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Show 3 THE BEE - y - should not the man about town'1 who wishes to support two or three estab- lishments pleatl guilty, pay a small fine and so have license for himself and the " women he "supports?" Let this policy he inaugurated, and within a few years, we may take an additional step forward and license men to live in bigamy upon the payment of a small tithe to the county or state. Would the editor of the News have us license the practice of unlawful cohabitation. bigamy, trigamy and polygamy at the rate of Sioo per harem, with the possibility of better terms for men and women who stand high in ecclesiastical circles ? According to the policy advocated that small percentage" of our by people who wish to continue the practice of polygamous cohabitation, the best way to discourage law breaking is to wink at it or license it. In dealing with slavery, for example, the people of the United States should have permitted those who held slaves to continue their relations until all those who were slaveholders at the time of the emancipation proclamation were dead. All that a generous people could have demanded was that those who were holding slaves should not add to their number. So, of course, if a young man. in view of this policy, had taken on a special stock of likely slaves just before the act of emancipation, these men or women for whom he had paid good money would remain his to his dying day, though lie should live to be a hundred years old. Moreover, if after a term of years this young man should claim a seat in congress, though an active slaveholder, he should be received with open arms. But , if it could be proven that one of these slaveholders claimed possession of human property which in the days immediately preceding the new era had been free or in the possession of another slaveholder, what course should the people of the United States pursue? Would the assumed right of thisold timer to hold the slaves he had on hand when slavery was prohibited give him the right to get the ownership of the slave or slaves of his neighboring "gen-erous- anti-bcllu- slaveholder? m pauper act or was the line remitted as a tribute to his penitence? In either event his conduct during the following years seems rather inconNtent. For what did he do when well out of the penitentiary but take one of W. B. Shipp's plurals under his polygamous wing! Having escaped his fine by pleading the pauper act, he forthwith takes a new plural to "support;" or, was it to indicate his desire to prove himself a citizen? Though this course might be taken as an illustration of the improvidence of a pauper, it is hard to see how it can be const rued as confirming protestations of penitence. There is another feature of this law-abidi- situation which, as the News would When a man rellens cm this fact and keeps in mind the additional income of $5,500 a year and tin penalty of nothing to do until he arrives at retiring age, the conclusion is inevitably reached that the hU wiiVs name. general will be pretty comfortable during the balance of his ry davs. Weather Observer Bailey at Cedar ng sug- City has found out that it is unprofitable to neglect that virtue next to Godliness. A special by the Wire Rope Syndicate conveys the news that he was removed from his station at Fort Worth, Tex., because of the filthy condition of his office and his unkempt personal appearance, and sent to Cedar City with his salary reduced from $i,:oo to $1,000 per year. Baileys proclivity toeconomize on water seems to make him the right kind of a man for observations out on the desert. gest, "it is impossible for an outsider to understand." In the words of "the ad"the covenant dress to between the man and his wives was an eternal religious contract. It was for time and all eternity;" and it is frequently declared by those who defend the continuance of polygamous relaThe following figures by a noted tions that such relations have a peculiar the average diviauthority represent be and not and may sanctity perpetuity sion of wealth between capital and set aside. Then how, pray, does it labor in the countries named, in per who ten woman a that years cents: happen ago was the plural wife of one man can now' be the plural w'ife of another? Which of her two husbands is she obliged to live with to all eternity? Or, if not obliged to live with the first, for conscience sake, and by reason of the eternity of the contract, why may she not also cease to live as the plural of the second? Does it not look as if when a man wants to keep his owTn harem intact he pleads the eternity of the marriage contract, but when he washes to add to his harem it is easy to A show headed for Salt Lake adfind excuse for annexing the plural of vertises the latest popular songs" as non-Mormon- s" Perhaps there is a wray of obtaining eternal divorce in cases where the eternity of marriage gets tiresome. We do not wash to imply that the plural mentioned may not have had good reasons for ceasing to live with her polygamous husband, but wre another man. . do want to know' how the polygamist who married her can defend the continuance of his polygamous relations on the ground that marriage is eternal in view of the fact that he has annexed the eternal wife of another man. At the time that B. H. Roberts was a fugitive from justice charged with General Eagan is as big a liar as polygamous cohabitation with his Cen- France's Gen. Mercier. Eagan swore terville plural, W. B. Shipp was put before the investigation committee on under arrest for polygamous cohabitamy honor and before God, I have not tion with Margaret C. Shipp etal. Both today enough money to pay your fee." Roberts and Shipp were found guilty; Yet it is now proven that he wfas worth Mr. Roberts was fined $200 and given at that time above $100,000, the propfour months in the penitentiary. So erty consisting of a business block and far as the court records show he did a coffee plantation in Hawaii, although not pay his fine. Did he plead the the assessment rolls are made out in Patriotic Coons, Johnny Got the One I Wanted." The Rats Are After Me," New Order," Salvation Lassies," and I Don't Want No Jonah Hanging Round." That follow's: The ought of draw business and might be worth while for the Second Ward Democratic Club to look into. Too bad Dreyfus was not situated as our own Captain Oberlin M. Carter who stole $1,700,000 and escaped going to the penitentiary because he threatened to take others with him. Had Dreyfus only been gudty the entire staff" might have united to shield him. The committee on arrangements confidently expected from 15,000 to 20,000 people to greet Bryan at the Salt Palace grounds last Saturday. Liberal estimates place the actual attendance at 3,000. The Boy Orator" is not thc |