| Show GRAVE CLERICAL ANXIETY the christian statesman which announces announce an editor in chief with a pro pr ft fix to and various initials after nil his name and a whole list of editorial contributors similarly dow decorated rated and which seems to be published at allegheny pa i Is in great distress of mind over the steps that ate are being taken toward utah statehood inan la an editorial in the issue for march 16 abe he statesman goes far out of its ito way to stimulate luto ioto something ilk like tangi bildiy ability the bugaboo of a Mor mormon moil state Sta tet it quotes the opening part of the prayer offered by president george Q cannon when the fe convention assembled which prayer it if Pronoun een appropriate and christian in bonev tone but bat lost lest this should hould be deemed too great a compliment it offers offer a needless needier denial that president cannon an or mormonism niam can be judged by the language of one or many prayers as ae though anybody wanted to be judged in such a way then it gi gives ves in detail able army of determined people at the capital of utan figures supplied by the latest statistical report of salt bait lake stake the menace of woman suffrage receives abundant oommen comment aBd and then comes the kernel of the whole argument anxiety as to what the convention will do with the clause of the enabling act which provides provide that mat in the constitution shall be an ordinance ordin acce tor for perfect toleration of assed t I 1 men t provided that poly gamons or plural marriages are forever prohibited 21 that the constitution cannot do enough on its part or tile the people leopie and the state enough on theirs to remove the statesman dreadful concern in this mattert matter jet is however made clear by the following we shall still wait with deeper anxiety than ever to see what the state win will do with its constitution after the great end of admission to the union has been fully accomplished we have seen on enough of mormonism in utah and know on most reliable testimony enough more to predict e with entire confidence that the mormon jo r problem will assume a more threatening aspect a hundred fold than ever before when the territory once comes into the union on an equal footing with the original states at 0 and the defiant evil that might have been easily extirpated in the territory will cost untold outlays of tre treasure tire and it may be of blood before it is overcome and rooted out of the state all of which is deserving of no further ther comment than that the reverend writer of these fearful prophecies must belong to one of two classes ot of person agee those who are so bigoted that they allow their hatred to warp their sight eight and sense or those whom a die ordered stomach ban h afflicted with nightmare and pook |
