| Show A Study of MormonisnL The following sarcastic suggestions sugges-tions as to the proper remedy for the Mormon Evil recently appeared ap-peared in the New York Wprld It is commended to the thoughtful consideration of Eepubll n statesmen states-men and army contractors To the Editor of the World What is there < so difficult in the Mormon prublem The Republicans Repub-licans have long held power and have often promised to cure this soreon the body politic but thus far have failed ta do so Experience it would seem should point the way to its removal The Edmunds law is plainly a step in the right direction di-rection Let other stringent enActments enact-ments follow it Proclaim in party platforms and Congressional acts that neither plygamy or polygamous polyga-mous Mormons shall hereafter hereaf-ter exist in territories now free Make it hot for the men in Utah by unstinted denunciation Enlist the press and tho pulpit in the glorious work Keep things lively for a series of jeara trample under feot the constitutional principle princi-ple of religious toleration deny them local selfgovernment and if possible get them wrought up to an attitude of open and armed resistance resist-ance to actual and threatened unconstitutional un-constitutional laws This point reached the course will be clear and easy It will then only be necessary necessa-ry to put down the rebellion and reconstruct the Territorial government gov-ernment on the New England basis of serial bigamy If the Constitution Constitu-tion is in the way of such summary proceedings so much the worse for the Constitutions Constitution-s not the popular will the supreme law V Such subversion of the organic act will be amply justified by tbe humanitarian nature of the effort to proclaim liberty throughout allot all-ot Utah to all the women thereof Should it be claimed that plural wives are conscious of fervitude or degradation should it even be proved that in all moral and material aspects that Territory compares favorably with others as when the contentment and happiness happi-ness of the slaves of a former day were cited to discourage attacks on one relic so in this case with similar facts but serve to illustrate the besottin nature of the Jess sturdy twin which still remains It a second reformatory crusade shall be fully inaugurated with tbe Mormons able to make stubborn resistance re-sistance if during the progress of the war public and private demoralization demor-alization shall make further alarming alarm-ing increase as they are sure te do when a nation undertakes to shoot down sin if crafty men shall take advantage of the public interest in the fight to seize other millions of acres of the public domain for their own behoof and if corporate capital and monopoly greed shall find full success in their desperate effort to gain complete control of hfty millions mil-lions of people and all their interests inter-ests even at the cost of the utter subversion of the Government fof Washington willnot the said fifty millions find ample recompense for their own ignoble servitude in being be-ing able proudly to point the nations na-tions to the fact that no single African slave or polygamous Mormon Mor-mon can breathe the free American air W B P |
