Show I THE HART INTERVIEW The New York Times is led into attaching I taching some importance to what we must think is a fake interviewthat Hart interview telegraphed to the press from Newton Kansas That is the Times attaches sufficient Importance to it to make editorial comment about it Under the caption A Frank Mormon Bishop it gives a synopsis of the interview in-terview and then Quotes the clauses in the state constitution which forever prohibits polygamous or plural marriages mar-riages and that by ordinance that Is forever Irrevocable without the consent con-sent of the United States The Times then wants to know if Bishop Hart never heard of this fundamental law or being familiar with it does he intend in-tend deliberately to violate it and would he have the people of the whole country understand that the Mormon church intends to violate it We should like to know how many Mormon church officers and other Mormons are in agreement with this bishop concerning the practice of polygamy We would say to the Times In the first place that there must be some misunderstanding in regard to that interview In-terview That here in Utah we can locate no Bishop Hart If the interview inter-view was had in Newton Kansas by some Mormon by the name of Hart who called himself cu bishop he Is evidently evi-dently so insignificant and unknown In Utah that any opinions he may have expressed amount to nothing as they carry no weight with them As to Mormon officers offi-cers agreeing with Bishop Hart concerning con-cerning the practice of polygamy it Is only necessary to say that the constitutional con-stitutional prohibition of polygamous or plural marriages was drawn in good faith by the framers of the constitution constitu-tion and adopted in like good faith by the people So that we should say that there are no Mormons in Utah either officers of the church or laymen who are in agreement with Bishop Hart concerning the practice of polygamy polyg-amy |