Show AND THE 11 every man mail interested in the local troubles trouble in utah is familiar la with the name iiama and sentiments of captain john codman ile ho is a roan man of c hilgh general intelligence of acuto observation arid and an lin unusual usual sense of fairness and liberality ile holiad has spent timo in ill and about utah both in earlier times and pat recently and owing to hla his literary ins stes and the tha high prestige pr estigo which lie lia enjoys among eastern journalists journ alista lio lie lias been in no wise niggardly in his hia reports of 0 the situation Bitu alion herband here and they have reached tile eastern public through h the th most inott influential journals ot of new kew york anal loston cfall tile antagonists ot of our oar local spoilers lillias been tile ilia most outside of atall and alli as it a natural consequence whomever who naver never his hia voice ini 10 heard there arises arises a corresponding blast from rom our local jim jiin jiu jal the tha salt lake tribune it is in answer to knoof these maniac responses that tho the following lately appears in the boston stoll post from abe pen of ballard S dunn sir I 1 read in the boston joil of 01 20 10 what I 1 know to be a thoroughly 11 I 1 y truthful and trustworthy account of how the laws are administered in utah and I 1 have just now read a most violent and unreasonable diatribe in the salt aalt lake tribune against tile iha author of the letter the tea writer captain john codman tor for twenty years yearn and believe him to be not cr only ily a very careful and capable investigator of what he undertakes to understand but a sociologist of no mean a attainments I 1 10 lo do not fully ally acree with LIM ns to all of his t theories b about the future of mormonism morin in ion i ern and whal will ft ill work its iti cure but bat I 1 know him to lie be a a 6 man of good goad cap capacity and the thorough rough veracity inthis in chii creed the tha tritium tribune fairly ho how la Is over the solidity of tho the mormon voto vote but it B AAs as very anxious to elect JA danien mes 0 blaine resident president who in a trio tings ilia his part in concert with john sherman Sli ennan and senator hoar aloar of a most doleful melody over tho the lack of 1 in I the nugio vote in the south chis lack litak of solid black in in tho the south Is 13 proof conclusive con cluan a to these great minded patriots a and statesmen that there is no truth or honesty in southern politics and abo tribune lias has bably mado made tho the walls rt atch range ring with the ilia retrain refrain but in in utah a solid vote for the peoples candidate candlin ite in accordance cor dance witti ft etli the advice adi ire of their trusted licit carpetbagger carpet ba bagger ger loaders is something to give rad fearing atrin missionaries the tho colic 11 afa a solid negra voto Is salvation for tho the nation v fttie hy should not ft a solid mormon ruto hotd be ba salvation for utah tho the trouble in cutali is is v villainously political its as the trouble in ireland is ii religious political ligi ous notwithstanding the utah aaita tar tora claim that it la Is religious and moril moral the iho true auldus of oe tho the crusade against tho the cormons mormons Mor mons who are in tile mail main in an honest industrious people a small minority of 0 whom live 10 lo in in criminal error will never ile bo known until a rational honest remedy la is applied to tin tho one oa lono lone evil polygamy poll ganoy against which tt vie have a right to legislate legi egi aUte slate tho the need a lor for the that I 1 proposed tor ahli trouble nine yeura ago is more and moru mora as time lime rolls on oil and political quacks anti and hypocrites bungle bl 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 tile the woric and aggravate tho ilia evil e il it Is ia this let congress submit to ill tho people 0 an all amendment tt to tho the federate Fe derale ec con 0 o ution prohibiting 1 within anile the jurisdiction of tho united game states and the almost unanimous voice of tile american people ratifying it would brove prove a moral amoral ono force that supplemented e anted by y ft a universal with great se seventy verity not only t diio 0 men but tile tho onen omen nho engage in poleg polygamy boull ile bo it aneu effective ectro preventive ollay of po poly lay 1 in tile future iture i but for tile past I 1 would woul d give almost entire immunity inflicting no greater punishment upon tile poleg abdat than to linn to live with and provide for ills his anany man wives and children tile ho remainder of ills his natural life NN etith ill no power to make other dapo of ilia his property than an equal division among ilia wives and children this state of things I 1 would permit not that it would be unmixed m ith evil but because it would bo be it a log less evil than tile the abandonment of the woman which would IL loid md to prostitution and tho the con on sequent of tile tha children wo we ought also to have an amendment to the constitution thiet that would rie give congress solo sola and alad exclusive control of in marriage arriage and divorce upon this thia amendment their should bo be a law passed riot not only con compelling hefling a public record of all marriages but the public celebration of all marriages tins this would prevent any attempt lit at secret celestial marriages as well ell as ain secret ecret villainous marriages if it lo be 10 tweed what would you do with utah after tile amendments amendment you advocate havo have been passed and the laws bused based thereon enacted rov my re reply y Is ia admit utah as a state and thereby remove remote the irritating causes that havo have stimulated the growth of mormonism Monno niam for to lo those many ni years when the constitution la n thus amend od ed and congress has hag power to regulate thu the kindred evils of polygamy oly gamy and divore divorce their demoralizing demoralizing influences upon tho the nation will havo aye struck their decadence when pol polygamy gamy has boon boen th throttled rot and strange e 7 utah has hag the elements within her of ct A prosperous state notwithstanding joseph cooks ab absurd surd talk about murder and mr lark hints chinta about assassination utah lias has a clear record of only three murders by mormon hands in fifteen years while ft hilo the little handful of 0 gentilo in wat that territory Terri territory tor d for or a part of that time has averaged AV r that many per annum annual utah ig gouid afe abe bo prosperous as aa a cause causa her people are homogeneous united and rooted to the lie soil as con undistinguished from nomadic populations that surround the territory give her statehood and she ebe w will ill no better field for tile operations of emotional hypocrites and in in the guise of missionaries and political reformers than the same game char acter snow find in colorado and kanas sas or the southern states for that matter since tho the outrage 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