| Show it lm Ill r I In the United the ot or more one wire wife 1 a aman man to it In Congress to pu It orn em tp us that the oa oaS is hi simply a II as to hI h Is a polygamIst If lie hI Is the ohn ate are JI Is will not be IJ seated Ir IC Irh ICh h Is not lie ho w 11 b se Certainly can eRn ob object eat t th t unless It be tome ome bIJ who In UI tbt t polygamy Is not on an ren a the of t the United States We have haTh copied these sentences from froma n a loa Icing editorial In the Idaho There are ro other lher pape I that seem Mm to be tall fair In theIr of thIs CAse which Ire are In similar error I Every editor ought to it IC he dose noL hot know lenow that timers there Is no provision In the or the lawS of the United States which to lD rep relent U n soVereign State from sitting In III Congress because ot of his hilS of oC then than one wit wife lie Ite should also that pOlygamy Is not an offense a against time tho laws of the tho United States In an any State of th the Union The acts of Congre In reference to that t subject were JIRM l to bo be opera tire In any aimy Territory or other place over h the United States exercised ox ex jurisdiction They lIev applied or were intended to apply to II a State The They have hlo no force toree now Ow In Utah be because e cause she Is I n State of oC the Union on on an with every other State Thy They dIsfranchised In Ter Territories Territories but when the Act was passed paned for Cor Utah that disability was rom removed Utah was required 1 to In insert rt I Ia a proviso In ber Iet prohibit prohibiting Ing further marriages nut But she sho was not required to make any restrictive restrictive tive provisions concerning the el tI e or the Ight to hold holl oI ce Time The ot of more than one wife Is obnoxious to the majority or of the tho pee pIe ot of the United States no doubt flut ut public opinion Is not In law until It ItIs itIs Is formulated Into a duly enacted sta statute tute These Is no such enactment tB ra that Imagined by the Enterprise lC If was nl anything or the kind exist tag Ing when hen th the Representative from roam Utah pre presented In the House th there re would have b been no need for Cor the unprecedented revolutionary and hasty ac action tk tion n to his takIng the seat to whIch he was elected lie had exactly the same right before the law to be sworn In as nn an other who took the oath of oC office These are simple matters ot of fact and ot of In law Our contemporaries who ho do not so fiO understand them can verify them I with but little trouble It Ie the they still i persist In their incorrect notions let thorn them IlIO produce uce the la law or rule which disqualifies the possessor or of moro more than one wire wife to sit In Congress also time the statute that polygamy In any State of oC the Union an offense ortense against th tim laws of oC the United States Time The chances Are that the tho from Utah will not be seated But that will be not because there thero Is any law to shut him out but because men who have hae taken n a solemn oath to sup BUP support port th the Constitution and laws ot of the United moro more or of th the threat threatening ening lash f publIc opinion than or of that 8 solemn Obligation and ami the dictates of sacred The demands of oC the churches backed b by the uproar Itt of Ig ignorant have hae iu the majesty of the law rind thus mob rule with religious dictation hold sway aWby to today tiny day In the exalted precincts ot of the |
