Show S SENATOR I 1 1 1 IN ATOR BROWNS SPEECH CONCLUDED ay I 1 ha havu have v c already ll already ready stated the com aers appointed under thu the edmunds act to take charge chargi ot the affairs of utah prescribed a severe test oath none to vote or hold office or to kwapy a plate of p trust truit who will not swear that he or borshe she is not a bigamist t or polygamist and that behas he has not cohabited with difiore moro more than one woman in the marriage relation and this oath is administered to each manor manon man or woman who offers himself or herself as ra a voter and it covers the whole period of thelise the ille lile of each mormon now the fact la Is worthy of notice that the commissioners only report men and women womer who refused to take the test oath As it requires the affiant to swear that lid ild is not a bigamist or polygamist many aho who believe in polygamy poly gainy but have not practiced tj ed it may way have refused to take the oat oath admit however that the 11 persons gons sons Te ported reported by the commissioners who refused to take the oath have at some period of their lives live practiced bigamy or polyp polygamy then there are in the territory giam of uly utah ah men and find women and we will here sup Aup suppose pose there are 0 oooo of have avith in the period of their lives baythe say the last twenty tive five years engage engaged d in this unlawful practice in comparing the poly polygamy piny einy of utah with the polygamy of dew new sew new england how cies etes does the account stand the statistics given by the it llev ev dr allen alien and the other able authors referred i L 0 show that within tiie tile last eighteen eighteen years tears ars estimating for the nuin ruin number rumber er in sars S alaine and vermont and putting it lower than the proportion in the dofher other states there were over divorces granted in new england makin persons who have been divorced there within that period now let iet us suppose that one third of that number were divorced for the cause of fornication and therefore legally leally aily ails divorced though the statistics show chow a much smaller proportion rop and when they married again were not adulterers under thee thed divine elvine law and it leaves 36 who were unlawfully divorced according to the divine law and who as each marries arries ni presents the case of more than one living wife or more than one living husband and are therefore bigamists biga mists ananew and new england presents to tile the world bigamists biga mists while utah presents but placing new england in the lead in the practice of bigamy by 3 to 1 as compared with utah I 1 speak of the two sections and not their relative population it if it be said that part of the wa do not marry again the reply isthan the statistics show that less than one third of the divorces granted ranted arc are for adultery and it is doubtless douTt les ies true that ot of the in utah who reused to take the tho oath that they were nov not biga biza mists or polygamists a very cone cons considerable number had never praet practiced iced leed polygamy therefore thereto re I 1 think itis it is safe sate to say that the proportion is As 3 in edw new england to 1 la in utah and let it be rd remembered that the percentage for divorce for the last twenty years has lutr increased eased cased so 60 rapidly that all the different writers above referred to agree that there are arm now how over 2000 divorces divorce granted each tach year fear in new england the otti olli cial clai statistics of massachusetts show that the increase inc in divorce in that state tor for the twenty years from 1863 to 18 1882 luclus inclusive ive lve was 1476 1676 per cent the number now being over eow eom 2000 divorces per annum granted in new england if the increase should go on oll at pc fearful r ul rate of the last twenty years and it if massachusetts N i a fair sampie sample sample sampie of the other new now Engla england 14 states the tite whole numbed number of persons divorced ut for fop the next twenty years would greatly exceed the number lor the last twenty years at itt the present rate nate of 2000 per annum in twenty years would show without any increase in the per cent divorces turning loose 90 persons to marry ag again gln gin uwe if ve ada adi add to this thia per cent which was the increase in the last twenty years it will make divorces turning loose persons in tie the the next nest twenty years to marry again this is a fearful destruction of families it is a 1 lamentable a men table state of things to lp coltom contemplate let us earnestly earnestly hope that some benign influence will be brought to bear to check this alarming evil not only in nevi new england but in all the tho states stites of he 0 union and lut iut us lle lie ile use all the power possessed by congress to check and control it in the estrict district of columbia and in the territories of the united states where congress hals has jurisdiction ris diction f on now I 1 presume it is a fact that will be admitted by all that prostitution outside of the is committed to an immensely greater extent in new england than in utah ind and that in the practice of 61 fa Alcide and the prevention of conception utah does not beg begin bezin gln din to compare in ia numbers with new england and while I 1 have not the statistics to enable me to make a perfectly accurate calculation I 1 think it very 8 safe fe to say that if we count the tile polygamy in new eli england fand from front ule uie illegal ulea a L a divorces corces the prostitution of new england the practice ti e of feticide folt fost icide and the prevention r vestion of conception the social tiuis Is five times as great reat teat in new england as it is 15 in utah uta mr president this is a horrible rec record rd and it behooves the christian and the patriot to ponder well tho the consequences iuen luen ces that must follow trout such a d state of society the marriage of one man lulan to one woman by which they twain become one nesb desh I 1 h the foun four dation of the family aud and the family is the foundation of tie the the state slate and the thu preservation preservation of its purity one of the fondest 0 hopes of the thu church strike down the family or destroy its sanctity by a loose law on the subject of divorce and aud all theother the tho other social evils referred to tor tov and decadence and aid decline mastbe must be the inevitable result the patriot must look down upon this pic gurewith ture with the most intense the ministry of all the churches of tilis tills land tied aud all the christian people I 1 of this country should unite in one sol 1 binn protest against this great and de fradin bradin grading evil it if must be admitted that ha t while ille ilie v bile protestants protestant agree ame with the catholic church that marriage o la Is a sacra sacrament ament that that church R has as set a noble example on the tb of the paucity of the mamae mahni marti asre relation and the indis 7 lity of the narn nann lage tic Is it not vule time that the other churches should imitate her example on the question of ly tie aud and that the ministry of all the other eb urchea should cry aloud anid alid spare not until all good people awake a wale waie from their slumbers and unit one grand efforts tosane to tave kavc the country and new england especially from the demoralization in and prostitution which Is growing 1 n and spreading with such irow frow ah t f i rapidity mr president in drawing tills this dark 1 and gloomy picture of new england society on the social question from the tha 1 and statements of dished new nely england authors and dl di vines I 1 be beg to assure the senate that I 1 doit dolt to it in 8 sorrow 0 arow rather thail thin th in in anger and that I 1 am prompted only by a 3 sense of duty in making the comparison between new anziand Ens rland and utah which is so io i o unfavorable to neang land I 1 have a great admiration for the activity energy enterprise efterp eln cin education and crowing rowing wealth and lims iros perit of icat that important section of thee theu the union nion and I 1 have selected her as already stated for a comparison lson because causette cau sethe the statistics showing the unfortunate state of things there are at hand and because hr h r representatives take the lead in lit the prosecution of utah much us as the southern states stated have been condemned and denounced for their practices and however much mitch the they may be at fault in some I 1 I 1 il A must be admitted by all w who knO wany thing of the state ot of society oey ocy 4 0 ty there at least among amont the practices referred to do not prevail to anything like the extent to which they are practiced in new england prior to the war a divorce alvonce was wag not to be obtained in south carolina for any cause after the war while the government ov was in the hands of th the car at pet a liberal divorce law ialy was passed assed but when the white people of gouth south carolina resumed their sway and obtained control of their own affairs they plot piot promptly repealed that statute ta tute and as lam iam I 1 am informed by their representatives senta tives the old rule ot no lio d divorce orce is again applied and I 1 hazard nothing in saying that there Is ih no ad state ill in the tb 0 union where there Is more conjugal felicity or the families of the state live more happily toge together ther than the 1 do 10 in the state slate of south carolina I 1 regret to say sas that in my tny own state ille ilie ic law of divorce is entirely too liberal but I 1 lam iam ani glad to be able to say sas that in practice divorces very seldom occur and I 1 trust all good people in every aft ry southern Sout hern heru state as well as in eveny every new nev england state and in every est ern e rn state stat will unite for the suppression 8 to nolt af this great growing 9 and alarming in evil eil the ue christian churches denounce polygamy goly polygamy gamy and demand its suppress ien len by y every constitutional and lt legal I 1 means in our power and the chura churches g arwright are right but how can they demal demai d this tiuis and justify their inertness arid neglect of duty while winking n atu at W e and lila ille illegal gui gal gul and adulterous ii marriages id 68 to say nothing fio eho thing of their feeble denunciation den u 1 of prostitution and und 11 nearer ej home can the churches prof professing essing eAsing to worship christ ad ass the them divine lawgiver law giver with ills llis word in their hands which on this point ig neither ambiguous nor doubtful justify divorce which ile he forbids and the marriage of persons persona divorced in violation of his law which lie ife denoi denov denounces ances as adulterous and how can the churches sustain and recognize as ministers of christ professed preachers of the gospel who i will ill lil for a small fee join together ton tog zether gether in what that they call holy wedlock persons whose those union christ the head bead of the church denounces as adulterous a and n d the parties to the union adulterer i and nd adulteress it is a gross garos violation of divine law a crime in the minister who prof esses to bless the adulterous union and a shame on the church which stis sustains taing him it is no reply to say that the union is sustained by the law of the land jno zno N law of the land compels any minister to officiate at such tsuch an adulterous union if the lav law of the state authorized the practice of polygamy would the tha christi Christl ism sm ministers be authorized to cel cei celebrate ebrite the marr marrlee marriage lae of the husband to his second ois oll third wife while willie his first wife was still living 5 no 0 minister could plead the law of the state as his justification for celebrating such pol poi polygamous marriage then now how can he e plead lead the law lair of the state as ills liis justification fi for an adulterous marriage in violation ot ol the express command of the havior havion him bim himself eif elf if all the ministers of f all the church 3 would do their duty and de bline eline to 0 ste ate when the thet union 15 is 15 isa a adulterous dult erous the power and the influence of 0 the tho churches brought to bear would aou oon correct popular sentiment and sweep from the tiler statute books such stich wicked and immoral legislation as is now found in the alws 13 of the states staten and the united states on the subject of divot divorce et I 1 glaim no right to lecture either the churches or chrls tuu tun try but as a senator and as a citizen I 1 feel it my duty and my right here an aud elsewhere to express freely army my lons ions on this va ya estt estl As it seems to me this departure by the states State sand and general government from the divine law is fast undermining the sanctity of the family ancl threatening wing qing the safety of society and the very verv existence of the state itself but how to suppress poly polygamy amy Is one of the greatest social problems of the day As I 1 have been quoting almost exclusively from froin new yew england authority as to the prevalence of bf this evil I 1 will now quote from another distie distinguished son of new yew eri Eti england gland giand as aa to the in utah the lev bev rev henry ward beecher has lately mely visited the mormons cormons Mor mons in their homes und bind closely scanned their moden of life and their sister system dos nos of eb ecclesiastical clefas government in lil extracts from hig his speech which I 1 shall now naw read he refers to their lifland life ilfe and araci pric alees tices and theu then to the only r remedy which shick in his opinion can sup pres mormonism sni ile lie says r no matter what nhat the pmt amt wag was no matter who started it po no matter ou on what taise ground the question ise fsr s thero there blands the phenomenon of the nineteenth century what ii its power wherein does doea it cou con consist aust alst what 1 is i it doing it ma ia spiritual depot despot de pot lm im abAo absolute lute it la a founded on and ignorance absolute e jt it in ig founded on 8 literal acceptance of the 01 1 testament I 1 do not see gee how ik a sin klu verbal inspiration can throw atones stones at the mor mons are arm they so Is ia theold theola jestam testament nt saint faint ft N hat rort sort or b h fellow was kits solomon in all hia g lory glory he was not array MAY eq cd like one of these Mormon eim lim in n its re philosophy is simply the attempt to introduce in into modern economy the institution and beliefs of the osao esac mosaic period of 0 the i old testament of the orderly character ot of the mornion mormon people and of their morality he says sass aside from the spiritual question on my im hn preshion is that no more mote orderly city exists on this continent thain thau salt balt lake late city 11 1 I suggested to aw an anti antl mormon that the way to reach them was to have christian families of refinement and introduced among them whose example would be a perpetual testimony to thexor mon mou I 1 received a buirel buffet hoy hoj 1 1 I was waa told that the average gentile was iris not so eo high up morally as the mormons cormons themselves were and that in industry frugality truth speak ing ins temperance and chastity the contrast wadi waal in f favor tavor v of 0 the tho mormon people discussing tae remedy he addlie the following now kow the thet question estion comes ji 19 there any remedy I 1 anink ink there are two one is to let iet them alone and the other id ia to put them ie m to the sword let us ilys look at both af pf 0 of t them hem and ond first the edmunds bill was not only no disadvantage to the mormon church but a great advant advantages aget ager it lias hala drive driven rk in all ail the w ander andey cra era and consolidated them it has had mada made 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