| Show CONGRESS SS ANn AND tl TUB mc MORMONS During the dIscussion of oC tho the questions raked t l by the opposition against t Sena Senator tor tar Smoot which have hac been more par particularly particularly In relation to the Mormon Church Its doctrines MIl anti government there ther have hao been many extreme extremo and ond i foolish views entertained and cx ox i One of oC the most absurd ia 1111 been ken tio lIO notion that because It Is III FU I anti and alleged that some plural marriages marriage have been entered colored Into by n a nten 1 afew ten few tE Mormons although that thai would be lie In violation of ot n a rule of ot their Church the tho t o whole State Italo of ot Utah maybe may maybe IOn be excluded from the Union Another Just us tie foolish Is e that It If proof J root of ot ruch ruth marriages can cnn bo ho substantiated the tho Mormon may bo ho all disfranchised The Tho power to tl admit new now States Into the Union Is vested In Congress by the Constitution Con from which the national government derives all nil lt its 1111 powers As Asto Asto s sto to tho the expulsion lolI of oC n a State from tho the Union the Constitution In is silent Some of ot tho the foremost lawyers In the United States declare that Congress has no such Huch authority Among mong them Is III Sean Sena Seanor Senator tor or George F i who discussed this matter nutter before Utah became n a nn State n Nor has Congress any tight right to pro lIre proscribe scribe the qualifications of oC voters In a IL sovereign State That prerogative be belongs longs to t each ench State for tor or Itself Tho rho ho power to disfranchise citizens of ot a State Is IB not vested estell In tho the Congress ot of tho the United Slates There are arc som some rash rath and bigoted preachers who do not nut understand these sImple matters and anti also alKo a n number of ot women belonging to religious who sho have been boon clam clamoring clamoring oring for tor or of oC both houses to expel Senator Smoot and tind disfranchise the Mormons nUll anti who cannot wait ait for tor the tho defence or for tor the ease rase before tho the committee to 10 be tin fin finished Commenting on Oil tho ho course of ot collie of ot those uninformed and anti Intolerant intolerant ant persons ons tho the New Orleans States has hns the tho following editorial It seems scenic that the ho Detroit Pastors union have hlo decided decIde to petition Con Congress Congress gress Bress to rescind the tho act admitting Utah to JO statehood because ot of the tho exposure mode made ot of the tho practices of oC tho the Mormon Church The Tho action of ot tho the Pastors Union waie Inspired by b a n zealous but not Judicious expounder of at the gospel who In the nama name of oC Crafts Put Jut both ho and his associates appear to tobo tobe bo ho Ignorant of at the fact that n a 1 state cannot bo ho put out of ot the Union by nn an annet net act of ot Congress and und before borore they the mall their petition to Washington they should read rond up the tho speeches ot of eSen ator Edmunds I who was ns the tho lather father of oC oCtha the tha act net When Whon the Brig Brigham ham ease cuso was waR pending in Con Colt Congress I gress Mr said aid Tho rho Instant tho the State was wan nil admitted every overy net act of ot Congress relating to UH Its Internal policy ceased to have he any force torce whatever Tho consequence Is that In point of ot law the State of ot Utah has tho the I Imo same mo sovereign rights that any Rny other State lute has She Sho may punish h polygamy or unlawful cohabitation or she sho may authorize It She Sho may declare as nil Con Congress Congress gress res line has done clone that Illegitimate chil children dren ciren shah not inherit or she ho may Inny de dc declare declare clare dare as 05 she sho appear to 10 have 1110 done dona sInce item her admission that Illegitimate chit chil children dren shall Inherit on an equal footing fooling with legitimates legitimated The constitution con of ot Utah only prohibits the tho ceremony of ot making a 1 polygamous or plural roar mar tinge It docs not prohibit the tho carry carryIng Ing hlA on of ot relations n There here are a n great Krent many things ns as Mr Edmunds I Indicated In his hIli speech that n a 1 State can do 10 without I coming coining in conflict with the Con Colt Constitution of ot tho Iho United States StaleR anti It Is III well tell to call the atte tion of ot tho the pastors ot of Detroit to the thu fact that lint tho the Constitution points by b which u IL State can be bo put out of ot tho the Union after It has lum once been admitted Edmunds line has a to 1 much bet better better better ter knowledge of ot constitutional con law lawthan la iv than theology rind the tho law he has laid haiti down respecting the tho sovereign rights of ot Utah ns IlK a n State of ot the th American Union Is ls likely like to be discouraging aging to tho the De Dc Detroit troit Pastors Union others who ho have enthusiastically precipitated them solves Into n a against Mormon MormonIsm Ism and amid everything connected with It H HIt It must roust bo he clear cleur to every fair reason reasoner er cr that lint tho the acts nets alleged against n a 1 very er ery fo tew rev Individual none of ot them have ns ne n not rot vot ot been beon proved not hOt to Jo ho bo Justly just construed us as offenses committed either cither h the tM State or by h the tho Church luis uris forbidden them thom by hy law tho time Church has hAIl prohibited them by b u a 1 regu arly lurly adopted rule Even Ben It If they tile tho would constitute cons merely sporadic cases no ns they are Me railed coiled for tOI which tho the Individuals mm concerned oro alone lomie responsible To lo talk of at rescinding the act by b which Utah n a Stain because there thoro have 1110 been HOllie violations ot of its ItH aws Is 18 to utter titter tho the veri CRt nonsense To ro clamor for tor the time of ot many thousands of ot Innocent members of ot n a Church because of ot tho the alleged mis miR rods leeds ot of a n few tow of ot their number U is 1 equally absurd and amid both bolh mite are nt lit variance with lIh tie the genius ot of American govern goern government mont ment anti and proceed fain or Intolerance or both combined |
