| Show t Ai A T m IHm IHmA i 4 A morning paper which la Is the local V organ of oC the t anti Mormon h 9 crusade finds Itself In IlL a quandary on onri ri the question of the cour course by bythe bythe the home of In the h ca The sentiment now gsa Ien I l by the papers ot the countr country is III that n a liMa grave m hAlf ha been bec made and IlL a irest fon per perI I l I which If It nw fled wUl Probably produce further dan cerous to the country So o our ti ever every now no and aad again i to justify and lad ILs own part In the infamous work that haa been done Here Is Its it effort I IT T Congress of hd thUi States In deciding siai ai II a I In Its It I Is el J way naked Mr when whon he 1 the tho threshold of oC the august chamber er 1 a question It If he answers It on oy he will b be admitted without It he refuses ho will probably bo be out The only trouble with That reasoning ia 11 that It Is not Is reo re striated and noo b IC Law of oC th lind lant It has haR no power that thatIs Is 13 HOt oon It J i endowed with the to judge of Ule tle of Its Ita members but those quail are nr either elthor by the Uto Con Itself lf or 11 by tI nt have been In e The Tho of has no right to IlS as to lIp until It has en enacted enacted acted That Is a 11 plain proposItion to ovary person versed nt at all In Inthe inthe the 1 regulations that govern legislative lolIes will assent anent The notion action taken Inthe In Inthe the ease eue was sva In vi ot of this principle and Is so reg regarded by lawyers lavers and LInd Wading editors When Mr lr Roberts d tho Jie 11 was not a question of an any kind kiM That Is a sheer Invention lie Ife stood there and p the peer of ur ovary man In the tho chamber wu was made to his being sworn In Iii lublic opinion which Is RS as the wl wind had been aroused b by and to such uch a that the majority of the mem b lire rs present were afraid of Its probable effects It they failed to give gho to It They noV that the they made a blun bitin tier The Th error would bo be the same samo If they dill dId not so eo It The Won leJon that either nn an excited or mon man who ho su cumb to Its clamor are arc InfallIble Is worthy only of the tho paper the mont moat here lIere Is wh what it says When an any man or paper says that ten to o one of th the members or of Congress regardless dlo i of party vot d for Cor Something that Is pretty nearly that the public r nUm ht of this car carried ned ried out That puts It In much milder erie It has been stated by b th Tribune but It convoys COnes the same Barno Idea expressed b by n a noted antl ormon senator who when whon reminded that a certain measure he wa 11 un unconstitutional Unconstitutional constitutional exclaimed The Tue Con the will 11 of the ve pie that lit is our This Is Isit it d heresy herosy tinder the garb of truth rho fhe vIlI of the people of at the tho United States Slates Is the supreme law when It has bei formulated and expressed In the manner agreed upon b by the pee peo people pie and embodied In the National Con Constitution Not until then Is It anything I Imore more than opinion JL It has hAIl no legal I force Coree It should have no governIng power Public sentiment Is one thing today too a al a l totally dIfferent nt thIng tomorrow It will crown n a naval hero with the via Ic tors ors wreath load hIm with honors fur furnish nish funds to bu buy him a home and In InU U l week reek or two cover COer him with obloquy I and denounce him for his manner of dl the home that was to do o with ns as ho he pleased It will de demand mand with united voice Ice n a man which In another breath It l will eX execrate nod Wh er advocates the doctrine of o fawning before a 11 popular and ignoring law and rule ruic In obedience to a demand or of the moment Is nn an enemy to his Ma country rind and tl t foe to its lis Then The adoption o of such n a dethrone oil all constitutional ty anti brook break Into pl pieces ees the of this Republic It Is the tho JI stell In that llon In the tho 1 cafe which we de deplore l re And that are nrc not alone In this the nurn eroUs crOUS warnings that Issue from the mot moat Influential portions of the American clearly demonstrate We have al already ready rendY pUblished a number ot at articles of tM that t kind an hoo n a great reat many more nt at hand for which we have not space nt At present However to meet the Ule a asser r o of the Tribune wo we will here ap append penI pend two quotations lon This Is from the he Baltimore Sun The House had It In Its to expel ex expel pel Ir dr In a 11 perfectly orderly and legal manner It has seen fit to sub substitute the of lynch law It succumbed to n a sudden udden access of hs bye excitement Although the tho r i gu and lawfully elected tIc Live of n a sovereign State duly accredit od eti W as such and nil as much entitled prima fade to hIs sent seat as the Speaker hIm Ir or any other member or of Congress the House resolves that he shall not be sworn In nn and makes a mockery even of the of oC n a trial b by his case to a tribunal already pledged to member of whIch had I alN voted d for tor the resolution to eX cx elude dude In the he Vote vota which was WAil taken no party part lines were drawn 1 nA and Democrats tumbled over each ench other In their extreme eagerness to purge themselves of the slightest sue sus even of being willing to show Mr ordinary faIr pia play Men prominent In public life liCe who were on record all as having expressed themselves In published IntervIews within the past palt few rew WHIs as In favor Coor of n a different rent And moro marc orderly form torm ot of proc uN un unblushingly unblushIngly blushingly ate theIr own words and voted against their own real 1001 convie We Inke the annexed from n a southern paper the tho Alabama It If the tho case been treated In no 00 with precedents two things would have occurred that have not nol oc an and wIll nut not occur namely Roberts would have been seated be because because cause he holds a certIficate cato of oC else elec lion After he hAd been lila his right to a 11 might have been chat chal but so far nil as precedent goes gool the House should not soy arty what kind hind of a 1 n a State shall scud to These Thol two things have occurred If there had been no ote no In the treatment ot of the case CIBO Utah Is a 11 State Slate She Sho Is also n a Stata without representation N tn In the or of Polygamy Is very err bad the lisa lias no excuse to offer for It but the 0 Jr Do a State is hi more inure dangerous than polygamy is III for tor It Ir II a State ran can he be de In one House of Congress It ron can ho In both It If It Itan Itan an lie be deprIved of on the or of polygamy my It can be on nn any other ground It If n a man oan An b be kept out ot of I a seat berol trial before of any sort because he hM has three wIves 1 he can be kent out be because cause he lus lIas three to s or Is three feet reet high S The entire course or of the ease at pUll pres present ent Is II political It is n a grandstand pia play I It not bf be serious were n a State not and were It Il not 1 a precedent that ma may be quoted III ages agos YC yet unborn In nil sorts of oC cn casos when votes are arc to tobe be sought ought or some purpose to be served As AI II a precedent the refusal of a 11 seat to Roberts Roberta Is a 4 menace to the R C |
