Show 19 1 TOR I 1 A LS HERE HEBE are two ideas in regard to the solution of the mormon question 11 which we find in the colorado ulner miner the solution of the mormon question will never be accomplished by prosecuting them before legal tribunals for their polygamous habits settle settie up the country with gentile population overpower the mormons cormons at the ballot box andt arid hie the great groat work of rooting out the many wife system will be thoroughly done forever iet let government encourage emigration to utah by giving to actual settlers a section of land to all married ti persons and a half section to bachelors and unmarried women this M method ethod will work the peaceable solution of the mormon ddn question in a short time the first idea that the solution will ivill never be accomplished by prose buting the mormons cormons Mor mons persecuting them would be a more proper term for such indeed it is stripping it of all disguise and letting the proceedings appear in all their naked deformity is jua tand tAUd true it is expecting altogether too much if it is expected that the doctrine and custom of plural marriage when believed and auld practiced as a portion of the religion of a community which beyond all controversy is the ease case with the latte latter r day saints will be abolished by vexatious and malicious laif lair lawsuits suits such an extinguishment of a great principle a principle of vast antiquity and very widely prevalent acceptance in all ages is not reasonable is riot probable ld and perhaps we might say no not nol possible iw it is not in the nature of things that malicious proscription legal or illegal i to destroy a people by destroying a fundamental principle of their religion should be success successful ful fal and if successful it would atwould brand the baws of the perpetrators of the infamy with a more arnore odious mark than that which was set upon cain it appears to be a favorite subterfuge with many of those who are operating in the tho crusade against mar mon monism lang to profess that they are not operating but merely executing the law lawe they tiley evidently are very anxious to carry autan out an odious law a rather than backward todo so and ano t they h e donot care a straw what ida injustice ustice it hey they perpetrate in their work justice ia not what they wish to execute if they did they would act very differently to what they do if they had haa lived in the days of they would have been adit just as forward fonward to carry out buthis his senseless edicts althey are in the present crusade if they had livern the thib time of herdd erod they would have been among those who carried out his decrees because they aresa ere are so very anxious to execute the law jaw let iet if bb wholesome or pestiferous of courso if ff you xe dute date thelah the Jawand and the daw lawis Is infamous in may be that the law will iii be repeal bub but that wilnot restore tho the blood shed the time timo wasted jhb substance eaten up zip nor maker amends for the ohe annoyance and distress caused b by y the execution of the law somebody b ody must be held responsible for all t thib this hibe before foie toie the bar of justice and AV al though thought the hd perpetrators of the infamy mav may may wash their holy hands ed ence pilate like yet yeh that wiki wiil not justify them for having having hiving an any IV hand in the iniquitous proceedings edings the deaf must bidge be bb paid the aton atonement made by some somebody booy an and herein lathe reason that buch such su oh p tion can not be ultimately successful justice will not nol permit vermit it there thre is a it wrong done dond and it must be righted truth is trampled underfoot bul bui it cannot be destroyed for truth finally is omnipotent and in the nature of things musi must it prevail a germ of deathless vitality is warred against but aa as it cannot be killed it will eventually outwear out wear and outlive end triumph overall oye rall opposition in the second place the anner inner presents a very good idea in the proposition forche government to give actual settlers in utah if married a section efland of land if unmarried whether bachelors oi or maids or widows half balf haifa halfa a sect beet section ic n we will vote for that proposition bui nui but nut then we must give our vote insert t justice to the heroic settlers the blai bua bum nide fide settlers bottlers now it would not be j u to begin with itaho the settlers of 1871 no the only proper way would be to begil begh with the settlers of 1849 1819 and follow jhb years down to td the present date th jhb older settlers were far more worthy of buchl inich substantial encouragement thant than bre are are th these gsg of thib thia ils present presen year yean for le hb the country try was to be worth bith nothing then sut lut but now it Is considered very valuable then the discourage ments were numerous and great now the encouragements preponderate decidedly let the grants be made but begin at the beginning and not at the end the wrong end of the business make a good and straightforward and upright work of it and then bee see who will triumph at the ballot to justice strict justice we never demur A to the ghe editor of ot me the I 1 deseret news 1 I sir permit me to ask you in gb good d faith and in all candor the following questions FIRST IP IF polygamy a erime crime according in to the statute law jaw of the land laud second second if it is are not tha the courts and off omm meers officers ef of the law flaw bound by their duty and by their oaths to enforce the law against polygamy just as any other act made criminal bylaw THIRD what would you yon think of judges that should wholly ignore any other act not made criminal by law when brought to their notice FOURTH if then it Is the duty of the courts to reform the law whatever difference of opinion there might be as to its propriety or justice how bow can the said courts be reasonably censured now I 1 ask these questions in perfect good falth faith and shall be glad to have an equally candid reply FRIEND OF HUMAN HUMANITY tiie THE writer of the above communication has addressed us anonymously without furnishing furni abing us his real name we are not therefore under any obligation to reply to his inquiry inquiries es but bat as he sa bays says 9 he asks in good faith and re quests s an answer in equal candor we waive our usual custom and reply to him reply to question no nol 1 for the first time tiffie in the history of the country r a law was passed in 1862 making the practice of a religious doctrine a crime that law has been viewed by many s bound sound jurists whose sympathies have not been with the religion asal asai assailed led as unconstitutional of course the people against whose faith we the law was levelled bevelled level levei led have always heid held beld that the law was a palpable violation of the first amend amendment men t bf tafel con 6 titu tion which says that make no law respecting gitig an establishment of religion or prohibiting prohibit in g the free e exercise thiard thereof 71 1 2 the courts and officers of the law are ure bound by their duty and ind by their oaths to td uphold law and not to violate it to sustain the liberties of the people ciotto not nol to assail them if they them their oaths they will not perpetrate 1 actual actu wrong to correct seeming wrong they will not through eagerness to tor ret remove nove an evil so called be bb guilty of greater and diore moore dangerous evils reply to tono no 3 friend lo 10 humanity asari us in this a very avery direct ides tion aa and aud d it Is one that covers covers the position tion abw occupied a by certain officials in this territory cannot he see bee that in their anxiety to reach fand and punish certain ertain brt ert aln ain practices lees ices they close their eyes j to the existe existence ribel of glaring crimes brimes and that they have wholly ignored those Stath statutes les leg which whick would interfere with ith the successful chir carrying ying out oy thel schemes wh whale jie jle they vave have ha ya gli gleveri glinik ere elk eik prominence bonfi and ana norce noree to those thoa Sta statutes which v are likely to sarve serve theli their purpose by such conduce we t think i th they ey have bave jex x posed themselves reply to no 4 censure of bf t the he courts hab has been express expressed edi it is as not for enforcing but for rde violating the we T have thus endeavored to comply with our correspondents 1 request re and give a reply to I 1 h hla hia I a ques questions t lond lodd but Q doubtless perceives th iha the tho they yak yat are not noe germane ermane to thie the caseb cases at present at issue in the courts SOMEHOW or other when peo people te attack attick mol Moi mormonism mormonism monism it seems as if f their good sense and good judgment t such as they have are taken away from them if it is not 96 so what can pe jae the teason reason that they make such inconsistent and unwise assertions aithea fie frequently quent do when they are s speaking eail eael n i upon that subject theother the other tay zay day dax among some extracts which we made madam from the philadelphia adelphia a cpr r w was the following now best of all mormon jurors are an ek excluded eluded from theodry the jury lury jok box joi I 1 I 1 any mau man possess possessing lb g d a grain of bf goba sense fairness love lovo of j justice ostice would at onee once consider that the writer of the above was in anun an unsound unbound 8 state of mind what is an hobb honest aman man to rejoice oyer inthe in ii the fact that a 4 community are arbitrarily excluded from the I 1 jury box in id enlightened ani ari re republic I 1 aublib like the thi united St states lites ittes Is lanott letl huoh hueh excle slon elon equivalent to the arbitrary abolishment of juries and the institution of despotic and irresponsible trial which chich would be woree worse than martial lawor law or the court of judge lynch Is there anything for congratulation in such bach a state of things and especially when the people BO so abused constitute all till but a beall fraction of the community and the community especially the ao so abused portion of it by common consent of candid and well informed men is laone one of the soberest quie quietest most industrious most moral moril most law abiding and and order loving communities inthe lathe in the laud land one would think it utterly impossible for any justice loving mau man indeed for any sane man inan to make such guch an observation as the one quoted from the theoress Press why should an american glory in the fact hect that nine tenths of the community are ate excluded from the jury box without conviction without trial without being charged with criminality but solely because they will not deny their religion and their god let any sober minded man reflect for a few minutes upon the nature of the principle and the policy involved in the above quotation the jubilation of the press is over the fact that the mor mons aro are excluded would not the cormons mormons Mor mons have equal right to rejoice if Metho methodists dista were excluded the methodists if the catholics were excluded the catholics if protestants were excluded how would the press man like to read in his bia own paper now best beat of al all nil 1 Cit catholic holle jurors are excluded from the jury box now beat best of all methodist jurors juron are excluded from the jury box t now best beat of alli nili all ail baptist jurors are excluded from flom the jury jary box and all this could be done with as much reason as similar things are done regarding the mormons cormons Mor mons and add more if such unwarrantable exclusion be permitted 4 against the mormons cormons Mor mons it will ere long be instituted against other religious bodies and the precedent pie will be thew there them to give force and prestige to further extension of the policy if it is in the the tha choice of men whether of or northey nod not they khali khail commence to work iniquity it lit ri la not within the compass of discretion where the iniquity will eldnor wh omits blighting effects will reach QUESTIONS olg olm ANSWERED the onitha he fald of the has the following Omaha ma hot act merald Herald I 1 d please answer answer these two questions ID do I 1 you bel bei believe belleve leive in the divine divino origin t of polygamy i do lyon lyou believe belleve that your friends brigham young and george Q cannon think the revelation ro more moro than a sham asham and a lie ale baals all we grant want to know this time corinne Oo finne rinne or furj these questions Ions lons were probably probable considered reporter deporter the girst first one onen in in thise thi th ise iso lse was asked without know knowledge le d e that the herald ion lon long iong g ago I 1 nevile revile reviewed W ed tm and 9 denounced polygamy in a as severe seabre terms as its poor in use so of language an guage enabled it to do doi its editor denoun denonn denounced ced 14 it in like ilke manner mauner to the ablest of the mormon headers leaders when henet them lin thoi their homes rhomes face to laco face it is not abt presumed that the ihO clergymen of chick chica chicago go h vending pending pep peg ding the defeat odthe cullom sil sll bill bili 1 breached preached able abie sermons cormons in defense of tho the righta rights odthe of the people boutah of utah vell Veli believed eved that polygamy y was a 1 divine institution or that eliat they P personally erso nally 1 sanctioned its practice any more inore than we do t i I 1 tp the firs first give emphatic anam answer 4 lot not W we e do noc no bei bel believe leye in 14 the origin of polygamy 11 I 1 to the second ques question wo wel give equally a mp ha t I 1 c answer yes we do bb believe ligde lidde without a shade or shadow of a doubt that our dup friends e and we are proud lo 10 call them our friends Brigham woun toun young sand gand fand land george Q cannon religiously and sincerely believe that the revelation is something more than A sham and a lie he and that polygamy is of divine origin r Anymore kny any more questions the editor editon of tl the tee 0 o herald isano is uuno tone of the large broad minded class who while homay differ with others in opinion bp is willing that all should enjoy the most untrammeled freedom of thought and coil con science he Hei hel a champion of mormonism hut but of human nights rights 1 1 APPREHEND na to difficulties the tho newyork sew New York tribune lith says the official authorities in 14 washington hareno have no apprehension of any difficulties difficult ids between be tweed the thy mormons cormons and the united ISta states test troop rdo j gen augur now in washington ing to n hat has been consulted on the subject ot affairs rikars in utah the troops will tie e transferred to another camp cany mand vand and a change made la in the command albut col coi morrow of odthe the infantry succeeding col coli those i will int ift be fie rather illia disappointed over buc sue such buch news N may the plots piuta of the tho wicked 1 1 I at r x ct X 0 OP F T z 0 yli IN X 1 philadelphia october 10 A ta terrible drible riot commenced about elesten this morning in the neighborhood of sixth and lombard streets the negroes assembled in vast crowds creating much noise polso and interfering with the election the mayor appeared on the ground and stated elated that the court ordered him to preserve the peace vace he said all would have bave fair play he then placed the chief of police in charge of the poll pou with a large amarge body of officers L c I 1 A L eminent colored man named ren ron henry U lewis attempted to vote and was ammu immediately challenged by a policeman to high words and land a fight took place 1 T I the policeman shot at lewis thred three times one oab ball bail taking effect inthe in 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