Show C CANVASSED the power P 6 iyer of or president taylors Tay lorys ar ars cent d with tile imbecility or of those of governor murray F rl I 1 the following foli owing letter appears appears in in the may number of the american review MK MR k upon tha tile two articles in the review for foria january nuary 1884 one by governor murray murra Y a against mormonism tho the other oth er b y oh n taylor president of the so 0 called mormon C in favor of it permit an old resident of utah to comment briefly it will occur to every thoughtful person at all familiar with tho the situation who reada reads these artick s that plenty of attack as weak as murrays Mur rays and plenty of defense de benge aa as able as taylora taylors will go g 0 far toward making mormonism the tile dog that will wag the tail tall for the entire intermountain region in ibo the near future faylor raylor shows quite conclusively the unconstitutionality of tho the edmunds law and points out an infamous instance of of it by tile commission which was accomplished P bv interpolating intern lating into the oath required of voters before registering the tile words in the marriage rela relax tion t ion 1 this they did to enable open evil doers non mormons cormons to register and vote murray labors through an hypothetical indictment of the mor mons of great length and winds up by proposing oro posing a commission to govern utah and scenting scent ingwar war in the distance concludes by b y mayine yz if aj that should prove insufficient cufr icat the exigencies of the future will der dor demand domand I 1 roand mand more effectual measures just why the most prosperous and best beat governed of odthe alio territories Tern tones should be governed by a commission is lissome some thing that tho the incoming t tion on and ordinate coordinate co branches of our great government will boef honestly investigate vesti gate before moving in that direction when I 1 say best governed I 1 imea mean that territory where we find fl na the tile greatest safety for life and prop 1 erty with minimum taxation to meaer gether with harmony and content ment among the populace you naturally alJy asaf ask if I 1 this be ardler aliv nil all thia this noise als utah and tile cormons mormons Mor mons notwithstanding mur ray rays dragnet drag net indictment it will be found upon trial that polygamy is athe tile only n nie ager ri in n the utah fence to save t in nd expense I 1 would sug 6 gest that that other in the tile yankee woodpile wood pile easy divorce be caughron caught caugh ton on the same hunt and wh whitewashed e at the same timo time since the that mado made diy divorces daiy easy boado ado mormon polygamy possible and new cw england polygamy fashion able I 1 think it would he be well w ell for forthe the government to apply a universal remedy for both manifestations of a common evil from a coalmon common source to this endi end 1 l would add to the clause on the subject of religion in the constitution conf congress ress shall I 1 mako make no law respecting an sent lish ment of region religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof the words but congress shall prevent the practice of crime in the name of religion reli cion upon such an amend men ment a universal law air that would uproot polygamy could be constitution coa ally enacted and enforced to rout new legal polygamy I 1 would interpolate the three words riaS carrias marri nar asre ad aud divorce into he the fourth division of Section 8 of article 1 of the constitution so that it would read congress shall have power power to establish a uniform rule of naturalization and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies marriage and divorce throughout the carriage united states and then by a national law I 1 would mako make divorces difficult ini cult ballands BAL LAnnS S DON DUNN |