Show WHAT THE PAPERS SAY all the papers have something to say about utai just now and as our readers aie ale naturally anxious to know the views entertained by the press upon the tile affairs of this territory we publish liberally of their notices some home of them and some portions of others are so manifestly false misrepresentative discourteous and insulting that tiit they tiley are not fit nt to be cepro reproduced deuced in then the N NEWS uw S or to bo be introduced to a decent family but sut as it is almost impossible to eliminate everything objectionable from a copied article without mutilating it so as to make it partially unintelligible and of its autI authors lOes meaning we wish it to be distinctly understood that we do not lleces harily endorse every evory everything thin 9 of the kind that eliat may appear in in our columns the nenver denver never very friendly to utah thinks that F ere pre re bill lull is the most irli 1111 important bill of the session and an d should sh ou id certainly become a law if the tile 0 object of Freling huysen congress and the administration be be the tile destruction st ruction of the constitution and the union why tilo the best thing they can do to to that dreadful purpose Is is to pass ns bill tile gile denver tribune thinks the latter day saints are highly alarmed at tile the threatening situation and that tile the president is evidently resolved on the wiping ng out olit tile tilo stain on oil tile tiie national escutcheon and congress is exactly in the humor to give ive lve him and his ills desi designs 0 its a cordial backing 0 71 per perhaps leaps so the chicago times a far abler and more moru influential paper says nuys washington feb 18 16 tho the detara of tho the presidents m message on utah is to be obeyed the senate judiciary committee ou on yesterday to report tho the freling Fr cling huysen bill which excludes bigamists biga mists or mormons cormons trout front jury service and practically from citizenship A similar billas panning in the house commit committee tee tec A washington ton correspondent of the tile boston J journal says hays attorney general approves the mormon bill of senator pool which provides that there shall be no more marriages but legalizes those which have been contracted or are now extant that husban 6 of more than ono one wito shall be compelled to maintain them and their child children renso reneo so lons ions as the wives are willing to remain with them that the wives wires ot of such husbands shall enjoy the privilege ot of leaving them whenever they shall so elect and that such ca lea iea ing in shall be equivalent q to a legal divorce di vorce voree of sufficient effect e c t to entitle such divorced wives to marry another pc peron ecron ron von 1 the missouri republican talks like this tills the tho laws lawa against have never been enforced for a whole generation genera tiou tion it has existed under a dekee of national tol toi toleration r which is responsible for its growth growt to suddenly rend the family relations that have grown up under this tacit sanction would produce a avast vast amount of individual su suffering and wretchedness it would attaint a 4 measure ot of civil reform with all the cruelty of reng roul religious 1 I 9 prosecution and tho more surely to degrade our national policy to this level the bills before congress provide that chall be tried by a packed and hostile jury composed of mortified and d missionaries what more could drig briham am ask to fire the mormon heart than huch tuch buch as would attend the enforcement of such a law why the most lukewarm aum pauper in salt lake living in perpetual dread of one balt halt star starved cd iffet vites would be supplied with eth ith a hauseworth cause worth fighting for fors and as sidney smith said of the old scotch Cam Came cronian ronlan under a similar provocation with a little oatmeal for tor porridge and a little sulphur for tor friction holding his mor mon men creed in one oud hand and allaying irritation with the other ho he would loe loo ice away to his flinty bills and lava beds and many a poor fellow would bite the du dust kt and many a dollar of public money would be squandered before the tho conversion of brighams Brig hams nock hock could bo be completed to the sath bath satisfaction faction of chaplain newman the unusual expedient alleged to bo be n necessary to secure the punI punishment of mor mons tor for refusing to abandon the mothers of their numerous children throws a sinister light on the tho situation when a jury has to be packed in order to insure a particular verdict c it is evident that the desired verdict vend emt i is at deadly ay var vau variance lauce iauco with ali all that is cherished in that vicinage and audit jt may be safely assumed that such guch extraordinary tampering with the machinery ot justice is never done dono in the interest of justice however it may answer the strict letter of the law it would bo be much safer sater as it certainly would be moro more rust just to leave undisturbed the plural marri marei marriages azes ares for which our national toleration is at least lewt partially responsible in III one thin tiling nearly all the tile papers agree c and that is that our citizens ought ough Z to make their domestic customs to conform con eon form to those elsewhere in the union wo we can find no warrant in the constitution for any such request and we cant go 90 against ae the constitution it is the tho palladium of our nights rights liberties and ind privileges as a citizens to our contemporaries of the press wo we may say we are forward to do all that can call rea reasonably be asked of us as we h know newsome some tender consciences are very much exercised to zi sward d but dont ask too much or we may have to endure the pain of declining to accede to your requests and we do not wish to inflict upon you the tile needless grief of a refusal just mind your own business and let us alone and never fear that we shall not endeavor to do unto others bothem aa as we would have them do to us |