Show ABOUT THE UTAH commission there lias has been becu a great deal of anxiety exhibited recently in regard to tho the utah commission and utah and tho the mormons cormons Mor mons are still 0 the one topic which engages the attention of the people especially politicians and christian theologians wo we are frequently asked what is the latest news of the commissioners ners when will they be here what will they do when will they arrive what will bo the result of their actions in utah these are all of them legitimate I 1 and may bo be very interesting and important questions but they do I 1 not stop even here the press both e east cast and west irest inquire what will the mormon do in the premises no nr rr we will scarcely be expected to answer fully and satisfactorily I 1 all the above named questions but I 1 we are willing to give our readers what information we have on the subject in the first place tho the telegraphic dispatches which are net always reliable tell us the commissioners met in chicago a few day days since while there they organized by electing hon A ramsey chairman I 1 and lion hon mr pettigrew secretary they spent the day in becoming better acquainted with each other and talking over old reminiscences because they could say very little of their future plans and operations I 1 in utah they also discussed the probable action of congress on the passage of supplementary tills which they consider arc are much needed before they can act effective jy i I 1 aith the edmunds bill they expected this is supplementary legislation would bo be passed in a few days the commission were interviewed by press reporters this was a matter of course those prying paul inflict themselves upon all sections of society I 1 and meddle with everybody as business I 1 I 1 aiesi in reply to a question by one of 0 the reporters the chairman said the they y expected to leave fo for r utah about the loth of august he ile also said A by the dayi sec see many peo people pie havo have a mistaken idea olour of our duties in utah they are as I 1 stated to you before I 1 simply to supervise tho registration of voters and prevent any mista mists from registering and then to attend to the election eloc tion of all officers of the territory including the legislature the supervision of registration will be confined to preventing polygamists from havin having a invoice voice in t the e ruling of the state gIla but t not to forbid any mormon with I 1 only one wife or with no wife at all from registering or voting from the above paragraph if the chairman understands his position clearly and if he has been correctly reported which is an important element in the matter our readers rea can readily comprehend preben d what the commission is authorized I 1 to do under the tile E edmunds bill and by its provisions they are to be I 1 strictly governed mr ramsey said those mor mons who are not polygamists carls constitute about 90 00 percent per cent of the entire mormon population these would all au be allowed to register and to vote but no polygamist poly gamut could have a voice in the i lection the honorable gentleman said ho he did not know how bow long they would have to act as commissioners he ile hoped it would only be for one election but it might be for a much longer term the omaha bee thinks the meeting of the commission at chicago ia is the beginning odthe of alio end odthe of the dispute which has so long agitated 1 the tile country concerning the mormon question tb this is is mere speculation the bee knows nothing definite about the matter it thinks the re organ of the territorial government mantwill men will twill be the enteria en entering terin a wedge to the dl displacement placement of the present administration and will test the true temper of the mormon church I 1 the bee may rest assured that ita its predictions do not sting the mor bonsi mons nor disturb their te temper amper although they may have a deep and unwholesome feeling upon the national supremacy in their public affairs the bee acknowledges that chat the cormons mormons Mor mons went into exile far beyond the limits I 1 of human civilization and through their bard hardihood hood and sacrifices subdued the savage and made the unbroken wilds bloom and blossom like a rose it makes other concessions thus they found nature in her most inhospitable mood and they led her through adversity and hardship to the finest paths of of peace and prosperity wealth power and plenty attend them and a magnificent future opens on their view they naturally desire to control what they have won has anybody a better right than this people have to control what the they y have won wo we think not then why not leave them alone in the peaceable undisturbed enjoy ment of their hard bard earned possessions why fagg the dee bee while the mormons cormons Mor mons are entitled to the credit of building up this empire they have dishonored it by the pretense e tense of a it religious faith which R christianity r istian ity believes to be a public rime and public policy denounces as a social outrage christianity believes tho the mor imor mons religious faith tobe to be a it public crime and public policy denounces it as a social outrage so then because christianity belleree bel teres leres our faith to lie a public publio crime and public policy joi cy denounces it as such we must M t be ostracized and become religious and socia outcasts now nony in ill the same article the bee says P church and state are distinct and congress lias has no right to make any law respecting the establishment lish ment of religion or prohibiting the tile free exercise thereof where then is the consistency no not t to say the constitutionality of such repressive measures as the edmunds law and the appointment of a commission to enforce its provisions P ons against any portion n 01 of a religious community of what bexie benefit fit is a religion of any kind to I 1 a any ny people if they are prohibited the free exercise thereof they may as well be without religion for the jp promise romise of protection in the tile en joy ments of its tenets the religious faith of the mor mons is not a pretense it is genuine nine it 13 is sound it is based on reason and revelation it is philosophical and eminently scriptural and its adherents are entitled to as much protection in the pursuit of happiness through the their faith as aa christianity or judaism have in the exercise of their faiths and creeds the bee is inconsistent und and we hardly expected j ouch such bitter draughts from a fountain of rosewater Hos eualer tho the california alia alta says it is is now time 1113 mormon polygamy wa was crushed out and that a rigid enforcement of the edmunds law will d do 0 it perhaps it will perla perhaps aps it will uett we shall see the cr crushing may not all be on the side it is intended the alia alta further says if the saints intend to resist the law by unlawful means the sooner the crisis comes the better the saints have never intimated for once athey th y intend to resist the law by unlawful means but they do intend by legal me methods ghods to maintain their lawful rights and the alta need not forget it the edmunds bill says the alta means the abolition of polygamy and the disfranchisement and punishment of those who practise it or means nothing again our western contemporary says the country will await the action of tho the patiently but with a firm determination to eee see the sections of the edmunds bill carried out to the letter if the board falter in their trust or arc are bribed or do not carry aut out the tile great mission given into their bands the tile country will find men who are competent and willing it is not to be supposed that this will be necessary the measure means the knell of polygamy ga I 1 in n utah if it has to be run runs in the bloodshed which ushered in its baptism it cannot be bo helped just so I 1 the murderers of joseph smith said the law could not reach him but powder and ball should and they did if the A mormon formon religion cannot be crushed out by the enforcement of the edmunds law or supplementary enactments the alia alta is willing that it should bo be accomplished by the shedding of blood and spreading carnage and death through the territory among a peaceable people who have redeemed the land of their homes from sterility such ia is the altos altas republican patriotism the editor of that journal might read with profit prof it the prayer of the ancient martyrs viz they have shed tho the blood of ailts and of prophets and thou hast given them blood to drink for they are worthy the alia alta might find ita its bloodletting policy not quite BO so effective ind and less profitable than it pates that it would cost more than it it comes to the alta ought to blow that the thu thumbscrews thumb screws and the racks of the catholic inquisition ailed failed to change the religious views 1 of the protestant reformer 4 and the fires of smithfield could neither change nor extinguish their firm faith in tho the power and efficacy of their mode modo of worshiping god neither repressive las laws nor bloodletting will ever change tho tile mormon formon Ik system of theology nor extinguish the faith or knowledge of its adherents in its truth these methods have been tried many a time and oft hut but in vain journalists and all others may wait and watch with all the interest and anxiety they wish to see the outcome of the contest but the tile cormons mormons Mor INform mons ons will still pursue the even tenor of their way as though there had been no special legislation against them satisfied with the justice of their cause and the tile rectitude of their conduct condu pt truth is their motto and truth is mighty and it will prevail |