The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-04-25
lard DUKN's LETTER.
old Resident Contrasts two
Al Wv Magazine Articles.

North AnlcricCn Rerie'O for May
In fns +be following letter written by
Ipaaverend Ballard S. Dnnn;
the = r,,roR-Upon the two articles
Ms. 6 6Iil for January, 18S-one, by
IN the nSe1Mv Murray, against Mormonlsm
GOgeTILoor1 nv John Taylor, PRESIDENT OF
tbeothteaajiIe Mormon Church. IN favor
tbe so-c a~I1it an old resident OF Y tab to
Ofit-pee4tb briefly. 1t will occur TO every
CONNER, ,,i nerson, at all familiar with
tbOughu,1iao ION who reads these articles,
The slI IIatT Of attack as weak as Muir
that pei nlentv of defense as able as
ray sl'4 will go far toward making
Taylor >; sm the dog that viii wag the
Nofhiofsn-r the inter-mountaln re
tail i; IN the near future. Taylor
gicn - onite conclusively the an
shows .+itfntionality of the Edmunds
uncolS''5t noInts out an infamous in
law an If administrator of it by the
stance Son. which was accomplished
C0nllulia.rnoIatiug into the oath required
.! ,. n before registering, the words,
.: The The marriage relation, Inns they
u ' 70 enable open eEil-doers-non-
I,Iiul-nons-to register and vote. Murray
NJ NJ. through an Hypothetical lndlct-
lao .ot Of the Mormons, OF great length,
NEW III Winds up by proposing "a commls-
anu ~ Govern Utah." and. seeming war
y slOI The y, distance. concludes by. saying:
IN TN hat should prove insufficient, the
Iliin ono of the future Will de-
salS more ef1ectual measures"
MAJ al why the most prosperous and
=. Juo r,overned of the Territories should
% pr, g,SIyerned by a commission, is some
&c that the incoming Administra-
.li,n0 and coordinate branches of our
uoia government will honestly in
ss,..9;gafe before moving in that dlrec-
w When | say best governed, L
uo HUI, that Territory where we find the
l lrostest safety for life and property,
nth minimum taxation, together with
barmony and cOntentment among the
non1lace. You naturally ask, if this be
r1I why all this noise about Y tan and
.ba Wormons? Notwithstanding Muir
.ar'S drag-net indictment, it will be
i ia1 mon trial that polygamY is the
ooIv "nigger in the Utah fence" To
save time and expense, l would suggest
hat 5, that other "nigger in the Yankee
rood-pile." easy divorce, be caught on
,b g same hunt and white-washed at the
same time. Since the unchastity that
made divorces easy made Mormon
nnIvgamy possible and New England
pToIygamy fashionable, 1 think it
would be well for the government to
apply a universal remedy for
botb manifestations of COM
mon evil from a common source.
To this end, l would add to the clause
ON the subject of religion in the Consti-
tuition, Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion, |
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, "
the words, but Congress shall prevent |
the practice Of crime in the name of
religion" Upon such an amendment,
a universal law that should uproot po-
lygamy could be constitutionally en-
acted and enforced. To rouJ New Eng
lands legal polygamy, I would interpo-
late the three words. marriage and di-
vorce, into the fourth division of Sec
lion of Article l, of the Constitution,
20 that it would read. Congress shall
have power to establish a uniform rule
Of naturalization, and uniform laws on
the subject of bankruptcies, marriage
and divorce throughout the United
States" and then by a national law,
would make divorces difficult.
BALLARD S. DUNN.