Show POINTED punctuation I 1 A when the last annual message ines 6 a e of a republican president was presented ted by I 1 sir mr arthur to the congress and people of the united stales states we ive expressed our opinion freely on the passage in which our esteemed chief magistrate saw fit to touch xin the perplexed problem of mormonism we then doubted that anything would come out of his recommendations as for means of the final disposal of the utah question even if they should happen to be accepted and legalized by congress it is needless here to repeat our argument but it may not be uninteresting to learn that the ogden HERALD is not alone in its skepticism regarding the solution of the 1 mormon Nl ormon 11 problem by congressional action our esteemed old friend the illinois which lias always spoken in terms of high commendation odthe of the present mccu pant of the white house although it supported mr cleveland in the late campaign shows its itz usual good enso sense in its comment on the late message of mr arthur fo for r instance it refers to the utah passage in the following words again tho the president recommends for utah an administration by a government commission Commis eion endowed with the fa farthest i going going powers as the only means of suppressing polygamy roly polygamy gamy to thia paragraph however however the journal of mr J joins ins in parentheses a little though significant punctuation commonly called a question mark which tells more than words ca can n concey and covers the ground with regard to all the useless folly of congressional control of Mormonism |