| Show THE TEE V AT T ROME BOMB A A ar T y the tha members i of the al convention who haro bare spoken to the tha introduced ly by jud jailed go flay do don to 0 o sal urn aane i he ji hii le have bite thus far with ali raca freely reelY en an exception of polygamy u the only obstacle to the alm ali urion of elih u 1 t I state malitch mr filch litch I 1 in ID his carefully prepared speech dwelt with emphasis on the th fact that the th I 1 twin relic wu was the thief chief if not only difficulty that stood stand in tho the way of ad d nu ision and nd in a labored appeal to ilia convention begged them to remove this obstacle other speakers with greater or lam hull earnest dam have urged the amis opinion opinions It now whether these gentile members of the convention hire have so 90 recently become became citizens As not to bo be acquainted with the general sentiment t 0 of f tile llie mass of gentilo gentile residents in ii the territory or whether froin froia colitto xi lilio anil and prudential motives they shrink from stat tating the reasons in the pre pence fl or of the tha body or of members composing com tho the convention on whatever wha the motive or can cause for it is ia atul ire bertain that poa puny gamy is u riot the chier chief cause of line lo is a state at homo bome whatever it liay maybe be abroad anil ln il thammon of gentiles ding in in itah regard polygamy either cither with rik languid indifference or at t morl as a question tion those who it and 1 the and not one vilich affects either their rights or interests i A As most meet 0 of them do not cire care whether a man liu hils one wife or it dozen but bat there i a io question so bith every nn in not hot a I 1 mormon who hai boa resided ro for any auml immler er or years in utah ioa dots or of vital interest int croat to himself and nj tint that question is i involved in the ad il mis or utah hs as a atiteo it is 18 a question no less dear thin than that or of lire afo enil and liberty A tell itself for with the almis sion aion or of atala as a state til all dolid ral cal rower power will till lie be vet in the dominant mormon majority every one knows with what unanimity and concern concert of agreement th that at majority always act on every question whether civil political loli lical or religious under a territorial organization with office ap pointed liy by the general govern government meat they hate bare up to this time ty by their united action their devotion to 0 a co corn M moo mon cause and obedience to a single m agle hel head I 1 in defeating every attempt at investigation of their own act they formerly taught that thai iswar it was proper to lo we ire men by tilling falling them and tnt tho the act in more than one instance lola fola lowe 11 quick upon 11 tho instruction and notwithstanding repeated dl the coiled state courts coneta or of the territory have bus far been unable to make even tin an investigation into one or of like theo 10 crimes crime while the loel local or probate court which mr fitch told us ua in hit his speech yesterday 3 eist erday exercised its jurisdiction for twenty jeara ciaio nev never at j mado made any attempt to explore eill these ada of tho the post past or er bring the offenders to punishment it if this I 1 laa lag been the condition of things under ter law what may dairy we not antici under the full authority of a state government ern ment and where lira will be the cedres pr for say which either malice or fanaticism may choose to inflict years ago in the state of illinois arid under a government not of their own creating a press was waa deN destroyed troyed for fer opposing the peculiar bautts awl and practices of the cormons mormons Mor mons in this territory violence has here been threatened and in more than one instance secretly executed upon individuals for the F fame bausic what freedom of speech or of tho the pre a will there lie be in utah after she a state slate with the party parly in authority who must have sanctioned d i it they hey did not command these theo outrages of tho the past what the use no of bills of rights securing liberty and equality when all who have bare resided bereacy length or of time know I 1 now that obedience to the priesthood of his h u church is paramount to ovary every other consideration with every true tnie mormon tho objection at home what whatever everit it may la be abroad to the admission of utah as ai a state st ite is the concentration on it will give of all local civil and judicial power antho in the h hands an ds of a people united together ostensibly as a religious religion a body but choso whoso past record plainly shows that they aim quite as much at temporal ten as ail spiritual domination domin alion and who in pur suit nut of their purposes so do not lot hesitate hesitate to 0 o trample under foot the rights of any who rho may land in their path |
