| Show AN INHERENT THE omaha herald has passed into other and different hands bands since the valiant and clever dr miller parted with his bis interest in that strong and pungent journal the friendship felt by that paper for the mormon people apart from their marriage institutions is not exhibited to the same extent as formerly tor merly but its editors do not fall into the extreme and senseless spirit of many of the public journals on the mormon question on the states state hood movement the H herald erald nas the following to say it is Id evident that the utah question will demand as much attention in the next congress as in the last although in n a totally different shape the utah commission has baa decided to permit the submission of the constitution adopted by the late convention to a vote at the general election to he be held august 1 next this has been protested prote isted against by the gentiles as being without authority of law and outside the powers of the commission they gave nave taken steps to send a strong remonstrance to the president but it I 1 is s probable that he will not interfere the question was settled in the tae case cabe of kansas more than thirty years ago that the people of a territory were entitled to a fair a constitution when they chose to ask it in the case of utah all the aing machinery and all the super vision bf of elections are in the hands of a federal commission commis but bit that does not necessarily deprive tse people peo oltOf of their right to vote AS aa the constitution to be submitted is the work of mormons cormons Mor mons it will undoubtedly be carried with the representation of this constitution ution in next december the discussion of mormon affairs will be reopened anft and its range will undoubtedly be comprehensive as its treatment will be exhaustive it will be strongly opposed in the senate on the ground that the mormons cormons cannot be trusted but as dakota will wiil be there with renewed persistence it is not improbable that compromise and nut not merit will decide both questions by the creation ci cation of two new states As the herald pointed out a lew few days since the constitution adopted in utah provides that the section forbidding polygamy shall not be changed except by consent of congress and an d afir the president pres ident should the cormons mormons moi Mor moons mons after gaining power as a state disregard this compact there still would be bd recourse to the united states supreme su p reme court under that clause of the th national constitution which guarantees guarantees to every state a republican form of government and doubt doubtless lass that court would hold bold that polygamy was not hot in con consonance consonant ce with republican institutions ta 11 the herald takes no stock in the puerile objection about amending the constitution after admission and con cedes the right of the people of a terl territory to vote on a constitution of their own framing all the talk about irregularity and ane need of legis legislative lati V e sanction or an enabling act is mere twaddle the people have inherent rights which cannot be taken from them and one of them ahern s the right to peaceably as appeal to the government for f or redress ot of grievances and take measures to secure political rights and privileges it requires no legislation to establish this right light it is natural and indisputable and moreover it is recognized in the national constitution and cannot be infringed A legislative body may provide the form and manner by which the will of the people shall be expressed so as to secure order and uniformity arad and a full and free manifestation of the popular wish but it can only do that by b virtue of power from the people and as giving form to an un doubted inherent authority hority in the people any anly attempt to make the aati in of the people inoperative on the ground taken by its adversaries will prove abortive because both the great national parties and every statesman and lawyer tin the land know that it is a settled question there is no established method indispensable to our system of government by which the he people are required to regulate themselves in taking steps to secure admission into the union as a state it is clear that a constitution must be framed that it must provide for a republican form of government that it must be submitted to the people who must have a fair opportunity of voting tor or against it and that it must oe be submitted to the Cori congress gress of the united states but any methods by which these objects can he be attained attai aed without violating the law are in them selves lawful and proper and the right light to use them belongs irrevocably to the people the utah constitution cannot be assailed on its merits that is why its opponents resort to quibbles conjectures and ad groundless cat ions |
