Show A POLITICAL INVA INFAMY THE st paul pioneer press has taken a consistent attitude from the beginning on the subject of the proposed legislative commission sor jor utah in a recent editorial commenting on president taylors article and governor murrays Mur rays communication in the north american review lle ile view the press takes up the pretended parallel which the governor attempts atte ropa to draw between bet ireen the je fe st ruction of local self government in utah and the course pursued with tho tha district of columbia and says argument to the effect ithac congress has the power to abolish self government in utah and turn the territory over to lo a clique who hate liate mormonism a great deal worse than they y do polygamy polygamy is aside from the ea point int nobody denies that at such power inheres in congress but power is not right and the extreme use of power Is seldom expedient ent and gov murray follows the example of all who have preceded him in omitting to state the grounds on which it it is ratio ra dional nalto to expect that a legislative commission can deal more successfully than can the government of the united states his only effort in that direction is to cite the instance of the district of columbia where there was no such feeling as exits in utah where the commissioners were sere not selected by law from a minority faction bitterly hostile to the majority and where the end to be accomplished complis hed was the overthrow of public cor con and extravagance not the eradication of a social disease of halt a cent standing the parallel is irrational and incomplete if the pioneer press will continue to watch the scheme against utah it will v discover that the movement to revolutionize this territory is not directed against the practice of polygamy most of the people who have been deen been excited over the mormon in the east are opposing po polygamy gamy but those who have stirred up tte tze the tumult have no such object in view that Is why none of them attempt to show how a legislative commission will accomplish more than congress cando can do in that direction they are not after polygamy they dont care a cent about it they have said so many times in conversation and close readers can see this admission in their present arguments for extreme legislation what do they want then nothing more nor less than the control of utah for their own greedy and ambitious ends that is a prize for which they are willing willingto to work and risk a great agrest deal and we need not point outto out to the press or any paper acquainted with what has been done lone under such abao lute powers as are now called for over utah how a small ring of adventurers coula could effect their base purposes when clothed with such authority as they are striving to obtain we take issue with the press on bonono onono one proposition We are not alone in denyle that power ower inheres in congress to abolin abolish all self seif government f an fn utah able lawyers and sida statesmen take the same ground we deny that congress has any powers not bestowed by the constitution we deny that that body has inherent powers to deprive the PEOPLE in or out of a state of any of their natural or acquired political rights we affirm that in dealing with the territories organized with r respects to certain admitted principles con a gress gross must be governed b by republican republican republic aM lules luies and must regard tie the citizens enumerated to in the declaration of independence and reserved to the people in the constitution and we say lurther that if those nights rights and these principle thee s are arc respected no of the united cited states will be de deprived by Congressional act of that local self government which they have exercised or of those f franchise ranchi ses which have advanced f from rom political privileges to vested rights we vve deny the right of congress to to do what is demanded and we deny its expediency ency if the suppression of po polygamy 1 I Is the theand end in will prove a failure if the political of a bitter and ambitious minority over tile the great majority of the citizens of utah is the object it may succeed for a time but it will be neither lawful nor just and can only be denounced as a political infamy |