Show 2 jhb HE FACTS IN THIC THE CASE IN another column will be found an editorial from the new york times of may in regard to the test oath and registration resi it shows that while the enforcement of the edmunds act is desired by public men and that the they desire the oath provided by com compress ress shall be required ot of voters in ia Z utah tak they have no sympathy with the scheme inaugurated in this city to prevent mormons cormons Mor mons who have not broken the law from enjoying those political rights and privileges that belong to citizens the times hits the nail en an the head bead when it intimates that the lie object of the anu anti mot mono I 1 in utah is not so much to suppress poll gainy as to obtain political cont control rongI of tap ter everybody here both mormon and gentile knows this to be a fact polygamy has been merely a cry the conspirators here have never cared a cent about it sincerely they want wani a free chance to run and rob the territory and they have used the public prejudice on the polygamy question to influence the onslaught through legislation egi ostensibly against plural marriage but really against mormon votes we are pleased to see so powerful owera ul a journal as the new york IMs times opening its eyes to this patent jact act the country desires polygamy suppressed but it is not anxious that a handful of adventurers shall gain control of a flourishing territory at the expense of the people who hewed it out auto of a desert neither do sensible men of any party want citizens dis franchised on OB account of their belief dor aliens ready for naturalization barred out of participation in political affairs because of their simple adherence to a creed alet let the plotters and the local offiel officials als who are with them in their ungodly an and un Ameri american caa schemes take warning arnin they have been stepping over the he line which limits the silent approval roval of the nation of special measures aas against the mormons cormons Mor mons 11 when hen men are denied naturalization because they believe in continued divine revelation and citizens are sought te be robbed of the franchise because they belong to an unorthodox church I 1 it becomes evident that the professed prot essed desire on the part of their oppressors to obliterate a practice and suppress crime is a humbug and that motives moti ves which have not been publicly understood lurk behind tue the injustice and the wrong attempted abroad polygamy is the thing aimed at at home it is the supreme control of local affairs by it i small and utterly unprincipled minority that makes all the turbulence and hinders the material progress of the territory of utah |