Show 1 HON JOHN SHARP AND A N Y WORLD REPORTER A few days lays ago ngo wo published a dispatch from new york which made hon ilon john sharp say that polygamy would be done awa away y with through the influence of the recently appointed utah commission we at the time discredited the report as utterly inconsistent with alic gent lemans character as well as cont contrary to the principles and faith of the majority of 1 alic t ic people of utah that we were correct in our disbelief of the assertion imputed to mr arp has been proven by the N Y world which in its issue 0 the dinst publishes an inter esting interview with the distinguished gentleman from utah of whom the world says in an all editorial note that lie speaks on such subjects not as tu a scribe or a pharisee but as a practical man of sense and takes a much more philosophical view of the great crusade against the twin relic the following is the interview as reported in the great democratic daily of the hudson metropolis when a reporter of the world ill brict called on him lie complimented the worlds world letters from utah and said that its correspondent biad mado made so fair a report of tho the condition of both society and politics in it the territory that he lie thought any thing more would bo be superfluous for tho tile readers of tho tile world The Gentiles he continued who went to utah to bo be enri clyd by tho the political spoils and who think it graceful and grateful to slander the test best citizens of the territory have been robbed of their favorite ammunition by the truthful narrative of this special correspondent but tho the majority of the gentiles in salt lake city as well as the mormons cormons Mor mons appreciate tile candor and man manliness lines s of the world bishop sharp was asked especially about the utah Com commission miWon lie he replied add I 1 with a smile that he did not know now what to say certainly he lie could not say as the tribune yest yesterday erdly reported him that tho tile commission would cause tho the mormons cormons Mor mons to abandon polygamy if the contest is brought to such an extreme point that a polygamous mormon must be dis franchised or give up all his wives but one there will bo be no hesitation in accepting disfranchisement perhaps 90 per cent of the cormons mormons Mor mons are ag 1 and caro care little about pol pok itice ile so ion long as RS tho the government does not interfere with the labors of their homes and hardly moio than one I mormon lormon in four of the tile men over forty years of age and very few I 1 indeed n deedless less than forty years of ag age c have more than ono one wife but plurality is is not a personal subject it ia Is a doctrine of the church and if the commission succeed in ascertaining who are polygamists and they are chased disfranchisement will bring with it no disgrace in utah and only the denial of an insignificant privilege as most mormons cormons Mor mons re regard ard it that congress lias has declared that all children who wh shall oshall be born in plurality after january 1 1883 illegitimate will have no edert effect whatever the they will bo honored bythe by alie church M and recognized Z ed bv by society both mormon and gentile precisely as polygamous polygamous children aire ire now reco recognized nize as legitimate it is important however that tile commission should hastily lias tily reorganize the territorial government and make tile elective machinery operative before august august As tho law now is gentiles abir and mormons cormons Mor mons alike arc are abi chased i when asked if tho the mormons cormons Mor mons w would ou id bo be displeased by the presence 0 of f tho the commission bishop sharp said not at all if they are gentlemen as undoubtedly they arc are of honor and of intelligence they will be pleasantly recci received our people have long ago become accustomed to the most erratic freaks of congress and they really desire to have intelligent and honorable lionor ablo gentlemen visit them and understand them but 3 officially f fici ally tho tile commissioners will be received with indifference on general principles the citizens of utah of course prefer that no such body of men should bo be sent there for any poso pose of investigation in the criminal sense that the word investigation has como come to have havo politically buethe but the cause of the dislike may bo be found rather at Washington than city they prefer that congress ss should assume me any attitude rather than an attitude of hostility indeed they think and have bave long th thought ought you know that utah ought t to bo be admitted into tho the union that however is a different question and a question with which as I 1 understand it the commission has nothing to do do you not look then for any definite results of the commissions investigation vesti gation no results of importance certainly by disfranchising franchising dis mormons Mor Wor mons the tile cit city government overn ment of salt lake city wi will T I 1 te be changed of course some citizens may become angry and many more think that they have been unjustly dealt with by the federal government ern ment rit but many this no now w 1 I do not ece see what results will creaso reasonably n be expected when asked ieli if lie 0 regarded tile creation of the comm commission 1 s on as a mere V political 0 trick tho the bishop B i ss op replied with some evasion but very plainly intimated that this and andi mony similar congressional acts were born of ignorance of mormonism and of the io clety of utah and perhaps of fanaticism certainly lia lils answer to all su such c i i 11 questions implied that the chomor mons regarded it simply as Rs religious persecution and they will accept all euch such hostility ns Rs religious persecution there has jim lie continued 1011 loll ions been a law against polygamy but congress lias has found it impossible or impracticable to enforce it and I 1 do not see that tile edmunds bill can reasonably hope for any better fate one might inight imagine at this distance that such an enactment would cause tile greatest erea test consternation in utah I 1 but it is not BO so acts of this kind and some much worse have been passed by congress you know an army was once sent to utah but the cormons mormons Mor Mori mons lions have increased more rapidly with a smile and become more prosperous than any lily other agricultural ri people west of tile missouri consequently they have become more and more anili indifferent obrent to congress yet there is much curiosity to know just what tho commission will do and r report they will most likely talk more than th anthey they do words are and words against the cormons mormons Mor mons seem to be fashionable yet I 1 do not anticipate that the tile commission will do 10 anything indeed can do anything that will wilt cause great bitterness tile people of utah are arc not as easily stirred to wrath as people in th alio east they are ar an all agricultural and some aliat I 1 ey primitive people and the aliey y wait patiently for such stich a knowledge of their condition and their charac character fer to spread pd abroad as will cause congress and the citizens of the union in ill general to reco recognize nize them as fellow citizens and ignorable iino rable men doubtless you oil have learned from tile world that dr bacon I 1 of connect connecticut t ia showing owing sli up tip the existence in the E east st of a system of serial polygamy 1 my yes said the bishop at fl first 1 st smiling amiling but presently again becoming serious and deliberate in speech but we do net not have that system in atah utah 11 |