Show SUICIDAL AGITATION jf I If the Mien who are doing so much to fl force Utah > under a legislative commission I commis-sion with the view to the bringing oC r trouble upon the Mormons were to re I r reflect a moment and reason among 1 J I themselves they would call a halt that I is to say they would call aihalt is they 11 I were residents in Utah and interested 1 in the progress and development of the G Territory A legislative cuijwui q ion i j would mean terror for someand trouble t 1 for all a complete revolutiotim the government gov-ernment of the Territory and a long step backward The pi icing < af Utuh j intothe hands of a dozen or twenty men to makeand eXe < tbeflaws and 1 those men responsible only sto party II 1 fiiendsin the east would unwoidably I result in discontent disorder and im tit it rule tthe disturbance all affairs political J i polit-ical social and financial would necessarily Iii i neces-sarily begreat and largely disastrous r Who seal be the deepest sufferers 1 J i Certainly not the people against whom the legislation would be aimed Dir i II I doubtedLy the Mormons generally would be made to suffer and tome of them ii I might be severely hurt hut the class I upon whom the blow would fallheaviest I I would be the nlerchhznts banners mill I and mine owners gird business men Some of those who have been most I active in the legislative commission agitation whurdiav given ft substantial 1 aid and encouragement would be the heaviest sufferer frottuthe unvase overturning over-turning of the existing and progressive I order of things The masses of theM the-M rmol1s would be lea ± affected by the j proposad change the large majority A them in fact are very little affected by q I anything outside of their religion and I t their immediate material affairs The i i f r rains descend the sun shines and their grain fruit aud vegetables TOW and manure regardlebs Congressional 4 ional legislation the Edmunds law j Goes not decrease stiie weight of rtheir judges cannot check the fattening of hogs nor i 1 prevent hunslrom laying While peqple t I are swearing themselves into awful profanity and worrying their very lives j o it over the Mormon the latter are r T i quietly pursuing the even tenor of their i I way happy aiua contented in their = I I own health and in the steady I accumulation the wealth that nature gladly yields as a seward furj I I t I a their industry and toil The whoI j 1 1 fl t truth is the Mormons will be happy s 1 1 I 1 and prosperous despite the most unfriendly 4 f u j I un-friendly legiJaticyi while many of those I II j i who are aimingaLtheir oppression and J i overthrow need all the aids ate success thatthe most just a1 d wholesome laws l I can proviil I We have no ideat hat the legislative commission scheme will ever succeed d I but can tell those who are working for I it that they rather than the Mormons I Ii would he its victims were it to be in ° J 1 I ilictedupon the country 1 I |