Show LAW ON olf POLYGAMY 1 une THE views VIE wa OF A 21 MORMON EDITOR ON thle THE GREAT TION mr charles W penrose editor of the DESERET NEWS of balt bait lake lakes arrived in denver yesterday on a tour of recreation will embrace besides denver danver banta santa fe and the country across new now mexico ar Z ma and california to san ban francisco returning to salt lake over the central pacific he Is ia accompanied by mr 0 B R bavage savages photographer of salt lake who Is engaged in taking photographic sketches of scenery along the route above mapped out the gentlemen gentL men came over the rio grando grande route and are enthusiastic over the which that road traverses between the two cities mr ren Pen Penro roses sos aes paper is the organ of the tha mormon church and that gentleman is therefore qualified fled tied to speak upon the question the of which is growing more and more in public thought and discus bion sion from day to day 99 what of the mormon church in the east which disavows polygamy mya ay you you yon mean the sy they are not a part of the mormon church but are an entirely separate and distinct organization they designate themselves as the 9 reorganized church of latter day saints s the nucleus for this organization niza tion was made up of former members of tha tho mormon church who were excommunicated for va lous lons lenses offenses of against the church discipline that church as 16 P now exists Is made up ot those excommunicated munica ted members and the new now accretions which they have since gathered by missionary work and otherwise after organizing their church they prevailed upon joseph smith son eon of the original founder of the mormon church to become the head of their new now creation there are a few points of similarity in ahe abe doctrinal foundation of that church and ours oura but in learly nearly all features they are entirely different they have no polygamy in connect connection n with their church IJ what wIllbe will wili be the effect odthe of ahe the efforts of the antl anti polygamy societies ju in the east 1 I saw baw in the tribune dispatches that an antl anti polygamy society at cleveland has been advocating a constitutional amendment for the suppression of polygamy even it if they should succeed it wilt will have no effect at all polygamy Is not a civil matter it Is a religious tea fea ture anit antt Is ia entirely within the church there has never been a territorial law passed with regard to it and there is no allusion made to it in the territorial statutes A state constitution was drawn up some time ngo nao and in it no allusion was made to polygamy laws cannot affect it has the completion of the rio hio grande road benefited salt lmke imke Wast eastly vastly ly r the thebie rio blo grande road is ia a little giant and has been a great help to our city and territory we have reaped leaped many malay benefits since it i has bbs been a carrier to us THE FREIGHT RATE BATE CUT out row how has the recent cut affected you guu gun in many ways it has hag been an advantage the merchants espo capo daily dally ha have a been bene fItted in the main how hog however ever it la Is not desirable it asan Is an injury jinjuro to our oun farmers and ag agriculture ture is the maln main stay of utah we have considerable mining development but agriculture soun Is sour our main maln support under the present I 1 cut cheit t can be brought to utah at prices below that at which our farmers can aird amford afford rd to sell and they are thus being injured the cut out still continues but I 1 understand an enn eff effort ort is soon to be made to restore the former rates 2 mr Penrose will spend a day ox or two in denver and will proceed from here to new now mexico over uhe ibe atchison topaha topeka banta santa fe road denver tribune |