Show A STRONG RAISED foe FOR 0 7 THE RIGHT BIGHT 1 THE chicago times has haa been laboring with the mormon question and arid has haa brought forth some very een den sible sentences in an article on the E edmunds law some somo errors occur which indicate the usual inual editorial loose manner of collecting data on utah affairs ati aira alra but bai the sentiments advanced on the main question at present under discussion are sound and worthy of general diffusion the times also handles without gloves in another article artt arlt ole oie the ment policy advocated by the clique of which our absent governor Is the representative representatives and both editorials are worthy of reproduction wo we have only space for portions of the first but will give the other in fail full the limes starts out with some remarks on the failure of the law of 1882 which it says hs has not fulfilled the expectations of its author and its over overzealous zealous advocates any better than the enactment of 1862 11 which was wis to stamp out polygamy and gives soma coma of the reasons for this ono one of these is ig the woman the temes timm dao doo declaring laring that the If mormon woman women woman aro ano polygamous to a man arid the forlorn gentile has haa no chancay chance against the complacent mormon who oan can exert the voting power of a whole flaex oi of wives 21 tho wha times beems seems to havo haye forgotten that section of edmunds law which took away tiie tile voting power ff from orn oin all polygamists ista and their wives sand band and the report of therom the corn mission which shows that none of those franchised disfranchised dis persons have attempted to vote at the jast two elections the statement of tho the times that polygamy in utah Is rooted and buttressed buttre bed aed not so BO much in any rell gloub lust of men as in tho the emotional nature of women has more truth in it than many of the opponents of the system are willing to admit and the further assertion that if the bulk buik of the women of utah or even the influential minority orl ori ty were hostile to the institution institutions religious preaching could not save bave it shows a clearer insight into the situation than is common with journalists na lists and so with the following conclusion not ignot all the legislative strums nostrums no that cengr tasy lwy vw baribe scribe can eradicate it until that thai condition appears 2 it to is popularly supposed that the women of utan are hold in bondage and forced into the lo relation bat nat it must musi ba cear to sensible people who understand feminine human nature that if it were not for roz or the religious element in woman and the religious convictions of the cl mormon ladles plural marriage would be an impossibility if anti polygamists can obtain an act of congress which will abolish that element and change those convictions it will vill be eaby eagy to extirpate polygamy by special legislation the thug thus befera to the theor er ratio notions of ora ofa a local cribe cribb I 1 galt clit it Is tho the office of government to govern says a sapient philosopher nt at bait balt lake like and it it la is proper for government to enforce its ita awas why not do itt it the philosopher Is ia growling because all the legislative proscriptions prescriptions ions fons for the utah disease hava failed or been nullified as the salt nake nabe philosopher puta it one more prescription of special legislation he thinks should be tried namely eithe the legislative commission 11 and if that should fall fail let iet lat lot us have martial for the social evil which Is ia manifested in keeping heaping a harem of non combatants martial law would ba very heroic treatment but that it would prove any more ehan chan tho the legislative treatment which has so conspicuously failed admits not of a rational belief coming to tho the workings ot of the edmunda Edmun dalaw law the times remarks when the edmunds statute passed palmed the times rimes stated among others for anticipating its fai lureita faUn rolta reita offensive character of special legis lation it was waa an act directed by the national legislature not against an evil incompatible with tho tha general welfare it might be ba practiced but against the practice ra tice of that evil la in one parti cu har far ar locality it was not made aepli oabie cabio even to all of the class of people called mormons cormons Mor mons but only to dwelling in utah thus it was au an not act by which tho the national legislature selected a small email section of citizens and set bot them apart from all others as aa special objects of the na nations tlona tiona wrath it had every appearance pe arance every character characters charac teri of an act of persecution it contained a deliberate design not to treat that particular group of citizens upon a ajust just basis of equality before the law with all ail not to mabe make them teel feel that they were a part of a great political society governed under the same equitable laws and regulations in all parts of the land but to deal with them as a class proscribed and outlawed from tile tiie operation of that equal and exact justice to all which was some bome time the pretentious boast of american rulers history his mis tory contains no record of any people race or group that has been brought under voluntary subjection or into amicable relations to any ruling power by that method had there been no other reason for its failure in utah it must have failed for that reason on the same principle the times opposes the further legislation bug sug by the commissioners wil wll 0 are five in number not throe as I 1 it t supposes and closes the sensibly bensi bik blk and vigorous article as f follows thero there Is that in the average chai chat character neter neten of the american people which does dees not incline them to pas elve sive submission to this mode of government govern ern ment still less to jove and admiration of it it is well weli that it is eo ao it is the only trust trustworthy worthy guaranty of just rule that this people posses sea it la Is the only obstacle tula tuia people can ever hope to make effective again against t unjust and ty tyrannical ranni ranul rule it Is one of the most convincing evidences of the fitness of the preponderating part of the inhabitants of utah that they have been neither captivated nor subdued by this prospective mode of government it encourages the belief that how far boover boever I 1 it t may be push ed ad it will result only in failure as it will deserve to it is the office of government to govern governa go terne verne but it is not the office ol of government to proscribe neither to persecute it Is very rare that a non mor mon Journal journalist Journ aliat lat penetrates to the inward facts of the pretended anti polygamy crusade and the zeal reni mo tives of its principal champions with the sagacity displayed in the following caustic article reviewing the remarks which mr murray haa has managed to get into print and have telegraphed egra phed over the country as a press dispatch mr ell H murray governor ol of utah declares that ho he has not net been disappointed in the total failure of the latest congressional nostrum to eradicate the mormon practice of 01 supporting too many wives 1 I told YOU so BO says mr murray congress would not take the bull of polygamy squarely by the horns homa as mr murray commended rec and so bo refusing to do the wrong mr murray wished to have done all ali ail ed to do the right if mr murray had bad boan boon the lawmaking power of this country what would hould he have done he would haxe nave done what he said it was feces sary to do to take tahe the local administration of utah wholly away from the mormons cormons and give it to the Gent gentile liei lies I according to his own statements statement not above 20 per cent ot ol the cormons mormons are bat but the other 80 per cent or mists as they are called are largely in excess of the gentile gentiles population tiong and therefore acan can easily outvote the gentiles and elect their territorial 21 2 1 legislature this is exactly what they did in the election held heid under the provisions provisions of the I 1 96 edmunds bill the gentile party with the territorial governor at their head were utterly routed 49 honse horbe foot and dragoons to render such a result impossible bla ble mr murray would disfranchise the thu 0 80 per cent of mormon monogamists as weli weil as tha tho 20 per cant of mormon that what Is laj las he would limit the elective franchise in utah ulah to persons parsons who will come forward and swear that they thes are ane not professors of the mormon sort of religion that is that he would establish in utah by act of congress a religious test which the constitution declares congress shall not do that is upon the pretense of extirpating the practice of polygamy by 20 per cent of the mormons cormons Mor mons he would by legislation in the nature of attainder attaint the disqualifying the innocent 80 per cene ceni of ef its members equally with the guilty 20 per cent mr murray may be a virtuous and a moral man maru in hia his hil own opinion hig bl pre for tha the care of the ro wives wivel distemper in utah raises the suspicion that hla bla moral perceptions have been so blinded in his pursuit of the trade of politics that he hns has lost the faculty of discriminating right from wrong it has been charged that the real motive of the Li entile gentile party in utah the motive aich which impels them to cry aloud to congress begging that the la lawmaking power will deal with the U utah tah saints sainto after alter the manner of the charitable wish of paul respecting those who in his opinion were not saints by cutting them off Is not only to get possession of the territorial government but bat by the uee ube of it to drive the mormons cormons out of utah and possess themselves ol of their inheritance the spirit of the demand for a religious religions test teat of political exclusion against all who profess themselves of the mormon religion whether lets or monogamists ha hab a strong flavor of the verity of that charge wily then should the proscription tj on which mr murray would not limit to polygamists ts be limited to Mar marmont monh monk if the mormons cormons were cut off some other religious dectar sectary baptis to me thod fats lats campbelll Camp beill belil teb tea Qua qun kerss keres buddhists or Bom something ething elso eisa might appear in their place outvote th jand land elect the legislature legislatures which the uen gentiles wish to control admit as probable that something less than 20 per cent of the new antl anti gentile party would bo be lats that thal would not furnish famish any guarantee gaan guan anteo ol 01 the legislative power and the to the gentiles the mormon mono gamis tp and les irs a all stand ready to do tuu tuo bidding of tiie tile church says mr murray anu ana voe vote for the candidates recommend recommended el by the much married elders but that la is hardly a trait peculiar to mor mons it has been observed that persons attached to other es have a ready to do the bidding of the church and to vote the wishes of bishops pries priests tej deacons and preachers it has been observed that not re calving receiving con trany orders from the church the bulk of voters stand ready to do the bidding of party bosses who as everyone e knows set up as aa the highe high pries a of an ovy living church viiu out jut a religion then the only oure way rol roi the utah to get uppermost and keep beep uppermost is to get an act ach ot of congress limiting the legislative offices office the electoral office and all the other offices in utah to themselves alone that is plainly what they deabre that Is 13 the manifest aim ot of mr murray a wise vise recommendation to congress bat as the plan pian he pro poses would not be a means adequate to the end which the gentile party alms at he ought to enlarge and improve it lathe in the manner suggested s the dla dib honesty dishonesty of the pretense that the mormon eaters eater are work ing for tho the suppression of polygamy Is broadly exposed by their peal for congressional assistance everybody male and female that can be said tp to have ever been connected with the practice of polygamy have already baen been dep drive of the right to vote and hold office the legislation now desired is directed against mormons cormons Mor mons mona s who have dot bot contracted plural marriage relation what is the palpable inference why that it Is not polygamy that is objectionable but the power to vote against the antl anti af mormon interest the times rimes Is exa exactly right mr murray own words are a tacit confession of the real teai object of his clique what he complains of Is ia that the 80 per cent of monogamists can cau easily outvote the gen tiles well what is that to tho the country should not the majority of legally qualified citizens be able to outvote the mi dority and if the majority happen to be mormons Mormon Mor mons shave have they not es as much right to outvote their opponents as if they were methodists what a plea to set up before the american ahe the no non U PO poly 0 ly gacht cormona Mor mona outnumber t the h a gentiles four or five to one at th the a polls therefore congress should disfranchise them as well as the poly gamasta ga mists mista that is the sud suo stanca of mr murrays Mur rays argument the p press ress of this great country ought to wake wabe up to a comprehend compre hen lon ign slon ion of the facts eel set forth by the chicago times in echoing and endorsing the cry for more legislation against the mormons cormons Mor Ismor mons they are not waging wang war against toly Coly polygamy polygamy gamy as they vainly suppose but bud ut supporting the boheme scheme of a very few faw politicians politic lang lauw who aaa aua ore ara eeeline for personal advantages advantage and the success of whose choso conspiracy involves not only the oppression and robbery of scores of thousands of people who have broken no law but the of that sacred in strument ment on which our system of government is founded and on nt ter departure from the principles which are essential to the liberties of the people of this republic Be publio |