| Show WHAT THE butr SAYS UNDER the caption ot of fair play for the mormon Mor mons il the new york sun says the hon thomas brackett bracket reed who has returned from alaska by way of salt lake city gives this as the result of his observations in utah the demand to make utah a state seems to me to bea be a very clever effort on the part of the mormons cormons to tree themselves irom from the conal of the people ot of the united states they seem to be e disposed unanimously to sacrifice polygamy for the purpose of maintaining a theocratic control over the region which they inhabit it will be opposed by till all the gentiles of the territory who are arc a very able body of enterprising men who are engaged tit developing the mineral resources of the territory the mormons cormons Mor mons with every evidence of good faith offer to abandon their position that polygamy is a matter to be regulated reg regi elated by conscience and not by law they offer to put an anti poleg amy provision in their proposed state slate constitution and to put the power ot repealing or nullifying that provision out of their own hands does any reasonable person suppose the survivor of the tw twin I 1 a relies of barbarism can be extinguished any quicker by compulsion from outside than by the operation of the laws of civilized civili aed progress this appeal aud and surrender on the part of the mormons cormons is the he strongest possible proof that the institution is dying a nat natural ural death what object objection ioD can breed find to what he calls the theocratic control of the region provided polygamy is sacrificed and a constitution adopted satisfactory to congress every state already in the union is iq subject to theocratic control provided anybody can erect a theocracy strong benough to control it |
