Show TO awe teem plasa AF F THE diw f 1 l I 1 f ft TH THE press ca tf the U clotted State shoil in co common and compoli common non esty lin investigate th the utah istah question nest teni now before the congress and the country we have often had to reflect upon tipon the mackof lack of exhibited in most of the editorial re marad on this subject it Is truly and there is little excuse for it vie bans of information are within easy reach there thare is no need to rest in ignorance if the imor mormon question is is of sufficient public interest 10 require comment it is of sufficient Ini to demand I 1 i investigation n vesti gation yet influential journals our nals frequently dilate upon it in I 1 a manner that proves to both morman bud and gentiee Gen tUe 11 that they have not taken the trouble even cyer to master bastir the ithe most salient points relating to it i we ask of our contemporaries that they will examine the principal provisions ot oi the bill introduced k b by mr Edi edmounds in the senate a and u almost entirely remodeled by mr tucker in tile house us and ana see p principle and how thoroughly bly un amer amerian it 4 1 in n practice the common idea is that us as IV it proposes to suppress polygamy it must be a good bill and tot with that end in view some departure from strictly constitutional and even evela humane principles may be consi considered derea a allowable I 1 lo wable but a car careful efat examination of the measure will show that its mam main design is not the suppression of polygamy this tucker edrad edmunds ds craft is bailing under asae fase coloty color tr r presa and the public babac ice ived iy ay i h he tag flying at the fore it is a bulj bi to de monogamists in utah uta of the commonest political rights right it is chial chiefly ac scheme heine and I 1 in sh respect it does not wuel touch deprive I 1 of any pi er 0 position posit tio their heir J t was effe effected eted by the adt act of ma march ii 1 88 2 no biam bigamist polygamist g ami I 1 0 r VIVO guilty or idl unlawful cob cohabitation citation now vote or hold any office under the United States breither of no person who believes in the rightful liess of either of ef the offenses off eases named in that bih can sit on a wf in a r zion lion Inerd for toe the present measure Is not aimed politically against any person living it in polygamous relations relation si it hakea the franchise away from all women voters without distinction remember only monogamous and un married women now h hold IM the e elective irant tr anchise hise in utah ahne new bill does aps ops not pio propose ose then to take it away from anyone on the pretext that she is a polygamist or the v wife ot of a poly pol M gamett ampi t perhaps some 0 of the e thoi f endor sera of the te bw will show abow us row polygamy is rdoe to be suppressed by the guiran chi of monogamist and whether wey they believe in the propriety of woman suffrage or no noi 4 perhaps r h aps they will think eras e as to the a austice t 19 e in mi of forchi by I 1 0 driving pr iving sit ejE citizens eizens w who nave ig exercised else taic e fo for seventeen air years 16 ted ht out process of MW i the bill fart further er er t takes akes away from monogamous and un unmarried at led male citizens ot the territory the right to jote vote for any territorial district dietric tt uva county and precinct ct 11 officer 5 er except ip q 1 45 4 t the lower lower ho go of thele the alej abare ay 1 the delegate Delegat eto to congress 0 o vess I 1 ft ia president of the I 1 a and anda a the e gohei av the the r right h ofa minelia 0 fa 10 own to a edn I 1 ta the rhe people 0 i wh a mave ba u no voice I 1 ach U lection ion 0 orl dis al vt I 1 e tit ou are tod py 0 I 1 arra me ac VA COunties oun ties are ave ve iia fabir for directing 1 fh 0 ol 01 V aoe ID g 6 P 6 to agres and ni cpa V eix representatives es to the local leg teia t only once in two ye beare as clearly explained by the delaga a bettar ettar to kotae the new york post ye appointed b by the pre ad I vate are to ta be P ut of f the unite united 1 S states a treasury with the dineh r asai assida ailts tg taets delict ya created py bya a bill which recognized he election by the people ot of all the local officials but bat the propos proposed eti bill does away with ne nearly at au the commissioners duties and con their office with its enormous emoluments the utah com fl was almost entirely useless froia Ah but under the new bill bili its Ofis existence tenee will be a burlesque on free government and abid a scandalous of public money so ob aiom ays to need ro no ot of ours the bill further proposes bobs 0 o in two corporations organized for purposes connected establishment of religion and open the way for robbery and spoliation under color of law the chaiko in incorporation or r aaion of the church of jesus christ of f lat ter day saints was simply an act aatto to give that hat religious us body a legal status for the transaction of its business the hole holc ing and disposition of property belonging to the goelet society and the gathering of its members from distant dative places laces its by legi legislative act is a gross violation of of rigi right t as well as of long principles of I 1 jurisprudence every religious ioas establishment has the right tb dincol incorporate POT under the laws of this ana congress has no more legitimate authority an th arity to one church th than U another if this is not interfering inter ferlus wi with h religious liberty then the words ar are without meaning the bill proposes to make the hus bus b baad d and wife competent witnesses against ag anat each other in certain instances to julve give authority for the issuance ot at attachments ta for witnesses without a previous subpoena to give united baates Mars marshals bAls and their deputies P power 0 er to act as sheriffs constables etc atre t and thus intrude into the proper sphere of the local officials and it proposes by a test oath to exclude mormons cormons Mor mons who believe in buado not practice plural marriage from voting and jury service and office holdina hold holding the words mormon and belief alq not inserted in the oath but it is so worded as to have this effect without sting stating it in terms ip ia short the bill intends and was wag framed with the purpose to establish an oligarchy in utah in such away that a small minority controlled by a few cunning and greedy adventurers 11 shall hall be put into the offices which they could lofald never obtain by the republican means of choice at the polls and to clear the way to the property of the mormon church the value of which ha lia been enormously exaggerated and all for place and plunder on the part of the local intriguers Intrigue rs and lor for kopul popularity r ity on the part of the congressional to tools and manipulators As for polygamy it simply re enacts I 1 tha old penalty that has been pre isel bed for or twenty five years wailon it pat a prem inra upon adultery the old andiew imprisonment for polygamy igwe years yeara for adultery the new bill prescribes three months it isa is a v vry ery moral bill is it not it creates a new offense called polygamous association ci cia tion but no mortal can tell tall what it means or how it will be construed by t the courts i but asit is likely to he be IV tah it would put a mania man in thep the apat E ary cpr alve alv e years and mae mm forti fortini oi ave hundred bundred dollars for shaking bigg hands As with wid V a plural wife mother of bt lis hia phildren children even HI he helfan atad lipase ceased to live with her and very extreme punishment ment of ahe e aest adulterer at it three mouths months 1 1 ht h t and ape hundred dollars line no wonder the promoters of the bill forced it at through the house under the sat gag role of the previous icus question let et it b bep jice ce critically examined and the pre will see why no amend amendments were allowed or I 1 discussion of the details of the bill permitted it will be understood why it was not no inquired ingul fed into section by section bu ba into passage mob fashion 4 I 1 scheme that cannot bear bentila ti tid a and ca calm in deliberation ira legisla bivs body ought to be viewed with 8 suspicion us dicion it it had not been aimed ag against i t pe the unpopular mormon t tha ve very manner of its pres pressure gure would aade e cause used coutta do utta to its pro propriety lei the press of this nation 10 look into tile the bill and dis co coyer er its infamies amies and then le lec those editors who have moral cifor ag age enough to defend the right and expose fance e tile the wrong in face ofa of public 01 ic ignorance and tome but ut ii lilic 19 men and denounce the vil villainous villains laino 8 un Amen can anti rep republican u alican auti anti de dem scheme for place and plunder the ria rigorous orous condemnation that it 10 so richly deserves dese ives i |