Show THE CHICAGO TIMES AND THE EDMUNDS LAW wo reproduce in full the editorial comments contained in a recent issue of the chicago times fluent ament the edmunds law final and utah affairs gener acner till billj T the sapient Ailo sopher referred to is the editor of 0 tile the salt like lake tribune the folly and ille illegality edity of whose choso methods for governing utah tire are partially shown liy by ti the times the times has its own ova way of treating this topic which might be improved in some respects but till all thin things considered it shows a tolerably clear conception of the tha situation in this territory orv it alludes to the utah commission as consisting of three instead of five members the reference in the article to the botin voting of the flock dock of fl ires is false also nit an error as women as well as men crigna engaged C d in al the practice of plural mar marriage riago were dis franchised its comme comments on the constitutional aspects of the mormon formon question uc stion are remarkably sound and will commend hiir themselves as such to ILI all intelligent readers A ho he jim ha ca 0 ever reflected on oil the principles and pron pro inions of the american constitution relation relating to this question here is the article the tain in relic lu in utah still prevails pre vaila the enactment ol of hits has not a any act than the enactment ol of 1562 tho the expect aLlous of its ila author and its over zolona advocates M ho he waited assured us in be 0 bt a terms that it n as a measure to stamp out poly jimy lay po ito has 1 not been out even ir ven the ac poll political Lical dominion ol of poly polygamy gainy in utah lias has not been broken ahe normon church roil rod the state are still one mormons cormons m ito m bother thuy they practice poly ginly or not uphold it as a divlus ate hill tailors it la that province ilic provincial adinie is ii N tt holly iu in their hands 1 alio llio I he measure illch kiib was going to orest ft rest tho the provincial government ironi from their grap and roll relegate gate them condition of 0 a proscribed ol of society has hai proven a complete failure it is a failure the more not to say ridiculous lit in the elie fact tint that it his has I 1 iu u some alic measure asure resulted aiom tho the attitude ind and action of tho elio moi met mon man wo we men la utah III all w n tm as well as all men are voters though though it la it said that the lie bulli bulk of 0 the Gea gentile acuti normon women are too womanly woin auly to practice that ollace mornion women it is not so fo AU all the mormon hormon women nomen vote perhaps early and bateu eppo clank fialty when tle the election id fit nor aut tri anner conic es the interest ol of their church or its peculiar ic cullar matrimonial tenet still and that abat la Is pretty aure to bo alie case with every election la in mormon nOMel IRrO to ft a man ebether the ind bolund woman pos a whole man or only a traction fraction ol of one wherefore nt at the recent provincial election to which chich the edmunda Edmu uda acar let was applied under trader tile personal direction of 0 the three con grOnal polygamy tho the mormon nal women came out lit their toil full strength the I 1 be remit was mas that tho the out antl F polygamy candidates can didaKa were lost fight of in the majority by every M mormon candidate wits returned return edi and every anti moi ninn candidate ie ic jector nio ilia forlorn gentile ot of tile masculine render gendert davial hut but a single y tote and even it if mattle I 1 to in creaK lib voting account ol 01 tho the refusal ol of lila laid better liala to have anything to do with the dirty business ol of politics limit had so no chance agato t tho the mornion who mho even it lie did not personally defy the ilic pains balna and penalties ot of mr Edmi legislative nostrum noe trum could exert the ilia vo taug power 0 1 a I whole flockoi nock of wives never lias ilia been tho the of lor for social ills were mr strikingly shown the ilia idling women 0 of laughed to very tho ilia nise political ine of illus state for alje extirpation of joiy polygamy atu and voted tip lip llma of c ibo lu spite ot the pon er put forth by the gi eat american Anic congress conc reis to it the obvious laki cuce filin aloin these facts Is that olyamp poly oly amy garay in utah is iii rooted land and buttressed not so 60 much la in tiny religious lust of 0 men cincu as in the emotional curt lonal nature of women anyone who aillo luay consider tile luc matter can auak ardly C conviction such Is 1 the case bual would debult ft that tile bulk of abe women of d usla utah or even the alic WIN enolal minority mho lio give ive alio llio leading tone the lie cut cast ot or ideas lit in till the social bere hostile to the kintly institution no observant per aou on ijas has need to be told n hat bat tho the result would be or alint it speedily will mill be whenever tio tho family fir nily par p ir its ila amale iala members begin to loto lose social caste not all ilia religious preaching ot of fall all tile the robust robua nor men el cl durs caa cag sae asaNe polygamy lyuben teben that con coil dallon appears aud and out all live that condren may pie lite scribe call eradicate it until that condl lien appears m i hon hen there A v ill be no occa flat eion fair such 0 it is I 1 the loftlee of go goi to govern bays y at balt late land and it if it Is proper for or conein meet to enforce its laws v n hy by not licit lie do 10 it the I philosopher I 1 growling because all the lor for tile tho utah disease or been anili ailed as the salt like lake it L one boic prescription ot of special be tried natu namely ely tile legislative l 1 l and it that should should fall mai bial hawl for the social nodal evil la is la keeping ing a harem of if bernale noncom non com b bati QU martial be I 1 etc but bait lint ian it would prove ally than llian tile the legible uvo five ellich has bai so oui y failed admits not lint of 0 a rational belief c ilia three political doctor appointed U he bv the president ilent to UT tier the h remedy all admit that it has hail fat ailed ad but thoy do not ic commend tile military treatment which tile alt lul lao a raould their falth in the of 0 ib i not ot by patt pat failures they n ill I 1 to n ian ali W a e 0 of some lucre P I 1 fand I 1 e it alink I 1 I 1 law 1 illch shall make illegal und laid old oid all inai celebrated other le ie I l e tunit tonii iia fit therein pro proud ideal cd I 1 HU act from lot I 1 r all but bait iti tho a legal n to raid filial all lint t her off offering pring m and ami nit nil not net li nitting m RIO hie elect at office to pi nona ot of tins tile Inase lillne gender by these three it tho elio coll cn CIA fondly believe witt the bo trentin nit provo when lite edistina is 11 statute f passed lite III ahnes stated bl ikhil among lea oil for biting its in failure its ita offensive of c Flie cial it WAS wi an at nit I 1 tilt acted by ill abo national legisla title not net nit nil cu incompatible vi ilia the general m effii a m it dolbt bo be practiced but bait iwilda tile pontico of 0 that lint in ill one ODO particular lo ica calita it was waa not made applicable even to 10 tilt ill of tile class of called cill cil nor ilor foods but only to those dwelling duelling du elling in illah laloli thug it was waa an net act by ulich ul w ilca ich the national b selected a swall bee ion of 0 lind and let bet them apai t from all it others mil 01 special pedal objects of 0 the be nit in atla it bad every carry appearance every character of nit an bit act klepi ot ci becu till it it deliberate d 5 n not to treat that particular group ol of citizens upon ft idill fisit t basis i at 0 equality beffie lie lw ANY m valli nu all citizen na not to awake them led fee that I 1 bey in arre ere a pai t 1001 society governed under the battle baine equitable lani toil regulation lu ill na parts of be land but to deal 1 n I ith them as A class ibid and from roin t lie operation ol of that equal mid and exact I 1 to OR au m bah nna IV time the boadt tit of american traders consalus con ibbs talus no BO record of say any people ruce or group that lias has bee been brought under v subjection or into imo rant cable clatious Olat il allous ious to any ruling power by that u alliod had there been no other ressor a for its in failure in utah 1 tali it most have failed for that reason anil and yet utah coin commissioners propose ire to continue and to e extend tend that to lu tile and wrong method instead ot of it a general gC Boril it applicable alile alike to all Aale american rican instead of A 0 n I 1 lw law of dower doner and inheritance age instead era of it n general law limiting tile electoral loftice to masculine per B hat bat jhc thc aliey Y ll proposals 13 that congress shall altal aliu tb three re C damits proscriptive prescriptive and plant tivo statutes ol of these illy ally at the ile little group of citizens called hime been apart from till all other inhabitants of 0 the annd and for or objects ot if governmental there Is that in the averne average ge character ot of the Adlea american rIcAn leopla n m bc lit dues does not incline them to pasho submission to tills ala mode ot of governo icat still less to loic loe and ol of it it is laMell it tbt it ilistine it istine is abo only noty ot of built rule that tins this people poises sea it is the ile only a obstacle this can call ever hope to effect il c it unjust rud lule etli it 1 ono one ot of the lie most convincing e of the fitness of 0 the elie still part part of the inhabitants of utah that they lavo bare boom neither captivated nor subdued by this ibis prospective prospects a mode of 0 government y jt t encourages the belief abatt how bow fir fat a 0 it may be ati bed it m will ill anit oil only failure as it it ill fitilis the office of government to govern C r n but it Is not tile office of gon ero u nickit w n to 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