Show CRANKY OR CORRUPT THE most drastic law that can be inin in in vented is none toe tco severe for and the enforcement of any even to virtual disfranchisement cannot I 1 be regarded as persecution by men who willfully and insolently defied the law I 1 for twenty years A the above is clipped from the editor lal ial columns of the san Franci Fran cimpI 1 chronicle etisa it is a liv live e newspaper and sometimes says some som e bright things but it is cranky 0 on n t the he mormon I 1 4 question the chronicle ought to 4 know if it does not that those VION among the mormon n people who alo the laws of congress restricting I 1 marriage were franchised disfranchised dis eight i no argument is now raised j soto as to the justice or injustice of their exclusion from political ind and privileges they are out of the present issue no drastic law to is proposed as tw to 1 them their cue case has long been dia ate posed of the cormons mormons Mor mons who are now bow threatened with virtual J ment have not defied the laws ISM ita twenty or any number of years adv have not disobeyed the laws at idl all 1 does the chronicle mean to say th that at tz th g enforcement of any measure even ta I 1 virtual disfranchisement of th mormons cormons Mor mons against whom there is 18 nc charge of breaking or defying the law 4 c could 0 uld not be regard regarded ed as persecution 1 what would it be then would it be right would it be just would ft jtb I 1 christian would it be american and what can be the object of auw a drastic measure as the ment of thou thousands santis of citizens agaibi whom the law makes no charge tiff 01 j 1 claim Is there any other object chaa he accession to political power of aj a minority of the people of utah if ahm tb chronicle does not mean to advocate this villainous policy what do its words word signify they amount to idiot tej daiv drivel e 1 the few in utah want to rule th tatt many the only means to this af end nd aft to kill popular sovereignty to rev reveal V the law that majorities govern strike the ballot from the hands bands of men will not vote for their enemies a the voice of the majority so that ebel minority may have all the say all vis the ofil offices ces all the emoluments thereof abo chronicle aud and every other paw paper that calls for the disfranchisement tf 0 those Mor cMor who how BOW have tb the voting power simply lend their aid to the most barefaced and brazen attempt at political robbery ever proposed in the united states |