Show topeat toO EAT E the tho tei ory should be free froin front unconstitutional 11 tl raint din tiie lin 1 hill assuredly I 1 li class A legislation 11 I 1 hie fullow following itis is is talen from an account of an all bew between a of the darner danver tribune and the orni eminent nent barrister mr sergeant ballantine which oc cc burred oa on sunday last in the relations between the iiii imperial government and find the interior state be he maid to A it 7 abune reporter esterday et erda it is ia not intended that y doine domestic ette become the tile en su b eject for legislative reform or direction 1 nali i a liw law as the one recently jewed could applied in a state td that t by conr bat 1 u adrial authorities aut hontice what sufficient reason is there for its application afi a there ia none what is is exemption lor for a major faction coald also be protection for a minor part the tho territory should be aa as free from unconstitutional restraint at the state and anti toll ou will find that the edmunds law cannot be cn ell lareed in in utah when it cornea comes to tile if polygamy is ft a wrong or an evil 1 ii il it can 4 only 1 1 1 y bo be bradica eradicated ted bj by provisional 11 1 aw legislation 1 tion of your cons titus dional ral fathers bers you are not armed with tills this instrument and per con beque s fienco yo ou can on only y treat the subject with social j vl disc discussion ion and social influence ILls it la beyond your power under the fundamental principles of y u braill liberties and independence and under the recognized freedom of domestic customs throughout the world to suppress polygamy by claca elat 8 lqis which t ae 1 edmunds bill most inest assuredly is ono bf f the discriminating inaus hess of the bill was particularly brought bro unlit to in my notice continued the fc sergeant ergeant TT thai i 19 s the disfranchise of the mormon n ii on the wity it la Is hie the causo cause of a savage feeling against mra mrs nith a venerable lady of 80 and odd years ears and a widow of one of the prophets who is is the owner of a it large estate lamented the loss of lier her suffrage bitterly bitter ll here eream am I 1 she said an old woman who vv ho has always aln a a lived an honest and pure life 1 am a large property hulder holder but this thit laft law denies me the privilege of voting otin tit tn behalf a of f my interests while yonder fe female niale the tile keeper of a brothel broi liel fia flaunts tints by me to the I 1 ulla 21 nud and is is a allowed I 1 to cast a ballot kow is is that just government 1 while I 1 believe that a woman nroman is best employed emp loved at home and is 11 deserving of no recognition at the polls I 1 had to agree that this was drawing a line of f public right without for either or policy or public justice 11 1 tile sor Sorge aut manifested n nl pir i in I 1 cut as its 18 01 dand finally filially branched out into the benefits of polygamy ill in which lie appears to honest honestly y v believe the cormons mormons Mor mons have good and strong arguments in support of their religion and organization he tie said mid to n inch full hearin hearing 11 should be b given by those who seek to correct them thein they arc are really accomplishing i what the people of ailland aim ahn to tb do in tn fighting fugli ling what wo we call the social evil the tile diseases of dissipation and lic licentious os are unknown them they area are a clean pure aud health it ma mis take to hold that the falth faith lust on the contrary it ia founded on a principle of religion combats combat A plurality of wives is the owin mt 31 mormon ormon rel ligion and arid the reason in the tile cua cus xon tom or faither fai thor lint ever they choose to term it is freind in the scriptural S al ad vicea aim to protect the wife against ilia approaches of llo I 1 period of concepion lion I 1 hav have e heard this sev separation of man and wife after the period stated urged asa decency and as beins being oth e ern r I 1 ise se ben beneficial Q from tho pulpit of lie the high church of england the plurality ot or wies inor morally aliv eaves saves tho husband 1 band and physically piot 1 ecta the ri mother iother T hiie ie adhere strictly to thit thi provision brov ision of their religion as drawn from the bible and alli punish the one wh 0 dare dis reg regard ardit it it is the maintaining maintain inc laclef and prita practice tim of and they univ universally emilly protect it as buch then 1 hen as the means of peopling a new ney country oli polygamy is is deserving of commendation and in in population ia Is rapid and I 1 find there ia to no deterioration in rave or deca dei adorna I 1 in ill health or of strength atre nuth oath of the 0 genera tiou ILOR did md I 1 aa aly k phase or esil in ill none that waa was nut not counterbalanced by good I 1 did not investigate to any detomh the question of in ht tal peric or separate fc Fe parate wa within t hill tile ill imperial rule and would 7 net not feel aure in exploring an op on it it may be dangerous to extent but I 1 could not see that ovil evil had in in utah the fact is recurring recurring to the subject of bolg re p I 1 L c dont believe it was I 1 rc y he ong origination i nation of your N at I 1 1 I 16 Legit laton who must hsue hue known 11 aliat it thi a c on the Edoin edmunds bill had an all u unconstitutional boult tile OP opposition tu to the maralit Mur mo aron I 1 you will wil I 1 rd aad is a religious one atiat that has taken the tile form of the historical persecution As in tile cases the p persecution erbe cution will ul ultimately i in a an n eion sion of sympathy Path v and an enlargement of 01 ohp guimon Mu imon mon church if polygamy most be wiped on out t to satisfy tho that war against it means other than union unton legislation nill leave lo 10 be tile alexi an government lias lins de blared ilar edthe the forfeitures of or tile grant of 36 auroa acres efland in lower califor niia kirido to da david id fers three years ago for purpose purposes for non ful fill of tile t lh austrian Ao tran aali by a ote tc or to ls ligis given its sanction tion to the flie of helloner Sel b lioneres lio loner member oft IO 10 wy oil accod account antol of a speet li h he lie de dean ivar edat the meeting of a s reading dab club of german brinan crinan students of the 01 IM isby I 1 ased loy y the tile list saturday a day |