Show THE DEBATE ON THE FOLLY POLLY wn WE publish today to day the report in the congressional eccard record of the debate on the substitute bill introduced by senator edmunds in place of the original orbana el bill understood to have been drafted by the district attorney for ftp utah b but which was too lai bai ba 1 in ia principle and construct construction on even for the senator from vermont the tha dispute turned chiefly on the suffrage question and the tho lamentable ignorance of our national legis latora on the utah question was again manifested mr edmunds acknowledged that he derived his hib alleged information from a number of the commissioners who recently visited utah and who spent most of their time tn in this city it was to the effect that woman suffrage here is a sufi sull suffrage rage nage of servitude that the women here vote as their lords and masters require them to do boj doj bo be they many or few 1 I in re response pose coee to the suggestion of mr morrill that if the gentilo woman did vote one wife would not counterbalance six bix mr edmunds said that ia 13 true enough all of this goes to prove that the tiie senators named were ignorant of the effects of mr edmunds bill of last session which took look the ballot away from all the gamio wives as well as aa the poly gamio husbands even mr hoar while arguing rationally against the the principle of tho the bill seemed at first to be unaware of the fact that male and female females had been practically dis franchised in utah although he afterwards aften after wards called attention to this fact the pretended object of the measure la Is the of polygamy 3 but its ita real object was let iet out by air edmunds in replying to mr floar hoar and that Is to cripple the sM mormon stormon ormon church and to put the political power of the territory into the hands of the few to the detriment of the many senator edmunds la Is a great expounder of republican principles according to the theories of his party la Is it not a queer kind of republicanism to make laws lawa for the express purpose of de straying ying popular government in an or d anu of turn ing over all political power to a smal small minority of its citizens but nut the vermont senator gives his hia whole argument away by stating that if the 19 mormon women could have the arco exer cisa of their opinions they should have the right to vote and if they had not that right he would give it to them he assumes that the Mormon women to vote as their lords and masters direct yet admits that he has not been able to get at their real opinions although ho he thinks the commissioners miss mits loners ners have now the evidence nil nii goes to prove that the mormon women vote just as they desire the absolutely secret ballot Is their protection no one can tell how they vote there Is nothing to prevent them from voting as they please there is no evidence to the contrary except the bald asser asEer assertion tion of the commissioners who know no more about the real opinions of the mormon women man edmunds does for they never took the pains to enquire the mormon women vote with their husbands fathers and brothers because lecause they are of the same opinions thoy they are one with them bath in religion and politics attendance at the enthusiastic shuf thusia ar c political meetings of cf the peoples party held in this territory last fall in which women took part and applauded as much as aa the men would haye have convinced any adv any one with eyes and ears and common sense that what wo we have stated is correct and if senator edmunds thinks women could be compelled by their husbands to vote in a certain way or at all against their will he knows very little of female human nature but bat his ideas spring from a mis taken notion that la 13 that the very nature of woman revolts at polygamy it is not nolt nature but tradition and training that excite such revolt he does not understand 99 mormon polygamy nor the views of the mormon women the st louls louis Be republican publican rays says on this point rhe the mormon women outnumber the men they could vote polygamy out of exit existence tenee tence tomorrow to morrow if they would but it is id evident they do not wish to they havo have volun tartly chosen their lot thay knew what mormonism was before belore they embraced it the greater number have come comme all the tho way from europe to espouse it they have never protested nor attempted to protest against it on the con eon contrary t nary so far as we are able to gather they are not only submissive under their condition but contented with it and opposed to any change in it they are stout advocates of polygamy and will of their own free choice vote for it on every occasion it may be hard for persons living outside of mormonism to understand this but the fact stands out in such sueh pl ninin plain aln kin view that we cannot cannoa ignore it the truth Is that the tho legislators who attempt the most to regulate utah affairs know the least about them they are only the dupes of rascals who stuff them full fuli of falsehoods and prevail upon them to father the schemes concocted by adventurers who want to control the affairs ol of this territory however the schemers must feel considerably flattened out by senator edmunds emphatic opposition to their pet plot to which all their conspiracies gravitate the establishment of a Legislative Commission tor for utah that is too outrageous oven even for him he will have none of it although claiming I 1 without advancing a an n argument to sustain it the tho authority of Con congress gress greas to legislate for a territory as absolutely as for the district of columbia ho he cannot go to the length of placing legislative powers for utah into the hands of a few persons irresponsible to the peo pie he says cit c it cannot bo be done senator blair takes the really constitutional st position in relation to this matter that is admitting for the tho time being that congress hali has any right to regulate the domestic affairs odan organized community He holds that the tha right of suffrage once lawfully exercised cannot be taken away without conviction for crime and thus thua proclaims the illegality of the of the commissioners by which citizens of utah not only but clearly untainted of any offense offence against the laws have been prevented from exercising the right of suffrage the report of the debate unlike much of 0 the matter which appears in the congressional Congre record is ia worth reading and to all impartial minds will show the shallow basis basia on which inimical legislation is proposed for utah |