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Show THE PLAC OF UTAH. The smalt crorrd who demand special congressional legislation and a large military forco in Utah, present no evidence to show any unusual or exceptional state of lawlosaBCss or diiorvler huro, requiring the intervention interven-tion of outside law or tho Hi 3 of a federal force. There hare bcn for years a considerable number of troops located ia tnid t-vTi3ry, Lxit their dutiet havo never boon arduous so far a? tho preservation of the p'ja.'o ,iud ihe executiou ol the laws are coa cirnt'd. Tho critniu.l calendar of Utah will compare very favorably with that of any western territory. In Colorado, which has had about tho same number of inhabitants ad Utah, there have occurred a much larger number of murders, homicide, cases of lynching, and other violent acta agaiuit lifo and liberty than havo beeu perpetrated hero within with-in the last three- or four years. Even !itt!o Nevada couatant'y exceeds Utah in this respect, arid we doubt not that this rule will UciU good in the other surrounding teriiteries. Ol course, r.o accurate criminal statistics sta-tistics are attainable, but any out? wh has followed up the newipap.r rcconli of crime on the L'aciti eo.isl during the past few years will bear us nut in t'ne assertion that Utah territory presents pre-sents an exceptionally small proportion to the aggregate list of capital und Other heinous crimes against the eommuuily. San Franc;;co is a great metropolitan centra of civilization, but her press daily teems with a fear-fa! fear-fa! record of violence, an J some otiicr seaports of the stato exceed even the Criminal ratio of the great city on tho Pacific. But let us turn to ti.e east, Pennsylvania witnin a few niemths will have tohaug thirte.n murdtrcrs eleven of which arc rcgu.ied as of a semi- political nature. In Indiana ti-htJ culj-rits hve been within a fcw yt-ais taken out of tho jail.j and hu;ig by' mobs without trials. la Missrjuii, ' railroa;! train are frequently wrecked liy vldaius for iHirpni).: of robbery. In Misuaippi recently oj-.-.irred the awful Chisholm miajacr, in South Carolina tho election rioU, and numerous nu-merous other dcnne.i of violsnco autl bloodshed havo Iwn fi-oqu-nt in' other Ktatus. . Xot lung since there were aUty pardon i lUngerousIy poisoned in fjiie.iton, Illinois. Wo n.ight lii! .-iMiinn.si with similar oc-cun-Oiic.!;;, Unl trie ;4hJVe will suilice, and He chllengo denial of the statement that Utah' criminal rocord alundd to day cleaner in proportion to her population than that of any Pacific state or territory, und that she need not fear a comparison with many eastern and southern ata'.os. Even the ring gentlemen who pre en ted their complaints to General Crook a day or two ago admitted that Utah is now a suono of peace and quiotiiej; that its residents resi-dents aro sober, honest and orderly people, and that no present dar.gr existaof turbulence or on tbreaka. They naruoreu no fears for their auiely unlets un-lets Borne imaginary icident should happen, such as tlio indictment of uonao prominent person. Wo havt baforo stated that iudictmouts ' of prominent "Mormons" are not novelties nov-elties in th ia community. We remember re-member when Judge MeKcan illegally packed a jury which indicted a large uumbor of church officials and others. Still tbero was no disturbance of the peace and thoro hag never been any resistance to tho processes of the courts in this territory. The men, theroforo, who brought forward thU pica to influenco tho action of General Crook had no facta to dU3tain thair argument?, and mint havo been gov-erntd gov-erntd either by thoir ours or by a desiro to infi.tmo the pasaiona and jitviiun liin t-.-!!! It! 1 (lin..n,.l classes of tho community or both. Theio are the men who continually demand legislation to disfranchise- the mujariiy of the pcoplo of Utah legislation legis-lation so grossly unjust that it ia not to bo wondered that they fear and dread tho popular vengeance. The unconstitutional and illegal demands of tho MeKcan -Tribune ring are so apparent ta its members, and their malice ao transparent that we do not wonder that their fears find voice, and that they seek to hide themselves behind tho federal bayonets. The trouble is with theso malcontents malcon-tents that Utah is too pro'oundiy peaceful and law abiding. Hence, for lack of modern outrages they aro obliged to go back into the dim past to endeavor to bring to bear upon today to-day crimes which accurrcd nearly n generation ngo, It id right to punish these- crimes, but it id wicked lo lay of such atrocities. It is outrngeoue, in the face of this universal peace, to hold up a whole community as assassins assas-sins at heart. Notwithstanding all this, peaee still reigns in Utah. |
