Show THE UTAH SITUATION W copy abo following lengthy edito rial from the san francisco an ogdan newspaper the standard of Mormon proclivities the caus remarks on the pro polygamy ut of apostle grant and says it is N one of many anti monnon articles appearing in the press of tho country y and that its careful reading vi disclose the fact that the author of our ar iida is not stranger to utah affairs the ogdan paper concludes therefore that cheso inflammatory editorials are eing inspired by a bureau of promotion ysis ting either m ogden or salt ladt find having for its object tho arousing or public to antagonize th mormon people and establish reestablish re 4 within the state the old bitterness that did BO much to retard the growth ot in 11 dutreal du trial lif and keep utah in the pt a religious warfare As far as th cau is we with to disabuse the mind of the ogdan editor in that particular and to relieve any i n utah ho may suffer from the suspicion of engaging in the promotion of outside criticism of the cormons mormons Mor mons wo need no such promotion of our purpose to work for tho future peace and welfare of utah by inducing the mormon I 1 church to act in good faich with the frest of the country by observing ali V pledges upon which statehood wa as cured ml the inside information we get is furnished by the authorities of the mormon chim h and the conduct ot cormons mormons themselves the united states doea not to permit the resumption of polygamy in utah it is useless to plead that resistance si to it will disturb the industrial peace 0 alie state jf it does the rc is with those aho provoke that resistance by violation of the law and breach of faith why is the church in politics what is the purpose of its persistent control of political it it propose to keep faith and observe tho law it has nothing to fear from politics the people of this country recognize as a form of religion followers are entitled to that great guaranty of taft federal constitution under which all forms of religion are freed and equa nut when any church haa purposes which require that it control the political action of its members those purposes aro inimical to the government the attempt to effect them through the political power of the state is a substantial union of church and slate which is abhorrent to the american spirit it will bo admitted by every one in utah that the signs arc abundant that the church throws majorities either way an fn poll tica the people are at once when the members of any church all one way and wako erratic and unaccountable changes in political control foe which there is no matui al or public reason att been for some time evident tant j the mormon church puts itself first and s abe plays a subordinate part Us outside of utah are regarded with because bee ause mormon yot ing appears it does 1 wt with stability divide on barty line following the mormon itjin that people buffered great that made many warty rg but it ara the and explosion ot passionate resent long accumulating and caused by judt uch political subordination of the cormona Mor mona is is to hn the practice today in bah so it would appear ahat the habit oi using political power k cpr iff awn i by the ff r existing tx isling mannon body naturally look around for aha t rason lor tho and right or they wem fo find both in the dc cirp of the church to resume polygamy naturally Katura lly this is reinforced by auch that ot ant th egden newspaper characterizing our article aya Us hasia cleber J arants humorous speech of a week ago which wa not intended to be taken furiously and wa simply a good play upon caf peculiar aties but fac witticism has offered ex cu for ahoe who seek to estrange gentile and mormon and ruin in etab H must be admitted that grant chose queer subject to joko about II 11 H in the pr argent gent kenw no the past he declared that lie has not had two wires and that he wants a third if the law wilt let alpi take her it business ia endangered in utah it li by the apostles apost lea peculiar idea of huntor and not because of any desire to disturb tho favorable industrial condition of nn american diate polygamy was considered as federal question when tle federal government conditioned the statehood of utah upon a permanent guaranty alia the chur cli would abandon plural marriage it the mormon church now proposes t esq the political ial rower af pf the state to protect a lo 10 polygamy tho matter ii still a federal question the first national platform denounced those twin rolica of barbarism slavery and polygamy one has been abolished b ly jhb federal constitution th other is subject i to tho eaic treatment if H pi invasion of the of the states to ih constitution w as to forbid polygamy mako it a fadeal aas put hoto woo offend exclusively under the jurisdiction of th federal courts if ahe cormons mormons Mor mons davd in good faith antly abandoned plural marriage chev can hava no objection t such an amendment will tha ogdan newspaper and the arct new a at gait lake promise tha t an amendment to the federal constitution will be ratified by a mormon legislature in utah I 1 do they reeo gaito polygamy as nn anachronism ns much as ia do they look upon tt a the gentile world looks upon itt lo 10 aliey recognize it as a moral and laral of inae per se or d tjien r K it as wrong only because it is prohibited thi i a question which affect the aspiration of new mexico aad aran to statch ond it concerns the future of idaho and wyoming and in a afree of colorado and nevada it i fo far reaching as 0 warrant action now to antly remove it as ft domestic question local to th when it is made R federal matter and put in the hands of thi united states courts there will be no further danger of a return of old antipathy ana a pun of the bryght prospects ecta of utah th pan francisco call like many other hears false testimony all the time hat it tells the truth it says if hag received its information from ohp marmon church authorities ties ana from mhd conduct of tho cormons mormons themselves but we dare say ho cal wair lie unable to nank the an ties and conduct referred to from it flaim lo 10 have its information wo call for the proof it caay lo 10 make charges but to them is thing the call makes nany charges and ask us to dlf we decline tp prove paga live and MC M C call up those making tho charge to present the proof we deny that there has been gi re et the practice of polygamy in utah we deny that the people of utah have broken faith with tho government we deny that the church is in politic wal deny that tho mormon church has any purpose in controlling politics and we assert it does not control politics in utah wp deny that here h any aion 0 church and state in utah we deny tha there arc abundant signs that tha church s majorities either way in W deny there are estatio eTT atio and change in political control for which there is no natural nor public reabon sye deny that the people of utah in the shape of n church put farst and the abate in a subordinate position this paper does not object to a constitutional prohibiting poly gapie but a utah does not have aar inon we can not promie anything for such a legislature the utah legislature since the writer lias been in hava consisted of all classes of baptists congregationalists Congregation alista and even an infidel is said to have found a seat in he legislature the writer a non was elected to th legislature later on to the ana since then tice elected mayor of wen we hac never asked for tha lormon church to assist us in our election campaigns each time our opponent was ft strong mormon and a good man at we know no influence wa usco in our behalf it it was used against us it proved of no value the cau refers to the standard td as if it were owned by cormons mormons Mor mons the stand ard is owned by non cormons mormons ana ha policy is controlled by non mannona its editor never has been a mormon and docs not expect to bo one the standard has at tim the mormon and at other thinea favored t tho standard is for fairness and justice that h all the standard recognizes polygamous performed since statehood 99 a moral and legal offense per se wo look polygamous unions now e eting but made before the supreme court of the united states declared polygamous illegal condition tor the people of utah to settle without interference from other stater tho united states admitted utah as a state without defining the position of those having two or more families but it will only be a question of a short time when the old polygamous relations vill disappear add become nothing more than a recollection in fact they are now disappearing very fast at the hands of wo will admit that some of those married inep polygamy previous to the church manifesto plural mar ariage in lolare still supporting their plural wives and to all outward appear ance hold them 0 o bo plural wives but deny that any plural or i been performed in ri nce statehood tha people who charge that polygamy is mill practical in utah i do not mean that polygamous marriages are U celebrated in utah but haj somo of old timers who have i children by several wives have not de sorted tho plural wives ana their children yet those not thoroughly with local conditions of which tho edit fhe san francisco call is one be from hat they hear that ous marriage arc still being performed in vt wo tho call foe the compliment paid taji paper m that tho debret news and the standard can guarantee as to what the utah legisla ture will do if the two papers had such power the editors of the news and would long ago have occupied chaba in tho senate at bahin Wa hin ton no paper or combination of papers can control any utah legislature tan utah legislators are tho most independent lot of mcart of any in tho west wo believe though they would adopt an amendment to the constitution prohibiting future polygamous marri all the oahn aia Is no foe tha cal to pre proa let bano equivocation or no asne factuar Fac chao want tha calli them wo will take up the fight against the mormon church but we know the proof cannot bo found |