Polygamy, and More by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 15, 1899

Polygamy, and More

By Editor

Polygamy, and More.—We do not believe in polygamy. We do not see how the United States House of Representatives can do otherwise than to refuse Mr. Roberts, representative-elect from Utah, a seat in that body. He is a legitimate result of the union of Church and State which exists in Utah and will exist as long as the Mormon Church holds the power. But we wish to suggest that there is a greater evil threatening America than polygamous Utah, and that is a general union of Church and State, for which pre-eminently the Roman Catholic Church has ever stood sponsor, and which many professedly Protestant bodies are blindly following. The Catholic Church is now advancing to her goal in this nation through the favor of press and politicians with wonderful strides. These "Protestants" who are working for a religious amendment to the Constitution and a national Sunday law are furthering the aims of Rome. And this constitutes a peril to the Republic, the Government, the nation, a hundred-fold more dangerous than the perils of polygamy. Let those who love liberty consider this.