| Show UTAH AND THE territories ES the semiweekly semi weekly zda Ida idahoan aoa hoa of april has the following the republican press of the country are just now striving to create a t by disca discussing L vl a g the proposition of dividing utah t 1 h up and giving a portion of it to the surrounding territories orits they speak of that territory very much as they would of an apple one is ready with knife in baudro divide it into quarters while another object sand says he donl dont like ilke apples while a third chips in and says you must swallow it as you would a dose of pills aa as thib thia id is the only way to keep the apple from L polling while the fourth individual swells ewells out with wisdom and says woe woo to the party who vell veri ventures tures to say tay the apple shall not be ut up fed to the hogs squeezed into cider allowed to sour and be used risi fifi n vinegar or anything else ivre ivle we may chouse choose to make of the to prevent proven tit it from rotting and filling the air nir with pestilential pet perfumes thus thu the discussion goes on and the people of the country are treated week after week with leagued leay leat ned comments on the probable course of the party in this thia matter week after week we ato afo warned that eor tor t terrible is just on the eve of being accomplished shed now just to quiet the nerves of the dear people peoples we propose to examine the matter a little and see how it stands in the first place we find a population of near people living who have pecullar peculiar religious iou lou views utah being the nucleus orbe or head adof of the institution they have been organized nto uto a territory and have been moving along in this condition for years during all this time the government has been aware of their peculiar doctrines and pra c ticer esi efi A portion of this ti methe administration has been democratic and quite a large portion it has been almost entirely in the hands of the pa publicans public ans and yet nothing has been done by either party parry that has bals very seriously interfered with the thu doctrines or the practices of thi 3 people why simply fc because the constitution of the united states hays cays congress shall make mabe no law respecting the establishment of religion or pro I 1 hi biting the free exercise thereof in fact freedom of the press freedom domhof of speech and freedom conscience has been the boast the american people BO so long that the party who seea fit to attack either one of these bulwarks bulwa of american liberty must have a great deal of evidence to provo prove the righteousness of its ita auw or the people ever jealous of any encroachment croach ment upon their liberties would soon give them to understand that such proceedings would not be tolerated the mormons cormons claiming polygamy as a part of their religious creed have stood behind this clause of it has been very difficult for bitter enemies to either drive them from their thein bulwark or to tear it away from before them it ia Is folly to say that one political party la Is more ready to attempt a reform on purely moral grounds than the other there are very few who would be shallow on enough ough to believe any such assertion the republican party has baa had sufficient numerical strength most of the time for the last sixteen years to have passed and executed any law they pleased on the subject but they have been content with passing a law and leaving it a dead letter ietter on the statute books for 16 years jf if either party is to be blamed for the present state of affairs it la Is certainly the republican party if congress has a constitutional right to interfere with the mormon doctrine of polygamy and bup sup suppress prees its practise practises why have they trifled away their time ac at blowing over the affair for the last sixteen years yearb and why now try to make capital out of i the supposed want of hostile action n on the part of the democratic party patty we aie are satisfied that nine tenths of the american people look upon the doctrine and practice of polygamy with abhorrence n and nd would be willing to se see e an anything vt d n gd done one that was legal and constitutional to prevent it being practiced with this state of affairs it is impossible for either party to pass any measure that would tend to ad advance varice its ita interests hence all that talk about admitting utah as a state wah with a constitution favoring polygamy ia Is folly and the fear of the territory being divided and parceled out to the surrounding territories is bosh it would be a thing unheard of in the past history of our government ern ment in the first place it Is contrary to the genius of our government to do dobo so against the will of people the united states stated government doea does not of such a mass of people aa as it they were mere cattle und anil there ia la no doubt but that the mormons cormons would be almost a unit against such a move hence it Is folly for ua us t to 0 get into a quarrel about who will take a portion of the territory arid who will not this whole matter will regulate as the succeeding wave moves on it is folly for the rt republicans to strive to make capital out of the mormon question aa as we have to much proof of their willingness to receive their political support and grant them in return anything they could ask as compensation campen a atlo atto H |
