Show TUB AND president manifesto has again brought the mormon question up foi by tho press of bihy ihy country hii some very favor abla chinni aits are made the denver neus the largest paper west of chi bigo write as follows alie has already published a from wilford woodruff president of the mormon chuich in which lie denies in the most emphatic manner the statement of the utah commission in ita recent report as to polygamous marriages in utah in trans this denial to the washington aud asking that paper to publish alip same delegate caine says the ob icat f the utah commission ia to hasten the passage by congress of two or three measures pending looking to the dis of every member of the mormon church test oath as no could conscientious y t to this proposed legisla sion he says would not only affect he polygamous cormons mormons Mor mons for they are lueady dis franchised can neither vote hold office nor sit on auries ant it to the non polygamous M amons the young men of utah who leave never violated the anti polygamy la vis and have taken an oath that they will not do so in the future who have abw ays been loyal to their country and its laws the united states cannot make the lawa too stringent against polygamy in t such a te ho weyer every man is presumed to be innocent until he is proved guilty when any mormon denies polygamous practices hi statement is to be taken as true until the contrary is established in a court of law when established the punishment ghether it be disfranchisement or imprisonment or both is not too evere severe s but it is an outrage to condemn a whole eople unheard the re bigio ot fit cormons mormons is to be respect eci aa v 1 I is that of anny other blasg 0 f Cirit ians the rights of tle tl e 11 i cormons mormons Mor mons the sons t r enry niec aers who discovered and n itai aria region as mr chii e ii ii enst be respected hiis i i into interfere with the people sun I 1 tha f alie griir n church believe in aud have beret t ir practiced polygamy alir aw is already sufficiently stringent n out polygamy if it ia viola e in any particular case it is mule tin anly of the united states anis to the offending parties and ii an fn kiil guilty to punish them each aci hun charged with this crime entitled ti i fair and impartial trial the idea is monstrous that a whole peo pie are to be condemned simply because some members of their church have in the past persisted in alie practice which the laws of the country condemn president wooi in ff in the most solemn manner that the charges of the utah commission that forty or more plural marriages marri agea have been contracted since june idof and that in public discourse dis courso the of the church have taught encouraged and urged the continuance of the practice of polygamy ia false we are not teaching polygamy or plural marriage he says nor permitting any person to enter into its practice pr acice if they were and if such marriages were solemnized the law makes it the duty of the officers of the united states to arrest and bring auch parties to trial and if found guilty to punish them A declaration of innocence on the part of the president of the church is sufficient until the contrary is established the burden of proof is on the government if the latter cannot establish its charges aliey must fall to the ground no party can be adjudged guilty until after a fair and impartial trial |