Show A disinterested WITNESS THE new york herald of june contains the following special dispatch chicago ill june 15 1890 ex chief justice wright of arizona says his territory will never accept statehood under the conditions recently proposed said he yesterday it the objectionable conditions were proposed by the present governor and his secretary and are to the effect that the mormons cormons shall be either cheed or compelled to take a test oath before voting now I 1 want to say that the mormons cormons of arizona do not practice polygamy they are as good citizens as we have there being frugal industrious and law abiding ana and wherever they go the community is pro prosperous arous moreover we believe inthe in the edmunds law and will see that all violators of it are punished therefore there is no necessity for putting at such a blot upon our certificate of admission to the union we will come in as all others come in or we will stay out for years arizona is rine ripe for statehood but it is not ready to forfeit iuah its self respect to get it I 1 besides such conditions are certainly contrary to the constitution which grants to the people liberty of religious belief if mormonism is a bar why not include catholicism or presbyterianism and carry out the dea to its logical conclusion if religious belief is a bar why not political belief we are opposed t polygamy as much as edmunds hims himself elf there is no reason for us to humiliate the mormons cormons Mor mons who form one twentieth of ef 0 11 our population judge wright expresses the sentiments of a large number of ari zonas zona leading citizens the course taken by the present governor of that territory band and also of some federal officials in this territory backed by the fulminations faulmi nations of their organs demonstrate the truth of tho the frequently repeated opinion that thai all their pretended hostility to the practice of polygamy is the most transparent sort of humbug the animus they exhibit and the projects ejects a t fiey aey favor show that their real antipathy is against the mormon religion and people irrespective of any family relation sand their actual purpose is to deprive citizens of we the ballot who will not use it to support their schemes 7 all the purported anti polygamy legislation since the passage of the edmunds act of 1882 has been convincing evidence of this fac tand all the bills now pending in congress relating to the utah question are additional addition al and conclusive proofs in the same direction none of these measures are likely to accomplish anything in the direction pretended to be desirable by the authors of these blots upon the statute books of the nation and upon the records of congressional proceedings they are intended to cripple the mormon I church and de crease the number of voters who are not in sympathy with the gang who are lusting after local domination the testimony of judge wright Arizona of is similar to that of gov arnor stevens of idaho he boffl dally eulogized the mormon 0 residents in his territory in equally glowing terms it is a fact that the mormon colonizers of the lands adjacent to utah are among the most enterprising peaceable law abiding and progressive of the permanent people of the respective communities they are an overflow from working population there is no excuse for the attempts which are made to deprive them of the fre emens right the citizens citizen protection the elective franchise nothing that has been offered to justify it will bear the light of truth or the logic of straight reason tor for a moment it is clear as daylight that the minority want to rule that they cannot accomplish their purpose while the ballot remains in the bands of people who will not submit to the their r control and that this is why they plot to rob them of their political rights and powers it is to be hoped that no BO state will enter the union with so sh i rueful a violation of the spirit spi of the constitution and such an essentially feature of 1 its b 9 fundamental law no as disfigures the instrument offered by the conspirators of idaho the day will come when an enlightened people emerging from the clouds of prejudice which befogged their forefathers and freed from the paltry and mercenary motives which prompted such intolerance will marvel at the mad folly of their ancestors and class all this anti mormon agitation with the witch burning of superstitious massachusetts and the quaker bunting of the early puritans Pur itaas the mormons cormons Mor mons are misunderstood by the world to day but their virtues will become known and appreciated in good time they have a bright and glorious future before them nothing noth i ng can block the way to their exalted destiny the very schemes intended to destroy them will yet serve to help build them up and the measures framed for their overthrow will be used hy by divine providence to make them prominent and powerful and while they rise to the dignity and influence to which their worth entitles titles them the boastful beings who have plotted for their destruction will sink into deserved oblivion or numbered among the bigots and persecutors of history will be known only to be despised |