Show djs TO faiwl TAIL un u c under tins this suggestive heading the omaha bee publishes another communication I fromi from I i Wello Wc iio its i sprightly intelligent T U ard and impartial S salt ailt like lake correspondent in his latest letter dated dec 29 weno undertakes to scrutinize the tile law proposed rop o d to compel P ca mormon ormon wo we iri i ri r I tl their heir Hueh lito bafo of t n i t i m y lords an and c cornea to conclusions widely divergent from those of the average non nop mormon ormon writer on the ve vexed veva VA and perplexed utah uta h problem alno Wl no I refers boers p to til alio editorial y tl it it Ip pinions IN expressed bythe bv alie bee beem iu ardts ita jisuo of odthe the ma ard 3rd uhla ua a nj reau lisben in our column columns a fw few days after lie an old tim tuua ays resident ident of utah and a close and ad unbiased observer of men and matters in the la well prepared to assure the tile bees tripod occupant that his opinions voice the sentiments ants of afaf batmore jaoin of the non mormon residents of utah than is is generally imagined aal ahe continues as follows laff be ecat aya rascal few make ak themselves conspicuous by demanding all borta sorts of impossible legislation for utah it is widely supposed that they represent the whole gentile population ilg tins territory this is a mi sake tho the greater po portion artio bof efthia this class wish to live at peace with their mormon formon neighbors tha the mor mons are honest in their business arrangements capable artisans arfi arti ty citi citizen beill sand I wh ren ch employed usually tru st worthy baj r hy ter servants As such gi theli fellow citizens are guite quite willing willing to do business and lie live in bar harmony m ony with thero them but persons of this kind do dr not rush into prin pant ilin itinerate throw through li the country with sensational r harangues or get up petitions to congress to suppress up presse cry unc that offends their gentility gen tilitA lity X still we e observe that some of the national solons seem determined to aw i muda muddle tho bior mormon problem as lord john bus rus sell g accused of doing with eng an Is VP I ag al N au an instance of the no idi foolish than wicked attempts of the rule or ruin ring to legislate the mor nor A j m mons on outa anaf themselves into power the bee correspondent brands the proposed law design designed ed to ami 01 wn cs to W testify of y against their husbands s in in cases case s of polygamy and he makes the following dures on this silly scheme at prescriptive proscriptive enactment an hiie I is s hu human m anria nature ture s m sagely el re remarked ehrk eda and aid mention n womankind ia cry ry much like other all the world over ocr and the dear creatures are just as stubborn in in these parts as anywhere else I will risk my lion tion as a prophet that in in ninety nine cases out of every hundred where the first difo is is called to testify bestif against her hir fi ads wont do it she mt dat for her hei huV husbands khai kak ake take t e I ier own sake her childrens sake and and lier her religions sake ala many a woman in in as as elsewhere nyberg w will talk at home in no dulcet tones as to what bhe she will do and threaten terrible things but elio no more means what she says ea s than docs does the woman iii in the old fable who threatens to biot M throw the wolf in 41 tha tabe mormon e U 11 t loa their husbands lius bands about abou as much as wives generall generally do they make a mistake and then when we e consider the contempt a woman would be held her kin her own children included if she was th tho ini n mentin the hands of the law of putting their father into the penitentiary fla i r I the punishment that any court coard coald inflict for contempt would bo ie insignificant compared with the misery eho she would endure from tho the confusion and he to introduce feito bet he own homo home then again thero there is ia the very cry gravo support what AV hat is is to bc of tile omen women and children husband serves his dils time f if ibe elds lils imprison merit there will be no generous public sympathy amongst her herco co religionists ns As a ahe e has made her bed so she MR may lie in in it will be the general gentl sentiment andi and I bearoff hear of no kind provis is ionia proposed law for the sup P the s of imprisoned poly ga mists some one may remark that the non i cormons cormons mormons Mor mons will help euch sucha a wo ma ll 11 abour shoshone cay eay mayb sa so maybe not such a woman would not be held in high estimation even by those who have no ro towards plural marriage the loyalty of the wife to tho the husband is is a trait honored in in all hearts and where char chargers geis e is brought against a man inan who otherwise may be a model husband hua bind e pj cone gone too fa cs babis by jus religion llosa who rise up against him will have very cry little sympathy more substantial than words more often uttered for public effect than from real heart feeling F from rom these reflections of a more UW sentimental t men V nature and domestic character the writer arrives at the galiene sa liens the springing ngang of poly 06 this L argument lias has been used uniform uniformly y to break the force of that glorious first Amend amendment to the U S constitution ution which pres prescribes eribes that congress Congre qs shall make no lawre law respecting spec ting the establishment of religion or prohibiting A the free exercise thereof etc our writer has had courage enough unheeding the clamor of the pulpit the of politicians and the misrepresentation of ignorant or malicious pa papers to look the issue squarely into the face and though the supreme court of the land have decided that polygamy or truer speaking plural marriage is no part of religion he lie has penetrated deeper to the true purport of the doctrine and tho the essential feature of its practice the firm sincerity sin sincerity cerit y and faith ef of the believers in the truth of celestial Al marriage arriage aa as ordained d by revelation from th the e source of all li light A lit and the fountain of all wisdom says weno with no desire to advocate mon men ideas in tho the columns of tho the dee bee I must draw attention to a passage sa aein in the world famed revelation on this doe doctrine trine then tell me I if a man or a woman believes that revelation how bow can it be other than reli gion it runs I unto tinto you a a new and an everlasting covenant and if ye yo abide not riot that ceyer covenant Tant then are ye damned now whatever others may piny believe or disbelieve the being who honestly believes this lays lay s himself open to the pains of damnation according te to his conscience if be rejects it and there are many other P passages s ag ea in this samo same which I h are quite as strongly etron ply worded I and come with the force of thus baith ith the lord herein lies the difficulty we say wo are not interfering with your religion thab tho mormon for answers you are I amt am the he best judge of my rel religion ig ion and I assert that you are pro prosecuting e cu ng me for consciences sate with all these considerations the improbability that mormon women to will testify aga against i dinst their husbands the tile omission of any provision for the support of families deprived of their provider by imprisonment ment under the proposed law and last the stubborn born immovable fact that with every true Bl mormon ormon polygamy or rather plural marriage ariage is as essential and intrinsic a feature of his religion as any other doctrine revealed from on high with all these considerations we repeat the hostile efforts of the anti mormon formon L law potters will again be fated to fail a |