| Show tre TILE dissatisfaction THE drew orleans times democrat thinks it if congress con oon 9 ress wishes to break up mormon polygamy it will have to discover some better mode than that suggested by senator ed munds munda we do not believe that senator edmunds or any of the twin reilo rello shouters cura caro ft lov yov ot about polygamy the object of the legislation which has been crowded through congress is political not moral in its nature the preachers and pretended puritans of the country have made polygamy their battle cry in the war against amor mormonism and have forced a goad many members of congress to take up the refrain and echo it in the halis balis of the capitol bat those who have been active workers in the measures that have been pressed upon the lawmakers of the nation have had in view a political revolution in utah by which the territory should page paga under republican control the edmunds law which was hailed balled with delight at its passage as irea trea a death blow to poly gamy s but Is now ridiculed and reviled by the very men and papers that cried for it and supported it 1 was designed to place the local onni ces cea within the grasp of the anti antl cormons mormons Mor mons senator edmunds waa wab himself deceived by the schemers who worked for the bill he thought mists were much more numerous in utah than they turned out to be the subject wt had been mag out ont of all fair proportion proportions a by the anu anti polygamy cs and he imagined that with the dle die ot of practical poly rapists and the facilities afforded by his bill for counting every non mormon vote votes and with a stampede of cormons mormons Mor mons supposed to be ready to revolt the Gentil gentillia eta ein would capture the territory and thus put an end to the alleged difficulty like lilke most public men he did not understand the true situation and was misled by designing knaves his bill which was forced through the lower house in a moat meat undignified and unfair manner hns has undoubtedly failed in its real ob eject but it hag has a accomplished am P e hed what it 16 purported to bo d designed e a ignec for it has excluded from the polls and from the tickets of officers to ba voted for all persons who have ever lived in the plural family relation but it has not turned over the local offices into the i hands of the tho antl anti nor done anything towards making utah a state under the auspices of the republican party the promoters of the plan in congress were deceived as to the number of polygamists in utah the number of non mormon voters and tho the disposition of the portion of the mormon population the tho workings wor kinga of the law have proven that the be are aro comparatively few that the gentile voters form forab number but an insignificant nain mino ity of citizens and that the supposed pressure pr esaure upon the bulka bulk buik of the I 1 mormon leopla by their lead erg era and those who previously hj i charge of the elections wah a bin fin ment of the imagination or A idol bull piece of gL liberal iberal deception and now dis dir satisfaction is louda expressed against senator 4 4 munds measure it comes nor mor ma i from republican than D 4 moc ratio sources although ta parties unite in deop laing 4 rhey should have taken tine time k k examine it when the bill bally tia lia braught brought br before their attento every defender of liberty should have joined in opp ing its retroactive retro active and despotic visions instead or of hurriedly hurri edly euly y ing to priestly and sectarian claim clara and sanctioning by vote or t elin what they knew know to be brodi y q believed to be ill advised ani smi mature some bome bettor mode mods than bhatla tall by senator Edmun edmunda dab dah called for to put down after a while the majority of 4 gressmen gremen gre esmen will find out what il x men have seen for bome somo time tbt thi the much exaggerated and lahib presented age system ol of tbt tto mormons cormons Mor mons cannot be destroyed bj bI legislation it if it is morality chati sought to bs be promoted would it ld boi be e better to re legato relegate the matter to its ta proper sphere and leave jt stout out ol at vall duil vallrea des dea it it la Is narty darty advant ap that is it not be q quit as well to strive my mez its and cast away the cant polygamy which the loudest bwy care nothing whatever about r the desire la is to prevent tha the mons from having laj a tolo vole 09 f a their political affairs alva alia them over bag and baggart bag bagg siai u 1 prey to a few billee omee makers gatial adventurers adventure rB government pao pap tuek ida erb erp hangers haepers on anand and dependants upon udon official patronage who are attaches of the republican party fatty and would bring utah into in to the tb e republican party iines lines line why not come out boldly and abow it and aud work tor for it but bat this hypocritical pretense of great mom mon monni moral iden idea and this warring against the th private family famat of a handful of latter day bainte saint te I 1 one oure ot at the tib greatest shams of tha the uge age and ani ought to bring all the humbugs humburgs in it into publia public mo aon tempt as aa we verily balat balke it vir vig before long 4 to do what the d kra kia BEA mormons cormons Mor mons desire will a violation of the fan ran damer l principles of republican arl yaw ren rem 1 ment blind blindness nesb nebb to rights the or bl justice the adoption of methods a defiance of constitutional eions and the exercise ot might over right it cannot be by legal means nor by anything ew else than brute force if the country Is prepared for such work to satisfy tho the greed of a small email clique catte pen dents upon place and a horde borde of ct gospel bongers mongers who aleh to ta datto what they cannot comm col COB t sooner it to is commenced the bax ekx may be to consummate bat eat we to do not believe that buch such a course it likely to commend itself yetto yevto yet to the leading minds or cammon bente peo pla pia of this magnificent country |
