Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-12-27

out OF a desert" Nobody here thinks
they will, or wants them TOT the Nor
mon people ast religious community
Will 20 on extending settlements and
rsdteming the desert from bafrenness,
Just "a they have been doing for bel a
century. But that will have absolutely
nothing TO do with the control Of the
people In political matters Mr. Hart
may have said also that because u the
pfepondsrance Of Mormon porulstIon
10 many counlioe, and In the
State generally, uou-Morman officers
could not TO elected over the opposi-
ton Of tbs Mormon vJ'er; yet the
act that such officers are elected 10
conclusive evidence that 81 rfoh or
religious lines are oblilera'oi by voters
who are Mofmons 10 religious olassif'
cation but vino, IN political alalrs, act
AZ consciontiously according 10 theif
national party Views a. they DO on
church mem lership. IL Will be also
admitted that no district Judge can
escape his responsibility 10 Lsl,tt.day
Saints, Presbytsrlans, Catholics or
Methodi,t'; he must treat oil alike, for
there is perfect religious liberation In
Utah. Hut his responsibility IL not to any
sect or denomination; II Ia to the oiIl.
zsns as e whole, Independent Of re.
liEious Views.
A, to the polySamy bugatoo, II
IL no unusual thing TO have a
reporter iiy OIL at tangent ut
that point; and this 10 what the Kan.
sas scribe has done. II is quite posi-
bic that Mr. Hart may have presented
HE Views 10 favor Of polygamy as d
corTec, principle; he may have said
that those 10 the relationship Of plural
marriage held the ties sacred. But no
could not have said that hereafter these
ties Will bB renewed, Tor, from hls
knowledge Of anairs here, he isaware
that such proceeding would be 4 VIC.
lallon OF Church discipline which "
not psrmiSsibls. It's clear that with
regard to any remarks on plural mar.
slage, MT. Hart has. been bellsd By the
reporter.
Every wslliniormod person hero IL
aware that tho statement that under
Statehood The solemn zAtlon Of suspend.
Ell marriage rites will be resumed, IL
an assertion which no man on earth 10
authorized 10 make. This 10 viewing
II from a Mormon standpoint The
MORMON people accepted the doctrine
OF plural marriage ~ from God; they
accepted tho deolsi0n 10 cease It's
practice M from tho Same source. The
divine law that they should be subject
70 presidents, ms gislfaIot, rulers, ETC.,
they consider a. binding upon them.
There was an issue on tho subject Of
marriage, which WAS fully tested, with
the result that magistrates aud ruleft
refused To allow ils practice. This
point reached, God commanded the
Saints 10 obey the ruling powers; He
thus took the discussion OF plural mar.
riogo rs n practice entirely out OF their
jurisdiction. Whatever controversy
there IL rests with Hin In behalf Of
that principle. The Mormous arc moi
now party thereto under the Cit
ounstance5; nor could they Institute n
renewal OF the practice without violA,.
ing direct command Of the Al.
mighty. To do this under the turn
affairs have taken would be to commit
double crime: to follow . practice
which Ia forbidden, ana 10 violate AL.
other c mmand In 30 doing. There IL
no one who realizes ths wrongfulnssl
and danger OF such a course more
than DO the Mormons themselves.
liisquite plain that, whatever Mr..
Hart has said, he has not made the
absurd and untrue statements Attribut-
cd to him In the foregoing dispatch;
hence TO Rll ih,ents the alleged Inter.
view must be- regarded as bogus, since It
IL wholly inaccurate aud misleading
account Of what occurred, n there was
any conversation at all with Mr.. Hart.
The unpleasant part OF the AFFAIR Ia that
under existing conditions Innocent
people are put TO great trouble and
worry through tho mendaclous pro.
cliyi,iss Of an irresponsible scribbler.