Show A SENSIBLE VIEW AMONG other papers that are discussing the subject of the alleged polygamous preaching of mormon elders in england the detroit I 1 free ee press has something to say about it falling into the common error which is 19 quite natural considering the press dispatches the free press treats the untruth about as a fact but notwithstanding this it takes the ground that believing and teaching polygamy does not matter so long as the practice is discontinued and it argues the matter in this way what most concerns the people of the united states is not what the mormons cormons say they do abroad but what they really do at home utah will soon ask admission to the union with polygamy prohibited and punished by the constitution and pol poly barred from voting there woutje would be no great danger that the new commonwealth mon wealth would be a polygamous community the government has nothing to do with the domination of the mormon hierarchy in the affairs of utah about which so much is said in the eastern press if the hierarchy can dominate that is its business it would hav a right under our system to do dominate daminato wherever it had strength to do so provided there was no infringement m ent of the constitution of the united states or that conati constitution ution republican in form which congress would approve for the new state under a constitution prescribing distinct penalties for polygamy and kindred crimes and franchising disfranchising dis those who practice polygamy utah would be safe there should be no repetition of the outrage of the idaho constitution which 4 distinctly dis franchises men not for practicing polygamy but for believing in it IL this is an infraction of the cons constitution titu of the united states which gran grants ts to all people the right to the free exercise of their religious faiths A man can believe what he pleases in these united states but there are some practices that the government will not permit of course this is true american doe doc arlue however it will not suit the bigots the the fanatical antii cormons mormons Mor mons nothing but a formal renunciation of any lingering belief in their souls that polygamy under any possible conditions might be morally right will satisfy their demands and even that would scarcely fill the bill drawn up by certain liberal mormon cormons baters haters the church domination idea which is the successor of the polygamy bugbear is little more than a myth it serves the purpose of its ita inventors but has baa no practical existence and the free press takes the correct view of the matter malter the people of a state have the right to their own views of the extent to which religious influences shall affect them and while the constitution of the united states stated is paramount within the individual state slate the religious indications and tendencies of its people should be left free A more truly liberal view of the utah situation is sure to be the result of enlightenment as to the facts and a determination to be governed by correct republican principles C |