Show MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS I and still they talk ef of utah aud and try to solve the problem what would the world in general awethe and the united states in particular and the fe few W soreheads foreheads sore heads specially do were it not for utah it is utah and the cormons mormons Mor mons in the pulpit and in the press and with but hut little cm cessation aaion on this same subject first fint last all the tune time and in every place wherever any of the are located this time it is tha hf morning orning call published in the bay city it is but seldom that journal has anything to eay say on the utah question in P recent issue it has lins the follow ing on the spread of mormon ism we lve are informed that in organizing the territorial legislature of idaho it is discovered the council there are three mormons cormons Mor mons and in the house seven This gives the mor lor mons ten out of the thirty thres thre yot votes es recorded or nearly one third of the whole number of member this fact derites derives importance aa as all showing T i n g that utah is not the thornly only place where b e r e mormonism niem ha has got n strong foals foot hold it ins is spreading into all the aa ad times and ancl in lit several of the stales we Full pose that the mormons cormons Mor mons have as much right to live in idaho a as they have in utah and if they the elective franchise that they have the same privilege V to elect three members to the council aud ana eean beven to the house of the territorial rit orial legislature as the non mormon have t to elect the other twenty three and if the mor mom mond in idaho were strong enough to elect all the members of both houses there is not the least doubt but they would do it and stud who would have the legal right to say they should not take their seats there is a great deal of objection against a ainest mormons cormons Mor mons being elected to the be legislature or any other political position in idaho but we notice that any non mormon bl ormon is is il quite willing to be elected t to office by the A mormon lormon votes in regard to the strong foothold that mormonism has in that territory the was well as others abound remember that a great deal of what is new now idaho was formerly part of utah and that the mormon bad haa a stronghold in several counties before the boundary lines were changed giving gibing to idaho no inconsiderable portion of utah with it its mormon strongholds strong holds but it could not be expected that a change of boun boundaries darles w would change chanie the religious convictions of the people they remain the same wherever they the y may be located the califar Call far ther says all the efforts so far to suppress the obnoxious feature of polygamy have been unavailing every law enacted for this purpose has been set at defiance since the attempt was made to enforce enforce the provisions of the edmunds act in utah the elders of the church have made ita it a particular object of exhortation forthe for the SaIn saints teto to multiply the number of their wives thus proving their disregard for the tile lawmaking law lair making power we do not think our bay city friend speaks according to gunter the people of utah do not set met I every law at defiance neither have the elders of the church made madi it a particular object of exhortation borta fion for the saints to multiply wives in disregard dil regard odthe of the lawmaking law making power those who were sent here to enforce the provisions of the edmunds act are satisfied with their labors and the mormon pec people pl in ia connection therewith as far as could be ba expected of them the call says if congress hopes to t eradicate e ra dicato the evil from the country it will have to resort to measure measures more stringent than have yet been adopted tho the call at this great distance can ice see very clearly th the aeils evils which exist in utah and can unite with others in calling for gt Etring measures by government IC to suppress local sin but while we notice in the same column of this paper a i rather humiliating confession of the sins sine of the bay city we are surprised to observe thatis that it doea does not urge any special legislation to punish them it says when one sits down to reflect upon the criminal history of san francisco he will be surprised to find how low few dersons nave have been executed in the F last ast ton ten or twelve years in proportion to the number of murders committed where the crime was clearly proved the escape escapes from the gallons gallows after conviction have usually 11 been owing wini t to th the of some eipl technicality bality when a new trial ie ordered it liaa has been after such ell long ie de i erhan lay er perhaps hap that the witnesses disappeared aed and tho the public lost all interest in ill the penning pending case which in many instances in they had gotten jt is pretty much th ft kaihe same else elsewhere whore Eri entirely forgotten but they do ILIO not forget utah very easily neither will they let other others forget her ter now we think really that our esteemed contemporary the call will wil I do good service to the public generally and to the ole san franciscans particularly by continuing henceforth to urge the stringent en cn of the tile laws of ita own city aud state against her mu murderers ader and other that they be not allowed to escape and defeat the ends of justice utah can take care of b herself and of criminal has her creed d is mind blind your awit awu busino |