| Show A GLARING FARE the tribune of this morning has the following special dated wilmington delaware Ie Xe laware nov 17 four elders of the mormon church have arrived in new castle and are laying plans for the opening of a crusade in behalf of mormonism ben P one of the legal lights of the mormon church at salt lake city visited wil a few weeks ago and made an investigation of the field here in his report to the church at salt lake he pointed out the headway made by the single ingle tax reform and its influence in elections and recommended the of a mormon colony her according to the plans alro ady mapped out by the leaders of the movement the colony will be started in a few weeks and will make its h hamp m kent and sussex where its agents will begin their agi agitation tatton ahe object of the cru crusade side here bere is the same as the tabers tax ers that Is to procure control of the legislature tn in such a task ahe leaders believe they will be successful as is they contend that the new constitution of the state does not contain a provision to prohibit the legalizing of plural marriages 11 fake stories about the aims and lr dr ings of mormon emissaries in various states of the union and in different parts of the whole wil iiii world are quite common but it to is a rare thing for foe such a fabrication to embrace an idea so original as does the above romance that of a purpose vi to plant in an astere state a mormon colony with a view to controlling cont roling the states legis ture and in that way to again acquin the legalizing of plural marriage it Is ie quite true that is a email state and that a influx of mormons cormons into it distributed in the right way might secure control of a sufficient number of if meram mer memo DM ri of f the legislature to pass any desired law in respect to marriage U t to is also alo true probably ably that the state constitution probably does oes not prohibit plural marriage marri app such a prohibition is not we be believe lievA contained in the organic law of either nf the older states in the union and the legislature in either of them would t have a right to 10 legalize plural mar stage should it see fit but no legislative body in the world im aas the power to legalize plural marriage so far as the latter day saints are concerned not even the legislature of utah could restore that system or make it lawful in their view even with an amendment state authorizing such action according to the belief of the latter ay saints marriage among them is a divine ordinance and institution regulated by the laws of god they t 1 adopted the practice of plural marriage 4 tift obedience to a law revealed to them atrom from heaven and they discontinued it because of the word of the lord delivered to them by revelation no action taken by any legislative authority among the nations of the earth would 1 ae deemed by them a sufficient reason tor for its Hs resumption no matter then how many state rt legislatures or other lawmaking law making 4 4 agencies the mormons cormons may secure an influence over or control of politically cyz no flo law emanating from such a amree will be a sufficient reason inducement du cement or justification tor for ta the te re donby atlon by them of the practice of t tad faal marriage the people of dela aft and others nearer to the chief wa f city of the mormons cormons Mor mons axe are at fullest liberty to draw all the consolation they may require from this assurance with the exception of the fact that mormon missionaries axe are traveling and preaching the gospel in delaware baptizing those who believe and where a sufficient number are converted organizing gan izing branches of the church there is no truth whatever in the story above reproduced the mormons cormons entertain entert aln no political designs in relation to the little state of delaware |
