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Show DISAPPOINTED. Oar local contemporaries seem disappointed disap-pointed with that part oi the President's message which relates to Utah. This is natural, for it neither suits the radical policy of the one or the non-intervention policy of the other. To us it seems about the proper thing, and the President's attitude at-titude towards Utah can only be definitely defi-nitely known when various bills touching Utah matters shall be presented to him for his signature. That, and that alone, J will be the-test : The News says the President knows nothing whatever about Utah affairs, and that all his information on such affairs is erroneous. He may be erroneously errone-ously informed as to some things in Utah ; he may have some wrong impressions ; but some things he does know, and they I- ' are things that none will deny. He knows that there is a country called America, and that in this country there !is a political organization known as the United States, and that this organization is recognized by every government on : earth. He also knows that there are subdivisions of the United States, and i that one of these subdivisions is called Utah, and that so long as Utah re- ' mains a Territory she is under the ; , control of Congress, and that the I .' powers of the Utah Legislature are I j delegated powers, and not sovereign. i He knows that Congress has passed a law I ' known as the Edmunds law, and that I this law was passed for the purpose , of I suppressing polygamy. He is not mis- I . informed when he is told that polygamy I very largely exists in Utah ; and being so informed, he knows that to the extent that polygamy exists there is a violation I of the laws of Congress. Is not his I knowledge of affairs amply sufficient to I justify the remarks in his message con- cerning polygamy in Utah ? We grant t that as to the practical workings of the polygamic system he may be totally ig- inorant, or that what information he may have on the matter is totally wrong, yet this would not affect the fact that such Eystem is in contravention of a law of the land, and that as President Presi-dent of the United States it is his duty to enforce this law. ' We are inclined to i think with the Xews that the President is I! not fully informed on Utali matters. It I is probable that the President does not know the true theory as to the doctrine ' of polygarnj' that it is a privilege con- fmed to the members of a particular sect, I i and that it is not intended for extension ; beyond that sect ; or as Mr. Taylor and f Mr. Cannon have so neatly said: "It J ' should also be understood that the prac- n " ticaisnot generally admissable among I the Latter-day Saints. It is strictly ' guarded, the intention being only to al- I , low those who are above reproach to en- I s ter into this relationship. The. practice j , of the doctrine is not for extension be- yond the church, and is even limited within its pale." Perhaps he does not j f know that if Mr. Taylor were to forbid l the officers of the church to grant this f . '. "privilege" to any member of jl his church, no matter how ex- emplary and worthy he might be, ! nor bow much above reproach, such ', ' member could by no possible means ob- I tain such privilege. We ask the Xews f i if this is not so? There is another thing I j the President does not know, but of which ; he should be made aware. We prefer to I ! ; ' let the Xews tell this in its own language : . 1 ; But we know better than ho when he I assumes that, "These are not the homes of i I ; ', polygamy," if he meaus by that the marriage I ; " system of the Latter-day Saints in Utah. I ' We are certain that of this system and its I workings he knows next to nothing. His ' information depends upon reports made by I persons as uninformed as himself on the ! subject, or the misrepresentations of inter- I 4 ested persons. All the Btaple arguments I 4, against "polygamy" are framed in reference J I to Asiatic polygamy, and they do not bear !'! . on the eubject. The homes we are and have ( I been establishing are just such, as he prescribes pre-scribes and praises. : The italics in the above are ours, but I. tue importance of the word "are" cannot be overestimated. The homes which the ' people here are establishing, according ;'i to the Xews, are polygamous. The fact j is quite important and shows that the j President is right when he 6ays there I f 6hould be no relaxation in the just en- forcement of the laws now in operation. ' It is a satisfaction to know that there will I - , bo none. |