Show 1 I 1 UTAH STATEHOOD ill or the new u rost NEW Y ork july 0 6 A AL opedal to ill ho 0 A L tribuna Tri buns bays the pent comment aa As f follows 11 1 I on tho the proceedings of the tile utah constitutional convention tho tile only is beriou seriously sly import ant nt business bus inosa before the tile convention took shapo shape yesterday in tile report rt 0 on n the section proposed for ho the so call called e d abandonment or proscription ot of polyp imy it is indeed hard to u un n derr tand eliy ha bigamy an 1 poly gainy should be considered incompatible ti y 0 in niti I 1 tit a republican form of government a any more than with an absolute despotism or communism but it is plain enough that each ia is by tho tile prop propped oed section forbidden and declared ired a inin derne demeanor andr so that lany any person ulio ito shall violate this section shall U lipon I 1 11 colla conviction conic action tion thereof bo be puni pun rhod lied ott we take leave to say eay that any is mistaken who ho thinas that in fit mot mon men courts under mormon juries who ho believe in bigamy and poly polygamy garny its religious virtues commanded to bo be practiced ced by special divino divine revelation co conviction n I 1 n thereof aill ill ever bo be had so that the ft hole effect of the admission sion of utah as a state under the lur fair deeming provision w would bo be to end all re restraint upon the practice tico of these crimes the truth is 13 at arese prese present t utah cannot bo be admitted as a state on any any terms the constitution which did not prohibit polygamy would not bo be accepted while a mormon constitution tic t on which professes to prohibit polygamy is on its lace face a fraud |