The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-09-29

Would the national law against polygamy then
be enfo -ced? 1t is not at all likely it would, for
no laws are carried out unless they have the
sanction of the governor OF the state
Thus Governor SAUNDERS says, with
qualification, he believes the honest inten-
ton of the church is to discourage po-
lygamy, and Governor ROBERTSON says po-
lygamy does not openly exist because the
Mormons think it is policy, but they are of
the firm conviction their faith viii spread,
etc. How can they be discoursging polyg-
amy and at the same time be convinced po-
lygamy Will spread, whilst it does not even
openly exist! And of what consequence
are their views and thoughts in the bust
ness! Are men to be ''corraled" and dis
franchised for any yagary, any heresy, any
opinion that may take or retain Judgement
in their brains! People may believe that
SAUNDERS and ROBERTSON ought to be put
into an insane asylum or into some home
Tor the feeble-minded, but they are not
guilty of abduction or any other legal fault
Tor so believing, and until they commit an
overt act they are at liberty to think 80 as
much as they please. How long are these
commissioners to be continued in Office at
a salary Of S., 600 year each, whilst max
ing up their minds finally as to what other
people think of this or that subjects And
in their forthcoming report will they
please to indicate in what manner they and
their views affect the question Of whether
polygamy exists in Utah! fit is their bust
ness to suppress polygamy, and if polys-
amy actually exists, why don't they sup
press it-"corral'' it!
Governor SAUNDERS makes funny pre-
tense that the commission is non partisan.
OF course he knows better. He knows that
at the late election in this territory judges
and registrars were appointed so as to in
tentlonally discriminate against the Demo
cratic party. He knows that in the so-called
apportionment Of the territory into legis-
lative districts the commission acted in q
grossly partisan spirit, designedly operat-
ing against the Democracy.
Governor ROBERTSON says that il Utah
was admitted as state the Mormons
would elect state ticket The probability
is that in state elections the Mormons
would vote, as well as The Methodists, the
Presby terians, the Catholics and the Jews,
and If the Mormons should outnumber all
these, we don't suppose, nor does Governor
ROBERTSON suppose. that the religious lib
erty of any sect would be interfered with
in the least. 1t is an illogical and-not TO
be discourteous-a false, assumption that
the national law against polygamy would
not be enforced with Utah in the union.
The state constitution itself would prohibit
it, the Mormons would declare against it,
ana the abandoned institution would be as
extinct as slavery is. There is no sensible
man in this territory-no man, we mean,
who is not a bigot or crank-that in his
heart does not know this statement to be
true. There are many men who still
think secession was right and ought to
have succeeded; many, too, who believe
that slavery was a divine institution; but
they laid down their arms and without q
murmur accepted the situation. Should
the southern states be turned into terri
torial condition and ruled by iuntas of aged
and imbecile grandmothers whose adhesion
to fat sinecures would never let them see
but one sidel Must Utah be to the United
States what Alsace is to Germany, anG
that, too, without ever having been dis
loyal!