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GEORGES & SON, 1015 Pe. are Houm, 6 te norte Foot Specialists, Sundays, 9 to 12. p= No blood BLERY MAKES OMPOUND PEOPLE « “WELL. se20 4.3 3-WALTER'S HEADACHD PO’ BB ‘4 positive cure tor headache: 8 ponders, 3 cures; 10 cents. 8-3-3 a the ‘Try the 8-8-3. Your druggist sells them. 2 THE EVENING STAR, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1898-16 PAGES, REFORM SCHOOL “of Trustees. THE AGGREGATE NOMBER OF INMATES" Receipts and Expenditures, With Estimates for Appropriations. ————-—_-—_ AMOUNT OF EARNINGS Col. Cecil Clay, president of the board of trusiees of the reform school, has maie his annual report to the Attorney General, fully reviewing the year’s work. It is as foliows: “In accordance with law, I have the honor to submit the report of the board of trustees of the reform school of the Dis- trict of Columbia for the fiscal year 1898. At the beginnirg of the fiscal year there were in the schol 224 boys; there were r ceived during the year 130, a total of 354, as against 344 for the previous year. Ninety of those received were committed by the Police Court and thirteen by the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia; sixteen by United States courts outside of the Dis- trict, and eleven by the president of the board of trustees. “There were discharged during the year eighty-five by order of the trustees, twelve by expiration of sentence (United States courts), two by order of court, one by transfer to the insane asylum, one by par- don of the President of the United States, and four escaped and are still absent, leav- ing in the school June 30, 1898, 249. "There were ro deaths during the year. and the general health of the inmates was and is food. “An accompanying table shows the esti- mates of appropriations for the next fiscal year, ending June 30, 1900, which, under the law, have been submitted to the Com- missioners of the District of Columbia for irsertion In the act making approprtations for the District. The amount appropriated for salaries for the present fiscal year was $16,242. The amount of the present esti- mate for salaries is $16,452. Under the laws governing the reform school, officials and employes, other than those whose salaries are fixed by law. are appointed and their compensation fixed by the board of trustees, subject to’ the ap- proval of the Attorney Goneral. The dif- ference between the amount appropriated for the present fi ar and the amount estimated for the due to the fact that Congress failed to appropriate suffi- cient to pay the salaries as fixed under this law. Six watchmen are authorized, whose salaries have been fixed at $22.5) a month, a gross amount for the year of $1,620, while Congress only appropriates $1410, an amount which would make the monthly salary $19.58 1-8. Support of Inmates. “Tho amount estimated as necessary for the support of inmates is the same as was appropriated for the present fiscal year, and hes been appropriated for a number of years past, although number of boys has been constant ng. From 1884 to 1888 the amount appropriated annually for the support of inmates was $25,000, the average number ef boys being 158. Since 1888 the annual appropriation has been $26,000, and the number of boys has steadily increased, until there were 249 at the close of the fisca! year 1898. The estimate for the eqnstruction of an assembly hall, at a cost of $0,774), is the same as was submit- ted for the year 1898, when the following reasons were given he erection of a chapel building. for which an estimate of is submitted, is not urged as a but as being ad- visable. Reli are held at the school ever: which of nece y have to be held in the school room of the main building, where. naturally, they @> not have the same effect that y would have if held in a building designated for that special use, because of the boys’ fa- miliarity with the surroundings t constant week-day association: an tlonal reason being found in the insuffi- ciency of the school room to accommodate, n addition to the boys, the other persons-— employes of the school, of course, and cit- izens—who attend, the former regularly, and the latter frequently in large numbers. Such a building would undoubtedly be of very great service in carrying out the real object of the si “With the Incre: of boys the erection of such a building has become more nearly a necessity, and was so appar- ent to the Joint select committee of Con- gress appointed to investigate the charities and reformatory institutions in the District of Columbia that In its report, dated March 21, 1808, it said: ‘Tne board of trustees has also recom- mended an appropriation for an assembly ball or chapel structure. There is now an urgent need for such a building, and the board and the committee believe that it should be provided as soon as financial con- ditions warrant the expenditure.’ Division Into Families. “Under the system upon which school is run the inmates are divided into families not intended to number over fifty boys, and @ separate building {s provided for each family. The population of the school on June 30, 1898, was 249, distributed in four family buildings, making an average of between sixty and seventy in each building. As there is a steady increase in the number of inmates, the erection of another family building is’ now a necessity, as the popula- tion of the schocl warrants It, and by the time it can be erected the population will be still larger. Not long ago it became necessary to inform the courts of the Dis- trict that no more boys could be received at the school for want of room, which, of course, necessitates their being sent eise- where, perhaps to the jail, where they are in contact with criminals and not under the kind of treatment intended for juventle pet- ty offenders. An appropriation of $20,000 has been submitted for a new building, be- ing the same amount that was appropriated for the last family building. “There has been turned into the treasury to the credit of the United States and the istrict_of Columbia jointly the sum of $3,285.74, derived as follows: From the pa- per-box factory, $2,700; sales from green- houses, $23: of surplus farm prod- ucts, $97.15, and from miscellaneous sources, $2 In last year’s report it was stated that ‘the board has always been of the opinion that such part of the boys’ time as is given to work other than in the schoolroom should be devoted as far as possible to receiving instruction in such handicrafts and manual Health Depends chiefly upon the condition of the stomach. If the stomach is not per- forming its proper functions, you cannot enjoy good health. The genuine Johann Hoff’s Malt Extract, when taken with meals, will aid the stomach to perform its duty—keep it in good order, and thus enable you to secure the full benefit of your food. Prof. Pietra Santa of Paris writes: “As a large number of patients lack the necessary power to digest solid food, and would through the use of stimulants be merely excited and weakened, therefore I regard it of immense value to the practitioner to bring to his aid a nutritious tonic and remedy like Johann Hoff’s Malt Extract, which will act not only as a tonic, but as a nutrient as well, and which is less exciting than wine as a stimulant.” Ask for the genuine Johann Hoff’s Malt Extract. All others are imita- uty, without th node The lopa ersten ‘of man which the acti Sith Lae heel Te bullding used en e carpenter shop was an s Talsed 00 08 10 tive the aie of'h basement story 7 aepeeh Be. aa ieee manual aS e@ upper ny, as bakery balding the main fioof of the ca ter shop, thug giving room for an in- cre number of boys. Earning Discharges. “The board repeats in what has been aid in several of its geports: “Under the present! law governing the reform school it is proyided: “ ‘Bec. 9. That every boy sent to the re- form school shal) remain until he is twenty- one years of age, unless sooner discharged or bound as an apprentice; but no boy shall be retained after the superintendent shall haye reported him fully reformed.’ “Under the system. of instruction and of honor badges and promotions adopted by the board, it is possible for a boy to earn his discharge inside of two years, pro- vided he be, so far as the superintendent is able to judge, sufficiently reformed to come within the meaning of the section quoted. When discharged the board has no further control over him. The board has been for years of the opinion that the discharge from the school should be a limit- ed, not an absolute one; that Congress should be asked to. provide by legislation for such control by the board of trustees of the boys after discharge as will enable it to reclaim and return to the school any boy who, by his bad conduct, shows himself amenable to recommitment. As long ago as the first session of the Fiftieth Congress, in 1888, Congress was asked to legislate in this direction, and a bill was favorably re- ported in the House at that session, but not passed. The board thinks that Con- greas should, at its next session, be asked to pass a bill giving the board authority over she boys after discharge, and will be glad to have your approval of the matter and some mention of it In your annual re- port to Congre: Permanent Improvements. “In addition to the ordinary repairs to buildings and the care of personal property and grounds, a good deal has heen done in the way of permanent improvement during the year. The steam-heating system has been extended to the carpenter and manual training shops, and the drainage system from these and the main workshop over- hauled and improved. Closets with im- proved ventilation have been placed in the main workshop building and in ‘vo of the family buildings. B family building has been painted throughout, together with the floors in the boys’ dining room and large school room used for a chanel. A new metal ceiling has been placed in A family school room, Repairs to the roofing on several buildings have been made. Four hundred and fifty panels of picket fence have been rebuilt, and other interior fettces on the farm repaired. Such repairs as were necessary have been made to the workshop, barn, boilers, boiler house, pumping ap- paratus, green houses, &c. Sewers have been kept in order, and the roadways re- surfaced, rolled and drained. Wherever the services of the boys could be made avail- able they have been employed in all of this work. There are submitted as exhibits to this report the reports of the superin- tendent, of the attending physician and of the treasurer of the school, the latter show- ing in detail the recejnts, and expenditures during the year. Report of Joint Committee. “The board takes pleasure {n calling at- tention to the report gf the joint select committee heretofore mentioned, in which, after saying that ‘the general management of the institution isin the Department of Justice, although it #s supported by appro- priations made in the District appropriation bill,” the committee says: “The school is in so excellent a condition, and so ably man- aged with such good results. that the com- mittee deems that it would be unwise to make any change whatever in its control; further than that, {f,the geucral system of organization shall be adopted, the school should have whatever advantages may arise from being a part»f the general sy tem.’ Also to the statement made further on, that, ‘the reform school for boys’ nas been able to control'its {inmates without duress or any form of conlinement,’ which is very gratifying in view of the excellent discipline maintained at the school and the good results from the training given ther as shown by the conduct of the boys ir discharge.” SANDY SPRING. Dr. Mahlon Kirk of Woodburn was hest of the Senior Club at its last meeting, all the members and numerous guests being present. ‘The walk around the farm was of especial interest from the extreme neatness of every part of the em- fses and the evidence of the excellent care taken of stock and the unusually large flocks of poultry, a greater variety being kept ou this place (han op any other for miles around. One hundrd and fifty Peking ducks gave a chorus of welcome, which will long be remembered by those not 2c. customed to such volume of ciub adjourned to the reside le, who, being at a Ccistanc always invites bis fellow agric Irstead of to tea at this ,seasoi Mr. Amos T. Holland of Norwood trans- fer his farm of 118 acres to his sister, Mis Lewis Steer of Philadelphia, who, with hcr hus- band, will now Hve with Mr. Hollan Mrs. Robert M. Mackall and daughter have left for their new home at Culpeper, Va., where Mr. ‘kall will engage in farming for ‘bis brother: inlaw, Mr. Jobuson, of that place, Chgrles Iddings attended the wedding of fe Kirk in Mrs. Miss Bessie Rust and Herbe phia Tuesday, and she will b weeks with relatives in Massa Puiladel- Mrs. George F. Nesbitt Is in} John ©. "Bentley and son have been for th week with Mrs, Joseph M. Shoemaker and P. Brubaker of Philadelphia. The Miss are the guests of Miss Agnes Bryant of Al Miss Rebecea T. Miller, who has been for with friends in the vicinity of Boston, is Miss Juliet Leonard at Fairhaven, Ma; expected home shorth Miss Clara A. Moore of Alexandria is with Mrs, Harry W. Davis, and Miss Mabel Gray of Washing: ton with Mrs, Henry H. Miller. Among those who have recently been here for a short time were Mr. John Macdonald of Nathan H. Balle of New Wind-or, . Tschiffely of Hunting Hill, Chester Tyson and Miss Naomi Lee Spicer of Baltimore. ‘Mr. Woodnut Barcroft, a former resident of Sandy Spring, but now of Harford county, spent a_ few days with old acquaintances here recently, It is said Mr, Barcroft, whose parents were from Eng-\ land, has fallen heir to a considerable fortune in Great Britain since he moved from this coun ‘The horticultural and domestic soctety known as “the Neighbors’? was entertained by Mr. and Mrs. wton Stabler Wednesday, J. Janney Shoemaker presided. Miss Sarah T. Moore was secretary, and the guests were Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Hail well, Mrs. Asa M. Stabler, Mrs. Samuel M. Jan- ney, Mrs. Robert H. Miller, Frank H. Hallowell, Mortimer 0. Stabler and the Misses Ellen Far! qubar, Edith Hallowell, Mabel Gray, Elfzabeth and Lizale Stabler. Adjourned to Marden, the home of the Misses ‘Tyson. Olney Grange proposes to celebrate its twenty- fifth birthday In December, and Mr. Allan Farquhar has been asked to prepare’a paper for the occasion. GAITHERSBURG. Gen. Allan Ratherford; wetit recently to Atlantic City to take a rest, initheshope of regaining his beelth. at Perry Tyler, a young folorég man, was kicked by a horse, and received Sqjuries which proved fatal, recently. a>) Contractor Hezekiah Day ff erecting for John H. Burris & Son a large shop oh: Fiederick avenue. ‘The Methodist churches ofthe town will hold a union Thaaksgiving sewnice at the M.\E, Church South ‘Thuradgy morning 34. 10:80 o'clock. Hey. iam 8. erman, paston worth + Church, wiil presch thet sermon, lagen Eh Mr. Zadock Case, sm old fesident, was stricken with paralysis recently,.Dut 3 now improving. Mr. Edwin W. Monday, a prominent school teacher of Laytonsville,-and Miss Bessie Hughes of Germantown were martied. at the residence of the bride's parente Thuredily®aPlernoon at 3 o'clock. Rev. L. L. Lloyd performed #he ceremony. ‘Master Claude Owen, son df Mr. and Mrs. Thos. destoun blauy trouble axe Weshtoreteist S serious rouble ai ‘on hospital. Gradual improvenent has-been noted, Pal: A ss ew RANDOLPH. Mr. Lewis Keiser and bride have returned from their wedding trip snd are housekeeping at Be- thesda. 2 ‘A successful “‘harvest"* festival was held at Mt. Zion Baptist Church recently. Donations were gen- ercusly made to the Old Ladies’ Baptist Home, and Pastor G. W. McCollough made it the occasion of a special addresa tp the children of his congrega- tion. Good muste avas:a feature of the program. Mr. Wm. Rabbitt/bas qualified @ postmaster at Beane, vice Bernard Rabbftt, “s Mrs. Frank Brown bas -returned_ to Baltimore, having spent a week with er niother, Mrs, Heater els. = a3. 8 oo Messrs, Actht Wat arate rtsa mekot were sa quests. of sec Leneesee . = 3 ‘Mr, Edward Magruder hag leased the, Baker prop- exty ‘and itn ible tanaiiy ergs Deut residence. oscdhad td “aeater aco turned to Rar fog the winter, dies IN DEFIANT MOOD Attitude of the Mormon Oharch in Regard to Politics, OWN BY ELECTION OF ROBERTS ——.—___ Important Statement of a Grand- son of Brigham Young. eee PROBLEM OF POLYGAMY —— Bugeno Young in the New York Herald. Mormonism has thrown down the gaunt- let to the nation. In the election of B. H. Roberts to Congress the Mormon people have not only flaunted polygamy in the eyes of the churches that so long fought the practice, but have given notice that only those who are faithful to the decrees of the priesthood can hope to become pow- erful in Utah. Both the solemn promises on which statehcod was granted have been thrown back mockingly to the American People. With franchise, prestige and prop- erty restored, the so-called Latter Day Saints have established their hierarchy in the midst of the republic, and are preparing to enter upon their promised heritage of the governments of all the world. A high church leader who still practices polygamy and who upholds the right of the priesthood to dictate in polities has been elected by the men and women of Utah, with a half challenge for the House of Representatives to unseat him. The na- tion, in fact, is called upon to face the Mormon problem again, and this time with the belligerent people intrenched behind all of the safeguards which the Constitu- tion has thrown about the state. Problem for the Nation. The problem is not merely a moral one which we ean leave to the other churches, nor a local ore which we can shift to the people of the west, but is national in all the sense of the word. Already Utah's two seats in the United States Senate are at the disposal of the- Mormon Church leaders. Idaho has learned that it can- not fill its seats in the game body without giving recognition to these same spiritual potentates. Wyoming, in its fiercest con- test, has found the Mormon legislators holding the balance of power in the state. Nevada on the west and Colorado on the east of Utah are being slowly invaded by au army of this people, which is creeping surely to their furthest boundaries and which in the near future must make itself of the greatest importance. Arizona and New Mexico, future states, do not hesitate to admit that the Mormon priesthood can govern the fortunes of the partles within their confines. Governmental control is no new ambition among the Rocky mountain saints. They were told when they were a mere handful, hunted from state to state, that one day they shovld rule America and from its capital extend their dominions throughout the world as the viceregents of God on earth. Joseph Smith, their prophet, in 1844, set himself up for the presidency, and contended that he had a right as the mouthpiece of God to give the law to the people of the United States. Prophets who have followed him have told their followers that power for them is not far distant and that they should prepare them- selves for the responsibility. Polygamy itself, in the doctrines of the church, is founded on the idea that the people shall multiply quickly in order that they may speedily extend their dominion. Roberts a Church Lender. In the election of B. H. Roberts the Mor- mon idea of power, and of the continuance of polygamy as well, finds its expression, for he has been the center of the greatest fight ever waged in the sect. He is not a politician. He has been a misisonary, a president cf elders in the church, and in late years its chief writer on theological matters. In fact, he was sent in 1894 to explain the Mormon faith to the congress of religions at the world’s exposition in Chicago. He found an opportunity to enter politics seven years ago. The Mormon presidency, yielding at last to national pressure, sol- emnly declared that there should never be an attempt to unite the church and state in Utah, and that the Mormons should be absolutely untrammeled in their political action. High leaders of the sect plunged into politics at once, and Mr. Roberts, who held himself as a democrat, except when the interests of the Mormons seemed to conflict with such an allegiance, espoused the cause of that party. But he was to learn that the presidency’s promise was not made in good faith ang to be the Instrument whereby the lesson that the priesthood was still m control was to be impressed not only on the Mormons of Utah, but on the Gentiles. Made to Bow to Priesthood Mr. Roberts was the democratic candidate for Congress in the first state election in 1895. He had been chosen by his party be- cause even then there had been “church in- terference,”” and he had stood out agat several of the powerful priests who had used their influence in favor of the repub- leans, and had shown a determination not to bow to ecclesiastical orders by opposing woman suffrage, the pet measure of the Mormon presidency. Nominated on the same ticket was Moses Thatcher, an apos- . regularly named as candidate for the United States Senate. He was also noted for his independence in the face of the priesthood, and it was on these two that the Hberal people pinned their hopes of keeping the church out of politics. In the last days of the campaign, however, a crushing blow fell upon them. In a secret meeting of the priesthood, gathered from all parts of Mormondom, the late President Woodruff condemned the two men for tak- ing their nominations without having first asked the consent of their ecclesiastical su- periors. x The condemnation feil like a blight on the democrats, for they knew that to many of the Mormons the word of Wilford Wood- ruff was the word of God. Extraordinary mcasures were taken to offset it. The state ecnvention of the party was reconvened and a sweeping set of resolutions, declaring that church and state must be fought, was adopted. Compelied Men to Change Politics. In these resolutions—adopted by a body of which two-thirds were devout Mormons— the statement was boldly made that high officials of the church had used their influ- ence in church meetings to compel the change of politics of their followers in order to divide the voters almost equally between the two parties and thus give the priest- hood the balance of power. Both Mr. Rob- erts and Mr. Thatcher warmly indorsed these resolutions and declared they should never allow their church superiors to have any voice in the control of their political actions. ‘They had overrated their strength. Both went down to defeat in the election, and the son of George Q. Cannon, the real ruler of the church, was given the senatorship to which Moses Thatcher had aspired. To the rebels went the word that they were not in accord with their brethren, and Mr. Rob- erts, who had gained his livelihood in church works, was compelled to seek an editorial position on the Sait Lake Herald, then the earnest champion of political free- dom. ‘Then the peculiar pressure of the Mormon priesthood was brought to bear on him. Its extent was revealed afterward in a se- Perhaps you use but little, but that little you want good, \ Le | i) RD bears the Government _ stamp of purity. Pure Water is as necessary to life as good food. possesses all the attributes of purity, flavor, and sparkle that go to make a perfect table water. Try a Lemonade made with LONDONDERRY ~ its life and sparkle will please you. eret meeting in Le which h been avoided for some time, the high church officials, been ‘ociated for 2 a “protr d effort” to had been wrong. but he at every point, and at last in which to with whe years. They mac show him that he combated th they gave } “think it ove again, but in the quoted language of Apo He- ber J, Grant, they “found his heart lke " though they prayed and wept over him Apostles Bring Pressure on Ri All his associates went to him in turn to move him, and when they found he still combated them, a committee of two apos- les, Heber J. Gran: and F. M. Lyman, was appointed to labor with him. They did this diligently. They wept and prayed with him, and he wept and prayed, too; and after the com- mittee had brought all the pressure of the church on him fer nine weeks, the story reads, “and told them he w ready to acknowledge his wrong, and would sign any paper they might ask him to sign, or do anything they might tell him to do. His dead relatives, he said—those wo Fad died outside the church—had appeared to him in a vision, and asked him to bow to the will of the authorities and retain his standing in the church, in order to do tem- ple work for their salvation.” He did sign a paper, for at the April con- ference of the church his name appeared ¢ the “new manifesto,” issued by the hii ecclesiastical officers, upholding the very action which the democratic convention had condemned. The liberal elements saw in this ecict the means whereby the church leaders could unerringly indicate their wishes to the pe: ple. Moses Thatcher refused to sign it, de- claring {t enunciated the principle that the hierarchy had a right to interfere with a citizen's exercise of his sovereign authority, and was deprived of his office as apostle for doing so. Open Fight on the Chare Mr. Roberts was compelled to re editorship because the newspaper on which he was employed announced that it would “rot concede to any church or the leaders thereof in this free state (admitted under the solemn pledge that it should remain free) that it or they may dictate or advise who of all its members may or may not engage In politics or become candidates for gn his office, for the acknowledgment of su right and the toleration of its existence wo sap the foundations of the free state. make it the tool of the church, and in the end turn it into the instrument of its paganda.”” PiGbon this bold declaration the democrats of Utah rallied for the campaign of 1806, casting Mr. Roberts aside as a traitor. The silver canvass aided the opponents of the hierarchy, and they swept the state with the greatest plurality in its history. congratulated themselves that they had crushed the church and state idea, they execrated Mr. Roberts and exalted Mr. Thatcher, but when the legislature met they were faced again by the old influence, and it proved powerful enough in their own ranks to defeat Mr. Thatcher for the sen- atorship. Mr. Thatcher found that promised to uphold him qua’ agents of the presidency. therefore, and last year abandoned his fight, submitted to a trial by the church authorities and acknowledged their right to exact his political obedience. Thus the priesthood eliminated the only remaining leader of their own people who could have successfully opposed their advance. Prophet Calls for Mormen Union. Only the democratic party remained to be conquered to give the presidency absolute supremacy. A decisive blow was dealt to it when its municipal ticket was defeated in Salt Lake City last year. The principal cause of the disaster was an address in the Tabernacle in Salt Lake City by the late “Prophet” Woodruff, in which he declared to the thousands of Mormons assembled in the big Salt Lake Tabernacle: “God Almighty requires you to unite to- gether; to unite in your temple work and unite in your politi The day has come when you must put aside your democracy and republicanism and as the Latter Day Saints unite, and you will not be taxed to death. This defeat shattered the last remaining force opposed to the church, and the con- clusive triumph was easy of accomplish- ment. Whispers went out through the state early this year that B. H. Roberts was to get his reward for his obedience to counsel. Then from regions where Mor- monism is strong came a “demand” for his nomination to Congress. W. H. King, the present representative, who found time last winter to leave his duties in Washington and preach Mormonism in Brooklyn, with- drew from the race. One by one such lead- ers of the party as were known to be good churchmen took up Mr. Roberts’ cause, and, despite a last desperate rally of those who had led the fight for political freedom, he was nominated overwhelmingly. Immediately it was openly charged that he was a defiant polygamist, who not only had not obeyed the law against living with the three wives he possessed already, but had married another after the anti-polyga- my manifesto was issued. As proofs of these charges it was declaged that one of his plural wives had borne him twins after statehood was granted and that Dr. Maggie C. Shipp, a woman physician of Salt Lake City, had changed her name to Roberts, and he lived at her house when in the state capital. These things were not denied by himself or his managers. This revelation came at a most unfortu- nate time for the church leaders, for they were =vidently totally unprepared either to enforce their own rule against polygamy or toe attempt to justify its practice. It brought to the front facts which showed’ that there had been no cessation of the practice in the church. Mr. Robarts’ parti- sans replied to the attack on him by saying that he was no worse than some of the candidates on the republican ticket, nor than the leading church authorities. Moreover, it was boldly charged that President McKinley had sanctioned the practice by appointing men to federal of- fice despite protests that they were still defying the law. ‘ Still Belleve in Polygamy. Probing de2per, tt was learned that in a quiet way polygamy was again being taught to the young people of the church through the Improvement Era, the organ of the young men's organizations. It was also remembered thet Angus M. Cannon, president of Salt Lake stake in the church —one of whose plural wives is now a state senator—had declared: “We still believe in the principle cf plural marriages, a8 we belfeve in the practicas of the patriarchs. You can’t change a people’s beliefs. But we submit to the lew.” A Mrs. Freeze, a leading woman of the church, in an outlying district def2nded polygamy last June as not only being right, but a divine command of God. Apostle ‘Woodruff declared at the same time that “the belief in polygamy is as much a part of the Mormon faith today as it ever was,” Se that the young people could not “deny is of thir belief without denying the prophet Joseph Smith.” President w himself, the “prophet” of the church, in September ,of this year de- eet “TI believe in the revelation giv>n to Jcseph Smith on celestial marriase, end those who had before the He lost heart, Cornwell & Son, Jobn H. Magruder, Awentn. | n, Utah, the report of | that under certain circumstances Latter hewn to be correct. Mr. | Day Saints would be doing no noral or re- ligious wrong in practicing plural marriage under divine sanction and r=lizious regula- tions.” Of greater importance was Mr. Roberts’ own expression in his New Witness for God,” published in 1805, which is indorsed by the heads of the church “In the life to come,” he explains when telling of man's place in the universe, “a man will build and inhabit, eat, Irink, es- scelate and be happy with friends, and the power of endless increase will coniributs to the power and dominion of those who at+ tain by their righteousness unto 3 privileges. What a revelation is here! Instead of the God given power of procreation being one of the chief things that is to pass away, it Is one of the chief means of man’s exal- tation and glory in that great eternity. Through it man attains to an endiess in- crease of eternal lives, and the right of presiding as priest and patriarch, king and Jord over his ever increasing posterity.” Power Gauged by Children. Frankly, this dectrine is that the more childrea a man has the greater he will be in the world to come, for he is to reign eternally over his posterity. Therefore Mr. Roberts, who has four wives and an in- definite number of children, will be mori powerful when he attains his godhead thi for instance, Senator Cannon, who has only one wife. Is it any wonder in view of these facts that the powerful element in the republi- can party in Utah should have found in Roberts’ polygamy the chief issue of the campaign? Their crusade was led by Judge C. C. Goodwin, who; as editor of the Salt Lake Tribune, had long fought polygamy. He frankly told the people that if Roberts were elected the people of the nation would believe the church leaders had been dishon- est in their promises, and that punishment would fall on the whole people. Governor Heber M. Wells, himself a son of one of Brigham Young’s chief leut ante, joined in this protest, declaring “A vote for Roberts will be a vote against Utah.” He uttered this warning to his fel- low church members “I am unable to tell what Congress may do in the matter as to whether he will be seated or not, but I feel sure that the ag’ tation of the question will be a very gr detriment to the state of Utah and to every interest of the people. Every financial in- terest here will suffer, every industrial en- terprise of the state will be more or less re tarded,the interests of the dominant chureh itself will be injured, and the liberties of the very class to which Mr. Roberts be- longs will be placed in jeopardy But despite opposition and warning the impression grew that the church officials desired the election of the democratic can- didate, and from the good Mormon districts came majorities which swept away all op- position, What part the women took in the el of course cannot be told, but the churd leaders have always counted with c dence on their s' port, and it has never been lacking. Sever of the prominent Mormon women openly supp: and declared his personal cha not in the balance, but the i of principle Congress w rted Roberts, acter wae we Was one 1 now be called upon to deal with the problem, for a contest of Mr. Rob- erts’ election is bound to be made, either by his opponents or by the chureh forces of Utah. It is doubtful whether the re lican candidate, Alma Eldredge, will to the occasion. He has always been a de- vout churchman, and there is good reason to believe t his nomination was pro- cured with the idea that he would not stand in the way of his ecclesiastical followers. He avoided the question of polygamy all ub- during his campaign. But Warren Foster, the populist candidate, pledged himself to carry a contest before the House of Repre- sentatives, and it is probab:e thai he will do so. He will be support element in this course, hurch peo- ple of the nation are beginning to see that Mormonism is still menacing, and that its progress must be c! i if it is not to spread its doctrines and influence through- out the Rocky mountain region, and per- haps throughout the halls of legislation. Already the strong Presbyterian confer- ence, having control over Utah, part of Wyoming and the greater part of Idaho, has called upon Congress to place befors the legislatures of the states a constitu- tional amendment providing that Congress shall have power to pass laws against polygai nd all forms of celestial mar- riage, and the Methodist and Congregation- alist organizations have taken less radical but decisive measures in the same Ine. Their action in the past has always aroused their eastern brethren, and is bound to do so again. —— ee Age Limit Doex Not Ap The Secretary of War has made a decision that the age limitation of thirty-five years does not apply in the cases of discharge volunteers who re-enlist in the regular army within three months after dis . The artist who is in search @ ,\ of attitudes descriptive of s @ torture, and s depicting 2 a need not go to the ‘hristian martyrs of old. If he could only see throngh the walls into tens of thousands of homes all over this land, he would see women undergoing tortures in silence without complaining, An one te \ brief ordeals of the martyrs pale into nothingness. No one but a woman can tell the story of the suffering, the despair, and the despondency endured by women who carry a daily burden of ill-health and pain because of disorders and derangement of the delicate and important organs that are distinctly feminine. One of the worst effects of troubles of this kind is upon the nervous system. The tortures so bravely endured completely and effectually shatter the nerves. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Pre- scription is an unfailing cure for all weak- ness and disease of the feminine organ- ism. It makes it strong and healthy. It allays inflammation, heals ulceration and soothes pain. It checks exhausting drains and tones and builds up the nerves. It fits for wifehood and motherhood. 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