November i, 1912 



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Did "Populai' Sovereiiiiilv" aeltle it"? 



No. 



Did two iJolitioal parties that stood for 

 it for fifty years nettle it upon the basis 

 that it was rioht and could be regulated? 



No. 



When did you settle the slaverj^ question? 



When Lincoln came to the front and laid 

 down this great fundamental principle of 

 right and wrong, hitched those principles 

 up to a new political party and went to 

 Washington to take charge of the govern- 

 ment. And then, one day before Lincoln 

 died he signed his name to the thirteenth 

 amendment to the constitution, abolishing 

 slavery for ever in our whole nation ; and 

 then you settled the slavery question for 

 ever, didn't you? 



WHAT SETTLED THE POLYGAMY QUESTION. 



I said I was going to show you that this 

 doctrine is as fundamental as the constitu- 

 tion, on settling questions on the basis of 

 one standard of morals. 



"But," you say, "that was largely done 

 — i. e., the bossing of the job was done — 

 by the Republicans." 



How about the Democrats? 



It was onlj' a little while after, that the 

 Democrats adopted the same doctrine. Sen- 

 ator Edmunds, of Vermont, looked across 

 this country three thousand miles from his 

 home and saw an institution in Utah called 

 polygamy. He had learned at the feet of 

 Abraham Lincoln that you could not settle 

 a great moral question except upon the 

 basis of one standard of morals for the 

 lohole nation. One day he introduced into 

 the United States Senate a bill which be- 

 came known in history as the Edmunds 

 Law, which made it a penitentiary offense 

 for a man to have more than one wife at 

 a time. 



What did the Democrats do? Walked 

 right straight up and voted for it, just the 

 same as the Republicans. See what an 

 awful jolt Democratic "personal liberty'' 

 got when you would let a man have but 

 one wife at a time. 



After the law was passed, and oft"icers 

 were sent to Utah to enforce it, Brigham 

 Young protested: "Now, this is all wrong 

 to pass this law without our consent. Take 

 it back to Congress and have a referendum 

 put into it and submit it to a vote of the 

 people. Nine-tenths of the people out here 

 are in favor of polygamy, and what we 

 want is a chance to vote on it." ("Local 

 self-government," "popular soverfeignty," 

 "let the people rule!")' "In fact," he said, 

 "what Ave want out here is local option on 

 wives." Douglas wanted local option on 

 slavery, and Brigham Young wanted local 

 option on wives! 



What did the Republicans and Democrats 

 do? 



HOW THE UNITED STATES ABOLISHED 

 POLYGAMY. 



Submit it to a vote of the people? 



No. 



They said "Lincoln taught us the doc- 

 trine of one standard of morals for the 

 whole United States. Polygamy is wrong, 

 and it is wrong in every township under 

 the American flag." And they left the law 

 there and said: "You get right up to that 

 law or you will get into the penitentiary." 



But Brigham Young cried: "You can't 

 enforce j-our old law. Nine-tenths of the 

 people out here are in favor of polygamy, 

 and are against your law." 



What did you do thenf 



Let me tell you one thing you didn't do. 



You didn't turn the enforcement of the 

 law over to Brigham Young. 



You passed an act of congress provid- 

 ing that the President of the United States 

 should appoint all the officers of the courts, 

 and the President apj^ointed Judge Zane, 

 of S})ringfield, 111. — sent him out there to 

 be United States Judge. He got a United 

 States District Attorney from Maine, and 

 a United States Marshal from California. 

 He didn't api^oint anybody to run that 

 court who had ever been contaminated by 

 living with the Mormons. 



These officers went out there to do their 

 dutj' ; and one day Judge Zane called his 

 court to order and said : "Mr. District At- 

 torney, are there any cases to be tried?" 

 The District Attorney said: "Yes, your 

 Honor; John Smith, for having tw^elve 

 wives." The Judge said : "Call a jury." 

 And they got twelve men in the jury box, 

 and the defendant's attorney looked them 

 over and said: "Now, may it please the 

 court, this is not fair. Every man on that 

 jury is a Gentile. There is not a Mormon 

 in the box." So they challenged them and 

 excused them, and got those twelve off 

 the panel, and got twelve more. They 

 looked those over, and they were all Gen- 

 tiles — not a Mormon on the jury. 



You see, it happened this way : The 

 United States Marshal put the names in the 

 box ; and when he oame to nine Mormons 

 who were opposed to the enforcement of 

 the law, he left them at home with their 

 numerous wives and children, and put the 

 one Gentile on who had only one wife 

 to leave at home. And under that system 

 he sent over one thousand of the Saints (?) 

 to the penitentiary. 



PROHIBITION IN THE CONSTITUTION STAYS 

 PUT. 



Well, they left the law there in Utah, and 

 it is the standard of morals to-day in the 



