Show UTAH discussion DISCUSS I 1 0 provo polygamy topic in the east MISS it IK has caused some curious comm comments ell ts avash 1 halo n posts fine ideas washington post poat the minneapolis journal is ia grievously distressed by bv recent advices advises from U utah tab it prints as reliable news the alleged statement of miss aliss rose glen webster a baptist missionary in utah that poly polygamy zamY is still taught and practiced in that commonwealth mon wealth and that to her certain knowledge in provo where she resides one of the city officials has a harem stocked with several wives in the old patriarch ial brigham young style the post has no acquaintance acquaint arice with miss webster and does not know what facilities she may have hare for gaining information to the domestic habits ol of the latter day saints sainte inasmuch as those people are 0 christians and generally cre credited cited with abar dant zeal in religious work it might appear like ilke a waste wasie of snort and money not to mention tte matter of in er church courtesy to send missionaries among them but when one remembers that they have long besa been accustomed tomed to the doing doin of 0 missionary work iu in all parts of the united states ani have made mad e proselytes prose lytes in various churches it seems fair enough to fullow follow their example that polygamy is still taught by the mormon breashers pre ashers athers is not a creditable allegation for it r e fl eta with the testimony of all cl i known and reliable authorities office and aad unofficial ial reports from meu men of all parties and various creeds proved that the abandon ment of polygamy was wag complete before utah was admitted admi ted to 0 o statehood and there has hag been no reason since admission to suspect the church of having revived that peculiar institution that there may be one man in provo w who ho is living in the immoral manner described by miss webster is possible but if true it would have no great eiga big ance we suspect there are aarm a number of men in a almost most any state w whose hose record if explored would be found no better than that of the provo official the Minnea minneapolis rolis journal in its ita comments on this output from miss webster makes a number of statements that are more remarkable than any other editorial deliverance that we have recently encountered we give them in full as follows this statement made by a presumably credible witness should not be allowed to pass unnoticed congress admitted utah as a state on condition that polygamy should be altogether given up the united states has har not interfered interfere d with the mormon religion except to prohibit polygamy and put a check to the church tyranny utah would not be in the union today to day had not the mormon element fully acquiesced in the relin rehn of polygamy it is said that even in salt lake city it Is still practiced every member of the mormon church must believe iu polygamy as aa an ess essential rutial to salvation whether he practices or not under brigham young this was in the creed and it is still in the creed if polygamy is not wiped out it ought to be against it is id a national lawand law and the government has the fall rig right ht to enforce it in an any v state utah was led into the union to easily it should have been kept kepi out until the gentile population immensely outnumbered outnumber sd tile the mormon element it is true that utah would not have been admitted had not the mormon element fully acquiesced in the ra polygamy but it is ie not true that ayery member of the abe mormon church must believe in adv as aa an ee essential to salvation polygamy was not originally in the creed but was grafted onto it and by the same arati an arity bority was abandoned it ib ia not in the creed ta tt aay and i nj not a single reason exists for the supposition that it ever will be but the journals worst error KB its most egregious blunder is the that the government has I 1 tha full right to enforce the anti polygamy law commonly called the edmunds act 9 1 in any state I 1 how bow or when or where the Jour journal cial got that ida a into its head we cannot imagine the federal government has baa no right tu meddle with the marriage laws of any bbate or to to concern itself with the sexual rel rela aa ions eions of the people of any state if the people of utah of minnesota or any other member of the family of states should put polygamy into their constitution and statutes the general government could hot maddle with it the raimunda act ceased to apply to utah moment she became a stae aed Is now applicable only to the territorial Terri toru fi and the district of columbia we remarked the other day that gen hard harreii son Bona labook book this country of oars was a timely publication for there w was i s need of a popular treatise on the oper actions of the general government and the relations of the states to the union the journals Jour nala utah article emphasizes that remark |