Show OLD ISSUES The Provo Enquirer is not nat n t satisfied satisfied satis satis- fied with the fight the Tribune is making against 1 B. B H Roberts The Enquirer Inquirer s says says ys The Lire old Issues issues of Utah are are again up for discussion this cam carat campaign aign however much the majority of the citizens would like to see ee them left hem left out of politics entirely With their discussion comes of course class alignment to a great extent as in the old days This i iver is ver very much to be regretted but iut if f the non Mormons through their heir churches and their leading n-g n ngor or organ an insist on bringing the old i isue to the front the Mormons will tave have to meet them on their own ground round So far is concerned the pledge of the Latter Latier Saints Day in n their manifesto and in the petition petition peti tion for amnesty has been fully and faithfully kel- kel kept t. t There has been an entire suspension of polygamous polygamous' marriages That was as as far church could go for it could not Dot dissolve the marriages that had already been contracted t d before jt was believed that there them was as any civil law agai against st the practice and while the revelation on plural carriage was still in force The advice of gf the church was and has always been for those who had entered polygamy to t take ke care of their families I Should its advice hive been other otherwise vise wise it could not have been heeded for ifor or a greater power than tha the church tried for lor years ears in n Utah to breakup break breakup breakup up the family relationships that had been contracted contrary to law and I failed Men were sent bent to the penitentiary penitentiary penitentiary peni peni- by the scores some time and again and yet they would not violate their sacred pledges to their plural wives After all that hardship they arenow are arenow arenow now to be put to the test test in is politics it seems and if they are living with their plural wives they are to be denounced as men unworthy o of oft civil trust t through rough th the s suffrage rage o of 0 the people They may be citizens of the highest ti t t pe pe outside of this peculiar offin offending ing and ang be men whom the people respect but if they are are named for civil office they must be denounced To us it seems very unfair and an au agitation along lines of that kind will only result in much bitter and will not relieve the situation i in the least There is not another of f the social socia pr problems of th this s country that i is solving itself so thoroughly thoro and rapidly as the polygamy question of this state When another genera generation generation en ra ration tion shall have passed a away aay ay with the m manifesto as completely observed observed rv- rv ed as at it present presen the polygamy question will have solved itself Could only as much touch be said of the thene ne negro ro question in rn the south for instance what a ha happy py future would be before that section of our country Another decade and a achild achild a achild child born in gamy amy in Utah bythe bythe by bythe the par parents who it with the sanction of their church would be rare indeed Those Thos who intend to tomake tomake tomake make Utah their home would willin will willing in ing g abide abile what wrongs wrong may come come from the system so diffused in Utah than the wrongs of the old strife But it may be that tha opponents of polygamy will persist in keeping the issue to the front and thus make prominent to their own injury aswell as aswell aswell well as to the injury of the state political questions that had better be dead The Enquirer is right in decrying and attempt to revive old issues in inthis inthis inthis this state but it is dishonest In attempting lo to charge the non Mormons with making the attempt to revive them Hon B. B H. H Rob Roberts is receiving no warmer support from frum any source than he is receiving from non non- non Mormons Mormons and I newspapers that are owned and controlled by non non Mormons The attempt to revive oh oli oU i issues issues' is being made solely in in the he interest Hon Alma Eldredge Eldredge who is him himself J self a Mormon Mormon- It It is is being kept l lup up f forthe purpose of electing that that nile ien en to co congress gres Mr tr i 1 Eldredge is accompanied on his campaign tour by Hon John Henry Smith one of the apostles of the church and oo so far as we e have heard J of the gentlemen named have denounced the Tribunes Tribune's Tribunes attacks attacks on Mr Roberts during their political meetings Is it J not fair to too presume presume- t that at they endorse t tacitly c at those attacks on ou Mr Roberts It Itis Itis is to be hoped that they dp dr not endorse the Tribunes Tribune's action but if the they do not they c could uld easily say so On the other hand those att attacks are being denounced publicly by Mormon m n and non democrats in ev every ry county in this state |