| Show I t iusDiiTKorr Evening News lakes no more stock ia the Edmunds law than it does in the sentiment that forced it upon the sta ute book15 In oj a late issue it says The republican convention this summer o mer are denouocing the twin relic with great enthusiasm and unfcniuiuy It f is a good cnrd to play along with liquor I prohibition uuon the puritans whose morality chiefly consist in finding fault with other peoples sing and it wont coat as many voters Ui urohibition as the s polygamists on principle are too faraway far-away to strike back at the polls The I conventions mostly can ralulbl the i godly upon tt e anti polygamy law fa of the last EQasJon and predict the early annihilation of legalized plurality in Utah The Mormons themselves do not fp seem to be afraid and if we are to judge by the reception they extenaeci to tine j Oomoiksioners recently arrived st Sat I i + Lake to exterminate polygamy we rR should Bay they regard the law cs a huge and hsrnile joke Tnej took possession i pos-session of the CommisioriHrs and er r btiusted the most generous ho < piiality rt upon them bob the Oommbatoners received nothing loin The first step in t the work of the Comoji ion will be an election in which polygamists will be challeneed and excluded bat as only < t bout 10 par ont of the Mormons are t t practical polygamists the remaining 90 t per cent will have no difficulty in controlling con-trolling the result Nonpoygamous t f J Mormon will be elected to all the offices t and then the now government will go along as smoothly as ever and there will 1 i be no more trouble until the excessive f i morality of babykilling divorcegetting Now England rouses itsolf for another i i ttrugerle |
