Show THE KNIGHTS AND THE MORMONS SALT LAKE CITY sept IM 1886 editor deseret news in your issue of the ad dinst I 1 notice an article entitled the knights and the mormons cormons Mor mons 11 in which you state that the knights of this section ha have hae e passed a resolution excluding from membership persons who Peli believed eved in the rightfulness of plural marriage now sir air it is expressly declared in the preamble and declaration of principles of the order of knights of labor that no person shall be de barred membership on account of sex creed or color the constitution for local assemblies of the order provides in section three article one oat it if I 1 remember right ly that no person who either sells or makes a living or any part thereof by the sale of intoxicating liquors or derives any benefit either directly or through any member of their family and no banker broker lawyer or professional gambler dan can be admitted ted prior to the meeting of the a general u assembly of the order w which arich convened in hamilton amilton ontario last tall fall some sell aall righteous individual sought to amend the foregoing section by addi adding the words laud and no BO bigamist or po or those who believe in bigamy or polygamy can be admitted when the proposed amendments came before the local assemblies for consideration myself and other two were appointed a committee to draft a protest against the foregoing amendment which protest after being approved by our to the delegates who represented district assembly 82 and by them to the general assembly and to the credit of the latter body be it said the change in question w was IL promptly quashed it ft seems to me that tor for a local or even a district assembly to try gryto to do by resolution what the general beneral has specially refused to do is only deserving of a smile of contempt for myself I 1 think it if is quite time to punish a mar man when he it is guilty of an infraction of the law the order at large must not beheld be held responsible for the vagaries of a small section thereof so far as my observation has gone there are cranks in all organizations the church of jesus christ of latter day saints not excepted who would deprive 1 v e those of their fellows whose fr faith t t h and d practice failed to touch h high I 1 gh water mark maik of all the amenities of civilized life your supposition that the number ol of mormons cormons who have identified themselves with the knights of labor could be counted on the nager fingers sis 19 erroneous as ad I 1 personally know enough of them to require several repetitions of the opera operation tiou the standing of many ot of them in the church being beyond question farther than that there are many members of the church who tire are identified Iden tined with labor rations other than the one IM ID question and I 1 believe that so long as any members of the church can be found identified with capital and the grinding process adverted to in your article complete segregation of your membership from t ade e labor movements ol of the age will be found an I 1 impossibility in 1 edibility trusting fr you will pardon this prolix intrusion on your valuable space I 1 am yours truly VIX |