| Show NOTHING ABOUT IT 11 tim THE denver inter ocean continues to talk twaddle about the mor bonss mons and polygamy iima kima yand feels con alterably elder bider ably riled ailed because the tho news has invited it to eay bome ame something fresh instead of harping upon tho the old oid strings tb that at have bean twanged all over the tho country until they nrc aro vo BO thin and withal discordant that the sound faila faiia worse woree upon the public ear than oid old dog thay tiny ground out of a dilapidated barrel organ the infer inter ocean sent bent a correspondent to this city that it might be able to enlighten its read road era on utah affairs but ho he was either like tho man that went alent down dowa to jericho and has repeated what ho he heard in tho the company that he feli feil fell among or ho he has just fust rehashed tho the old pabulum that has been dealt out warmed over and dished around for years and tho the editor has added remarks on these matters as though they vero were boma boms thing new and startling while they have been preached about in den ver by mendicant methodists and coln coin collecting presbyterians rians and descanted des canted upon time and time again in different papers published in the capital as well as aa in every prominent place in the county the inter ocean bays baya it is not ambitious to say anything fresh on OB this stille subject ct and yet gives tho the following ns as three points that aro are so ff fresh that athe the east is becoming excited over them indeed the editor thinks they are so very 19 fresh that ho he calls our attention and the attention of the world to them here they are f 11 1 polygamy instead of dying out is growing the mormon mission brie arie sare sate still bringing over whole cargoes of ignorant 0 proselytes prose lytes who come under the promise that they will find a land of milk and honey they are too ignorant to think for themselves and they accept the teachings of a corrupt faith falth it is the duty of tho the government tn sann that importation of dupes 2 the Tho edmunds ir law w is a total failure as aa all other efforts at such lawmaking law making have been failures it franchises disfranchises dis ts but bat permits mormons cormons whose sympathies are with po polygamists to vote the territory 0 ot t utah therefore remains under tho the control of the tho polygamous crew and ita its laws are framed to aid plural marriages the Mormon Church Is Js sending east the claim that tha tho edmunds law is fulfilling its aim and suppressing polygamy i y this thib Is a falsehood and we are sending east 91 something tresh fresh antho in tho assertion that the tho lawisa law Is a fallaro failure it does not aid in punishing the crime but rather aids in protecting tho the criminals 3 the mormon church driven from open defiance is resorting to the cunning of tho the serpent it la Is spreading its line of coloff colonies with a view to gaining pol poi political lUcal power throughout the rocky bocky mountain region legion wo propose to continue calling attention to this bit of strategy it meana memo that the voters of colorado are to meet the question of polygamy at the tha ballot ballo t box dox now let iet how Y they are no 1 has been gol goi goinz going the ands of the press tors fors tor for no one ono can tell definitely how many yea yes years yearb rs we have referred to just such state ments for forthe the last thirteen arrs yearb years a at t least during which time w wo have hav c had special occasion to note the spirit and letter of the press on 96 mormon affairs previous to that time we frequently read biml bimi similar larre remarks in eastern journals and smiled at the nonsense the cargoes of proselytes prose lytes that It mormon mis are astill bringing over hayo hano been coming ever since utah was first settled by bv the cormons mormons Mor mons 11 but they do not come under any such promises nor are they unable to give good and sub bub reasons for their change of residence and acceptance of a faith which has moro mone foroe force in it than nuy auy any buy thing else called religion that is taught on an the tho face baca of the earth atis chargo charge that tho the mor mone mane mons aro nio ignorant and that promises are made mado to them of a aland gland land flowing with milk ink and sud honay honey is as old as aa it is untrue and the tha duty of the tho Gove government irim ont ent to stop atop mormon oro immigration was harped upon jo so much blithe press years eee hee secretary detary evarts issued leaned his silly billy clr cir 1 4 ual eui cular oular a i r to the consuls abroad in les res ponso porse to tho the old cry which th ta denver inter ocean thinks thinka is something fresh s now for no 2 the statement that the edmunds law was a failure waa made last november after the election for delegate to congress and has appeared almost every day in one paper or another east or west W est la Is it news to the world that the E edmunds law dis franchises polygamist ism but perm who are not practical lets to vote the law was passed march 1882 and was published in full suli in numerous papers while every levery journal of prominence gave a summary of its provisions wonderfully der fully fresh is lc it not noi the falsehood that the laws of utah 91 are framed to aid plural marriages has been beert told over and over again for twenty five years and led to the clause in hi the anti bigamy act of congress of 1862 annulling all such laws it have any effect in that regard because the statement on which it was based was an error but it serves to show the age of the tresh fresh 1 1 un untruth truth no 3 Is ia an old story too we could civo give quotations from no end of papers and aud sermons telling the same tale it if we had space for theata the a tuu tun but wo we have replied to it scores of times the last sentence in no 3 Is not new it ban bas been uttered by other donver donten papers but tuv it is superlatively lat ively stupid the question ol of polygamy will not have hava to be met at the ballot box bos in colorado for the very simple reason that it does no concern the citizens there wilb thu mormon colonists ot of Colora Color adoldo dodo not contract plural marriages or broa brea brials any of tho the laws in that mak state but are quiet agriculturists minding their own business and conforming to the local statutes and the question of mormon marriage does not belong to the ballot box bos anywhere friend anter inter ocean it itina Is a matter of religion and should be outside of politics altogether now who can discover anything tresh fresh in these wonderful three even the intimation that cormons mormons Mor mons whose sympathies are with ista ought not to be permitted to vote is not new or or it has been expressed many times by writers for sor the preka preta who have no principle and who cate care not nol icat tk freedom nor not the rights of citizens 3 so BO long lons as the mormons cormons Mor mons can be exterminated the inter ocean hays says it does doea linot not believe in any persecution for religion li that shat iBan is an old stoby story too Freze Pre hers and editors bald sald that over forty years agos ago when at the same time they encouraged the mobbing of the mormons Mor mons and that was long before 61 polygamy could be made the excuse fur for the outrages perpetrated if citizens were deprived of the franch franchise tse accorn account 1 I of their sympathies for or against a doctrine or practice call it religious of otherwise would not that be persecution se can a paper which advocates such an anti republican antidemocratic anti american idea idoa truthfully boast of ita its support of the st utmost freedom of worship the inter ocean is just like many of its tribe and will boast of its ita tolerance with one breath and with another call for the tho therun upun Ishi nent of citizens for unorthodox belief or sympathy it is the old old story and is not even told in a new etyle it is ia stale feeble flat and sour bour and unworthy of aJo a journal arnal that aims to be ba lively snappy and vigorous on this subject the enfer anter mccan is not reah 1 by any means unless that word Is used in its modern modem slangy sense and then it is pointedly and ana singularly applicable |
