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Show Idaho Mormons. The unfitness of Idaho soloons to legislate under the titled freedom of a sovereign state is illustrated by the following base provision of a bill that has passed the Legislature, and will become law, with the signature of the Governor. "No person shall be permitted to vote who is not registered as provided by law, or whi is under guardianship, idiotic or insane, or who has at any place been convicted of treason, felony, ebbasslement of public funds, bartering or selling, or offering to barter or sell his vote, or purchasing or offering to purchase the vote of another or other infamous crime, and who has not been restored to the right of citizenship, or who at the time of such election is confined in prosion on conviction in a cirminal offence, or who, after passing the age of eighteen years, and since the first day of January, 1888, has been or is a polygamist, or is living or has lived in what is known as patriarchal, plural, or celestial marriage, or in violaton of any law of Idaho or the United States, forbidding andy such crime, or who has in any manner teaches, or has taught, advises or has advised, counsels or has counseled, aids or has aided, encourages or has encouraged any person to enter into bigamy, polygamy, or such patriarchial, plural or celestial marriage, or to live in voilation of any such law, or to commit such crime, or who has been a member of or contributes or has contributed to the support, aid, or encouragement of any order, organization, association, corporation, or society which teaches or has taught, advises or has advised, counsels or has counseled, encouraged r aided any person to enter into polygamy, bigamy, or such patriarchal or plural marriage, or which teaches or has taught advises or has advised that the law of this State, or if this Territory of Idaho before its admission as a State into the Union, or of the United States, applicable to the Territory of Idaho, prescribing rules of civil conduct, are not the supreme law." Of course, the Mormons of Idaho have endured the ordeal of disfranchisement before, and this new bill can do nothing but show the asinine qualities of the Idaho statesmen (?), and my convince some of the utter folly of admitting a territory to statehood which is not better prepared than Idaho was intellectually and otherwise. |
