Show IN CANADA A bill w was as passed recently in the canadian northwest A assembly embly empowering the incorporation of tile file president and nigh high council of the AH arta stake ot zion the report as printed by the lethbridge news dated dm dec 15 was to a latter day saint S lant highly amusing and displayed marvellous marcellous marv ellous ignorance on the part of a majority maj rity Arity of the members of tho the asselt ly regarding the mormons cormons Mor mons but in one particular they all agreed that tile the mormons were desirable settlers the bugaboo will ch frightened some of the members was polygamy they seemed to have an idea that the mor mons would transform her Maje Do dominion minori canada into one vast harem they may set their minds mind at rest polygamy is as dead in utah as tile the proverbial herring violators of the law are arc to be found in utah as elsewhere but transgression is not condoned by tile the church authorities one of the members of the house of assembly 9 mr clink skill asked tile the leader it if Norino mormonism nisin was a christian religion mr haultain sald said that as far as lie he kne knew w it was polygamy was not a tenet of mormon religion it was introduced trod by brigham young for political purposes this is something for us to ponder over it certainly sounds very strange to latter day saints who believe polygamy was instituted by revelation from god and abolished by the same means |