| Show gly lly 19 mw atao school law edu deseret mews news the late revenue law bec sec t f provides that three mills ah on the dol ilar liar lar far for tor territorial purposes three mills on fhe be dollar for fat the benefit of district school sand sq aach ch gunt guat as the county court may dealin designate ate ato for county purposes not io to bix mills orf on the dollar jle jie here we have three jakes jaxes axes each for their purpose sec see 27 provides that audi tar e warrants Var ranta shall shail be received for lor territorial ts tabea x es t warrants for county tox tax tax fox strictly I 1 ia s hol toot territorial tax and I 1 conclude that the legislature acturo did not design might liht b be paid in auditory warrants the practice of doing eo so hns has compelled the to wait a sometimes jor foi moneva money or mit mil toa shaye shave of 20 to 35 cents on the jd dollar doliar i and the trustees could not contract with a teacher and use it L intha in the eurt durt current blit brit year y ear alho ut heing being subJect subjected ig to this loss the law expressly 1 sly provi provider dds that the money sha 1 1 be collected and taj the county treasury on or before we the blat day of december each year and he ha county treasurer is required to pv pay it ova over fo io the trustees on the order of the cou county n which certainly should be done in n january january since bince the repeal of the t e law W pro viding for a tax of one ono fourth of one per cent whoa whon when necessary to provide for repairs and other inci dental expenses tha the trustees are left without any provis provision loii of raibe raise any auy means for buch auch pu purposes apo if it la is bald said that they can raise a tax by a two thirds vote bf a dis dib tricot answer that the f residents jf in a district could vote to tax them I 1 selves without law a if they were yer q d do 0 I 1 disposed but frequently k they k a are r e not BO so disposed better require them to pay more moie on the tuition of their own children and F something om ething for S etc it may be hoped that the committee on compiling a school law may consider these facts and that the legislature will remodel the school law publish it in one act in plain piaia language in pamphlet form that thabit it may not be mixed up in several nor misunderstood S union dec 18 1879 hayes rayes on the twin relic ab the editor of the east vj courier Cov rier fler r a mr hayes hayea de devotes votes a portion of his lat message to the subject ol 01 polygamy in utah lie he thinks it should be set down on without further delay his reason for this conclusion is thus stated the opinion widely prevailed among the citizens of utah that the law was waa in contravention of the constitutional tut ional lonal guarantee of religious freedom thid this objection is now remo removed ved veO the supreme court of the united states has decided the law against polygamy to 1 in the legislative power of congress Con greba gresa and binding as a rule of action for all who reside within the territories prevailed justas if a decision of a court of a union unton from which they have long been beell excluded on the ground that they were athens heathens he could suddenly change their social and religious status and cause them to renounce b doctrines for which they have suffered the fiercest persecutions and an institution which they regard as authorized and commanded by a 8 pe ought to read bome some work on evolution if ho he lacks the common bense sense to know that it takes more than tbd an four minutes to educate out of a man what it took half a century with the aid of ghostly authora authority ty to educate him what if the supreme court has decided the law lavi against polygamy to be not against religious freedom this is a very simple question and one which any person of fat fal fai autel 1 I a can understand aa aswell well weil as if a ignorant igno ranc douy an AD electoral composed of these gowned gentlemen pu dir mr air HaYe baye suin ELin the white heue hou e but hut I 1 am not aware that any onebah on ehat written the opinion widely pre availed that mr hayes was not riot the he I 1 choice of the people though lio doubt he and aud his parasites w ou be glad kiad to have helve the tene tenge changed reval laia the woid wold 1 I 1 have been among thu the 1 jn abd and elsewhere and kuum 1 them thom to be a peaceable que quel and industrious people a and ad noad for minding own business 88 uee X lie ile eee 0 qualities ought to challenge respect anywhere A As for their adherence to the practice of polygamy t i almost wholly a matter of rell reil religious ious lous conviction the mormon women havo have the same natural that other women p possess 39 and ad mit treely freely that their feelings are against the plural system but they 1 say it ia Is simply y a question whether they will obey gud god or man ang aul sul they claim to know that polygamy among them has been commanded direct fram heaven heaved I 1 have nd doubt theford the biord was conspicuously absent at the time ime t joseph josept I 1 mith smith with received recel veil idol the revelation in behalf of polygamy Ys but 1 I am equally well vell convinced that the great body of the M armons believe it was genuine Their thele bible bibie the of mormon condemi condemns is the practice in general terms but puts in a saving clause V I 1 thus hosts raise up heed seed unto me I 1 will vill comm command mild nay ray people otherwise they shall hearken unto thee things now slach they regard tho institution aa as la in accordance with a dl dt vine cm ccmmand mand of course coulse to interfere wit with h it forcibly is to interfere with their religious freedom it may be that freedom ought to be interfered with sometime that question I 1 shall not now consider but why single out one class of christl Christi anba ansa a class too that has done all they coula could to separate themselves from the wat est bf of the world anollee anol and angl lve live their rol rel religion lilon BO so as I 1 not to give offense and make th them em the object of pro prescriptive le legisla gisia tion tiong the jews pra practice caico circumcision in america which is a rin hin nature mature and of no po possible use seto any anyone one the catholics Cat holica drill every chilli they can get chri troi trot of in counting beads be a d s 1 worshipping wor shipping images observing particular days etc etcy until you c can an no more approach a boy or 9 girl irl iri of 14 with reason than you could take up a hedgehog or a cactus with bare hands bands and the samo same thing is true in a large degree of protestant churches again I 1 ask why discriminate against a particular branch of the christian chur church ch polygamy is authorized by the old testament and is not forbidden in th the rew new there are ate genuine reasons against it but they are not christian reasons probably the tho i most ol 01 the opposition to it comes cornea from the first impression that thatis it is a system of prostitution but nowhere else in americk america are there so few traces of sexual sin as in utah the whole power of the mormon priesthood bild and fill all their teachings are arrayed adultery and kindred mildred sins sine while the simple inexpensive habits of that entire people their plain style of dress and their unrivalled industry all tend to keep in check the baser passions the general marriage system of christendom covers up and excuses most tet tec bet of the sins of the sexes add and enables them to maini tain in tolerable condition conditi orLa orka a thin gauze of respectability mormon hintenach hin iem teach teaches male continence and the church insists on it daring gestation and Mormon the wife Js no m more org to her husband thana than a friend As a consequence their children arneborn are born free efrom an unnatural predisposition eo 10 sensuality sua lity this cannot ba be truly daid said of the general 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