Show THE CHRISTIAN UNION APPROVES THE christian man approves of the bill now pend pending lur in im congress against utah because it bel bele elves ives that it mani I 1 tests a determination that polygamy I 1 I 1 and that I 1 must go the to destroy polygamy is neither sectional nor part partisan isaa it is national but the union does not attempt to show how bow this bill if it becomes a law is going to accomplish that end so much desired by certain fanatics if it sh should uld p pass ass V in a very short time the 0 old d howl wi uld go up that polygamy is not extirpated ted and that more legislation is indeed the V U seems to for wee this for it says this bill t tries the experiment of putting that power the boveri ane rower power cinto tinto the hands odthe of the i IOB ion mormon nii population if that loes not succeed the other remedy a I 1 tnt NL dional i commission lies in rese and it will it necessary be exer exercise cist id d 91 so is I 1 that even the T tucker edmundas bill will not i uc aeed in eft eting the ob object eject which the C U imagines is in vie w ot of its enactment and it will not lor for thea the simple mple reason that that is not the end designed the purpose of its pro promoters mo was to take political power away from the majority 0 of o the citizen a 0 utah and givert gitti iiii to the minority and anck also to kopest the way by which the mormon church could be robbed rol bed with im impunity the christian V U mod may not understand this but it is isa I 1 laan datu enough to any one who will pull puh the anti polygamy beam out of his wea ther eye I 1 I 1 Ingi giving vinea a synopsis of the pi diwi ovi of the bill the union sops sips its ii main provision that is taking away from the people eople mormons cormons Mor mons bind gentilesca Gent ilesa ike toe the right to elect aie i he local officers and putting it into hands irresponsible to the citizen is a the bill gives toe governor the rigi rie it to nil fill all the county and precinct 00 01 flees aces oy by appointment and the fresi dent power to nil fill ZI all the territorial offices except that of delegate to congress and representatives of the lower house bouse of 0 the legislature we would like the christian union to show ou on what christian or republic j can or democratic grounds arounds it can lusi lustily tily or praise such an un american and despotic outrage upon the rights of citizens it is singular how blind religious ous bigotry makes otherwise good men and wise and when hen the many failures of political efforts a are counted up ilg it is strange that thin thinkers kers do not I 1 perceive er the folly of legislating to est ab lish certain notions of morality ano an I 1 to suppress a religion tast evidently has within itself the elements of vigorous life and successful resistance of op pr preshion pres alli Bion 0 we c can a lii promise the christian union editors that no such despotic measures as that which they now applaud will ill applaud have any effect whatever in n putting yutan 9 down mormonism and if f the th e teachings of history do not suggest that those schemes will not suppress a practice based upon religion and interwoven with a religious fabric abric f that is nore precious to its devotees than life itself no predictions or of buys will have any tendency towards their enlightenment they must wait and see and marvel |