Show I i S TEE AMENDIENT l S The editor of the Century magazine has come out in L vor of the proposed Constitutional amendment forbidding polygamy and providing for uniform marriage and divorce laws the Federal cburts to have power to punish violations of them The article is a1 clever one and is already attracting the attention editors advance eSpies having been sent out to the press last week It is bad tocfowcl so m ch into the Constitution which has been weakened in the minds and affections of the people by the load which it has been made to carry The les tinkering thereis with the sacred instrument tfie greater respect will it command and the more force will it convey Besides every amendment is further centraliza ion withdrawing governmental power from the local communities nlicl confer con-fer ug it on the ceutral government which is not so well qualified to administer the affairs of the people in their respective societies For these reasons those who are in perfect harmony wih the idea and theory of the republic will oppose the proposed antipolygamy amendment which can have for its object only themaking of war upon the Mormons It seems ridiculous that the sixty millions of people inA theK republic > should commit themselves in the Constitution to a war against the practice of 3000 or 4000 men and the proposition becomes more ludicrous when it is known that the laws are dealing with the polygamists polygam-ists with greater vinaietiveriess and more certainty than any other laws are made to deal with therI 1ftnd jy Intel ligent people would be ashamed to seen see-n the Constitution a provision against polygamy as they would be ash md to see a provision against other offenses of-fenses We are not srry however tha ti Tuckers amendment proposition l has come up for popular dir lssio Such discussion will be apt to consign the amendment to oblivion befora it caches a vote in Congress |