Show the cure more dangerous than the the bill which con gross gress rushed through last wednesday 11 is adirent a direct cut ing into the constitution and all of its guarantees under the plea of poly polygamy amy not in the united states tle the territory of utah the bill referred to actually declare ec larett that M all territorial acts honestly and legally societies and associations moc lations so faras far AS they are i tin in any way connected with the mormon church are annulled ap and that their affairs are to be wound upland the as diss dissolved olvea by the attorney general that polygamy is not i accord with the general sentiment menti ment in this country all will admit that one person aided by another and any moral or political ca I 1 right to wage wax war upon a family at beace and s within itself when their acts cannot possibly save or damn others tha thea themselves is now how as af it ever has bus been and ever will be deba debatable tible I 1 I 1 in 1856 the I 1 republicans pledged themselves s to 10 all suppress r egg polygamy but eta eo exam examination in tila of the rights of the mormon church as a religious body within the Cons Cong titu vion tion 1 all their disregard of the of some persons in order to advance a d the ith e prosperity p ro of others they ner dared to make inake rio do direct a cut into the constitution is as the democrats who ho voted fot this anti mormon bi biu have made cong congress ress has thin the right to declare that plural marriages irom from and after the passage of a it is a cranie crl nie and to define the punishment of all parties entering upon this relation after the passage of such a law this anis we all bassage admit it has the dhe flame gitlit to declare that every man in this country must select a woman and by love art 1 force or strategy compel her to live with him in marital relationship and to punish all who bo remain singly single after the law Is passed ni aa matter if there are hot persons to mate with 1 butny but right to punish for that which 1 was not nort an offense till the law was passed the mormon church i ii a religious religions body and A a very devout one it is too it takes its place in church line with other religious strictly widin the constitution it has as a church the same same rights in this country that has any other religious organization robbery OU tit and fornic fornication atio are each dec declared lareO to be offenses against the laws of god and man kahn Polk polygamy gamy Is denied debliek by the laws of man but not by the laws of god because here and and there rp members embers of other churches break the laws lawa against robbery and fornication congress is not warranted in defying the constitution annulling the church organizations orga and confiscating their properties and rights eights under the constitution laws cannot be made retroactive men cannot b be punished for offenses committed corar before the law declares them against law por nor can the honest relations of plural an entered u upon on in good faith years bears iko ago be honorably disturbed even eneo such anti plural marriage law be passed congress congre las can say bay thus far you have gone your rights cannot be disturbed or your peaceful relation lov broken in upon but rem from this time henceforth those who take to themselves plural wives ivea shall be punished this we con concede and cere care not how quick contrass congress makes such declara on lut congress is battering a very large bolt hole nouh the wallia og of the Cod tiju toft when it enacts or sanctions a religious test in this country when it declares that hat the acts of a Terri territory tofy passed by a majority of the people of such territory in strict conformity to the constitution of the united states can be au annulled or disturbed if the territorial legi alstion C of A utah can thus be Ir tipped lipped apart and the lekai ly acquired righta of corporations associations and individuals be wrenched from them thern the ahe same power of congress Con presa can rob rb the people of other oilier territory pry such a law cannot the test of the courts and ato it passage is a deeper deepe disgrace on all who voted for it than ever was slavery poly polygamy gainy or any acts act of crime if the constitutions to be thus split wide open and broken in two by those woo in their raid against mormons cormons Mor mons areas are AH fanatical as are the most pronounced poly polygamists who happen te affiliate with toe the mormon C church ach let the anarchists socialists knights of labor grangers brangers Gr angers trades unions avd and all the in millions jaho ho are demanding new laws law unite uit sail in to the doing entirely away W he constitution for a life time have we been p proud roud of the fact that democrats have ever reverenced reveren revere ced supported and defended I 1 the constitution now that they but to a greater extent alet they berated republicans for doing makes anarchy re respectable actable ec table socialism patriotic an and hell h eato to be nearer than it has been since from boim to better it a mormon church in ili eveah school district than this deliberate ais is regard recard of the constitution and insult to all that is law and order if the statesmen in chrs country T are not able to shut off polygamy Wt hout destroying the constitution it i time for another than the abe party to go to the front better the democratic party should die new than to live wit with such soch a record of wantonness in proof of its insincerity and ignorance Ponte Po neroy roys democrat |