| Show I NO UlmA OP p IUT II 11 Tl Tribune wani tho tha men who R were wera driving Roberts on III as II ft that It would hurt Utah that It would l r the Nation II a right to 10 61 ay that r had been n broken that It ft I 3 cause Tha hands of II to be ba at Utah In scorn that thai tf It t would cause the ot of Mor Morman mon man ml arni that It would and to ta ou know how It Iti i was nil all answered CertainlY Wo We know ho tho threats uttered by those who wished to what the people of Utah should do da dof f at the polls poll have been boen carried out te be ben n caUlo th the great majoritY of them ro re ron ren n fused to bow down at the command ot of I that authorIty Suppose J that when the tho verdict ot of the people ot tills this State Stat was rendered the preachers and ana papers In Utah had acquiesced In Inthe inthe the will ot of the tho majority how much ot of ota a storm would have been thiS country over the tho pressure would Vault have havo been brought up upon n by exulted members of churches and yeno over Oer tho seating ot of the tho member from Utah Would there thero have been lIeen nn more marc nol noise about his hI el election than there was about I the appointment ot of Federal officials occupying 1 a similar social status It If anything that Ms Ins happened In Inconsequence consequence of at that thai election to hurt Utah It IL Is the outpourings or of wroth wrath dIsappointment and revenge that have hayo been overflowing from the Salt Lake JAke rl clergy and their mouthpiece ever eYer since tM the votes otes Were counter They are re reI I for tor the ot of the States the tho persecution of Mormon and the tho and turmoil that hare been occasioned Ther The are lito Iso responsible for the raise false hood has been broken with I the th nation All this originated with them and they are the authors ot of all the oblOquy that has hIlS been heaped upon upun the State and Its hut the utho nation has hili no right to say that faith has been broken N r t the e nation nor an individual or has bu the right to utter titter IL a tall falsehood The ot of Utah em embodied bodied In Its Ita Constitution all that was r by the Enabling Act ot of Con Can and It was accepted as Iy by the President ot of the tho United States That this thi commonwealth has haa kept faith viti the tho In that respect III h demonstrated In the tho fact that Its courts court nd r ready to prose rrose prosecute cute cuto and punish of tho ron on provision which Is viewed In ot of n a compact Also AlE In the tho further tact fact that not nato n case of Infraction of that provision has hili tien o n legally complained The rumors rumo h havo been n cIrculated In aId of o the Mormon pea peo plo ph nr so films flImsy and destitute of corn com evidence that none of them has materialized a criminal case oase The Tho suits whIch have hao I been n Instituted on the complaint of a hired Informer It C they wel carried to convictions would have hao no bring whatever upon the question of faith with the tho nation TW demand tn in the Act woe wae Q a Provision In lie tho State Con Can forever prohibiting poW poly or plural marrIage That was tho ho and the end and the tho ut m t extent of the requirement and It has 1119 n strictly carried out The Tho State or Utah made that wIth the United States and can be advanced supported lIy by tho ho actual evidence showing hat there thero It is any semblance or of a rup tUt turo between the tho parties to the tho purport agreement Charges that have hare been made ordinal against the Mormon Church equally ground Ius and destitute ot of proof even cen It If the they were weN b by facts would not con oon any ony violation of oC the faith of the I State Slate with the United States The nn an antion tion made no compact with the Church To do anything of the he kind would be foreign n to Its functions The govern goern government ment does doe not treat with orga organizations lion I It ha has to do with tI them r In that WilY way It If members of oC a religious bod body I the he law Iov they are re amenable to the law lawas as 88 Individuals not a iii members or of n a religious body There It Is therefore no cOI between th the government and anybody else on this question except th the of That as we vo have hae I has kept It Its and has 1131 not Lr 1 I l its It faith 1 Tb The tatt of Utah hs haa Included In its 1111 oo code provisions a against nn an eth frem rem that which t I legislated against In th the u as required II by the Act The nation ha hn nothing to do wh Hh that It If no had hod beta bea t d In the code Q what I Is II here RI 11 unlawful cohabitation t tion there would have teen n no breach of filth faith with the States Statts Con gruB has hili no jurle over or the flub aub The Stat has full tiGht right and pow I er t to regulate lie Its own domestIc I tent with of at the tho 1 Y States Therefore no matter l many offenses have been or ha have committed against the State 1 t tute te which penalties for tor they would ouk not eon con conIc Ic any breach of faith or violation or of With th the tho N Iti U MI this talk then Ihen about Utah not having hatIng kept faith Is so 80 much non nonsense ne Inthe tl e of reason and the tho I law a and the endeavor to make Young Utah beHeye that here has hasben wen ben anything ot ci the tho but nth a shred red out of at the blankets ot of falsehood which are almost daily YU vu YUen vuen en b by the Salt LokI Lake Tribune |
