Show ARBITRARY AND UNJUST H iw I are nat apt disappointed in our whon tho the ebullition of excitement amein i t caused by the recent raid against a ainest the people of utah mall had sub subside sido a rea re acion I an I would woula set in in in man many y parts of W try huoh is the case now the reflecting ting men of tho the nation have been calmly considering the matter and have become disgusted with the operations agai nil the A w F rmon f i and o io opposed to the I enactment of any any more repressive measures for the purpose of restricting in matual and constitutional tut ional rights na a not expected that al all iurna J journalist u iss L sor oi ether men will iiii see e the dp doctrines besof of mormonism form lonisin in tb the e light th that atthe the cormons mormons Mor mons eee eme them besides they have just as much right to their f vicars on religious matters as the IMor mormon mons have i fience when we publish articled articles or extracts alom from other journals on oil this most important question of the day I NV vado do not necess arpy indorse all chills advanced by them but often leave the intelligent readers to dis ibi W for themselves be believing lievin the wise will understand an ali article on the recent radicalism the cormons mormons Mor mons I recent dy 41 publiA bed in the pioneer pione er press prem issue V d at st S paul minnesota con dains so many just strictures on the doing the antl anti ness that ye je fearin dt them entire 00 tyna tely for the hopes of those h the suppression of gamy there is is no probability that congress will v ill lay lav aside the urgent matters roat I with which it is is busied in order to waste ti terue in discussing the demanda of the utah dele delegation of gentiles those oe demands are tire selfish and unread hanble hon ble and it would be both er and arid to accede to them it should be thor thoroughly lily understood that the attitude of tho the anti mor lilt LM lt population tiou of utah is is not at all that of ilia the friends of decency and order throughout the country what the IN laUer ter lesire desire is simply tho the destrie de lawful means of f the crime of gamy beyond that end they car caro nothing nothing about what may bethe be the fortunes of mormonism proper di vested of dofita its disgusting appendage nor jarp they solicitous that the political 1001 control of of the territory should ba he totlee bands of a pirty which is a small minority to s en its it law ahding people T tho 40 for former I call cannot tot understand this attall the idea of bf the utah gentiles is 13 that congress Con reta should place them in absolute authority over the members of tho the mormon church and they hope to usa use the string fee feeling lilla ai agail to ulterior en end de af no h awl t isih andl bill as ark I bit why not ir aby by its gradual action finally 81 succeed in extirpating biting poly gatay but because to their great disappointment it makes lio violent revolution and does not strip the ll mormon ormon party arty in utah of its political power aliey want now what they wanted whan Abey e p edthe the edmunds bill nd d when they isopod op for tho fal failure luie of tho the utah uta lu is work tt ork a plan that shall vi virtually abolish self government in the territory and vest le legislative isla tive powers now exercised by the peoples representatives ill a body constituted without reference to the peoples ull vill in a word the utah problem means to them not the suppression of poly gain y ut auttie oes scheme it pl ay be put in con control trul of artire majority their idea of the contest is is that it is is less polygamy against anti polygamy gamy than mormon ami ast G en tile judge van zile who heads the dele delegation gatio U now in washington is is the defeated candidate for delegate to congress in the recent election lie ile appears to labor under the delusion that he lie has a grievance although ins his defeat was accomplished complis hed by mentho men who could not be denied the right of suffrage under the laws IL of any state or of the united states and therefore when he brines a railing accusation against the edmunds bill ho he attacks it as a w which it is not and light notto to beihl ba gray grute e ob objections sections f ta the government of utah utah in the hands bands of a legislative e comm commission I i n have alto idy been referred to boin in t these ss e fe columns column sIt it is is anex anet measure such as ought not to be resorted to until all else has failed but so far from provins roving a failure the edmunds bill cassot eron i ion vet been fairly f put on trial and should it prova prove inefficient that result would not demonstrate short of a commission I yon Ps the territory would world suffice again tho the commission ibn scheme is arbitrary and unjust it contemplates tho the enactment of a general law of penalties renal penalties ties fl without trial bearing equally ahard hard upon the innocent and the guilty iho the of a people is is not a work to be lightly assumed stin led when the punishment an plies to classes guilty of no crime th n p polygamist cormons mormons Mor mons and selves it had bet and finally buch such an expedient instead of divid ing the 31 mormon ormon power by cre creating atin dipti distinctions actions would consolidate it by abolishing them ind array Mormon ism ism against the general govern government ment H in in a life and death etrig et ruggle gle such a conflict is is not to be invited it w would give color to the now baseless cry of persecution and win for tho the faith now degraded by the practices it anc tins L that sympathy athy winch which tho the american aap hesitate ta t 61 bestow my upon Q the victims bf injustice and oppression A legislative commission corn mission could do nothing bat but usurp political power over an unwilling people it could not lay jay a fingers weight upon the pra practice of polygamy amy in acs ics its most ost stubborn and ud bigoted form would rather gather strength in secret and the price of the elevation of ho the tead leaders e rs of df a fraction of the people to absolute control would be th alio insidious spread read of a hideous moral woral infection hie wplie legislative commission is not to bo be thought of those who are interested in urging it 14 pa pay to tho edmunds bill the most battering nattering natt ering compliment it has yet received when they say that it may succeed in accomplishing complis comp lishing bing its object in a long time only the ignorant or the in insincere could expect the instantaneous suppression of an evil ao so rooted and so fo fostered as pola polygamy gamy if existing measures do not suffice for that end then hen others may be devised but for arthe thae present they best beat servo the the interests of morality and good government vern who only stand and wait tho the position of the gentile organization of utah is that of a quack d doctor who for the sako sake of a fee insists Is ts upon performing a eur cical operation noyer i yet known to result other wise than fatally rather than leave the patient to a gradual recovery by the use of medicines recommended by tho the profession and showing favorable results as far as they have been tried |