Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-10-15
WHAT The PAPERS SAY.

nade by resident Woodruff. o
course cheir views are various
Some ef them manifest much dis
tEr5snce Of mind and considerable,
EICcor. Others assume a waiting
attitude, desiring TO see what the
,'AIormons' do before offering
any opinion. Quite a number,
however, accept the Declaration
and It's endorsement in the spirit in
which they were made, and claim
Cor the '.Aormon'' people that liber-
y and those rights to which they
are entitled, and which have been
endangered by the general opposi-
sioa to poIygumy.
The New York TINES, which has
been 4 strong antagonist and has
rarely had a good word for the ''AIoT-
mons, . Gevotes considerable space 20
n discussion Of the subject. On the
5nd instant it said, editorlaIly:
The proclamation recently put
Forth by the oc.osenarian President
'of the Mormon Church admits that
the dsys OF polyEamy are already
nuH.b5ned- Il IS true that the Utah
Commission, in its report to the In
terror Department, questions the sin
csrity Of the protested abandonment
by the Mo-mons Of plural marriages.
IL holds that the penalties Of the law
alone induce them TO profess obedience
. il, and that there is no change in
the ordinances Of the Church or in lis
doctrines. Il obtained this names Of
forty-one persons who, Il is believed.
have entered into the Polygzmous re-
iation since June, lSsg. But this last
staiemeni.wh on its face, is merely
a mater Of opinion, IS controyerted
by the Mormon President. who speaks
oil a report Of one such instance that
occurred las, year, but SAYS that II
the ceremony was really performed 1t
was without his knowledge. He goes
On to declare that I'VE are no, teach
sng polySamy or plural marriage, nar
permitting any person to enter into its
Practice He asserts that he and his
associates now teach nothing which
can reasonably be construed to incul-
cate or encourage Folygamy, and
when any Elder OF the Church has
used language which appeared TO
convey such teachings he has been
promptly reproved.'
'Sach language hardly jus.i6es
Governor Thomas description Of II Is
studiOusly indefnite.'"
Some papers complain because the |
Declaration did no. come sooner
aud Immediately after the Supreme I
Court first passed upon the consti-
tutionality Of the law ofIs52, but
the Tf5les says
"hiie the operation OF the law has
broken up the practice OF polyramv
a SPECIAL occasion has been furnished
during the present year for the fs,pe
by President Wiliori woodrnn7s pro-
clsmation. This is tho decision re-
Gently rendered by the Supreme e2art
OF the United States, which declares in
effect that polygamy cannot find
shelter under any claim Of freedom Of
religious belief. since /. Is sim,iv,
crime. The M0rnons were avai,in,
with much anxiety the announcement
OF the opinions OF the Supreme Couri.
both IN the Idaho test-oath ease and
in the suit growing out Of the seizure !
and coniscation % real estate bsl,ng- {
ing TO the Mormon Church in S,l.
Lake City, under the Edmunds act
passed by the Forty ninth Congress.
what the Mormon President has
now accordingly done Is TO declare
that the decision OF the Supreme Court / !
Of the United States viii be submitted ! :
to by his community
On the subject of the present be-
lief of the La:te--day Saints which ,
some pnotesseily Christian fanatics ]
insist must be changed, the 7lmss
says:
at may be said that there IS no in Z
dication in this manifesto OF an aban-
donment Of the belief that polvr,unv
is right. Bat thai is something t5at :
no law could secara. Men IN cher 5
communities may hold destructive :
religious, political, or social beliefs
which would bring the law upon them
II put into practice; wha. the highest
individual authority in the Mormon
Church declares is that. whereas
polygamy was once practiced and !,
taught by that Church. it is no I9n-sr I,
inculcated- Had heg5ne further. into in
4 general remuneration OF beliefs held o;
for many years, the suspicion OF NV b
pOcrisy would have been much greater Dc
than under his present yielding TO the :, :,
law because an Interpretation OF il has
been made by the highes; tribunal in OF
he land.p n
The Times concludes its very ~
emPerate and well considered y,
Irticle with the following:
'The Mormon leaders themselves fir
half dozen years ago that 3,
lot more than one in sixteen OF the -,
eopls practiced polyramy. 20 that it :,
really mercy 70 the other fifteen to
estroy an institution which concerns a"
hem little personally, exoep. As II &c
revsnts their community from enter ~
lg en- the career il otherwise would bu
rely attain" Jet
These remarks were made before aa'
lie Conference. Since then the W.
ew GOrIIi7les has again taken I'D 70
lie subject. From 4 lengthy edi- W.
rial on the 10th inst, we clip the 1ne
lnexed paragraphs: zee
There Is not mash reason for distressing 50
sincerity o. the rcuunciauoa Of poirr- no
= by the Mormons. The declaration -
de al their General Conference IN salt | Nor
Se yestercay is as comprehensive as it is son
''icit. The Official prohibition By Brig doui
y houng's successor OF any marriages that
violation Of the law Of the lard Wa delu
Ned b. unanimous vote. To prevent eve
: Misunderstanding It was explained Il do
plural marriages'. had been declared the ]
gal by the supreme Court OF the United the 4
ties, and tins made contrary to the law amy
The land There Is really no room for II isi
TT that hereafter poiygamy vii BE- dis pow,
utsnanoed as much By the Mornons as liefs
the Gentics." simp
The class Of fanatics before men supp
ned object because a Wholesale
and casting of Of de- woo
ldent plural wives, married many Whe
MS ago did not accompany the to m
ion against future marriages i'm WIN
lation Of Law. The Tunes says elsr,
here are a very considerable nuulberof tiii-
ten polyEamously married in Utah al ness
y. IN whose cases It would be cruel and leap
Iman 70 execute the law that would 1Ali :,