Show Tramp liu capou personal Kig liis the report of the utah commission to the secretary of the interior a synopsis oi which has been furnished by tho associated press and which we have already reviewed is being noticed by the newspapers and will no doubt bo widely commented upon tha springfield referring to tho suggestion of the commission as to the adopting of tho idaho test oath infamy says so long as congress aims abc the immoral practices of cormons mormons it will be on safe ground beyond that u polica of repression ren is perilous the philadelphia press remarks every new measure brought forward against polygamy is more radical than would have seemed possible a few years before we have no doubt that the twin relic will be suppressed eventually though the process ef reaching it threatens threat enn to strain severely a good many old fashioned notions personal of rights yes those old fashioned notions of personal rights which were entertained by the fonn des of this nation and are embodied in the declaration of independence and the constitution of the united states have received several severe strains in the treatment of the people called mor mons and in their anxiety to suppress and destroy an unorthodox creed and people the pretended pure and moral legislators of the age will continue to strain them until they are stretched beyond all recognition the measures now proposed a few years ago would have been denounced by every journal and statesman in the land professing any veneration for thit civil and religions liberty considered essential to the perpetuity of republican institutions familar ity with acts and projects that violate the spirit of our system of government blunts the perceptive powers and dulls tho sensibilities of those who favor them and thus that veneration forthe for the basic principles of free government which once imbued all hearts in this great country is giving place to sympathy with schemes of expediency and the doctrine the end justifies the means is gaining ground in high as well as low places in the land we are sorry to see this net only on account of ita probable effects upon the people of utah but because of its certain results if it is continued upon the future of this whole government and nation when those sacred rights for which the fathers of our country struggled and died are trampled upon by national sanction woe to the people and their rulers by whom the wrong is perpetrated pet rated news |