Show THE MINORITY ON HOME RULE THE minority report of the committee on territories of the house of representatives will be found in our Is issue sue of april ath it is signed by four members out of a total of fourteen the four are all republicans republican it should be read in contrast to the majority report which has been adopted and to is ready to present to the house the objections urged against the bill appear to be its anomalous character the present unfitness of utah to be e left free of federal authority the opposition to the bill by the liberal faction and the fact that if utah is prepared to receive this measure of liberty it is fit to receive statehood this fitness however is not admitted the anomalous character af pf pf the home rule bule bill must be conceded that is it is something different to anything previously proposed the answer of its friends to this IP the con ditroi a are anomalous therefore the plan devised to meet thorn them is anomalous if the country was prepared to give statehood to utah UA tw home rule bill would not be advocated the y of the com committee mitte e intimate that they are lot willing to free utah fully and therefore they are opposed to freeing her partly the present unfitness unfit nees of utah for political liberty is set forth in this way the church of jesus christ of l atter day saints established is tile the kingdom of god acting under divine authority autho rily as revealed through its ita priesthood owing no allegiance to law otherwise proclaimed that while it may be conceded that the practice of f polygamy will not be established reestablished re in ID utah by revelation or otherwise 11 yet this abandonment of plural marriage mar has only been made under the pressure of government and society and nowhere has bus the presidency of the church admitted the wrong or confessed conversion from the authority under which the practice through so many years was encouraged under POW to the hotd w 01 that 1117 utah tab him hag been a stumbling block n the way of western P T that attah must walt wait until it sh shafi be 99 accepted knowledge knowledg 1 1 that th the church has taken its proper place 0 that temporal pow power has been tak taken from it 9 we have italicised italicized sed some of them sentiments of the minority mi Hority to call opeo lal ial attention to them the assertion that the church bowes owes no alle allegiance allegiant giano to law otherwise proclaimed than hl by itself is such a gross untruth that w we cannot let it pass without dental denial tb church in its official declarations declara tlona from the beginning and in 14 the revelations promulgated as daj dl vine rc requires quires of its members obedience to the laws of the land auto sub I 1 mission to governments and magle and all the powers that be the minority of four are either ve verl ignorant of the facts or they desire fed mislead 0 equally untrue to ie it that utah hak been beena a stumbling block in the bayot way of western progress the west to is indebted to the utah founders as the pioneers ot of progress in all ail this region they laid ISM the foundation and their and daughters and associates have built upon it there to is not a progressive movement in the west that to is not largi large ly due to the cormons mormons Mor mons IJ of U utah they have never placed a barrier in the way of the progress of others but bu made their efforts possible and aided to make them successful the attempt to drag in religious pro pre j and to provoke religious controversy in this political discussion doe not give strength to the position of the minority if the presidency and peo pie of the church have put away the practice of polygamy which the min arity assert most positively and have dope done so in submission lon to law and add under the pressure of gov ern ment it what b have av e the minority or the congress or the nation to do with their belief and what right have the four congressmen to lay down the dogma about peril to the soui and if it is true that while not confessing that their faith was wrong the cb churoff dreb and its people have rendered allegiance to the law does not this prove the statement that they owe no such allegiance to be entirely incorrect the plea that the liberal faction here is opposed to the bill is the poorest pretense in the report that it is in small email minority of the population to in shown by the figures given in the document that it is opposed to any thing that is for the benefit of the large majority also appears the assertion that it is composed of the elem elemente euto that have built the citi cities esin in the wilderness and opened uv up failma 1 t n the desert is perfectly ludicrous it to is the mormons cormons Mor mons who have done this and the faction now opposing an all movements looking to republican liberty are they who have taken advantage of the opportunity to make money aa at forded corded loy by the tells of those who opened up the farms and built the cities in this once desert wilderness perhaps it is fitting that the minority of four to fourteen should support the obstructive policy of the minority of to over and thus seek to perpetuate minority rule utah must ait 11 1 1 well how bow loald long until aitto ap ceped knowledge the church has ban taken its proper jlius H how long w aiu a that be if bious prejudice aland and r religious belief am made to figure in the detent lont U ti the church to out of lar pro p proper per place until it makes makee I 1 aon n or faath suitable to its religious aar ants in and out of congress Is yot wt the minority report a striking ob act lesson lemon for the education of utah in the relations of religion to politics the argument that if utah to is ready iby this home rule measure it is z kf ady for state hoodis admitted at once it Is ie admitted in the majority report the committee give reasons why they do k not mot recommend statehood one of them is the prejudice existing which hi prominently exhibition exhibited exhibit io in the minor r y report the minority want neither ap A statehood tote bood nor home ome rule S but why do they oppose the latter as a par 5 relief from existing thralldom here J why by they say in one place it would withdraw the federal authority and aad leave in undisputed 8 buted power the party opposed posed to the government and in r other place they declare it would 1 transfer to them many of the honors ors of f 0 a state government and yet leave T them chem subject to an act of congress at ony any time that shall withdraw those i honors and place them on such other 1 territorial le xe lations as congress may provide this to is singular obliquity and asWill astonishing shing inconsistency home rule aules l must be opposed because it would set the people free and it must not be allowed because it would tie them UI the several parts of the minority report do not harmonize and the whole is suggestive of 11 liberal iberal Pl logic m it is a re roasting of ancient and a stringing together of f exploded anti mormon missiles missi leei I 1 we have never advocated the home f bule bil bill I 1 chiefly cb defly because we considered for existing f wrongs that this was but a half way scheme and that it might hinder binder that full fall liberty which is desirable but if ito ift active opponents can find no tr ronger objections than those urged in tho th minority report we thinie the public will conc conclude luJe that there is more merit in the measure than has hereto tow pre appeared |