| Show A legislative commission AND THEN THE N WHAT the election returns have bom been canvassed A clean liy by lie ile peoples parly is now chov shown it by tile llie record certificates of 0 clec tiou ire are being issued to the candidates dales chosen from that baity winch which aa ashore heretofore continues to control the territory A member of the utah lately remarked that in ili his belief no law ever passed by Con congress ress had been more thoroughly enforced enior enforced ced than had been the edmunds law full yet thu be hopes bores that were founded in that law have I 1 become I 1 AS ai tile de delusion lasion of a hungry man maa who nho drea dreame meth lh and behold he ca c but he and his seat 13 is empty by means of the edmunds law a great wrong has been done fifteen teen thou thousand people have been rt at tainted of and punished for crime without the production of ft a particle of evidence against them and without any form or pretense of judicial 3 i more dangerous precedent was never placed upon tile the statute boo books of lily any nation possessing a system of civilized jurisprudence and yet the peoples party continue to prevail in utah territory if 1 mormonism vs is to lie be put pill down and polygamy abolished the government of the territory must be given into the hands of us its gentiles is the impudent assertion and demand of a certain non Mon monnon element when asked what means they would propose to effect this transfer of power they reply A legislative commission A legislative commission is today to day the dream of the anti I 1 mormon m ormon t agitator in utah and elsewhere it is regarded 0 as the infallible specific tor for the alleged evils of mormonism and polygamy but bat we are not afraid to predict that if the experiment peri ment ill h tried it will prove a failure ure why because in ia order to effect the destruction or suppression 0 of mormonism the le legislative commission would need neet authority to prohibit libit tile the mormons cormons Mor mons from engaging in ill public family or scent wo worship we do not believe that the american congress will gill ever I 1 vote to confer such power were such a law passed it could never be enforced for obvious reasons ad la ili order to abolish poleg polygamy gaffy I 1 power would be required to tear asunder by force husbands and wives and to keep themi them apart rrt by forcible means congressmen are not cruel enough to vote for a law making such atrocities possible ad in order to check the growth ot of mormonism a legislative commission would require both the authority laid and ability to pran present cut the migration of mormons cormons from one part bartor of the country to another ropo rope to JEnc america rica and from the spirit world to this were congress ever so 80 willingly disposed it could not outer confer such power slid and executive capacity as tins this dpn any body of 0 men lib A legislative I 1 may rob the people plunder public treasuries ami possibly imprison a goodly number of suspected or cou coll evicted polygamists hut but robbing plundering and imprisoning mor mons will A ill not suffice eunice to suppress their rc religion ligion unless the entire populate are arc placed in durance which Is ij impracticable till for a legislate c commission assou to lo suppress and abolish polygamy would require them to be ed with an authority ant and executive which congress itself 1 does doca riot not possess aud and could not exercise were its billings held in aelic the capital of utah gill though the constitution be entirely disregarded as it is riot not tin lin lakely that it il will III c to be in the future of tile the mormon question while tile alic Republic rul party continues con linuci iu in power Cou congress rass never mill because it never tau cau conter confer power upon a legislative commis sion that will enable them to suppress or abolish the religious tiona of the lattin day saints the failure ol of a legislative commission to lire objects de by tuc the press and priests ot of the country and especially ally by the anop anti mormon monnon agitators of utah in relation to monism is a foregone conclusion it aill prove as complete a failure As ai has the ell ed law any annn of and intelligent judgement jud gement can foresee this hence to abc save time linic tile enemies of the mormon people may its as well be trying to find an an nhsn assiter cr to the conundrum after a legis litno a what |
