The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-25
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We are often confronted with the
1cmand that this warfare shall
cease and that everyone shall knuckle
under TO The Mormon church, DENY the
polygamy that everybody knows to- ex
ist' como meekly under the dominion
of The theocratic. civil and political
rule. and quit this agitation
Our reply to this has uniformly been
that 1t Is not the ones who wish to
correct an evil that are responsible for
the agitation. but the ones who do the
evil. 1t is not the officers of the law
who are hlameworthy for prosecuting
offenders against the law, but those who
transgrcss the law. IN like manner
hero we hold that it is those who are
subverting republican institutions and
establishing theocratic domination
that arc the offenders. and the ones 10
be reprobated, They are the ones who
should cease. and not those who are
seeking TO correct evil conditions.
And yet, unless II correspondent of
ours is writing sarcastic.' il appears
that there is some sentiment Ill favor
of accepting the Mormon ideal and cs'
tablishing it by law. In evidence where
Of VIC have received the following com
municatiun IN the form of a petition
to the Legislature. which We commend
to our poIygsmous and theocratIc
friends as perhaps basis upon which
they would be willing to smoke The
pipe of peace and see triumphant
quiet for themselves ordained by law IN
the State of Utah. The petition Is as
follows:
To the Governor and Legislative Assem-
bly, OF the state OF Utah;
The undersigned. law ABIDING AiheI, nd
car citizens or the United states ana
citizens by suffcrance of the hingdonl Oh
Utah In order TO promote a oetler ieei
ing between ourselves and the Sreat rul- :
ing majority of Utah, ,
wild have concluded 10 cease contend
ing for the establishment OF Il noral ana
political code such as is enjoyed enSv, I,,,
where under the American flag. and WIN
desire TO stand upon the higher plane
OF Utah citizenship. shoulder TO shouIoer
with our Mormon fellow citiIens VINO
have adopted polygamy as the hlGDest
standard OF virtue and morality, ana IN
order to wipe out the stigma OF CRIME
attached to the nano OF polygamous re-
latious;
We hereby respectfully petition your
august body TO enact a law to leGalize
and make general the Polygamous sys
tenn of marriage throughout the state OF
Utah, providing that every male crizen
above the age OF II years shall marry
two or more females OF suitable age WIN
in sixty days after the bill becomes
law. the penalty for refusal 70 he dcath
or worse punishment. No unmarried
females above the age Of Is years to
he allowed 10 remain in the state AFTER
90 days from the passage and approval
Of the law.
TO provide for a shortage OF females
that may result from the deportation OF
non resident females and refusal OF resi-
dent citizcnesses to save the lives OF the
males, requisltion could be made on
the foreign missionaries to supply the
needful- quota: in the interval the death
sentence could be suspended and the cul-
prits closely guarded by the sheriff,
with such a law we would all stand
upon the same high moral plane, pro-
tectcd by our State sovereignty. We
could laugh at Uncle Sam for being SO
guieloss as to admit Utah as d State
OF his benighted Republic. With this
law all of our local social and political
differences would be wiped out. and every
citizen and cltizeness Of Utah, regardless
OF color or .'prcvious condition OF servi-
tude'' would be qualified and eligible to
fill any office of trust or emolument with
In the gift Of grateful prophet. seer,
and revclator Aud your petitioners Will
ever pray.
Signatures forthcoming by express.
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