Show JUSTICE TO MORMONS Comments of Eastern Journals Jour-nals on the Situation Here GIVE TO US A ° FAIR HEARING A Question Involving the Liberties of 200000 Citizens Onght Nut to be smothered by Prejudice The Mormons favor railroads telegraphs tele-graphs and every other modern scientific scien-tific improvement and are andulways have been supporters of the Constitution Constitu-tion of the United States and ot the laws made in pursuance tnereof The antipolygamy laws many of them have viewed as unconstitutional and therefore they have not yielded to them as they have to all other laws of ne land And now that the monogamic voting citizens who have broken no I laws who have taken an oath to obey the laws in the future and who represent repre-sent the cast majority of the population popula-tion respectfully ask for political iborty at the same time providing for the punishment of bigamy and polygamy polyg-amy under the State constitution the same old stuffabout rebellion disloyalty disloyal-ty theocrady and oth < r exploded nun ellse is being repeated to prejudice their cause and blind the eyes of the just and liberal 1 do not think the Republican party or its organ In this city DaB any need to report touch to-uch methods of wartarel1 Play 1D the National Republican Rep So far as the National Republican is concerned it WIll endeavor to treat every question fairly especially those that reter to political rights If jjalr Play could convince Congress that the recently adopted State constitution would be executed as the fundamental avrm good laiththo Republican party would be as fret to vote lor the admih stun of Utah as for that of Dakota in ne Union of states nutvuiustanding toO cltr tmt opmion that Utah would become be-come a Democratic dtatfe Jinglaud great statesman William Pitt declared hat tae only security for civil rights is political power A people without political power enjoy civil rights only Oy sutlerance and that is against the principles of our form of government lhe practical question then is will the people of Utah stand by their constitution constitu-tion aud what are the guarantees National Republican Rep We notice that many journals argue hat it is absurd to suppose polygamists are sinter = in legislating against polygamy polyg-amy But this is not the fact m tits case The polygamists have all been lisfrauchised that is in Utan it Would be scarcely safe to say that of any other part of this great and glorious Jnlon and they are not acting in this movement It is the monogamous ceo pie who are the immense majority of the population who are doing this The objection that they are insincere is only an assumption and however we may come in contact with popular prejudice pre-JUdice in saying it truth compels us to assert that there des not appear to be anything substantial to warrant the assumption By what we can learn from bunny uul menbusmets hrmsrfnd till who have had any dealings with the Mor mon it appears that their reputation for veracity honesty and promptness to meet their obligations is not excelled by any people The strongest oppo ifaus 01 their movement for Statehood are compelled to acknowledge this On vhat ground then is the suspicion oasedfor it is nothing morethat they wilt not abide by their own constitutional constitu-tional provisions seTTimposed to meet he wishes of the nation The only reply re-ply to this question that we have seen 11 convicted polygamists decline to agree to obey the laws and prefer the penitentiary to such a promise and bin shows that they are wedded to polygamy This fur demonstrates he bliuuing power prejudice Why hat is evidence that even the polygamous polyga-mous Mormons are truthful and sm core By making a simple promise hey could escape a prison and a heavy fine But they will not make it because hey do not intend to keep Is that insincerity To explain the reasons they give as published in the Salt Lake papers why they cannot make the rt < mired promise would take too much of our space today Suffice it to say the promise required implies the utter a audonment of women whom they regard re-gard as bound to tuein by ti s demand iJg their support and protection and taty prefer imprisonment to the other a ernative And what the pohg = amists who form R very small part of ue population of Utah do or will not do has no bearing upon the question of tue application of the monogamous majority who are endeavoring to comply com-ply with the demand Wet has been made heretofore when Utah has smelted at the doors of the Union and asked to be allowed to come in This is tier fifth application by constitution and memorial We do not say she should be admitted without challenge But we do say that facts and not factions fac-tions should be considered and that a i question involving the liberties of AWOOO citizens ot the United states ought not to be smothered under amass a-mass of prejudices which a little f ir ness reason and calm investigation mighteffectually remove Washingt n Sunday Herald Deus The Mormon question as it is called is uniformly r presented as necesdara connected with the political right of Utah to be admitted as a 8 ate long alter it has the necessary POI uation The Mormon Question as it is called is uniformly represented as necessarily conneotdd with the political right of Utah to be admitted aa a State long after af-ter it has the necessary population Because Be-cause three per cent hold to polygamy polyg-amy asa religious institution mnety = seve4 per caI tof the people are prac ically forbidden any voice in the management man-agement of their own affairs The cost of supporting their government is taxed on all miaous of t ei United States ana the territory forbidden to take part in its own development Unlike every other organization for government the Union the people are forbidden to govern themselves and remanded to outsi e and hostile government A strange anomaly in a nation of federal l republics when thareligion of citi7aIs isimalde a test O political wghtsandaa I misaon itto the Union is made to cusp on church membership Whew polyjUnwisjustifiedbylhe little mf J 1 nonty of Lntterday Samtsthey base it onthe Bible history the practice of all the old ands moaC celebrated prophets andwiBe mqn of tz antiquity JheyPOint jtot1i fact thatmbrerthan hairof the humin race sanction the i sJjtJ1 io Air Ai-r ctly Bud mnri the larger por thin of the rouander indirect Iy They compare it with the I prostitution that pervades every section of the land and hold that by comparison it elevates worn n hood from tne condition of an outcast giving her a nine and standing in societv and insures protection and support Now such a belief may be right or wrong just or unjust bl t what has it to do with the political rights of a great community That debauchery and corruption ruin women by myriads in Christian communities is not denied and polygamy must m its results be bad indeed if it ie any worse The real bottom face of the controversy contro-versy is not religion but politics The sin afar off if arplied to any of our States would receive no notice whatever = what-ever It makes a good theological and party target and he who ventures to insist that Utah has rights outside of its Tabernacle must expect to be at once classed aa in sympathy with Mormonism which in the public mind I is only another name for polygamy although the Bible of the church nowhere no-where teaches any such doctrine Why not treat citzens 01 Utah as mn entitled en-titled to the same rights 808 ourselves If polygamy is worse than prostitution the institution cannot long survive Stategovernmeut Milwaukee Journal Ind |