All that you say, regarding the excitement over the seating of your Salt Lake Senator, is quite true.
I have visited your city, and have made the acquaintance of many of your people, and I know the private life of the gentleman you sent to represent you in Washington is beyond reproach.
He is a good husband, a good father, a good citizen. He was born of a polygamous father and mother, and his childhood's home was a happy one. He was educated in the belief that it was wrong for a man to cohabit with any woman not his wife, but right for him to marry many wives.
He has not married many wives, however, and does not intend to. His private life, his domestic life and his financial record are all clean and clear of stain.
So much cannot be said of many other Senators and Representatives at our capitol.
Good women are horrified when seeking government positions to find how the sacrifice of virtue is demanded as payment for influence.
These statements cannot be evaded or denied. Let one who questions them investigate the conditions existing in Washington in the past and to-day.
What a record it would be were every girl and woman who had been led into the path of folly by married Senators and Representatives to come forth and tell her story!
There are clean, decent, high-minded men in both houses. There are good citizens, good patriots, good men there.
But so long as one married seducer and misleader of women retains a seat in either house unmolested, so long as one man stays who is unfaithful to his marriage vows, the opposers of the Senator from Utah should base their objections on other than moral grounds.