Show editorials HOW THEY VIEW IT THE more the tho edmunds bill is canvassed the more it is disliked by thoughtful people who havo have any regard for the tho institutions on which depend the liberty of american citizens and the perpetuity of the american system of government tho the cnober sober second thought is coming to not a few of choso those who a short time ago agop caught in the wave of popular fury floated with the tho waters of passion and joined in the roaring outcry against the tho mormons cormons Mor mons they begin to see the wrong sought to be inflicted upon a pe peaceable amable community under cover of a specious plea and in the excitement aroused by bigotry and cupl cupi cupidity tilty in unholy al ilance alliano 3 the question may ba asked what good will this do now that the mischief has been wrought in the shape of special and oppressive legislation we answer it will prepare the public mind for the reception ot the truth and thi this swill will be the tho opportunity for its promulgation the business of the latter day sains gains is to present the truth of god as revealed in the present preterit age before tills this boastful but benighted gen generation cration the wrongs we have to endure the right which may ba wrested or withheld from us cut but an insignificant feature when our mission Is prominent before our minds we can call afford to suffer sussen wrong if in ju that su buffering suffering the opportunities are widened for the work we have to do and we bellave believe that this thia will be the case to a marked degree in the agitation which has been stirred up for evil purposes As indications of the sentiment prevailing already in many quarters we make tho the following clippings from eastern papers the boston Sta fennan tennan remarks tho abo springfield union returns to the tha quest question ion lon ol 01 democratic democrat lo action with respect t to we the anu anil polygamy bill aad says 4 wo we ar are e willing to bodero in democratic abhor renco or of snoe snoa atle demoOr democrats demo damo orata ats take tato eo 60 much pains to assert ashert it but if atey had originated and perfected any auy to put ua an ond cud to tho the evil when whan it was in their power to do bop sop so we should bavo have given thomm thorn more credit tor for good intentions asit As it la they are atthe at the rear of the tho great moral procession and oan can only vent rent meir weir chaben chasen chab chas en by making TA OW the republican parly party mui haa certainly bad more opportunities to originate and pe perfect r fact legislation against polygamy than th e democrats ever have had and what has it done dont at this late day it brings up a ve veny very imperfect billa which to sorco force through congress oa grebs gress without investigation or amendment and the tha union seems to assume that now it la Is passed polygamy Is 13 aa as good as stam stamped out col I 1 we in at tho the hp m tiro tive for lor r republican pu n activity vi in this matter as Us follows 0 ivero la not much good Et ealing stealing left in the gouth couth tio tho the nOrth northern eru CrU r tates states aw are retting setting decidedly uncomfortable fon tor public thieves and utah la is tho the only where good stealing may bo be found with a tair lair prospect ot success and andthil this the tha Union caus calls the una great moral ir it it a martof part vt tho the process proc proe esson on ot of public scandals wo we shall bo relieved but evon even then thon we do not believe wo shall owe either for the exemption or apologies loy lor ube the suspicion to those who showed tha the greatest zeal in attempting to drive tha through without debate v this ia Is from the tho utica 1 I NY y 05 06 gerver server ube uhe aull anti bul vilich which passed tho the incuse llodo yesterday la Is not a measure which reflects credit upon the tho intelligence ot of that thit dody body there are no two opinions amon amona among gour our people beope about polygamy as asa aaa a social feature wo ive are all agreed that thit it I 1 ia an ovll evil wiloh b bo be abated sowo aro are all agreed that b burglary arg lary iary is an evil which should be abated but II 11 our legislature passed a law empowering tho the utoca inspectors ot of elect election lon ion to ro fuso fuse che tte votes of all otti citi citizens zens zons whom they suspected of burglarious instincts wo we should all be agreed that it was a bad law much the same fame objection lios lies against tho the bill which was whipped whip pad paa through tho the housa yesterday under an alleged pres fres pressure suro ot of publio opinion tho republican papers havo hava howled EO loudly about Demo Democrat cratto lo ron ton duess duesi for roc polygamy that miny ot or our democratic members were dragooned for dortho tho the mit but to the tho accusation but while sentiment controlled tha the day at washing toul the tha people havo have stul eUll remaining the tha faculty ot of weighing things calmly and oa on their iogal legal merits and the they will not approve thia this wholesale invasion a of tho the rights or of american citizenship the fol foi folio wing loving are ate taken from a long editorial in the now york vun sum ao 70 we havo baid said that this thia act Is nobody probably voted tor for it under the impression that it was constitutional or that several beveral or of its provisions not in flagrant violation ot of tho the constitution As v U matter ot of principle how however evert this obvious circumstance would perhaps weigh welsh very little with tho authors or tho me asuro but when lu tha the course ot of years bho tha consequences como come to be reckoned up and charged changed to choir acco account unit they will percella per celva that this eort sort of legislation never 3 felds felds even partisan fruits ol 01 any value congress may mako malto needful rules and regulations ions for tho the territories but it must exer oiso ciso that t powe power rt as 03 well as all other others within the t r atio ns of tho the bill ot rights and the tho brit ten amendments nut out this act ace very neat nearly ly comes up to the tho description of a bill of attainder directed against tho the buli bali balte of ota osa a numerous and orderly community it alve men and their agents to be selected on account of ther their hostility to the concerned to to punish as nor tor crime ry by rm xan 4 tho abola or guy any por tion of lt it without presentiment indictment trial or conviction thia this Is a frightful power in the bands of tho the wisest and beat best of men meng it could not bs exercised without tho the infliction on of tho the grosset grossest gros set sst siet wrongs wron ss and la in the tto hands of buch such aa arc likely to have it he hereth bereth rothe rethe 9 possible abuses cannot bo be contemplated without deep concern these uno uro mea not net only determine who shall vote but they canvass tho the return returns si and ana nd declare tho result accordi according nr to their i plea ilea pleasure pleasure suro tho the avowed object of all wa la Is to procure cure a legislature com cow composed posed exclusively mallen rallen of alien adventurers to deal with tho people and property of this lonh long betted settled and wealthy n achy territory every man an charged with crime la Is on entitled titled to a wr anal by a J jury juny ury uny of his peers that Is to say by a jury of tho the vicinage of neighbors bo r who aro are neither friendly sri Iri endly nor unfriendly to him b im nut out this act gaya gays that every man charged changed with polygamy ahall ba tried by a 03 his enemies carefully selected to m meet e tho the essential requirement and that un under d eer no cincu circumstances 1 an ceball the accused ba be arraigned before a jury of ha his peers and whon when II 11 la is that any m man a n ma may be charged charge dj and all history shows that triai trial trill by b y jury aa as we know it ity itt Is the only refugo of the tha citizen toc tor protection of life liberty or property when assailed Balled as by arbitrary power the situation of tho reap people le of utah under this remarkable statute will bo be understood in boedy thero there has been in the debate no disguise concerning the thu pamposo cf of the law law it was wm intended to put nine tenths of the population including nearly all the property and near nearly iyall all ail the fixed fired households absolutely and helplessly under tho heel beel cf of toe too other tenth all ali allot of whom aro are open enemies of the first class and many of are aie strangers I 1 and adventurers congress Cong Con grees grets rees reea cannot erect a mere mero despotism in utah utan any moro more than it can erect one in new now york wha aha property pro fro the tho liberty tha samily family rola roia tiona tlona of olt elt citizens gurty murty ns cannot lawfully ba be placed at the tho mercy or of a board of live five men deriving their power from another man 1 in one place or tho the other wo shau await the tha of this ili ill 1 ico eoa coa co eldered law with no littie little apprehension that 21 it will bring any credit to its ita authors iku itu thors can hardly be possible it is 13 on the cont contrary more likely that its ultimate consequences equen w will provo prove aa as shocking to the moral sensho sens tho the country as were those of tho the tion laws it may bo somewhat tempered by wisdom and moderation in tho the administration but even a tho the bost host Intent fona lona at washington Wash logton ington could hardly make it aught butan unea ev evil iland and that because it Is fundamentally wrong ANOTHER PROBLEM problem SOLVED WE wn have received from the author david M richardson of detroit michigan C a pamphlet contain containing Dg suggestions to ti 0 congress on various subjects of public interest amon smon among amons g which is that of polygamy in the territories the writer who discoursed intelligently upon other im topics displays on thia this question the usual laek lack of cf comprehension of its real bearings ho he thinks he hns has dia dla covered discovered tho the true co lution of lithe the mormon problem and presents it to congress with no little assurance of its potency we will let the gentleman explain it in h his bis Is own way which is as follows he presents the a situation in ihla thia way first there are about te of this number it Is estimated that thero there are children born in plural wedlock to theme these children and the mothers who bore them the abolition of polygamy lejins a social revolution we do not know kenow where the gentleman obtained his figure but they are surprisingly incorrect na as are home borne of his facts in regard to imor mormon history but he boldly eels 1018 L forth his hla remedy fw fot the supposed evil in this wise these mothers and their children ara to become absolved or freed from nil all allegiance to the husband and father in plural wed locki the question naturally arises what u is to ba bt done with the women and cacren children thus gab fab absolved solved or freed I 1 ren hen he answer nsw naw er A the method which to my mind will prove the most humane and successful and on the whole the cheapest is for the mothers who have borne children in plural wedlock and the children bom born in plural wedlock to become the wards of the Government to b 0 provided f or at the expense of the go government until the children s so 0 born shall have arrived at thern thenn majority and the mothers shall have settled again in single wedlock or shall have passed away by unfortunate women and children m may b be a provided for on farms to be fur furnished ni S ed oy ny the government or in C communities which may engage in the various departments of manufacture or the government may furnish afi them cm homes in the farming districts jn ja severalty severally and grant a pension to each mother with children pendent dependent do upon her heri doubt le lesa loss ca this last method would be the most practicable and aad the esa era est problem and chea cheapest hest lest solution of the s social ocial ho he would not only have bave these absolved families fed but also educated at the expense of the government ern ment hh hla estimate of the cost coat is quite liberali liberal libern li and end ba hol hel 1 saya says it if if it should not exceed anbu ally for the next ten or fifteen years we may esteem ourselves fortu na nae I 1 e now there Is one thing which this thia michigan statesman and others who attempt to provide for the disruption of mormon households do not take tahe into accountant account yand gand jand and that is the wishes and feelings of the women and children over whose future they manifest BO so much concern theado they do not comprehend the to fact that these plural wives with their children are as much attaches atta cheu chea to tu their husbands and homes as though they were in relations and in many instances a great deal more suppose the women decline to be absolved and refuge refute to be I 1 freed free iJ would have them driven away from their homes with shot guns he advocates the tile employment of ample ampie military force for the enforcement of the law and perhaps would like them to be hurried atthe point of the bayonet to the places provided and there corralled by the soldiery it never seems to enter the heads of these profound problem solvers that plural wives have entered into these family arrangements voluntarily and from choice and that there is nothing to t 0 keep wp them in their thein present posit position I 1 on against their will the gen gentleman ti eman stipulates that the children bom born in plural wedlock lock loek should inherit the name ol 01 their fathers respectively as fully as though they had been born in single wedlock blees bless his simple soul those children inherit the abe names of their father fathers now snow mormon hs do not follow the gentile fashion of disowning the children born to them but recognize and support them all and give them the fathers fa cherms name and there is another thing a solemn contract has been entered into between the parties which they regard gardas aa sacred and inviolable its is eternal it itis ia not merely till death or until severed by law or force neither the husbands nor the wives who fully understand its importance are prepared under any circumstance to repudiate their part in the col cor contract tract husbands do not feel at liberty to discard deard their wives or cast out their children wives and children would look upon such suell separation as worse wone than death what a pity it is that those who wish to shine as solvers of the 41 problem of the tho age do not learn komet something bing of the subject on which they expend th the tha forces of their gigantic minds J end and of the people whose future causes them so muon needless need lesa leaa trouble troubie lel ibi it is evident that this latest phi philosopher 10 io 10 so from michigan liin liln li n i t t going to shine very brilliantly among the problem solving stars stara of bf the political fir cament firmament IMPORTANT TO WOOL GROW geow ERS EBS tuh tub time is close at hand foi for for the I 1 shearing of the sheep in this territory the wool wooi clip of utah is one of her most important products it is so eo largo that with the present mechanical ch anical facilities it cannot all bo be worked up A very ve ry large amount is therefore annually exported this brings in quite quits a nice little sum in cash for the use of the wool growers it also makes a very avery fino fine profit for the middlemen who take the fleeces from sheep men mou and forward them to the large dealers in the east and this leads us to a subject which our producers should seriously consider the question is how many hands should the raw material pass through before it reaches the manufacturer one thing is plain that the |