Show I MONTANA MORALS I Tile Northern Natives Waist a Registration Law Montana is a great country and there are great people living therein But the Montanians are not Montanians unless they are also moralists At each session I of the Montana legislature there are bill I made law to uproot or surpress some of the great evils that abound in that Territory tory The gambling dens variety dives hurdygurdy houses and like places so dear to the heart of the rugged miner and the wild cowboyhave within the last two years been so curtailed in their privileges bp the law that they are no longer a thing of beauty and a joy forever for-ever to their festive devotees And now the honest laboring classes casses of the Territory are demanding a registration regis-tration law to prevent ballot corruption In his last legislative message exGov graph ernos Hauser had the following para The enactment of a registry law is fast becoming a necessity in order to secure elections that shall fairly and honestly represent the choice of a majority major-ity of those legally entitled to vote The ballot box is usually esteemed as one of the chief safeguards of our liberties and any measure calculated to protect it from the evil designs of corrupt men should zens enlist the support of all patriotic citi zensThe Montanians should have a similar law to what is in force in Utah with the difference that those cohabiting out of the marriage relation should be disfranchised and substituting bigamy for polygamy Such a law would hit them hard but the Montana people like the Mormon priests would have to stand it or become martyrs mar-tyrs We sympathize with our northern cousin in their commendable efforts to moralize their Territory Like the loyal and hightoned citizens of Utah they I have a gigantic work on their hands II I I |