho the Mormon proposition It 11 ha hn been mud so Id Unit I t we WO nr are Mormon ridden ri ii lell In Arizona MI that the tho Mormon people are arc clangorous to o society Tho Thu farther away people are Itro train from those theo people the themore themore more the tho they teem poem to know about them You find a n lot lul of oC people 1 who have never ed the Iho Mississippi River who have havo havon never liner n w Inhaled air who have noor noer teen lIeen n it Mormon settlement or who iio have hn never neer seen Reen a n community of the tue Mormon people they think that tin the th namo name indicates what WhAI they thuy charge and that therefore they Ihl rise rice up on n a 1 presumption and through feeling and lII and make thin the th without knowing whether they thc itro true truo or false Their Charlies are mainly mode made against tho the Mormon people In Utah Whether what they hey say and charge chargo against tho the Mormon people of ot Utah thou IH Ia H true or false I do not hot know but I leer do not Clot believe them I not been there thero As s lo to t he this Mormon people In Arizona I nave IMo been becil among them theta for tor eighteen yearn yeats and I have IIno observed them carefully Of Ot course courle the thu older set Ret Is II not there The Tho younger younKer educated ed eti clans cias Is l there thoro They ore nrc In lii large settlements In the tho counties of ot Apache I acha NR jOO In n nail In Graham There are Bre four counties In which they live IIvo The Tile Valley where In ono one of or these thue large productions of ot tho the soil hn has been made lOR t they hey are mainly Mor or latin lUon people Now I say nay M I have hlo been among them hem for tor eighteen years nor and In every ever of two to years year especially I 1 have been among thorn theta Wo We make It a business I Ito to see eco co thorn there folks In politics they IlIe are aro about divided Some Boine of ot theta them seine somo times wo we 0 think have gone Kone wrong rong and 1111 voted the tho Republican ticket There Thre is III not much difference between the of ot tho the respective sides lilies Thoy They are Independent on oil that Bo Ho far n u as the practice of or polygamy 10 Is concerned I can say coy lIa that t It Is not notI I I practised there thero because when practices practises of ot that kind aro are canted on evidence will necessarily arlly ns as you u tra tro travel travet vet vel el through the he sand rand IOU sou ou make track tracks but you tou s see ate e no signs of ot It there thore For eighteen years tarl I has hart been m Sn every avery settlement among and have yet yetto yetto to s ke ce e any an signs of polygamy and I 1 looked for It tt with a 11 good deal of ot Inter Interest est eat when I Oral first went there here with the intention of ot It but when 1 I learned those hose people I 1 learned them to tobe tolie tobe be lie as M true Americans as live under the tho sun I J know trial Is a fact When the time lino came that tried mens nerves and their hearts when hen the tong long roll was wan sounded and the he battle flag illig was raised In 1599 hey thel this rushed to o the he aid as lIS qu kly as III the nerviest of men toen They The tre re people who attend to their own onn business they stay nt at n t thome home they the till the soil sail they worship Goil according to 10 the tho dictates of their theiron own on conscience they pay fillY their delta doUts anti they tell the truth They do not practice polygamy Among other things 8 they hey In politics They send legislators to our legislature and never neer have laive I 1 yet 01 seen nay for tor the first time I 1 have to see uee n 0 time tome come when wh n there was wal legislation pending for far the tho ha elevation of or the tho he moral mind that hat wa was for the education of the young th the promotion of ot the morals morale of ot the coun country country try but Jut what they were for It tt to a n aman man roan And I have hoo for the time to tos toBee s see Bee e an effort to enact a law that might reflect against tho the morals of the coun country country country try or against tho elevation of oC the th young mind but what they were op opposed opposed posed to it to 10 n a man These Thele things th Ings gentlemen I know to be true They have hao their schools more numerous than tItan any nil all other people leople in tn the Territory and they have children and they end senit them hem to o school and they adopt rules of ot schOol government 1 J nm am I 1 have helVe rule mis mislaid laid a code ot of their school rules It U Was as a model for tor school government The Tho Chairman you cu can Incorporate It In your remarks Mr Ir Wilson I I lost It I have ha vo written for Cor copy and perhaps It II will come comes As AI I toy cay It ItIs ItIs itIs Is a IL model formula to o be followed by those hose who are leaching the young men In America These are the people that we henr hear these statements concerning made mado by IJ people who live from them thousands of ot miles and who only know thom theta through the tho writings of individuals which are written for tor a n purpose I mercenary This Thill much my dear sirs sire I have to toay say nay ay In repudiation of ot that charge be because beCAuse because cause I know tho the facts that I speak peak of ot concerning them hem to 10 be bo true truer rue Mr r Thayer How flow lIo ninny Mormons nrc there hero In your Territory Mr r Wilson I 1 do not know perhaps 20 SO per por cent of at the he population Mr Ir Thayer They Tirey live In communities ties by h themselves Mr Wilson No o everybody lives lIes to together together gether but they preponderate the great greal alley olley of the tho Graham hut you yell GO O 0 Into Inlo tho the town of at In Graham county where the population on of ot the town In Is I perhaps 2000 antI and you will find about 1000 of at what we WI call Gentiles as n n a mat mal matter malter ter let of distinction and the tho balance balanco are ar Mormons They have no trouble they ther neighbor with each ellch other just like other oilier men inca Mr Thayer What Is there about their heir worship beyond what Is generally generall understood Mr Ir Wilson Thero There Is nothing except that some somo people say Ray they lira are mow morn moral than the general run of other people Mr Ir Thayer Are there ther any bigam bigamIsts I lets Mr Ir Wilson There certainly are not nor Mr Powers About Abou twenty weny yeara ago alOO I spent client about two weeks in Utah and I never caw IW a more mora sober morn more laborious more honest debt paying In Industrious Industrious industrious people than I saw euw In HID Mor Mormons Mormons Mormons mons Mr Wilson There Is no doubt of ot It Mr Powers lower As Au you say they pay their debts and attend to their own business badness ll and while a n few teo might proc practise thee tise polygamy the great grent majority do donot donolo donot not nolo Mr Wilson Vilson I want to say salt sn Mr Chairman and gentlemen of ot tho thio com corn committee that I have reached my conclusion don sion about the Mormon people pepie because I could not help Mlp myself I did not want scant wanto to o I believed the he other way cay I was as lIS thin skinned OH OK some come of these people who are hero In lit the tho East Enst howling against them but since I have hMO known tho the roverto of at what I first thought about them to be true I 1 must admit It ItI itI I 1 have hao found In favor of ot those people the tho ho facts I have havo stated and these aro are tho ho reasons I 1 have for defending them here and elsewhere and I shall do cIa it though the tho Run nun un shall shut off ore Its light |