Show THIS IIII 1111 m Header of tho tio Demerit I News cH have 1 Informed the llio renewed Attempt ot or tho Ministerial Association In Ibis tit I city lIy to the public mint mind mindIn In tile the tIt Kant ant ond also Ill o to 10 bring n prea mm lo boar upon Congress In reference to tj t polygamy In Utah Tho latest ef of effort fort nf nr kind Is I a n raking up u of 01 o dead eI made p by tho ho slon of thu tha work worl they claimed tl jo t rim performed nearly twenty ago at alt have been culled over In order ID tO Glean GIn on some porno figures which could be bl b by b deft manipulation to ti bear out tim tIll of ot that holly body l that at lit tho h time of lit tho passage of ot tha tho Ait lt of ot tim thu turmoIl voi vo 10 which h these reverend gentlemen place lae at al were er disfranchised and they bring bEIng forward In opposition 10 In the which ION his been frequently adduced that comparatively few tew ot of llio ho li In lii the 4 of II observe thu croft trott displayed In this thie contention Tho small mall pro which lins ho Ine been HO frequently fr i in 11 as In lit well welt known woe was placed In with the lOlU J LATION These The o gentlemen an ns they limy think t Ingeniously but certainly Hot hoc 11 Ingenuously compare the computed f I figure of the Iho Utah Commission COlli missIon no 10 I exaggerated with tho the of ot u II very er different linn Tho rho report of or the Utah I from which they pretend l to IQ U te M The total number of ot r gl woj voters Is la t of ot whom no coil 1449 are arc females not and till the Commission dimply argued that It rp ep pears JIMIA that about men mon ond women were wen excluded from registration by byre ren relt renson son Ion of ot polygamy Tho Tile Commission ad oti admitted that many ninny Gentile its ite well ns RY Morons torone refrained from registration re under Inder the new nol law nut placed the pop 1101 population fiction of ot the Territory at about JW J i JOlIO OW OlIO ooOO being belne non The Tile commission furnished the Iho figures S the tile result of or the Diet election for tor Delegate to 10 untIe the tho Act Art and their new lIew tion oath From ron o we can cnn see what w was s the rent real Mormon vole ole Their report leport states that John T Calne Caine Mormon received 2303 voles otee And T P Van Yon Bile These figures are nrc not lint accurate a U defect detect to be found In many statement made by b that body bo In III reports to Connies The returns of ot th the Nov No Nom ny emer m er election of ot November 7 1 ISM 1811 JIH itri I may be sert In the tile of ot the Score ot at State show a ii total of at votes oles I coM cast November 7 1 1882 1582 as RR a Tho total t tal vote cost cool In November 3 18 IStO 0 wile wag wilet t Thus ThuI there woe was a n Instead of ot a loss JaRS nt III the polls after the th passage of ot the Edmunds J Act find And the tho enforcement of ot the t test teal st oath formu by b Commission lon Th The gentlemen comprising that body never furnished he 1111 data Into on which they based their opinion that thet I they had succeeded In lii disfranchising men ant and women because e of ot polygamy There were n a number of ot oft t persons prevented Pr from froni voting who were vere not nol at al the tile time of ut the election In III polygamy The fbi theory or of tho th Commission was Once OliN a II polygamist 4 11 a A majority 1 of ot that body decided that any person paron Who vho at nl any nn time sine since July 1 I UW 1882 I had ad lived In III ix relations reIn lion was wast t not entitled I to vote 01 Thus Thull m men n Who ho V Were ero In Ill 1552 without a n cit ami and women omen Who were well widows widow were Vere prevented trod from voting and nn were yere Included In tn the 1000 Everybody J who for tur any cause retrained from finin registering for tor or the election of was wai counted count In 1 file llio number Mild MItI to toI be he disfranchise I because of ot polygamy The Tb Supreme Court Coutt of ut the th United States I Jy rectified that wrong Judge A AI t H C a n member of or the theL L Utah for tor IMn yeara In MB book an nn Account of 11 the do doIngs doIngs Ings Inga of or that body bod with many Ing lilts hIts ot of Information obtained during I n a mpg long e In tates Qt the whole Mormon population In Utah I only n a very ory small per pr cent lent are Art In po pa polygamy l and of ot th tile the adult mules melee from 85 to 65 liS per cent are an re not living In n a po pa relation The Utah Com Corn Commission CommisSIon mission In iTt Its report nf October fr M ao argued this way 1 Every married Mormon who takes takee but one plural wife loses losel three Ihrl votes for tor his hi party lIla hi lIlaI I own and those of ot his hie hi two tO wl woman suffrage b III e by tY law In Utah tah It w wall wu wuen tn en this basis that the th calculation wa wee made establishing the th small percent ege of ot to 10 the population at t that lime Th t term rm wee wait defined by b law to lu mean neall a t per person peron person son on having a U husband or ltv living Who marry any an oth i Whether married or dug in ii a Terri Territory tory toU Pf PC the United tat oti et The Che law applied in In Utah to 10 mn nun Ih h had hadI I married plural wll omen did dl n t mary plural husbands husband Tho Th pi pc r I of III 1141 l io to Ie population WAS 11 i thi III I I i ili i UK Il II IlI UA I in hi In I Il lif puhl ti t 1111 u Li N SI IY N It n i III lii IMI III the Hit Ih made fill en error In their file he 1111 III lie r I od tt lIl nearly harl or oi quite n per ller COOL Ion lint Hut In Iii mi their r port on Oil PIR 2 3 WI Vs V luie o tile the of ot voter mule mala and ha hUH haw both beell by rol of t nt nl 1 and Rn nd there In Is a It III In III In utah y nl used lived till ilie words marly or 01 quite Y Yet t mi ill p 0 2 a of or th iii r port they th Ih the orthodox Mormons Mormon of IU polygamy Is ii I u g gIt purl of nt It their faith ill and while but buta a II of ut till tue adult hu en Ill enl tr l ri il ii IlIla relation f III nil th the faithful believe In Ill It II al ni a i levela v Itoh Thu rhu U II 1111 A SOR lion 1011 In Its II IllIng resolution tion did not quote quoc that from the Ihl report of or Im WhAt they III tl lilt d ul to 0 cite In ill h not Hot In lii th Ih the report of ot liSt they pretend to Hive gIe tile the pages on nn which they Ih tile found their assertion l Put nut the thu Is Ii 1 asked on ev ry hand among who have paid ny 10 lo the effait nf ot If the tue lelH Is 18 what tin hIli litti their retroactive retrospective to 10 do ito with lIh the tha ont of ut Utah h is IA their resolution re to II the tue figures by land lund o nil cc io to o the till rapid decline In Ill the number of ot polygamous families In he the and atit UH Ite present COils 1 WI lb tile the population t bit W We Ve will state for or tile the no lit of 01 out our that his Of were went obtained after Ih the most rigid investigation Instituted IrI for tur forthe the tile purpose of ot learning accurately th tile condition lit It affairs securing In ill Information formation positively reliable fill Tho CUll cnn be lie depended upon whereat whereas the h adopted a by the Ministerial was wn bused beset upon Ullon n II I crafty crotty and 1101 deceptive computation by ii an nn who vho ho many years Y ugo ego was Ill convicted by lIy th the tha thaDe De New Neww of wilfully W II about till the in Ill n II prominent maga magazine 11 zInc zine 11 no accused the ito Mormons of ut setting Hulling fIre la to n a chapel when the IIII ti foot wu sus proved beyond bo sue suc successful by members member of or I tutu that denomination loll that the tile Mormons welo Instrumental in ll Having caving the Iho built build buildIng Ing lug from and had nothing to tu do with lIh the th conflagration Wo S never learned that ho III over attempt attempted ed itt to tn retract ills hit falsehood us liS to 10 that matter mattel or to 10 others othorN of at a it similar char character actor acter of ot which he lIP was guilty If It It Il were vero worth woith while wo we could ml lid duce duee plenty of ot evidence In of ot tile the of ot th II Utah loll which the tue have hav Ignored that hut hill a n small of the tho lf Mormon population actually into the tho that Is la really a u dead Issue tint and 1 v va now touch upon It simply It been h brought out of 01 UH Ui grave by liy n a body of ot Christian ministers for tor tile ot of arous arousIng Ing Irig prejudice nuel Inciting hostility against a Church and a n people who lO tilt dif differ tel for from th In III matters of u faith but huC I Iwho who Wilt are yet t sincere believers In Ill Jesus Jostle Christ an n th tile of at mankind and nOli andare are laboring for tor the of oC the tho whole human race If It the tho Ministerial Association of ot this city ity cannot n a Held field for I their pious exertions In III tho the promulgation tion of ot Ih lr own ll doctrines we so advise them to bo lie n a little more mora careful when dabbling In tho thic murky pool 1001 In III which figures gloAt t that have been prepared by byAn so An unreliable ond anti tricky n II hand OR as the tho author of ot their latest |