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Show TIIE XOUHON-) OF AI'I0A. Tjif rucfcou, Arizona, SJarcoii-teins SJarcoii-teins the following remarks and clipping: The attempt to pass a Uw disfranchising disfran-chising the Mormons of Arizona with a view of following this law of dis frtnchisement with an enabling act, a limiting Arizona to Statehood, is not meeting with that eordul reception from the Itepubluxin press winch its promulgators anticipated The Florence Flor-ence JJmUrprtte handles the proposition propo-sition with a most commendable siiritofjustieeanicqnitv It says 'The prvositioa lo a4mit Aruoaa to Statehood conditional upon the outran eluseiacnt of the Mormons is repugnant lo tneaciuoot Ja&uceof iu people.and u tnoet aidcat adroeatci or -utc&ood prefer tosnStr under the preeeat iMhucal rji tcm lor )tirs to come rauter t&aa to f irtieipate in tbc bcncllu ani pntilerra ot .atebool tbroagb ach dishonorable ntiifis The Lniled i;Utes onstilntion guarantee?) l CTCrj iicrson the right or rrligiou freedom in its broadest sener. ad tho scheme to disfranchise a larpc proportion ot th voter of this Terri torv can be only rcardcil in the light of a perruu n. lint the motive of this movement s so apparent that no one can be decc ved. Ttc Morrao&a ol Arizona are nearly all Democrats and their distran chisejcent neans rtepnblican sccatori and representatives in Coaeress "Why cot eaact a law dufrinchi-lnj all Democrats at once and openly, and not dodxe lefaind a it msy cloak ot religion The propotiuoa is not aimed at the practice of polygaajv. fortte Mormons ot Arizona rarely pracrs-e tharvice; beide, ex itinp la rs arc ample to eoje wlui Uat crime TLe Mormons of this Territory are as a rnle its n.oU indastrlsns dtuens and their practical virtues are excxplary eaampics for emaUuen s a claa they siand head and shoulders above many others vrhose right to the elective franchise ts unices tioned.and ea long as theycontlune to wa a npnght ender the law ILey are en utled by constnuuonal right to all the pmile ,res of cctuenship. If the r distran cbKCBBtnt i to be the price ot our admission admis-sion to ttatcoood. in the name of common justice let us at trays remain a Territory " |