Show PRESIDENT garfield D AND QUESTION THE sacramento record union has hag still another sensible word to say about the cM mormon ormon quest question lop iop the following editorial relates no doubt 1 to the pres press dispatch professing to and anA announce announce ounce what the president said a on this suk sub subject act to a member of the semite senate we take these press reports cum cuin grano salis but all the same the remarks of the accord union are pertinent and sho show w that the thel writer ha has given more thought to his theme t than hall editors usually bestow upon this subject S 1 I 1 Weare Wearer sorry to see a disposition in prest pret garfield to protest cpr otest too much if what he is reported as saying about the question of poly gamy be bb true we shall not anticipate any practical meb measures from his administration manish ministration haidn in that regard As asa aba a member of con congress ress for half haifa a generation erat era tion loni ioni gen garfield has necessarily been kept informed as to the obstacles and difficulties of the mormon question he has seen congress take it half a dozen times handle it awkwardly and drop it again he is aware that it has been impossible to get any anti polygamy legislation execute d in utah and that it must continue to be impossible to do this just as long as the people who believe in polygamy constitute three fourths or four fifths of the community and therefore when president debt garfield knowing all these things asserts that polygamy must alid arid shall be buttressed suppressed pressed we can only conclude that But buy he e is talking to Buncombe since we cannot believe that he has discovered a new way of doing that which he has often before failed to accomplish polygamy will never be suppressed by legislation we make bold to hazard that prediction now if it will on the contrary derive strength and support any hostile movement and it will be clung to with increasing fanaticism the more vigorously it is assaulted it needs no prophetic gift to tell this for it has been the history of every such experiment from from the dawn of history president garn Garf garfield nela leia pos possesses besses no magic magle 0 charm to io overcome the laws ot of n nature withal and therefore it is a fair and just presumption that he will encounter the same insurmountable obstacles which have forced his predecessors to post postpone PI 0 no the settlement of this quest question lon ion |