| Show FULL TEXT OF THE REPORT Is IN to days issue appears the full text i of the report of the utah commission to the secretary of the interior A few days ago we published an associated crebs synopsis pIs of the document and at that time commented upon it the brief exhibit of its purport was generally correct and it would therefore appear almost superfluous for us to make burthe r critical allusion to it the f nil full text does not relieve the document from the incongruities which were made apparent in the condensed statement of its contents the reasoning in favor of the proposed amendment to th the constitution forbidding polygamy within the domain of the united states is somewhat singular it is admitted with considerable sid erable frankness that the mor r mons regard that sacred instrument with reverence once ence as an inspired document ment but claim that it has been tw SUD averted und and misinterpreted this is precisely incise ly the position the proposition that that argument would be de by the proposed amendment is un nappy those who stand up lor liberty aud and tree free government will not be likely to lo look upon the intended addition to the instrument is ment as aa a step in the maintenance ot those principles it would involve a surrender tiu riender by the me states of a portion of their own sovereignty it would be a handing over in pare to the beneral government of their prerogative to regulate their own domestic concerns within their own holders borders taus inus it would be a step in the direction ot or gr greater e at er centralization ot power while the real genius of the me republic Ite public and of democracy is toward its diffusion in this question the fact that the baates would mever knever tolerate the domestic institution whose extinction is aimed at and thus by their consent to the ame amendment adment wu would uld only be directing a blow at what they desire to see abolished does not noc enter emer law into the the power to strike trat blow it is is to be administered should be retained within the individual states otherwise lue local at self belt gov is measurably surrendered and centralization a dangerous condition is tea led it 11 the tae latter species ol 01 infringement can an obtain in ILI relation to one subject tile the chlooris dour is opened for foi further inroads besides the proposed addition to the constitution being a practical abrogation ot awen amendment dment one ol 01 the same instrument ment thus placing it in conflict with wilh itself it would necessarily be in the nature ol of a tun fungus gus development a wart on the nose of the otherwise symmetrical fundamental lund law born ol of supposed to lo winch which principle must be sacrificed before it can be adopted it would not be much of an improvement upon subversion and to inject a and necessarily constituent the most unique idda connected with the am amendment adment project is the intimation that it would prove useful as an advertising Altu to the people of all nations in relation to the mormon qUeSt question LOU it strikes one humorously tu to ring in the constitution as art an ad vei veri asing sheet in any direction whatever and this utopian utopias thought is suggestive of a numerous tra train inot of concomitant ideas the report is lorle with suggestions some of which it is admitted have been already offered by the chica executive consequently the commission tenders that class of hints tally following the lead of the before named high f tuis tais applies specially to a wished for change in ia the immigration ration laws in order to exclude cormons mormons Mor mons from the hospitable shores of arn america ries reminds us ns of the common saying baying of it being easy to ask questions but sometimes exceedingly cee difficult to answer them the process ot offering suggestions suggestion sis is equa equally y well greased but to carry them luto into effect is occasionally a task of no mean proportions if the commission were requested to frame a bill that would completely cover the ground the he dilemma would be embarras embarrassing f the quotation from the report of 1064 embodied tit la that under consideration is in the right direction it is oneff one of the most sensible portions of the document those who magine imagine that institutions that have developed in ia a community for halt half a century or so bo are to be successfully sf ully torn out by the roots in double quick time lime are utterly destitute ot of common sense philosophy those who advocate extreme radical measures ta attain that expeditious andare end are devoid of all the kindlier in sti acts of humanity it is a physical intellectual and moral impossibility unless ds as the COMMiS commission SIOU intimates the community itself be wiped out by violence and blood that extinguishment however will never be consummated |
