Show LEAVENING THE WHOLE LUMP The hdbbub about the address of President Presi-dent ELIOT recently delivered in this city belongs to the kind of agitation that does good It will help Utah because it will start anew inquiry about the true condition of affairs here arid serve to enlighten thousands of people whose minds have been beclouded by the sort of stuff continually printed in that Liberal orjan whose business it Is to keep off immigration by false representations representa-tions of the state of thinga as they exist Thus so intelligent able and influential a journal j as the Washington Post commenting comment-ing upon President ELIOTS statement that polygamy is no more an issue In Utah today to-day thin is the bloody shirt in national politics remarks There will always bo grave doubts in some minds even among those who hold polygamyin the utmost abhorrence as to the justifiability of the means which the government has hitherto employed to break the Mormon power and dismantle dis-mantle as it were the hierarchy which it had built up But this is a question of the past The work has been done Polygamy as a church institution is practically extinct The younger generation of Mormons who have grownup pending the controversy want non o of it they would not see it restored even if it were practicable As little as the south desires i the reestablishment of slavery as a labor syn tem so little do the Mormons desire the rehabilitation re-habilitation of plural marriage as a religious ordinance Utah therefore in its relation to the United States stands upon the same footing Sis any other territory and should be accorded like cognizance It is a prosperous and populous popu-lous cpmmonwealth against whoso admission to the Union whatever other objections may be raised the peculiar institution by which It was formerly characterized can no longer be urged with justice |