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Show THE ' BULLETIN n OX CTAH MATTtBS. The San l-'nncitc(filu!lttiii has thrust itielf iut J the struggle iu Utah between be-tween right and a "ring" in a mun-n mun-n r that will not add to its credit as a j lunial. W'e were prepared for considerable con-siderable prejudice, but not for the decree de-cree of ignniancc dLsjjhiye J by iheJivJ-htin. iheJivJ-htin. Tnat a newspaper claiming 10 be one of the leading journals of the Pacific coast, should manifest fuch a reprehensible hick of knowledge uf its subject, when it treats on the affairs of a neighboring Territory, is scarcely credible. It ta k, of laws enacted by the Mormon church, as if it did not know, which it probably docs not, that the laws of Utah have been enacted by the Teiritorinl Legislature. And if the members of the Legislature were Mor- nions, elected by the free suffrages of the people, are the laws passed by them any the les.-, valid? When the Legislature of Oregon passes law, arc-tiny arc-tiny any less law because passed by a body principally composed of Democrats? Demo-crats? Are the laws of Montana invalid in-valid because a Democratic majority prevails there? Or the laws of Colorado Color-ado because they may have been passed by .Republicans? Such logic as the Bulletin indulges iu cau only excite the sneers of its contemporaries and the contempt of ' its better informed readers. rea-ders. This leading journal of the Pacitic coast does not seem to be aware that no act of the Utah Legislature can became be-came law until approved by the Governor, Gov-ernor, in whom is vested a little more authority than in the entire Legislative Assembly, inasmuch as his veto is absolute ab-solute and cannot be set aside by even a two-thirds majority. - It also seems to be ignorant that Congress exercises supreme supervision over the laws of this Territory, even after a Mormon L 'gislature has passed and a Governor not a Mormon, and possessed of absolute abso-lute veto power, Las approved them ; and that should Congress refuse to ratify rat-ify them, they cease to be laws. Did it ever enter the sage craniums that sJoru the Bu'l-tin sanctum that the laws of U all, ratified by Congress, are as good United Stales laws as any that are made, having been passed upon by the chief law-making power of the Republic Re-public ? And yet it talks ot "the Territorial Ter-ritorial law enacted by the Mormon church ."' After this it is not startling ' IU 1 Car lac sttlCttrt a UlU UUUCrilJi uloat ."Mormon packed juries" in the paat, about Mormon papers being eu-gaged eu-gaged in maligning and obstructing the Federal Courts, and similar bosh ; all of which might have been looked for frjm some flash, irresponsible and ignorant ig-norant paper, but coming from a journal jour-nal of the Bulletin's position is almost beyond belief. A San Francisco schoolboy school-boy should know better, and a respectable respect-able paper should blush to publish such puerile trash as a leaded editorial. |
