Show editorials SENSE VIEWS BY A GE gebman german payer PAPER occasionally OCCASION AILY ally mid amid the profound ignorance that pre prevails valls valis 1 upon igmos moz mormon mornion affairs afna afra irs irb a little intelligence is exhibited by journals that undertake to discuss them among the papers that appear to have looked M into to the subject somewhat is the chicago staats Zo flung ilung a german paper of note which hrs has conie conio to the con conflation clation that extirpation of polygamy will hardly progress ca as rapidly as bas baa been bosn imagined by those people who boliere boh evo in the omnipotence ni of legi legislation from somo some of our exchanges we loab icam that there is an imbres impression slon blon abroad that the whole is being 61 squelched under the operations of the edmunds law no doubt the republicans want to make it so appear aa they will take considerable credit during the coming campaign for what they call efm emm eff efficient lelent legislation against the mormons cormons Mor mons som 6 of the public journal journals our nals however blow biow hot and cold almost in tho the same samo breath on this question nut but they find nind fault with the 99 mor tylor mons ah all the same onedas one ono day they demand the cessation of polygamy 11 next day they complain that the mormons cormons aro aio seeking to evade the legislation against them by putting away all their wives but onell one there is no suiting them any n way if the mormons cormons Mor mons heep keap their thein gway r plural families aa as before the recent legislation lesi elation they are accused sed of cc stubborn resistance to the law and if thoy they are aie report ed as retaining onla one wife and 0 separating e ln from from Irom the rest they are charged with ith a wily and buil sull tile tiie effort to avoid the penalties of the law Is there anything that the mormon could possibly do that would please their persecutor why if they were wore to commits deby wholesale and get out of the way of their detractors their self seit destruct tion would be pointed out as convincing evidence of their depravity the staats asks asha what then can be done to them we clip from its article eds copied by the ogden herald and puts the situation in this way to kill all their wives but one is a demand hardly to be exacted from them just as little ean can it bo be expected that they should discard their wives and abandon them to starvation bight right equity and humanity require that the husbands should care eare F and provide for their wives aften after as before at tho the same game time they will go about to look after their welfare visiting them from time to time to look after and provide for their wants neither will any authority on earth prevent them from regarding these women aa their wives wige s no more will it be possible to prevent them from bequeathing to thoin their plural wives and ana their offspring whatever portions they pleasa picaso of their estate esisto as this country doa not recognize the hereditary lawsom germany and france by which a testator is kes restrained resi i and restricted in the figo fieo choice of his bequests be questa quests jn in regard to the supposed general division of plural families in utah that paper makes somo GOMO co comments and adde adds in tn short these mormons cormons Mor mons who have been living openly in honest plural ural urai marriage may possibly reduce tho a appearance arance of their multifarious marital arntal connections but in iii that bhat they will still compare most favorably with ith those numerous pious hypocritical boerl po critical christians mho are kevo ing ME mistresses distresses mi stresses besides and known to their leh lel leai leal mal wal monogram le spouses they at least the mor monay monal mons were able to acknowledge to 0 one n e wife their relationship to another which the pious moral christians will take very great and often expensive care not to do this Is plain and undeniable truth truths but it always makes angry the good christiana who kho wink winie at home bome iniquity but are zealous to extirpate plural marriage away in utah Concern concerning hing fing the threatened punishments of the edmunds law the staats zef zei 1 1 vung says glas clas As they cannot be convicted of living in plural ru arriage marriage therewith all the penalties threatened by the federal law fall to the ground there is no reason to deprive them either of the right of election or the privilege of eligibly itys and they will exe oxe exercise robve the s same me 1 power powen ae r ih they thoy y ever did before and at last as who Is 8 or was hurt by it if the women were satisfied several of them only to have one husband whose business was it anyhow thebo these are questions to which tho the pretended puritans wili will find intelligent answers very difficult lu in regard to the moral aspect of th thia thib Is question wo further quote tho the following ato to tho the hackneyed objection that plural marriage tends to undermine morality the mormons cormons are prepared to civo an answer chic which h settles it this answer consists in referring to the indubitable fact that in the countries which possess Christ christian lan lau monogamy prostitution has at all times been a most moat hideous reverse of the tho medal and they the mor mons can well assert assort th that 2 t prostitution roa rob titu does not erht exist with wl or of them we havo bavo nover naver claimed blaime 1 any affinity b between tween moc MOr mormon mOW marriage and christian social vices as is claimer claimed when we mention them in con eon contrail but with the staats zeft zeu ung wo we think that when tho the i tion of mcra mona morality lity is discussed it is only fair fain f ir to give the tho morn mormons cormons Mor Morr mons pons the right to show up the evils that abound ia in monogamous contrast them with the purer moral effects that grow out of or exist in connection with the mormon practice of a plurality of wives the common bonse sense views expressed by the tha paper from which we have quoted are commended to the tho consideration alder aider atlon of the american press illiterate VOTERS IF ir a statement said to be deduced from the census and made quite recently in the national R educational 4 du cat ional conventions convention bo be truc true there are over two millions of botera in this great and glorious country who cannot write their theu own names or even read the names of the men they vote for oa on the ballots which they catt cast at an election this ia is a very serious thing in a government of the tho people by the people and for the people in which it la Is nece necessary sEary that sli ail should have an intelligent comprehension of public affairs because all wre aro supposed to take some part in tho the administration thereof an educational qualification would thin out tho the voting strength of the tho country somewhat unless the sex disqualification were removed froia from citizens and it is a quest guest guestion question ibn wor thy of general consideration why educated women capable of exercising the suffrage with no an understanding of political principles and public requirements should be ex eluded from the polls while ignorant men white and colored are permitted i M 1 I 1 nt to the full privileges of 9 citizenship t i I 1 vast numbers of them nna una unable bie ble to decipher the printed words 0 oa 1 1 the tickets which they deposit in th the e ballot box there is a great deal of foolish talk about the tho lack jack of edue education atlon in utah reliable figures will sih show ow that the voting population of this territory in their educational status are ere a away far ahead of the general avera avers average ige oge of the country if there is any qualification that might be imposed on the right of suffrage it should in our opinion be in the direction of Fe securing curing an 1 intelligent exercise of the vot voting ing power two millions of totally illiterate voters ia Is a bad showing for the united states in n the latter part of the nineteenth cen een centary century tury tuny WHERES TM TES anu mormons cormons of utah have their missionaries scattered over europe and we hear ot of them in various states of the union this shows that the saints think the action of congress was only a little flurry and will soon blow over they will end find themselves mIs mistaken I 1 the foregoing is from orom the chicago inter ocean it ia is similar to remarks on subject in other pa p pers it I 1 reveals amazing stupid stupidity ity on the part cf public journalists what hab hag the preaching of mormon missionaries to do with the action of Con congress greEs greeh or to reverse referee the question what has the action of congress to do with the tho preaching of 44 mormon missionaries mission arles arlea there is no necessary connection between them thom congress Cong rca res has bas no rightful powers over religious preaching of any kind bind and tho the Mor IMor mons mona bi bf utah have net as much right to bend their missionaries to europe and various blates slates of the union as the methodists or any other religious people have to send bend their mis mib sio eio narles to timbuctoo van die mans land or ocean grove the mormons cormons of utah havo have been besu sending their missionaries to various parts of the they world ever since inca they have been established in ilic tho heard heart of the becky mountains aud and the action of congress hab has no nevor never yer ver affected this either one way or the tho other A dispersal dispensation t ron ion of the gospel has teen commuted com melq to them and they do not shrink from lt ity 3 duties they are required to send the the tho gospel of the kingdom klur klug dom 1 fas as a witness to all nations national of tho mo approaching pro aching chango in mundane affairs to every part of the habitable globe they do not think it Is the tha business but iness of congress to interfere with them in the discharge of thia this divine obligation the action of that legislative body on oti any question does not affect in the least their right and their duty jn in this respect and we are of the opinion that it is not exactly io to tho the line of the inter oceana oceans business busl busi ness neso to meddle wih with the mormon propaganda any more than with the missionary system of any other religious body that paper might with as gre great ai propriety have drawn attention to the fact that the methodists were holding camp meetings as usual notwithstanding ho tho presidents Preal dents veto voto of the river and aud harbor bill there would bajasy about as much connect connection fon lon between the two actions i in one case as in the other why is is it that oven even influential journals loso joso their common sense as soon as the they y undertake to pitch into the mormons cormons Mor mons TELEGRAPH RULE DECLARED VOID TELEGRAPH companies inform the public by a rule printed an on forms supplied for dis dib dispatched that they will not be responsible for mistakes in the transmission of messages unless each message is repeated at the cost of the sender tender but there are two sides to every ewry question tion and patrons have rights aa as well as the companies they patronize patro niza the united uni ted states st ates circuit court at leavenworth Leaven woith wor th kansas has rendered a dec decision islin which bets buts aside the rula rulo requiring repetition the gist of the ruling ia is aa as follows any rule or regulation of the company which imers to relieve it from performing IN ita duty belonging to the employment with integrity s mckill and end dilli Gilli genee gence contravenes public policy as well as the law and under it the tho party parly at fault cannot seek beek refuge ll 11 it 11 beco inea necessary for the company ah ts unni fitting messages with mith integrity and diligence dillI gence to have bald said message repeated to secure accuracy thea then the tha law devolves upon them that duty according to this telegraph companies may bo be held responsible for any mistakes that occur in sending mes meE messages sages BagEs that they accept from tho the bender which is el amply justice as Us well aa as good law 1 missioner RAMSAY IN A whorter ww orTER of the omaha interviewed ex secretary of war ramsay chairman of tho utah commission during daring hia his brief stay in that city and nd thia this is the beralas Beral ds account of the conversation it as common sen of the r situation how do you ramsay this will be mab mot by the mormons cormons Mor mons was asked 1 I think tha that they will accept the rulings of the law if they do not they will simply make a judicial question of it and carry id it up from court cour to court you do not expect any trouble then any re alsten ce at elections b by forte forc ob no they are too sensible out there to attempt anything of that kind hind in the face of the nation they know now what the law requires and they will not wilfully vil mil fully attempt W t to evade IM it kivow row how will the tha commission prove that these mon men aro are married and how much they are mar married 1 I cannot say answered tha the governor laughing how we will get at that they are honest perils perlis perhaps pa confess now woul dulty jou you oui confess the re poter reporter prota protested ted that he had never been in position to realize such a situation t the committee has no power has it to investigate the tho records of the endowment hou housep house sep seV none at all sir wo we must simply roly rely on what we can ourselves dl discover is can the delaga delegate to to congress this fall then elected under such circum stances stan cob coa L be le e a mormon he may bo be a mormon but not a polygamist why not over ton ten per pec cent of tha the mormons cormons are we dont donit care how many mormons cormons vote we cannot intel fero fere with their thoin religion but they must not ba polygamists if they want to vote nut but libut do you expect that one of those much married men lii wiil will ill sacrifice his wives for his franchise young man 11 answered the tho jolly c chairman ba irman would would you 1 ho young man again bashfully protested that he really know anything about it as he oven even one cue wife yet the truth is continued mr ramsay and vigorously the GentIle gentiles 3 would have run the mormons cormons out of utah long ago if ib it had been a abate worth settling it is not much of a state it is irrigated a little but has no grand farming districts a liko nebraska and kansas and iowa and und minnesota Minnes otah otal faith with a merry twinkle and no state can be solid without that its mines are its only greatness and I 1 fear they do more harm than good to a country JOSEPH SMITH presidency AND PLURAL marriage IT is well known that joseph smith of piano plano illinois illinoi Illi noh noi tho the leader of the beci sect commonly called josephites has endeavored and still endeavors to make it appear that the doctrine of celestial marriage including a plurality of wives was not taught 0 or r practised practiced by his father joseph bini brul smith th the prophet but is an invention of brigham sm youngs yet positive proofs have been given to him not only that hib his father proclaimed the fact that god revealed to him that doctrine but bul that thab he married wives who are still living some of them having personally aljy te testified stifled to jilin him of their marriage to his father of theba thesa things he cannot bo in ignorance therefore his attempts to deceive his followers and others in relation to them are despicable and hypocritical and his open union with men who to the shedding of his bis father fathers blood in order to adalat assist in bringing trouble if not destruction upon the people who show their faith in the 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