Show I 1 I 1 THE TON A shadow is ia c evidently T 1 n passing over the lie face of mrm 0 ns nisin m but whether it is ii or of moment or bodes a corn com ink in crisis acrisia doer doe not clearly appear brig hani young youn now nearly seventy two years of ofte jage las resigned the leading office oatlie of the of the mormon church and has hai retired irom from the bank the zions ziona operative cooperative co mercantile institution ution and it is ia said all the other positions lie has beer holding hol Jing and he is about to turn tarn iiii his steps southward toward arizona accompanied or followed ly IT thou auda or of tile lie faithful many loo look kupon upon tl L is as a withdrawal from tho the leader leadership of the mormon community which young has haa held I 1 far or twenty six sil years with huoh power unscrupulousness 4 husne m and as the world goes goei brilliant success lio inning with a baud band anca he has hag constructed a thrifty commonwealth baad ba ed on principles core noral and to bondom and bo has himself bacomo worth many millions of dollars an and d wielded an influence which can rarely be enjoyed in ill this world oven even when the honors of church and suto are united but he be probably feels ia 13 on his track although by outward sign moon domi isas 19 as prosperous crons Us as over ever yet the whole organization of afim im is is being honeycombed boney combed by tho the 1 1 sl bible influences of the ego and I 1 mut faco face the tire of either cither fleeing for their mormon or theological Oal lives or staying in utah at their peril it is ia difficult to ray whether brigham liri ghan young sees fees the crisis in 10 its ita true character when a mall mans 16 lifetime has been devoted to a delusion though it may have been through mere selfish designs at first his own mind is apt to bacomo soared snared in the not he be his been spreading fur for others the pitch be has haj been handling hand nf defiles 19 marit and ana le loses tile tho accuracy and and strength iron ath of his natural perceptions 81 still 11 young mil it bo be aware that the situation of hu his people in utah n is not what it once was sod and that it is daily growing worse instead of better it 11 is 1 to be observed however howel cr that the men chesen to bun in the offices he lias has resigned are arc not strong men or ever even second class mormon leaders but mere figure beads fo co it is probable that cro bro brigham will yet jet remain the power behind the throne and will enjoy on the substance of leadership without the official drudgery with which it has been attended hitherto As ho is in firm health in spile of his frequent san liap he may bo be good for eight or ten years of judicious judici service yet As tar another general mormon begirt fur ur which IS h 1 Y oung is is now said to be pioneering bingin in the direction of arizona it would seem that there could be no further thought of that nuda amida of the limits of tile the union no place of refu refuge ge yet remains which is not more likely to bo be speedily overtaken by the advancing wave of civilization thao utah was a raw acara year sago aco the cormons mormons roust either cither go to the ile i or of the sea or cac test the strength of their system in permanent contact with the gentiles Ue Uen otiles tiles if they boy are arc son making ug up apt their lei r minds to the latter this cu c course u I 1 taken kan by Bri brighina ghana couo 4 may y possibly P ul y b be t the lie first result of th their air deliberations boston journal |