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Show IN RESPONSE to an application made to the Governor of Utah, for appointment as notary public a citizen of this county received a printed blank from the powers that be stating that he must take an affidavit that he is not a polygamist or bigamist, that he is not living with more than one woman in the marriage relation, &c. It says nothing about living with them in an unmarried relation, so we are at liberty to infer that the offense per se constitutes no ban except the offender in a "freak of insane morality" and record for the rights of posterity, adds marriage to the sinning. He may be a drunkard, a blackguard, an illiterate fool, a libertine, or anything in that line and still be eligible to the noble official station of a notary public; but he must not be too moral or his qualifications for that responsible position might be seriously impaired. While this sort of proscription is going on, why does not some brilliant official genius invent and promulgate the doctrine that polygamists must not be allowed that other grand privilege of American citizenship, [unreadable] |
