Show JUDGE of r the tile utah commission Is inter viewed ou on the ilor nicu question in the washington t on national he pic publican of the tho alth we find the bollog ing interview with one of the utah commissioners judge A 11 carleton a member of f the utah cammi commission aaion reach reached d washington yesterday and is registered at the riggs the commission adjourned from salt lake city to this city and will meet here hereon on tile loth and the judge is t the he fir first st on the ground lift ile is we well I satisfied with the tile work thus far accomplished and believes the operation of the L edmunds dmund s law will ho be highly beneficial efi cial if ifft it continues to be properly administered I do not believe ho be said that the law is as judge black holds and am sure the government has a perfect right to legislate aa as it has done judge black advances an ingenious to the effect that congress has no right to disfranchise any dofita citizens fur for polygamy P unless they shall have ac been en convicted of polygamous practice practices but I do not think thin k it will hold field water our commission waa was treated with the utmost respect during our sojourn in utah by both mor wor mons and Gent gentile ilce and no obstacles were placed in ill our path that we were aware of by eith cither er party asa As n result of the enforcement of the provisions of the law between and poly polygamous jamous cormons mormons Mor mons aa as near aa as we can esti nute mite were this includes men and women but as the mormon vote even I hen lien outnumbers the gentiles five or s six ix to ono they arc in no immediate danger gerof of losing control of their territorial government although they arc are very anxious anxious to have the ban removed very nearly all the cormons mormons Mor Ifor mons adhere to the faith of poli polygamy gamy as an institution divined divinely y inspired but fur for nl no of that only y about twenty five per cent of them practice it one of the effects of the legislation hostile to polygamy will be to show to the mormons cormons Mor mons liow how their institution is regarded by the country at large and they will w ill feel more stron strongly gir than ever that a tag 11 tt lJ alto low lo w wj ga mists the you younger nger portion of the ho population w will ill naturally hesitate to cn contract tract double marriages and tha the result will be that the institution ution will GRADUALLY FALL STO it cannot bo be expected that old cormons mormons Mor Ifor mons who have been married to two or more wives for many years T e ars and who have reared several fam families alies will at once abandon their faith and und admit the illegitimacy of their children and adopt the manners and customs of the gentiles that would bo be expecting too much the reformation must be gradual irwill it will take timeto time to eradicate the evit fro from nithe the territory but time and a firm enforcement of good laws adverse to polygamy will 91 do it the trouble has been that legis legislation a this subject heretofore has been somewhat spasmodic and uncertain ce ertain in its tenor what is needed d is a settled policy and the steady consistent enforcement of that policy in order that tho the people may understand exactly what is expected of them and what they must do this condition of affairs afra irs I think can be brought about under the edmunds bill the cormons mormons Mor mons are getting RECRUITS FROM eurom to the number of twenty five b hundred or three thousand annually the they are aro mainly scandinavian arz aad so far as I am able to judge they arc are as intelligent as the general average of immigrants from that part of the old world world tho the hostility it between the formans mormons Mor for mons and alu gentiles tiles does not seem to ba as intense or as bitter as in former years and it is now r afe rate for gentiles to live in any part of the territory F free ree speech is not denied in any quarter |