Show TOO MUCH FOR HIM It is not often that the New York World is even fair in its editorial references to Utah and the Mormons More than any ol tho great newspapers of the country the World is in the habit of going out of its way to say mean things regarding thc majority ma-jority class in Utah and it is usually found offering justification for the persecutions S and outrages perpetrated in this territory in the name of tho law The late report of the Utah commission however is too much for tho editor of the World to approve The commissions proposition to Congress to legislate against religious doctrines mans conduct being all right is more than any editor who professes anything of American 8ntlment can approve In last Sundays issue of the World tho day following the publication or the commis lions report the editor says under the head Mormons and the Law It appears from the report of the Utah commissioners com-missioners under the stringent laws now In existence for the suppression of polygamy the l fllc Jds pacticeof thatcrime his almost entirely ceased bat that as the commissioners believe the Norman Nor-man church still secretly teaches the doctrine that polygamy is a saving grace wherefore they recommend some additional legislation We have no particle of sympathy with Mormon ideas and only loathing for polygamy as a practice or as an institution and we hac steadfastly urged not only the enactment but the relentless enforcement of stringent laws for the punishment and suppression of the system But we be permitted to suggest to the commissioners may hue1 Jil i missioners that it is none of their business what doctrines of saving grace the Mormon or any other church teaches With that the law in this free country has nothing whatever to do its function being to deal with the punishment of criminal conduct and not with the suppression of unsound speculative doctrines Polygamy as a practice is now in effect suppressed sup-pressed The laws against it are rigorously en fjrced and in aid of the laws changed clrcum htances have rendered the system practically impossible Mr HEMVOHTII DIXON when he Salt Lake news saw Ifarptre llazar for sale on s > stands declared that polygamy was doomed Whatever might have been possible in an isolated community where women dressed in calico and sun bonnets plural marriage could not exist in company with fashion journals I I which set wives dressing against ech other if there is any point in which the laws Jar the punishment of bigamy in Utah can be strengthened strength-ened by all means let them be amended and enforced en-forced till the stain shall bo utterly wiped out but there could be no more serious mistake than for the government to assume an attitude of surveillance and dictation in the matter of doctrinal teaching That way danger lies |