Show Veto and Apology I 1 I In Thursdays issue the Capital dIn cussed editorially the attempt being madn by the Legislature of Utah to violate tlie faith under the pledge of which that State was admitted Into the Union by the passage u law which was really In the intoicsts of tho system of polygamy The news was received the following morning lint the Governor of Utah had vetoed tire bill Instead of being able to congratu late the Governor upon his action In seek ing to sue the State from disgrace a reading of the veto message reveals that his action was prompted by no line frenzy or righteous Indignation but simply by the belief that such a law might result In n deluge of discord and disaster which would be Inimical to tire Interests of the State He then seeks lo combine senti ment and pettifoggery an follows I yield to no one In affection for those my people who from the highest motives and because they believed In a divine command entered Into the relation of plural marriage Born nnd raised In Utah myself a product of thai marriage system taught from Infancy to regard that lineage as approved of tho Almighty nnd proud today ns I ever have been of my horllage It will be granted I trust that every Instinct of nature reaches out 1 to shield my friends from harm and to protect them from unjust attack All of which goes to show that the viper of Mormonism is not dead It situ ply slumbers The day will come when the Federal Government will bo compelled to give Utah Its special attention Dea Moines Capital |