Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1901 — Few-Line Interviews. [ARTICLE]

Few-Line Interviews.

Chauncey I*. Overfield of Halt Lake City—Outside of Halt Lake City, iu the rural districts, polygamy is being practiced by the Mormons in Utah almost as much as it ever was. Polygamy is not extinct in Utah. The younger generation does not practice it so much. I might say for them that they do not as a rule, hut their fathers do. In Salt Lake City liot over 45 per cent of the population is of the Mormon faith, but outside tho Mormons dominate the towns, and they make up between 70 and 75 per cent of the people. They send Mormons to the State Legislature, and everything is of that church. The men will have their wives iu different towns, many miles apart. The wives may not, and probably do not, know where their consorts reside.

11. B. Ilickox of Ottawa, Kan.—As long as the government licenses the sale of liquor I don’t rco why it Is not legal. But, come to think of it, there may i>e n constitutional question involved in that it may he questioned whether or how far the general government has the right to recognize as legal a traffic in n State which that State says is illegal. Senator-elect Joseph It. Burton of Kan* sns—lt is a matter of surprise to the people of Kansas that so much notice is paid to Carrie Nation by .the Eastern papers. She’s a molehill in Kansas, and a towering peak in New York. We have put the lrndge of illegality on the saloons In Kansas, and When the people get tired of having them they can close them up. Congressman Littlefield of Maine— Culm is n foreign country mid as such we have no right to prescribe limitations in drafting its constitution. Legally, I do not see that Congress has uny power to modify, reject or amend in any way the Cuban constitution. The Teller resolution is binding upon Congress, and I believe that Congress should stand by its pledge. I should very much like to see Cuba and the United Htntes on very Intimate terms, but there can lie no such thing as a dependent and independent government.