Show OR STATIC mr joseph Ille mcdill dille editor of the chicago Chi caffO in ogden a few days ago on oil his way to lo the coast and awl was vias by a press ie leporter porter being asked he be would do mith utah his offhand reply was attach it to benada KM add this was buying devoted special thought to tho the subject and tho the suggestion is simply biff antas ant as sho that thi ibis distin KU i is if ed journalist is convinced the only way I 1 Cina ining to deal successfully with the mormon Mornion question il ii to utah as a geographical entity tint but featt ach this territory without pai jai to N ovada would completely swamp that sparsely settled state liy by a population of mor mons more mor ethan than avice outnumbering in g her onn inhabitants abitanta inh 1 ibis I his would yire wire tho the coil liol of state affairs to class clasi of people v chose hoac dangerous theocratic rulo rule it ii is ia do signed to suppress said and invest them ith I 1 sc attributes chich would bo be menacing cinc to tile tho PC peace fcc ucc of the country in III such it a ca case me tail would wag mag the dog one coi respondent correspondent yesterday in his article ic commending the partition oil of utah mya lie lias has only lately become coni con incel of the llie wis wisdom dotu and necessity of such it a proc proceeding ceding n oin con the way things ha ba 0 turned he says it is tho the only recourse left and front almost evoy point of V view bew so far as I 1 can call see it would bo be advantageous abit anay la be re ie yarded lra crded as a 1 I con fes siow oil the pat pal t of the ao gentiles that in their struggle with lilt the he children of 0 the covenant coven ant for fw or the vindication of their rights as american citizens alicy arc hopelessly beaten when the discovery of tre treasury asuro was made in our mountains some eight or ten eara ears ago affo and people flocked in from all to lif dig for the coveted wealth it was supposed that tile leaven of would work upon the minds of the saints and haie bane the fleet of ind educing among them a love of republican institutions or this failing it was supposed that the exercise of the ballot would secure a representation of the liberal element in tile alio legislature and in municipal councils and in the conflict waged between two op poin moral forces there weta mere few so dastardly as to doubt that ill it the right would triumph it is true that power was in the hands bands of the mornion mormon priests and they used this pow pov er to oppress and drive out the unconverted element and influence the alie minds of their deluded followers against the wry very pon peo ale aho designed to befi bend them bat trust was reposed in the general 11 I 1 G government overn ment to fuai glaid 1 I the rights of its loyal citizens citizen and nd those who settled lie in utah limit built their homes hero here and invested their capital in its staple interest supposed that needed laws would bo be passed by con press grm to secure them a fair vote at the polls and invest the courts NN ith power to deal with fla flagrant graut offic offenders riders lu III this belief they tent sent agents to ton year after year to set forth to Con congress aress the tha need of legislation for utah and were active and enterprising at every election to secure a ciot talin 11 11 uio clio 1 IWAI I godein in ment e ut dat but all this hope an aal 1 energy proved fruitless congre ss after congress tui tied nod a deaf ear to gentile appeals and the machinery of elections being entirely in the hands bands odthe of tho aloi mens alio a ging truth finally forced the minds of tile must most hopeful that any endeavor to secure a fair expression of tile popular will fit at the polls was like a struggle gio glo a against ainest inexorable rate fiti ihus tho the condition of the liberals became hopeless numbers were against them and these mases being welded together by the iron discipline of CI lurch church rule could be used as an organized sed almy ai my to resist innovation tho the passage pass age of the poland bill in n 1374 1974 although shot thoin IT of its vital points through brough t the treachery t rea chery of senator sargent afforded tome some ground for hope as it deprived tile moi I 1 bolmon mon probate courts coulta of criminal jurisdiction ina and prescribed a mole mode for ere cm paneling juries judge I 1 mckean was BBS our chief justice then bell t broad in his sympathies extended in his views and earnest in ill hie till purpose to earn administer inister the laws feeling his aims a unbound by CIA chii act lt t of fco congress 9 ho summoned a ga grand I 1 jury who bo found indictments ag ainest ain st church murderers illegal voters end other offenders who abo had bad been taught to believe that crimes committed against the unregenerate are obedience to thou ill of god there was no deabie to visa 1 severe reprisals upon this deluded and fanatic CORT community unity tho the deceased and venerated jurl t acted upon the belief that judgment visited upon a doen d 0 zen wrong doers who held their heads highest in the church would malic lake manifest to their followers that the alie almighty gives no warrant for crime and would open their eyes to the fact that these blasphemy ing ine lush high priests had bad purposely led them astray and happy effects from his faithful of duty beginning to show themselves the power of the government being vindicated d dica bitted ted tho the bet for thinking of the saints saw a refuge at hand front from oppression first sought legal counsel M till ith a view to me bue for devoice di voice an and d tile be leaders logan began doling round for tho the rocks to cover then it is ho kentral bellef belief that it if judge mckean had bad been I 1 detained in liis ilia post position I 1 ion another year lie would have despoiled the everlasting priesthood prie strood of their usurped power and solved v M without ishou t outside aid tile the PC 11 utah problem n 11 on false falbo and 13 tiler charges president grant I 1 o e moved his hi incon huboi binate and in a tile 1101 MOMI too took instant beta lecuit t at this fatal error and since then lie ile administration ministration iid of utah affairs has ha botn baries of blunders a dreary succession of if labe surrenders what wrong bad the humiliated dono that be should uld bo be strick en down in 0 wrath N I 1 0 fault was cilar gd against him bin and the only lesson that could bo be assigned vlas ilia his too faithful pot pel fornia forni ance of duty the man v abo ho holds ohice office is is expected to act agreeably to the kiiha of hn big superior bior if the faithful faithfull execution of tile the laws in utah was EO 60 gross a wrong ai to call for summary die missal it behooved those officials who v ito N abe 1 to ecale censure to be rely discreet and pursue alio rabian fabian policy of ma masterly inas lily im inactivity activity and since since that disastrous day ills has hah been tho the practice pr alice tho the conduit conductor of utah affail has bran been a revival odthe of king LOST log loyal have been the parties treated ns as delinquent in raising a stir inciting stafe and manifesting a do she diio to seize upon tho the homes battles antl and property propel ty of unoffending saints leme leao the 1 alone the tacy y havo have been told and this Ifo difficulty will I 1 light itself the cormons mormons Mo rinous do not luit those ilio stay away front from them and those who do not like the condition of things hero here nie meat at lib city to RO go anar an ay Gov governor einor and judges beide to make their influence felt have been found guilty of collusion with their the mor or as these facts have been it impre pro dented to tho the Admi administration nitration and of built anih dishonest officials asked but in president eyes and in the v bew of see secretary acl biz noo Oense these men m ere sent out to adamin admin biter the affairs of the teri ten atory not to ally themselves with the alio interests of a few noisy and if they chose to strike hands bands with the cormons mormons find and wink at their wrong rong A doing so inurn the he letter better it sai ed clamor being carried to washington ly by this balne anil and policy the he situation lias has been irrecoverably lost the law debine mormon III bests I 1 c A the clio hand band of cf the lord in it slid and at aie e med in their insolent disregard disic gard of human authority their oli essed timed fol follot loveis tei 5 who submit submit uncomplainingly to every act of injustice and have watched the contest between man s laws and god s laws as orson pratt puts lt it with illa subdued interest now they see tile the servants of the lord have come out ahead settle down to their doimer foi mer condition of helplessness and are toady to lear bear witness to joseph smith being a prophet of god tile the gentiles aie naturally out of patience find and offended at this saturnalia of ini siule slid and having all hopeson hones of being protected in their or of being afford afforded od equal chances to labor and progress with those that await theta them elsewhere have the choice remaining to batalo betake themselves away horn zion or on and agitate for partition the do nothing policy of the government lias hast in ought things to this pass in utah that must bo be decreed to to tender lender existence tolerable here or the life dream of our inspired priesthood must be realized by crowning zion with ith statehood then the hated outsider ider will find it expedient not to stand upon the order of it his going but to go at once |