Show ED editorials ITO RIALS IDAHO legislature i I 1 FROM t the he bolso boise idahoan ot of the uit we learn that up to that time the legislature was still ina lna in a conal condition tio n of internal hostility the tho house belog being divided against itself on a party line twelve democrats against twelve republicans with two additional xa embers members not recognized nihed by the latter bu but t accepted by the former giving the democrats a majority and this seems to be the tho th e root toot of the trouble A committee of tha democratic ring composed of george Chap chapins ln S 0 C rich and H J G maxtin mason have issued an address illel to L 0 the citizens of idaho which is published in the above paper from this it appears that on the inato last at noon the time appointed for the opening of the legislature fourteen Democrat democratic ia members and one republican were present inside the bar and two minu minutes teki afterwards by the clock in the hall ball prepared p by the secretary of the territory the clerk of the previous house called to order the tenth session of the legislature of idaho A temporary speaker was wa selected elected wl with th other necessary officers onn off leers and a committee on credentials appointed when the house was being called to order several beveral republican mem bers bera gerein antt and around the doorway and were invited to come inside the bar to td participate in the edinge instead of doing so ono one of them entered and le daway the only republican member who was there homer and woodward of oneida county held no certificates but produced documentary evidence which satisfied the committee that thoy they were duly elected and they were allowed to take their seats no other credential ilahi having been offered after they had bad been publicly called for in their order half an hour after aba hau rau bouse house was calcai to eo order the ke publican members entered in a ir body and commenced to interrupt and on being called to order arose and filed out the house proceeded to a permanent the fourteen Democratic members being present and they have since bince met and adjourned from time to time to tp give the other members an un opportunity port unity of participating in tn the business but the republicans hold aloof pretending that the house was called to order before 12 and protesting to the council counell against the proceedings and hence the deadlock the address shows that throwing out tho fraudulent returns from raft river ross rosl fork and oneida precincts thu the evidence proves that homer and woodward were clearly elected by a large majority at raft river none odthe of 1 the legal formalities were attended to and a list of names was forged on the poll book at ross roas fork and oneida the election was held on the fort hall reservation n the votes jn in these three places werle therefore void this was an old rick trick of the oneida ring which did tild no well on this occasion we give these particulars as they will prove of interest to our friends in southern idaho and will show them that the democratic party of idaho evidences a disposition to sustain them thorn in their rights we hope the legally organized house will hold to its colors aud and not yield to the nefarious nor ner arlous plotters who have laid a scheme to hinder pec necessary enary emary legislation for the ibe people in the southern martof the territory but will cleave to ithe the right under all circumstances and fear fe arlesa lesi vf of every consequence A CHRISTIAN MINISTERS thanes thanksgiving GIVING thebe la ii a person living in abis this city by the n name i ame of wc eldowney mceldowney who is connected wit with h the methodist cause and acts as aitor of the rocky mountain christian tian advocate he delivered a discourse at the union n thanksgiving services in Presbyterian the tha church in this city which is reported in full in the above named paper the meeting was held simply for thanksgiving to god for his mer cles cies but this malignant chrls christian could not even thank god without venting tenting his hia bitterness of spirit in regard to the latter day saints here Her earea are aie a few quotations flom from his thanksgiving discourse utah should rank malt first amongst the pacific states of america I 1 yet utah la Is under the ban of public opinion its ita name is a synonym for lawless mess ness pollution and family degradation it la Is repelled from the fraternity of statehood by its ita uncleanness ita its record of crime and blood and its polygamy X webre weare we bre are told that mor Wor mormonism monism has converted the barren slopes and sage brush plains of this territory into rich and productive fields of grain grasses and fruits and hence holds a prior and special claim to these lands lauds the plea is not well made biad blad a christian settlement entered emigration panon C anon and located these valleys utah would have been vastly richer and happier in all elements of a true civilization mormonism has repelled the honest yeomanry has refused a place to the miner manufacturer and intelligent home loving citizen it has claimed a monopoly of the mountain streams of the temple rocks and of the irrigated landai lands to the exclusion of other settlers settle rb against the advocate c of a free ballot and independent citizenship with equal laws jaws and privileges athas it has hns hurled its selfish impudent and ignorant retort if they do not like things as they are let them clear tand ou has made the stay of honest men uncomfortable these are the words of a christian minister called upon to speak an the goodness of that being from whom all blessings flow as a causo cause for devout thanksgiving I 1 he mingles falsehood with his hia praise and spits out vile epithets against a portion of the human race while proclaiming them all the children of a common eatherl if utah has a bad name abroad who are lo 10 to blame for it but just such tors toys as this pretended christian who continually bear false witness I 1 against and what does he mean by nis his ravings raving tf adu aou cla a christian settlement entering a canon and his silly objection to the claims of the early settlers of utah does he be mean to say they did not convert the barren slopes Y and sage brush brueh plains of this territory I 1 into rich and productive v e fields etc etca if it they did not who did what whit has any one of his 0 own wn f fraternity ra done towards this work or indeed any other kind of work except plate passing subscription list begging lying about the mor mons and fraternizing with avery every one drunkards whoremongers anci and infidels included that would join in efforts to break up the community who have made it pos possible sibie sible for him and his kind to live in this mountain region and alad we tv would like ilke to ask who has haa a better right to the lands which have been redeemed from the solitude and ate sterility of centuries Ithan than the people who reclaimed them if it he wants to tefol reform rn and go to work and earn an honest living instead aid sid of spending hla hia time in attempts to vilify and fiest destroy roy those people who is to hinder him he can become a yeoman a miner or manufacturer and possibly aan lan an intelligent and home loving citizen and neither mormonism nor the I 1 mormons cormons Mor mons will lay a straw in hi hl hilway sway bat if he thinks as is implied in his complaint about the monopoly of streams temple rocks and irrigated lands rands that the lawful owners thereof ought to make him or any aby other stranger a present of the results jesuits of their hard tolls toll toil ho he shows either childish folly or impudence worthy only of a western Metho methodist itinerant this Is the logic ot 0 these men who stand up in pulpits and fulminate untruths un truths against the mormons Mor mons in nahe the t name of the lord these who are in the majority ritY will not yield up their rights of property possession supremacy in local poll poli polities elcar and objectionable paints of their religion to the minority therefore they are controlled by ca a degrading and lind bigoted friesth priesthood 0 od are selfish ignorant and impudent they claim a cinon monopoly of what they have gained by hard bard labor and ought to be harassed and defamed and broken up by the strong arm of the law there Is not a right to tn which men are entitled in any territory of tho the united states that Is denied to these persons who clamor so much about mormon monopoly 1 they are as free to vote as the I 1 69 mormon 11 if their number sare aare bare insufficient to control elections are their rights abridged they are as free to preempt pre empt unoccupied land as the mormons cormons Mor mons but should they expect to enter upon the irrigated ted lands that mceidowney mceldowney aks talks about which have been brought under cultivation by tho cormons mormons Mor mons how did these become irrigated lands janda did not the 11 mormons Mor mons nayl nall make the canals and the ditches if it so have they not prior claims and should not those claims be respected mceldowney thinks not and therefore we are at liberty to consider that he is in sympathy with those pious christians who finding no unoccupied lands that suit til their air fastidious taste attempt to jump the claim of some mormon who has no ruta AUta kny uny is bound to respect all this outcry about monopoly of lands comes from rapacious persons who want to break through and steal from the cormons mormons Mor mons land that they will not acquire by honorable labor or obtain by honest compliance with the law in what other part of the united states would men like Me mceldowney Eldow be tolerated tedas as they are in utah they come here herb to a place e m made ade beautiful hywell bywell by well weil directed energy to a region in which they would woula have perished if the way had not been smoothed before them by mormon toil toll they cern commence mence at once to abuse the people who mum number ten to one of their opponents and a thousand to one of the kind of these malignant preachers these men by persistent begging gather means to build churches some of the money being contributed I 1 by the cormons mormons Mor mons then they take every opportunity to berate the mormons cormons Mor mons and particularly their leaders attribute to them the vilest motives invent baseless falsehoods for fon the purpose of ing hostility to them provoke thern them by every means at command seek to induce legislation to break them up hurl foul epithets against them misrepresent and ridicule their religious doctrines and ceremonies and while let lot alone to con lunue their diabolism under unde ri pretence predence pre tence of piety raise a howl bowl about being abridged of their rights if it Mormonism did not inspire its followers with the spirit of the utmost tolerance and forbearance would such men be allowed to continue their li bellous and seditious course would they be permitted to do so in any other part of the civilized world nut put no one prevents or resents their impudent and mendacious assaults they rhey are simply despised they are known to be the very small fry of their own society they continually exhibit their ignorance imperfect education and littleness of soul and are regarded simply as a low jow order of wasps who would take honey instead of working for it and sting the hands that gather it by honest industry let them buzz WOMANS WORDS comans womans words a very able paper published at washington D C ci in the interest of womans cause gause in politics as well as social life edited by theresa juan lewis and sarah A spencer has the following in its issue for january the fervent christian women who are petitioning congress for legislation to make effective the anti antl law of 1862 either do or do not sot know that they are asking congress to force mormon men to repudiate their wives and disown their children childred to make in utah an army of outcast outcasts and vagrants in the name of freedom and christian civilization if it they do know it they furnish a striking ii 11 of the rarity of christian charity under the sun their righteous t zeal is needed nearer home if they do not know what they are asking and who will be the sufferers we commend their attention to the touching address made by cultured conscientious mormon their recent conventions 11 we will say bay for the information of the editors of comans TF omana thorda that those fervent christian women are mere tools in the hands bands of unscrupulous scheming men some 0 of whom are thorough infidels and others professing christians who fabricate the grossest falsehoods about the latter day saints and get these fervent christian women to adopt mad and utter them whereupon they are telegraphed over the country and published by the press as facts the statements and appeals of cultured and conscientious mormon wives have no effect upon the scoundrels who are plotting for the breaking up of in utah and the fervent christian women have allowed themselves to be pushed too far forward to recede now from their false and disagreeable position that christian wives and mothers can lend themselves to such an inhuman and inexcusable scheme for the purpose of bringing suffering and distress upon thousands of devoted women and thousands more ot of innocent children and assist in the propagation of such gross and abominable falsehoods as appear in the addresses and resolutions prepared sor jor them ahm i is passing strange wand wano nd a remarkable illustration ot of the spirit of intolerance that still burns against unpopular creeds and of the pious disposition to be voluntarily blind to the meang so long as the end is accomplished othe HE CURSE OF TWO continents 11 WE clip the annexed from the se ee lings grove piu pa pil times of jan sinco since the supreme court of the united states has decided that the act of congress prohibiting p lyly 9 jy gamy Is not unconstitutional 4 anany any persons maybe may be anxious be 68 informed what particular part pait of the constitution authorizes either congress or the Su supreme count court to abolish or prohibit polygamy we have scanned it carefully and have utterly failed fog foJ folind ind in that embodiment ol 01 our government any pro whatever in regard to polygamy gamy or any otiler other system of bf I 1 the marital relation between man and nd we have not seen the opinion of the tho court which no doubt contains at least a predence pretence pre t tence ence enco to justify y 1 its ts de decision cliton but bui no matter what h at the pretence pre pro tence is if it must be foun founded dedin in bre prejudice judice political dem or that obedience which men in power yield to popular prejudice bue ine dice diee whether tight right or wrong er lilke ine or J aage of williamsport William sport in k the stack caselt could not have been based on the american idea of true liberty of natural right and conscience but has its base in blue presbyterianism and blue bellied puritanism the curses of two continents that have been the constant source of man inhumanity to man maa causing countless thousands to mourn 21 the writer may well have looked in vain for any power in the constitution ution to legislate against polygamy the prepare rs of that document intended to leave the people in id various parts of the union to regulate their own domestic insel institutions to suit themselves there is nothing about marriage in the constitution for at the time of its adoption marriage was recognized as a religious ordinance and the framers of that sacred instrument designed to protect all religious rites from governmental ence enee and the supreme court in rendering its decision had to go a long way outside of the corb CoRa constitution titu and resort to round about reasoning in order to make any show of argument 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