Show A BASELESS THE san francisco call thus replies to the silly idson insinuation dation repeated without thought from press toi tol press that if utah were admitted to the union with an anti polygamy plank in ution the people of the new state would immediately repeal the obnoxious clause adorning A morning contemporary assumes that the united keates bates would be help less in the matter it if utah should come into the union as an anti polygamous state slate and should afterwards so change her constitution as to recognize polygamous marriage as lawful while there is no express provision in the pat national ional constitution which authorizes the national congress to take f from rova a state its state government there is in all constitutions constitution a general provision against fraud if a territory which sustained polygamy should to get itself admitted into the union adopt an anti polygamy constitution and should ghou id afterward call a constitutional constitution n al convention and reestablish establish re poleg polygamy amy the chances are that the united states would find some way to convince such state that tha thaties tits its little game would not work precisely how that would be dows dono la is a matter tor for future coul couldery ders i tion it would be an anomalous condition of things if a state can dewain in the tae union under a constitution that would have been regarded as sufficient grounds for its rejection as an applicant for 01 it seems that the purport of the provision in the utah constitution making the polygamy prohibition pea lable without the consent of congress and the president has not yet penetrated the brain of the average newspaper editor but then brains are rarely exe exercised cased in attacking the mormons cormons Mor mons the usual plan is to dra draw i inspiration alp from some recognized irm 0 r I eating sheet and either plagiarize its ravings or work them over into other forta form without examining the falsehood or the nonsense sense they contain the objection uttered with parrot like imitation is fully met by the constitution which there is so much senseless talk of being suddenly sudden Iv amended |