Show MORAL inconsistency IN im the debate over the civil service bill on wednesday an amendment was offered by senator biair blair excluding from office under the bl bill 11 any person habitually using intoxicating beverages bover bever agea this was considered much too sweeping BO so upon M motion dation of senator brown the worda words gito lito to excess were added it was then that the representative of high morality s interposed senator edmunds said sald the amendment as it stood I 1 contained by legal implication that other vices were to be excluded from consideration by the civil bervice committee and to cure core this defect he moved to amend by inserting aften after intoxicating beverages the words or is guilty of any other immoral habit this was agreed to and the amended amendment passed we have no objection to the senators proposition but it appears to us that it is scarcely consistent with the provisions of ane law which is commonly called by his name the edmunds bill excludes from office in utah persons who practice a certain form of marriage said to be immoral and no one who either engages in it or believes in its its rig nig rightfulness lit is permitted to serve as a juror in certain cases according to the gent lemans own logic by legal implication other vice vlee are excluded from consideration in the premises promises and while polygamy is condemned and punished actual evils are by implication encouraged cou raged polygamy too is made an offense by statute while bome some practices that are left free by his utah legislation are criminal in and of themselves why did not the champion cham plon pion of high morality insert in the edmunds bill bome some such provis provision on as he has attached to the civil service bills bill and thus show that he was really attacking immorality and not merely figuring before the country as an opponent of an unpopular creed cried and people |