Show the she colored brother brothen on orl tiro lat ter dav day sait saint the national era of last tu thurs days date has aneito an editorial I 1 ria upon the mormon question Which is in contrast of ho lic bigotry that finds utterance in so large lange e a tart tart of the press of tilo the count country A while it charges things ul ulon unon upon wn mormonism oi or dolga folga polygamy which me aw not necessarily its effects it denies the expediency and comes pretty near to tb denying densing the right of interference by the state inthe in the tho domestic relations lons ions of the people of utah the ments in the foi following lowing paragraphs are so generally e correct hud and the senti sentiments ments monts so liberal tha iweta ke I 1 pleasure in transferring t I 1 era t to tho ho columns of the ca capita wital pital sneaking eg of poly pois polygamy ga my it says gays rn there are two objections to it the low state of morality as is alleged that it cultivates and arid the effect it has socially unfortunately for the theorists the debt dett actual ial lal state of morality is far higher among the mormons cormons Mor mons as both their enemies and friends testify than among the average gentile nations and comm communities community unit e S the billiard saloon and gambling hells which are arn arr sometimes effal supposed to be nebb nete essary adjuncts bf of Amerl ameri american amerlean cah civilization nind lind find no eup sup support purt nor indr countenance in m utah this makes 1 the in of af nu national i t 1 3 author thing ming to bu dreaded in the first firs place because the moment wb we attack their state and system we attack and begin a religious persecution forel foreign ign aliko alike to our cur republican gov crement and the temper of alfe the times at the same time by such ti a policy we should at once elevate to tile the scaffold of martyrdom the t 1 elders we provoke for them the sympathy of the world in tho fhe second place because it I 1 is the policy bf of our national government to interfere as little possibly as with the relations of the state states and territories and in those bases cases where it does only when absolutely necessary to preserve the authority or ilfe life ot the state i F that the state does docs not have authority to inter crt cut A itself directly in the auzira affairs of h a territory such aci ali a utah must be acknowledged but the expediency 1 of so doing is another ot h or and far diff different lerent question in its execution and results utah atall does not render renden itself amenable to law by its practice of what the law of july 1862 characterizes as bigamy buias butas bub but as this law is practically a dead letter and has never been r actively enforced it is today today to day at least an exceedingly question guestion questionable ablo policy polley to appl apply vitto ritto it to tho mormons cormons alone polygamy is supposed to hane have an un injurious effect upon the women who are its votaries vot aries tims but their general testimony does not bear out this supposition w hether whether it arises ft from their ignorance i gnor ance anco or ot infatuation in fact all uhe the experiments made in communistic circles in franco france england 0 and at the oneida community III in america lather TAther bear bean witness to toi the generally contented dispositions of the women me n indeed wa wor are rather tather inclined to think that man after all is tho the one who chafes most at the infraction dathe of the tho nuptial bond boud while bigamy when com committed bitted by a siw sib single singie j can ean be properly treated as orime crime by the tha state when it has the sanction of a whole com jn unity and is a a matter of religious falth faith becomes it the state to be extremely careful lest jest in its zeal for morality it ift does not hot violate the tha rights righta which aro tare are guaranteed to those people by the co washington capita capital i U I 1 |