| Show 1111 I 1KOlOSl I A All NDM1 M The proposed anti polgani amendment amend-ment i to tho Federal Constitution is well enough us an aximoatic expression of the t feelings of the people upon the subject sub-ject j It would 1 perhaps simplify pro tecdings in the lower United Stales coitus by sailing points upon which up peals 1 might otherwise be based Fur ther than this it would practically amount to nothing Tho present Constitution Consti-tution is broad enough to cover all legislation legis-lation necessary to abolish the practice nnd the cngrifting of n prohibition clause upon time fundamental law without being be-ing supplemented hy such statutory on aclmenls as are now asked for hy tho Uentiles of Utah would bo worse than useless A mere constitutional prohibition would no moro tend to tho abolishment or oven the decrease of polygamy than tho reading of a riot act in Charleston in 1801 would havo tended to this suppression of tho war of tho re bclhon Iho Mormon loaders would eagerly accept compromise upon such a basis lucy would laugh at and defy it as they now clofy the law 1 enacted under and not in conllulwith this piesent Con stitutiou The moro assertion of a principle prin-ciple has no cflcct upon them They would 1 violate a Constitution provision pro-vision as readily as they do the 1 dimmds law What they fear is a law which wrests from them their political power Shorn of that power thoy could not sustain their opposition to the Fed oral authorit u month Without such ptolcclion poliain would die out in a year With the disappearance of polyg limy and this substitution of loy711 for dislov d local rule them would bo no no hticd power to bo exercised 1 bv the pricsthoo 1 111111 1 tho natural result would bo the speed disunion of Church md Stale This is tho only coin he by which tho lerritor cm bo ledcomcd A mere lonstltiitional decliration of itself would amount 10 nothing As tho expression of a collect Lncral principle it will bo endorsed hy this law ibuling peoplo of Utah If intended in-tended is a sop to Ccrebus it should Ie opposed hy all who are not lontent with tho declaration without tho oniorccnunt of a principle |
