| Show OA CAN UTAI CAST OUT When Utah was admItted as I a State n a solemn was made that po should cease DUl It if we can believE thu tho testImony furnished by the Suit Lake Tribune the tho leadIng Gentile Paver laper ot of Utah It line has not censed ceased but polygamous marriages are aro being so se pnra t d almost every day and l polygamous hamou l n are ure beIng belna brought Into the world by It if not thousands every evory Gar The paragraph above Is clipped from the Tribune We reproduce duce It as evidence of the false sian elan 1 which has hils been made upon tho pUblic mind by the misrepresentations sent ent forth from this city A discussion is hI going on between some of the tha ICI East concerning the entered l Into by the peo people plo 0 of the United States It seems to hc taken kei for tor granted by many ot of those papers that this compact ha been by the tho State of Utah That Thal Is i In ot of the kind ot of charges accepted ns as correct by the tho Mm n Tribune And the question has hns been raised whether hether because of that alleged Qt the tho agreement Utah can bo o reduced to II a territorial condition First n to the tho question ot of tact fact We Weden den deny most emphatically that polygamous marriages are con meted almost every day It Is not required or of Us or or of the people ot of this I State to pr prove a negative It Is for tor tort t those oso who prefer th charge to lI lish h It by evidence such as aB can be ne ac accepted as proof The Journals which are debating this question should un und understand d that no case ot of polygamy such os as In the laws for tor forbiddIng bIdding the practice has been prosecuted ed CLI In the Utah courts Against the charge chargo repeated In the paper and origInating In this city the Ogden Standard n a and paper has had tor or some sometime sometime time a standing offer ot of for every authenticated case ot of a polygamous marriage since Utah entered the UnIon No ono one nl an et t has haa made t Or r the reward though It has been pub lin nt n The il e s while dIsputing the lie charge concerning new polygamous marrIages and anel asking wh why such cases It the they are arc not prosecuted has never denied the tho continuance of tam am 11 fly relations among some lome ot of the plural households In which the marriages took place long previous to statehood When any person or pal paper cr that we have hao challenged action ot of the courts In such cases a grave grae mistake Is made whether er wilfully or unintentionally does docs not matter However we do deny and haVe denied the monstrous assertion that Utah Is filling up with plural wives wires who were not wives when Utah entered the Union and thousands upon thousands or of polygamous children are being born The first part ot the charge charse Is wholly untrue and the other I ort Is n a gigantIc and noo malicIous exaggeration The posItion have taken on this question has ha been and Is 19 that plural marriages have ceased to be solemn solemnIzed lied In the compact with the nation has hns be been n faithfully kept that the number of plural families Is I decreasing that In process or of time the natural principles must and that the whole agitation on this question is n needless Injurious to th the State Slate and ot of no benefit whatever to the nation Next lIA as to the Question of the slon vr of Utah from the Union as a State That Ia m an without Infraction tion or of the Law of at the land Th Constitution or of the United States for tor the admission ot of new States Into the Union but not for put Jut tins tang any or of them out OUI Even LC It It wee true truo that there have been violations ot of ottile tile lie provisions In ur State C It would olYer no tor such n a course litre was constitutional authority for forIt It Il Laws ore Oft broken In every cery State There Is less les In Utah than thanIn thanIn In almost ery other part of the tha Union There are requirements In the En alling Act concerninG Indian lands and In to taxation Suppose seine orne or of th should not be carried loul uI would the remedy be the exclusion of ilie State flom mm the Union Is Ie there so 10 foolish as to lIuch n a proposition the be no other means ot rectifying th ho wrong ron Our Constitution corn com with the tho Enabling Act In these sa 53 well os as In that under mt mediate consideration Au 11 that was ot or the ti people ot of Utah beon strictly fulfilled nut flut It will be asked Is there no rem remedy edy for tor the Unit United States In case the State ot of Utah wilfully and flagrantly Ignores the agreement In reference to or plural marriages On that point we will quote a little from New York papers The New York Sun I discusses the question at length and of ar I Iter ter giving a brief history ot of the he forms tion or of the tha and Quoting the pro provisions visions Of the Act and ot of the State Constitution It says All that the now new State undertook to todo todo do In respect ct to polygamy WM was to urn 1110 It forever The people adopt c Cl n a Constitution contaIning 1 a double prohibition Tho h act that they have bavo I no been In en forcing It confers no right upon the national government to deny to Utah the privileges of n a State Slate there are lUe seine constitutional obligations which n a State cannot bo be compelled tv to comply with The Tue are required to surrender fugitives from justice from another State yet et there is noway or of enforcing this command in the event Cent ot of n a refusal In the case of Utah how however ever r this tho new State appears to have done nil all she promised the other States so Ho that the talk about an UnfulfIlled compact has no basis In tact fact Whatever happens nil as a result or of the thc cose and that the ary temper temer with which the or of has baa taken It up makes It posy easy to foretell there lit Is no need to fear that Utah will vIii be read out ot of the Union Tho The ew York Man Mail and Express which Is very Cr strongly after having salt uld some very cr severe and unwarranted about Utah beIng with the same rame mistaken ideas a an the Tribune n admits nUts that Utah cannot be thrust out ot of the Union It remarks remark editorially W We agree that nil all talk ot of thrusting CA 1 k Utah out or of th the Union for tor breach ot of contract or for tor tM the c game on the federal government Is t and can serve only to involve unduly tho Issue now before tho ho people It cannot be abandoned too scent Boon BoonIn In favor ot of intelligent concentration Several important points point by the radicals So long as Utah keeps In her Constitution ion tion us she sho does a distinct and ond oc prohibit prohIbition on ot of polygamous or plural marriage the most serious legal charge chorge that can be laId against lien her J is Partial failure In tM the administration or of her fundamental law hut the same ame charge may be laid against other oilier States In r relation lotion to other who talks of expelling thello front from the alter hood of commonwealths Again The Irrevocable provisIon against polygamous marriage bent botn by bythe b I the Enabling Act of C Congress asu eon I or of admission became tI a compact when It was transferred to the State and l by the J people ople 1 Is It possible th t In B a country where civil contracts are so jealously guarde guarded on one party to tho highest t form of thIs he be able to violate its terms It I it chooses and the theother theother other Is b utterly help les ies either to compel performance or a acure se secure cure remedy through to prior conditions al as 1 a penalty Such a thing appears incongruous Hut the declares that tho ot of each State Stat be entitled to ni alt privileges and immunities or of citizens In the sever at States In n no other State are aro th the people fettered us to mArriage marriage laws by bytho b the tho Federal power How then then can the agreement with Utah referred to eing extraordinary and ami Isolated be tonally ot of binIng binding force Lt it cannot and It tR is Vain to make the wish father to the thought Those ore arc the tho views Jews or of Journals that are not favorable towards Utah and that reason from the standpoint tha that the charges against Utah are ara true Even on that hypothesis tho they conclude that tIre the State cannot be ejected or r re reduced to territorial vassalage After awhile they with the ret rest ot of the oun un try wJ will Icar learn the pivotal fact that Utah has religiously und and t faIthfully kept Inviolate the terms ot of the agre agree meat ment wih with the country In reference to the subject that baa hns caused sO much agitation and about which there hM has been so much misunderstanding Utah has n a splendid destiny and that Is Ir Irrevocably irrevocably connected wih with dlo perpetu perpetuIty Ity of the Constitution ard and institutions ot of the tho United States States Th The time wi will coma whon hen that wi will be demon demonstrated beyond dl dispute und for tor the maintenance or of human humon I |
