Show THE REPORT THE COM commission 1 WE publish today to day the full text of t the it report ot of the utah commission to the secretary of the interior when vleit ed cd in the I 1 light ht of comparison with the generality of political statements in relation to the mormons cormons Mor mons ons ous 11 it may be I 1 I 1 termed a temperate document we use the theford word political in this connection because there does not appear to be any other status eliher either in in its ris base or body besides its entire tenor indicates not the slightest haste to produce any effect th atwould depose tile the commissioners from office it starts out with the assertion that the last legislature adjourned without enact enacting im laws in conformity with the edmunds act it would have been the genteel thing for the authors of the document mohave to nave inserted at this point the fa fact t that between the making of such legislation and the legislative assembly stood a governor whose declared official policy is in direct opposition to its enactment such a law would interfere re with his scheme for the abolition of the legislature and the appointment of a legislative commission missi orr oil the legislative assembly passed the contemplated law but it was wag vetoed by governor murray judging from tile the drift of the report the commission Commiss loir is not likely to have lost much sleep over his gunj unjust st exercise of gubernatorial autho authority t by which he thwarted tile the will of 0 t the je people eople the commission have ave done one the legislature and people the justice of ap pending end in Z a copy of the vetoed election eay eav law to 0 o the tile report but have been guilty of f a superfluity in stating that it evades the national law as it does not do so but this is a sop to the official who killed it being in the nature of a justification for the vetoe it would have nave been beehn more sensible to have left the officer to whom the copy of the law was submitted to judge by personal examination and comparison whether it was a proper and harmonious enactment As to the remark about the vetoed law mw cn coming up to the demands ot of the country countr yit it is undignified fled nonsense if in the mal mai maling making ing of laws for forthe the government of different localities tile the demands of the unthinking multitude were acted upon this republic would soon be standing upon its head in a state of helpless inaction so far as real progress in concerned 1 or in a condition nion wion of hopeless co confusion li fusion the majority of the people of utah are in a much better detter situation for knowing their own legis dative wants illan than the country at large besides what is it in themay the wax way of local legislation that tile tiie country does want for utah if it were possible for the que question stion to be put in plain terms to the country the answers would be so multifarious and varied that it would be difficult to select the predominant idea of the dear public this is demo demonstrated nitrated in the numerous measures mostly conspicuous for their incongruity and that are offered for the solution of the alleged mormon problem 91 the commissioners make a knob out of it a couple of lectures delivered in city not ion lon long iong since on the subject of plural marriage the intent is to show that strenuous efforts are being made to induce people to politically sustain those who have entered into that relation the tha sole object of the addresses was to give explanations of the views of the latter day saints in regard i to the marriage institution that erroneous ideas which have been men palmed off upon the public by the tra dubers acers of the majority of the je people OPle opie of utah might be corrected so far tar as the influent influence of the lectures mig might gh t extend candor compels the commission to state that life and property are as secure here as jn n any other part of the country we are pleased leased to observe thattie that the gentlemen are open to the compulsory processes of can candor dorit it is further than many people eop le will go when i speaking of the mormons cormons Mor mons 1 I but the fact of f security is so apparent as to be self evident to all who ard are properly informed as lawlessness with the ma of the people of utah is not an element clement of their social structure in aspea speaking in of the change that time has wrought in the condition of af fairs in ut utah all ali the commission fail fall probably from lack of time and inclination to make the comparison between the earlier days of the territory present historical phase complete in early times immoral den drunkenness and other worldly institutions had no existence since the later contact with the outside world however these adjuncts of common civilization have been in consequence of the broader and more extensive outside communication established sustained and pain pampered by those who appedu appeal t to 0 cons consider der it their special mission to regenerate the ai mormons cormons Mor mons 11 As the report states the operation of the outside leaven has been and must be a gradual work works but it Is a progress in setrog retrograde rade morality that travels a great deal too fast and as for the larger freedom enjoyed now than formerly there never was a time in the territory when every individual residing within its confines was not at liberty to fo do right it is presumable th that a t the fund whose establishment I 1 is s r recommended commended by the commission to aid in enforcing the provisions of the edmunds act net IS 18 intended for the payment of sneaks and informers who might undertake d to glean alean info inton nation mation in various questionable forms such as intruding upon the privacy of families whose I 1 sacredness should be sustained by the I 1 state instead of its destruction which I 1 appears to be aimed almed at we are doubtful however that congress will ampro for any such purpose 1 the report is noncommittal non committal in regard to the question of the i of a legislative commission it is evidently hot in favor of such a admeasure but advocates a consider able stride in the same unconstitutional direction by ro recommending commending that stain county and territorial offices now elective be taken from the people and the power to fill them put into the hands of the governor or district judges thus the destruction of republican publican institutions by piecemeal Is favored the wholesale method bin being considered too sweeping it is an advocacy of the policy of cutting off the do dots dogs dois Is tall tail an inch or two at a time as preferable to hurting the animal too severely by severin severing the thee appendage at a blow it the commission had re poTted reported that thai the legislature had enacted a law they de deemed emedin in keeping with the requirements of the edmunds act but were thwarted in their purpose by the vetoe of 01 a governor vernor who has been logrolling log rolling for 10 r a T legislative dative commission commIs sio n with w ith himself at rt its head it they had recommended an examination into the merits of the matter for the purpose of ascer aiding whether the legislature or orthe the governor were at fantl and that action be taken in accordance acco lance with just and equitable findings they would have taken about the proper step in the premises |