Show B H ROBERTS ADDRESS in which he said polygamy is still a principle salt lalie utah june 10 A sen national sat lonal ional feature of the con controversy controvert trover jy which has been waged between the ministers of the evangelical churches and the mormon priesthood was tho the address delivered in the tabernacle yesterday by elder brigham H roberta roberts once excluded from econ congress gress because of his bis polygamous practices he spoke in reply to an all open letter published by the ministerial association elder roberts frankly declared that the church had surrendered not one lota iota of its belief in the principle of polygamy but countenanced no polygamous marriages while they wore were forbidden by law of himself ho he said 1 I stand exactly where I 1 did ten years ago namely that though the church proclaimed against the continuation of this relationship though the state mate proclaimed against it neither the church nor the state may absolve the moral obligations I 1 am under or release me from that moral duty I 1 air roberts characterized the ministers as az belonging to a third sex neither male nor female and said they were better qualified for pink teas than statesmanship all of the high of tho the church including president smith aeu were present and tacitly endorsed the aLl address dress of mr roberts as an utterance of tha the church body bady I 1 I 1 |