Show HON GEO Q the delegate from utah interviewed by a press reporter by W U to tho HERALD I march in conversation today to day lion llon geo Q callnon li expressed himself verb very y on the anti polygamy bill he ile said the bill is very unjust it is framed upon prejudice and Is being pushed by people who are ignorant of tile true truc condition odthe affairs in the tile territory utah is in a very flourishing condition it is out of debt and is the most lightly taxed of any section odthe west the tile percentage of illiteracy is lower t than hall that of many of the states although we bavo never had bad a doll arof pt public c funds the capital in utah feels eafe safe because of the present wise jillso management of the affairs of the th territory the clamor against ism comes from religious sects of the east and west and is is promoted by missionaries sion aries who have been in utah and failed to accomplish their ends by legitimate means and now resort to tins this method of arousing religious religions animosity against an honest thrifty industrious dust rious people because of their heterodoxy tero doxy 11 it is clai claimed nied eaid said your correspondent that it i considerable section of the mormon church is in f favor avor of the passage of this measure 11 that statement has not the slightest foundation in fact filet said cannon the mormon people are aro unanimous in their opposition to it senator edmunds who who made this assertion hopes there aro enough gentiles and what are called apostate mormons cormons Mor mons in the territory to obtain control of the government by interrupting or challenging the votes of the regular cormons mormons Mor lorn mons ions tile bill places extraordinary powers in the hands of the commission ail and irit if it bec becomes omesa a law we may look f for or very harsh measures at their fiands land one of the ob objects J acts of the bill is is to prevent me from taking my scat seat in the house it is merely consummating tin g a fraud commenced by governor 31 murray ur ay when he lie withheld my certificate what will tho mormon church do if the bill passes into legislation wo we will have to submit to it as we have submitted to other acts of persecution wo ano will protest against it in every legitimate way tile act will fall heavily upon others besides the cormons mormons Mor mons capital will wil I bo be unsettled and a great many evils will result taxation will be increased and mismanagement take the place of the present wise conduct of our territorial affairs tho the people who make this outcry aplist alor monis polygamy abny those in utah who are urging u rg ing its passage use polygamy as a to dis disguise guiso their real intention which is to gain complete control of the territory it do you think the action will 01 bously isly cripple the moamoa Mor moa church I do not persecution for religions sako sake generally rebounds on oil the people alio start it you cannot crush a people possessing the sterling ties P athe cormons mormons Mor Nl ormo mons ns and the advance advance of our religion cannot bo be checked unless you extirpate our people entirely tirel 11 what hat are your views as to the constitutionality of the proposed le legislation isolation it is the opinion of good lawyers that it is unconstitutional will you appeal to the supreme court to test this point I scarcely know what wo we will do at present our action will bo be governed a great deal by the circumstances as they arise 11 |