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Show ft ) I I 'J f - i 7 WHAT VVA8 THEtUNDERSTANDp ; H L iua ?l r i r ' v v. P $k, . f . -Considerable controversy-has-been and Is being Indulged lu between the SaltXake.dallleii.U4to.tbe mutual un-tTerMnndlnfT un-tTerMnndlnfT IfUveeil Ihe people or Utah nnd the nation on the qtieittlon of polvRxniy at the tune of the granting ot Jsialtfiiiod; Tho Tribune leads In thb:HSnerllon that the Mormon people have violated the spirit and the Intent of this underaiundliig, Let IM look, at . lit tlajilsthry and fuels In regard to i his" mat ten In .tin address before tho Terrltorlnl Bar Aesoclatlou of Utah In January, itw, Hon 0. 8. Viirlun, lhn a Uopubllcan, n Liberal, nnd a membpr of tho Constitutional Convention, said, referring to Statehood for Utnh; Mn accordance with the, gener.ll convictions con-victions of 'civlllzod tnnn and tho spirit of fno Instlliuloiis, religious liberty will be fully secured by tho organic law and a prohibition against plural or polygamous po-lygamous marriages adopted in deference defer-ence In the suggestion by Congress. Whether It hall evertm stricken from tha cacstltutiou will depend solely up-on up-on the future temper and will of tho people. It will bo observed thnt tho actual polygamous status, or living with to or moro women as wives, known In Utah as a criminal offetiMo termed 'unlawful cohabitation1, is not referred to In tho proviso of tho enabling enab-ling act. Whether 'the constitution builders will content themselves wtb prohibiting polygamous marriages or will go further and proscribe the polygamous polyg-amous association also wll be developed devel-oped In time." It will bo noted by Mr. Vurian's statement that polygamous relations were not referred to In the enabling net! It .will also be noted tliaUhe enn-stlttttlon enn-stlttttlon of Utah while prohibiting rutin ru-tin o polygamous marriages, does not rpfor lo relations with former polygamous polyga-mous wives, married beforo tho uiant-fuslh'nnd uiant-fuslh'nnd Statehood. Tho vencrablo editor of the Salt Lako Tribune was a mcmhor of that titate Constitutional. Jonveutl'in nnd supported this provision, provi-sion, nud eloquently defended tbe people peo-ple of U.tab against the Insinuation thnt polygameus, mairliigoa would be oulebrnted lu Utah If Statehood was granted. No evidence has ever been produced! in show that nliy polygamous mnrrpiecH have been celebrated in Utah1 since Statehood, nud wo enn consequently iimlnaii that the pcoplo or tllnh are living up to our Stato con-stltutlon con-stltutlon In that respept and doing all tjiat wax. Implied in thcuoderstunding With tho nation. A change has come over tho Tribune however, A Democrat Demo-crat has been elected to Congress, and because it la asserted that before Statehood State-hood be married moro than jjiiq wife tbe Tribune Is buy dunging 1(10 Mormon Mor-mon people with a breach pf ,frtth It. is pollitqa with tho Trlbuuo; aud not principle. Tho proof is eay when wo recollect Ihrtt tho 'great" Salt Lako dully has ardently Hiipportcd Republi-cans Republi-cans agi.IuBt whom the sumo allegations allega-tions was made. Now as to another phase of? this "understanding' with jtljp nutnn." At tho tluio of Smtohood no oubelloved thut.iucmbers. of th.o Mormon Mor-mon ctiuich whdhad heretofore', nar-riot! nar-riot! plural wives and begutteu chlldreu would desert tliosd wives nnd chl.drop. The tuau who would da bo Is yore, thAn a brute. Wo do n$t .bellcvo In, polygamy:, neither do We believe, in. the (lusottlon (if u family taken, at theitltuo of a general religious belief Ini this. Statu of that prlnclplo. The quustlop Is ilghijog ltselt as rapidly us possible No iiolygamous unlrrUgcs' am belmr colebrated mijl4(wlIth1,tio passing pf tho elder.goiiorallpn. all wlU'.bQ fulty sot-, tledU The cjiarapter of trjo Trjbuns fhjht is not. holplng Jo rig)!?, it lipwevvor. Wericel no, henltancy Jn saying that Utuh h)iHjf9pvaU,h wih the, nutlop, both h j.ti poutracKnpd Implcd, uudqr-standing,, uudqr-standing,, . , ( |