| Show THE LOCAL SITUATION AS VIEWED BY A LONDON EDITOR THE following from the london standard of the uit evinces a degree crie wrid of fairness on the tha part of that intelligent and influential journal ul u reviewing the late epistle of the first I 1 presidency and the prescriptive and oppressive measures being efi forced enforced a against a dinst the la latter latten ater day saints that is seldom manifested by editors on this side of the atlantic the united states judge in the mormon ormon territory is daily passing sentence of im imprisonment upon thos those who infringe what Is known as the edmunds law specially passed to put an end to polygamy the first firs t presidents john taylor and G Q cannon have addressed a long and it must be owned most able and eloquent epistle to the mormon people protesting against the persecution to which they ar are e exposed it is impossible to read this manifesto without feeling that so far as argument goes the mormons cormons have much the best of it the law of the united states says in fact you may live with as many women as you choose providing you do not call them wives vives and no small number of citizens of the united states do so live the mormons cormons Mor mons therefore are summoned not to leave their wives but simply to give up calling in them such to bring disgrace and dishonor upon the women who have lived accor according diff to their religion blamelessly as their wives to repudiate that connection and yet to continue in the same sauie relation with them and this Is done in the name of decency and moral morality ityl I 1 without having any leaning towards polygamy we must own that the mor mori mon presidents have made out a good case the went out into the wilderness thousands of mile miles away bawny from civilization in order to practice their religion relle ion iou unmolested the people of the united states have come to them and although the latter would be perfectly justified in saying that no more polygamous marriages shall take place they are not justified ju tinned in askin askina the mormons cormons to set aside the women who have bonman for many y le years been faithful wives a and d t the h e in mothers arthe artke r 8 of their children or what is still worse to continue to live with them while openly wenly acknowledging them thorn to be unmarried |
