Show OH WHAT A VICTORY tue THE providence it I 1 star says the house passed the anti poleg amy adv bill without a call or a division now let mr edmunds accept it in the senate and it will go down in history as the most important victory of republican principles that has been won since the antislavery anti slavery amendments to tile the cons constitution t it if ti on it would puzzle the most astute politician or word twisting pettifogger to show a single republican republica if principle in the bill which is to work a I 1 victory for republicanism we do not believe the editor who wao wrote that noia nonsense sense could give an intelligent explanation of the measure its promoters do d not claim any such merits for it as set forth in the above paragraph it is admitted to be an expedient ent that is all that can be claimed tor for it with any degree of veracity Is it a triumph of republican principles to take away from the voting citizens the right to elect the pettiest officers in the ceal government Is it republican to make appointive those offices that are elect ivein every part of the united states Is the imposition of a test oath aatu for voters with a view to infringing upon their civil and religious liberties republican set aside the consideration of that thai test oath are republican principles exalted i in the virtual extirpation of republican government ern ment in this territory the bill proposes to give to one man in whose appointment the people have no voice among other monarchial exploits boits the power to select and appoint t I 1 ey by his own sovereign will such men as he chooses to decide as to taxes and handle the money collected by men irresponsible to the taxpayers Is that a victory of republican principles do the stupid applauders appl auders ol 01 a measure which they have not considered understand der stand that it proposes to take away from the citizens of utah mormon an and gentile 11 alike all political power except the election of a delegate to congress and members of the powerhouse lower house of the legislature do they know that it aims to deprive the women voters of utah ot of the right of franchise which is their property with out process of law do they comprehend that it seeks to interfere with an establishment of religion and to divert church property from the objects for which it was donated and his has been used under a law that has existed for thirty five years we attribute most of the stuff that editors write on the mormon question to consummate ignorance or et the subject it is fashionable to cr cry y down dow n mormonism and write up any and every scheme to destroy it and no matter how much nonsense is uttered editors trust to the general prejudice and lack of public information to conceal their errors but we should suppose that no honest man would support a scheme to destroy republican and domo democratic cratic government in a community of a hundred and eighty thousand making himself acquainted with the merits or demerits of the measure however when the representatives of ef the people of the united states halloo a bill through a house of congress in utter oblivion as to its effects it ought not to be surprising if less responsible persons follow in the same heedless rush in the direction of folly and wrong but how such a piece ece of inaam infamy y as the tucker edmunds bill can be seriously spoken of as an important victory of republic an principles is a littie little too deep tor for any one gul guided ed only by ordinary honesty and good common sense |