Show p llORDsfiL4 i 4A a The Washington Erening ftar n commenting the plan suggested for the suppression of Mormon plural marriages mar-riages br AttorneyGeneral Hord of Indiana says Probably thl first thou ht that strikes the candid citizen OB reading the Tfopostl of Attorney General llord of Indlaae for breaking np Moron polygamy by enactinc 1jirrbt thclaxestof divorce laws for Ctah and hen taming a lot of female adventurers loiFotjpon the Saints Itthatsnch chenie pomes with ill grace from the hib8 lw omocr a pJlous and civilized diStIl That is a just criticism on the wild scheme advocated by Hord and bad it stojped here the Star wonld have avoided exposing its own ignorance 01 a Bcbjtct upon which it advises others to become informed beforelhey undertake to suggest measures lot its suppression The Star continues ts comments bye by-e ying S The careful seeder will zo further and wonder that any man of public prominence should atempt to dIScuss a qu2tlo > of the Importance of this one irith so alight a tnoirldge of the history of the subject l lip MonnQn women say Mr Ibid are lncuo lc levers In the alltced rerelatons to Joe Smith and thy enter into polyg amo j wattle ony or a religious act J h fat in u Mr llord ought to know tha the ti lon IUJ Ifti alleged revelations to JocpQ Smith contaIn uo polygamous doctrine Smith himself was a mono < omlst and brought up his fni 1 y to follow his example iVtihis veer dy there is an irreconcIKable schism in the Mormon Church over the question of polygamy polyg-amy the Smith Mormons holding tllllt the UterrcvelatonswherebyBrighamYonn aad his copniccncrs josh ed their polygamous polyg-amous practices arepnrious The irreconcileble schism spoken of as the Star ought to know does not affect the statement made by Attorney At-torney General Hord which says The Mormon women are sincere belieyers in the alleged revelations to Joe Smith and they enter into polygamous matrimony matri-mony as a religious act That true whatever schism may exist in the church as to whether Joseph Smith was the author of the revelation com mandiug plural mir icge or not But asa matter of fact asthe Star ought to know the schism ofwhich it speaks amounts to practically nothing as the Smith ilormonr meaningthe people usually called ephitc3in Utah number but 820 souls according to the census of 1SSO and they affect the question ques-tion nothing The Star closes its icomrAents bv saying II say-ing J There Is nothing cirfer than to show how to settle the neat problem oflhand as Mr Hord does either on piper or by word of mouth bnl a prime requisite to te sncceE lot applicttion the soLvent principle nht to ritff what hue Is talking ot rrltUig about > In this we heartily concur and the Mormon pople unitedly have on several sev-eral r ccasions requested theKOvern ment before it Jaet thecrael lejris tion now upon its statute books fo > end a commission of upright men to thoroughly investigate the whole Utah question believing that it it once bcarneacqnainted iith th situation of alTairf in bar Territory Jess harsh ries itu14 le mplfdizi dealing with a people who have settled these Yalleysnand the nation would be saved future humiliation |