Show edl EDI editorials TO R IN POLITICS tiie THE idaho statesman of the ath dinst ansti in commenting upon th the a deadlock dead d e ad loek lock in the lo 10 lower lowen wen house houpe of the legislature allusion to which has fias been boen made in this paper uttered the following unjust reflections reflect fone ione had tho the contest either at the poll polls sor or here during this long struggle been between democrats and republicans simply aa as such it would have had no reason of being and in enact fact would not have existed after the election was over and the votes counted but bat inocelda in oneida county the tho contest ans between mormons and anti cormons mormons and Bless rs stalker and jones being the anti mormon candidates the defeated cormons mormons sought to contest tair election relying for success the assumed importance of the mormon votes of the democrat Dem ocra tic party thus an ele eie element i ment and influence which if it it has any right of existence exis tence on earth should not be felt or known outside of its own tabernacles endowment houses and around its own fi resides has J been allowed to enter as a disturbing I 1 and aud dis organizing power into to fhe the politics and government of our young terii Teril territory tork already it has worse than wasted over one half of me the present session and all will experience peri ence a feeling of relief that its machinations have been thus far thwarted in rn reply to this hon james H halt hatt member of the council from bear lake county wrote the fol which appears in the statesman of the ath dinst BOISE CITY feb oth 1879 elfr statesman la in the last issue of your journal you charge the Mormon 8 with who whom m chave the honor to be connected with being baing responsible for the deadlock dead lock look farce in the house of representatives would it not bo be more truthful mr statesman to charge it against those who perpetrated those base frauds in oneida county that you so desperately defend and meem seem BO so anxious to ignore and co cover ver up the tho mormons cormons or of oneida county whom you find guilty and condemn on the above charge did no more than you or other citizens of this territory they simply voted aa as they chose in doing which they merely exercised their political righta right did I 1 say excuse me the mormons have no rights political nor religious neither are they fit to have an exi existence kence dence on the earth according to your charitable i implications this morning unless they conform to your political creed you say farther it bior vior monism should not be felt or known outside of its ita own taberna cles endowment houses and around its iti own fi resides 49 permit me to inform you mr statesman that your party has been coquetting with the mormons cormons of this territory several years in in order to obtain their votes the last campaign not excepted and if it my friends did not respond and vote yote your ticket I 1 can assure you the party you represent is not 0 o blame we ve are willing to take all the responsibilities of our poil poll political proclivities and actions and we claim the right of 0 existence and to exercise all the influence that the con government of theroun try has given us your utterances to the contrary notwithstanding you have got on the wrong track tracks mr statesman we live in the home of the free and the land of the brave it is not in accord with the spirit of enlightened nations to go backwards the burning of heretics torturing tr turing tuning and proscribing men and women for conscience sak sah ewas popular in the time of jeffries the spanish inquisition and the star chamber we V have outlived that day 11 ll itis our good fortune to be governed by a constitution that guarantees to every man the right to worship according to the dictates of his own conscience and the right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness proscribe and disfranchise thu the mormons cormons as squinted and implied in your paper this morning and it would not belong be long iong before thome theme tho methodists ts who sometimes boast of controlling the general government would want to proscribe the catholics presbyterians rians and other denominations whose creeds or polities fes ies might be objectionable you are too rabid statesman W we know our rights and wo we dare maintain and exercise them and we ask no odds of political parties and seek no special favora and are willing to stand or fall on our own merits merity but we dont want to be defrauded at the polls by corrupt politicians and we dont like to be bulldozed by their sympathizers very respectfully JAMES H HART HAUT ya it ia Is acknowledged by the idaho ppe papers and indeed no one in that territory will have the hardihood to deny it that the mormons cormons Mor mons are in the majority in southern idaho the world which deprecates this state of affairs and dud is not at all favorable to the situation admits while it mourns that during tho last two yeara years the mormon vote has increased about one th thoua omand and and the opinion of those best acquainted with aar affairs airs in southeastern idaho is that at the next election oneida county alone will p poll oll at least two thousand mormon votes now when this is coupled with the fact that thic the mormons cormons Mor mons voted the democratic ticket or as the World puts it ifft it must be conceded that the democratic party of idaho is under the control of the mormons cormons Mor mons is it not plain that a gross fraud is attempted by those who manipulate the election returns in trying to foist upon the people republican officers who can the very irl ill nature of things obtain but a small vote in oneida county if the mormons Mor mons are in the majority and their numbers at the polls are increased by the democrats why should not the ticket they elect edby buch such a large majority prevail against that supported iby the small minority and why should the legally elected j of the people be accused of making a ik deadlocks deadlock dead locks lock which is only occasioned by an attempt of republicans public ans to force the defeated candidates upon the legislature there never has been and never will be any trouble over the influence of the nor mormons Mor mons in politics tica when their political rights are acknowledged and respected in common with other citizens of the united states but those who are hostile to them on account of their religion seek to deprive them of all political power simply because 3 they carry the unity of the faith into the field of politics this is their right in this is their strength and while they are wise enough to preserve it intact they will prevail against all their unprincipled enemies they have the same rights under the law as other people they ask no more and we hopey hope will be satisfied with no less lesa I 1 A scientific STUDY OF or POLYGAMY A FEW days ago the sacramento record union had an article condemning polygamy as destructive to morality and without any redeeming feature it accepted as true the unsupported statements of persons entirely un uninformed inform ed as to the facts that illicit t intercourse was common among our young people and taking it for granted that this is the natural effect of family relations but now that paper moves to a different position it seems to have been suddenly awakened to the truth that mormon polygamy has haq never been fairly investigated and in the following language calls science to step stop forward and look into that which has been condemned without examination by the dictum of theology and the voice of popular brej prejudice udice now that congress has at last decided to legislate vigorously against polygamy and especially now that it proposes to remove all ground for the cry of persecution by passing an amnesty bill for past of fences thus all living children and wives it ilis ills is more probable than ever before that the institution will wili gradually decline and be abandoned it is therefore a proper time to call attention to the fact that though polygamy has been prevailing close at hand for almost a quarter of a century it has never sever yet been examined scientifically if with a view to ascertain its real tendencies and to observe in what its effects differ from those of monogamy it is not a little remarkable that this inquiry has never been undertaken by any scientific society there has never been a period when n the study of sociological subjects was BO so prevalent or when more interest was felt in precisely the class odes of facts faco which a thorough examination of polygamy in utah would enrich it is important to know for example what if any influence the polygamous eus relation has upon the fecundity of the women upon the proportion between the sexes in the children upon the mortality of chil ehll children drent upon the general health of th the 0 community and many other points which will suggest themselves there are of course not a few considerations side elde rations connected with such a subject which cannot bo be determined with any approach to confidence or certainty but some valuable information might possibly be gathered concerning thu effects of polygamy upon the morals of the community though education and training apart from the marriage relation have so much to do with this that would it be very difficult to separate the effects the subject however is one which certainly ought to be investigated while investigation vesti gation is possible it is curious but true that nothing like a scientific research of mormon polygamy has ever yet been a attempted t we recommend the subject to the attention of scientific associations throughout the united states tates tf as one which promises more useful information if properly pursued than the disembowel disemboweling ing of any number ol 01 mounds or the finding of any quantity of obsidian ari row heads we would suggest the I 1 appointment of an investigating commission to congress save for the apprehension that it would be composed of politicians alone and that consequently its conclusions would be without any permanent value the chief difficulty attending any inquiry of this kind by mono ga mists whether of a scientific philosophical religious or political character ia is that the subject is almost certain to be prejudged it is claimed in tiie tile scare scam thad chad is wrong in principle and evil in its effects because great christendom denounces ib it as a violation of the social regulations of the most advanced nations and views it as a return to the L barbarism larb arism of the early ages an unbiased critical and thorough investigation is scarcely to be expected the human sources of information are committed to one side or the otheron other of the controversy upon the subject the Mormon mormons Mor mons ss believe in the system of plural marriage revealed in their sacred writings and are firmly impressed with its superiority when practiced practised as commanded the anti antl are so bitterly hostile to it that their statements are entirely unreliable and are generally not founded upon anything known to the parties who make them but are either malicious inventions of their own orb ors oratories tories received from others and enjoyed because highly spiced with scandal and of a nature to please a prurient imagination As an instance of thib thia take the nasty utterances of a certain society in this city in regard to illegitimate births etc to on which the record union founded its article first named above these sayings were put into the mouths of ladies who know nothing whatever as to the facts but merely adopt resolutions and unfounded assertions prepared for them by unprincipled men we know that the contrary of these statements is the truth that with out laying claims to absolute purity or social perfection our community is comparatively free from those sexual vlen which stain society throughout christendom and are a sapping its strength and filling it with corruption corrupt ioni loni reckless imsen lusen assertions concerning our people peoples who occupy settlements stretching along a strip of country at least miles in length from idaho to arizona are made by persons who have never been in one of our towns outside of salt lake city these un truths are sen sent t over the wires copied by the papers and dished up as news of mormon wickedness for the delectation of millions of readers who lift up their hands wyth holy horror at the alleged wickedness of the polygamous mor mons while right within earshot and eyesight of their own dwellings are abominations before which the failings of the people of utah are as nothing and compared to the ponderous iniquity of which even the things with which wo we are falsely accused are ara trifles light as air the record union is right tight nothing like a scientific research of mormon polygamy po lygan has ever yet been attempted wholesale abu abuse be misrepresentation brute forbe and threats of present penalties and future damnation are the chief influences brought to bear upon it those who attempt to discuss the matter in anything like a fair spirit do not touch the main question their arguments and statistics relate to and these do not affect mormon plural marriage w which are very different and distinct systems unlike iii in essence unlike in practice unlike in their objects and in their effects the time will come when just such investigations as the record i union suggests will be in order and then it will bo be seen that the government and the people have been precipitate they have condemned before examining they have attempted to destroy something that tha is destined to save society they rhey have haye repeated the folly of the expedition of 1523 1573 when an army was sent to quell a mormon rebellion which upon subsequent quent official inquiry was found to have no existence they amite smite koiv now and by and by they will investigate but when that investigation is had bad not only must politicians but preachers also be excluded from the board of examiners for while much of the ben senseless opposition now aroused against our social byl SYL tem lem is the work of political adventurers adventure raj rai most moat of it may be justly charged to the account of the professed followers of the meek and lowly Jesus who aim to destroy by the arm of the law that which they cannot put down by scriptural texts or logical arguments let lot science j judge if it will but do not trust to the conclusions of spurious theology THE DAY OF JUDGMENT THE following lines iines under the above heading were composed by the ge german derman roii an poe poet r waiter walter yun vun brunnier runnier yuli run nier Vogel welde weide in the early part of the thirteenth century and appears with others in the january febra ary number of the western though written so long ago they paint in vivid colors a brief but faithful sketch ot of the times in which we live 61 sleepers arise now nears the day of which may well stand in dismay jews pagans aye and christians all in common I 1 we many of the signs have sen seen from which its coming we can glean As holy writ too has foretold its summon the sun its glorious face has blackened sin goes scattering seeds oa OR every highway far and wide the father in his own child untruth ninde finde lindeth nin fin deth tb the brother his own brother swindles spiritual life to monks gown dwindles instead 1 of being to heaven our guide force foice ruleth all ali the law no court now budeth ros zos jis lis time indeed to stem the tide THE OBJECT IN VIEW THE tun doings of davenport theu the U 8 commissioner at new york which are now being investigated have occasioned some astonishment among members of both mth the great political parties by arresting a targe large number of naturalized citizens on the ground that they possessed fraudulent naturalization papers which has been |