Show THE BRIBERY IN J HAS tho the idea ever dver struck tha senator christiancy Chist istia lancy iancy nov nev that his bill to regulate atell elections and the suffrage fagoo ragoo 1 in utah is practically a huge plede bece 1 of bribery bribery of the basest kind if ifft it has not so appealed to him 1 if so ar appears pears to us and we can notsie how it can falato fail fall to so appear to all candid and intelligent people as we will immediately 1 proceed to show for the belits nt or of those unfortunates fortu who cannot see see sec and those malig who will not see for after ail all they may m conclude to profi profit t thereby mord mor mol ayr vr less leas at all air events we may give them the chanco chance to do so the tho senators bill prohibits from botin or holding office every citizen who is living and cohabiting contemporaneously with more than one woman recognizing or claiming them as his wives and h has eilt ered into that relation relationship chip al since bince cc 1 everybody knows or might know and if senator christiancy Chiist Chilst iancy lancy doos dous not know then he is more ignorant upon a vital subject than any senator or any citizen of ardi intelligence even ought to be bi that the doctrine and the practice here outlawed is a matter of religion and consequently conf cons of conscience la ta most of the inhabit inhabitants auts huts of the territory to nearly lall all the people to tu bill applies therefore it follows natu naturally raily raili and incontrovertibly we think that this provision in bill is of the character of a direct bribe to every latter day saint I 1 or mormon whose domestic relations may subject him to the prohibition hibi hibit tion iori that is to disfranchise ment and disability to hold bold office the bribe is the right to vote and to be put into office this is the consideration offered a consideration chich there is no constitutional right to fo take away on the grounds in question still Christian cys bill boesso does so the question of constitutionality not riot appearing to be regarded by bome some people as of any weight when proscription crip tion of the mormons cormons Mor mons is designed the baseness of the tite bribery is of a ft twofold two fold foid character it is Js an attempt to cause people to repudiate their religion and to do violence to their conscientious convictions of truth and duty and it holds out great inducements inducement sto to persons er donawho who have married more than one wife to desert and disown theland the them mand and their children presents the right of suffrage suf and to hold P civil office as the induce inducement ment for a man to forsake his wives and hokl them up to the world aa as mistresses stresses mi and their children as Il legitimates this ista isia ls a nice kind adf business for fer an honorable Se natora mem member berof of a christian legislature to tov be engaged in ii it what can really honorable people think of a mao man chois who ia guilty ot of perpetrating such an enormity and of seek seeking irig illg rhe the of congress fol foi il it |