| Show JUDGE ZANE GOOD AUTHORITY THE cincinnati gazette makes the following sensible comment upon the article from the pen of chief justice zane which appeared in the last issue of odthe the forum judge charles S zane chief justice of the supreme court of utah has presided at the trials of all the mormons cormons who have been tried for polygamy he is therefore entitled as no other man is entitled to describe the present situation in the territory judge zane has reached the conclusion that when I 1 the he president of the church and his advisers formally renounce polygamy president woodruff having had an inspiration that the church xio rio longer required polygamy as a doctrine they were sincere and that this institution ution is now dead forever in the november number of the forum he explains the slow process by which the rulers of the church were forced to come to this thi conclusion and he shows their e conduct and aub sequent events that prove their sincerity judge zane therefore after having executed the law which has rooted out this twin relic of slavery now writes what may be called the official obituary of the institution in b bis Is forum article he does not look forward to nor express an any desire for the early statehood of the berri territory but he does explain how with the disappearance of polygamy the mormon church will readily cease to be a hurtful institution and that men in the terri territory to ry will divide in their political opinions along the same lines that divide men elsewhere this article is reproduced in the editorial columns of several papers the st paul dispatch Dispa toh has a long editorial on the subject which it concludes as follow follo wt it is ia quite evident that if the full measure of good sought for to is to be obtained the confidence of the community at large must be extended and an effort should be made to overlook the fact that the conversion was primarily marly the result of legislative enactment rather than religious conviction |
