| Show I THANKS TO AN ADVERSARY I In behalf of good people of this territory I we give thanks to our esteemed sontempor I ary the Tribune for publishing the following i follow-ing in yesterdays edition I In an Interview between the United States I commissioners immigration and a Mormon r elder in charge of the Mormon emigrants at Liverpool that official who was acting In the place of BIUGHAM YOUNG JK stated that while he and all Mormons believed polygamy to be right yet as the United States supremo court had decided the anti polygamy law constitutional con-stitutional the Mormon church had adopted the rule against the practice in the United States ana that all Mormon converts abroad were so informed before embarking for America He further stated that whenever the question was asked converts were assured of the rightfulness right-fulness of polygamy bat of the legal impossibility Impossi-bility of its being practiced at present in the United States or Great Britain Also that they must not ijo to America if they did not intend in-tend to obey the law and abstain from polygamous polyg-amous marriages Now whilst there is nothing extraordinary extraordi-nary in the statement of the Mormon elder it being a cool relation of facts we are mighty glad to see it printod so prominently promi-nently in the columns of the Tribune What more sincere utterance could be given I How effectually does it answer things that the Tribune has for months asserted falsely The law does not require reason does not require any man to abandon his views on any question If he declares that his religion re-ligion relates only to the processes of his mind that it belongs to the domain of thought and that he is subject in every act to the provisions of the civil or criminal law what more can bo demanded I The interview reported above is an effective effec-tive and forcible answer to the charges of Mormon insincerity and we repeat that we are glad to see such a statement in the columns of a contemporary which has so long and so persistently misrepresented the belief and the practice of the Mormons of this territory |
