Show t THE UTAH REBELLION = 4s J Fublio Feeling on t8 Mst 1 E Correspondence of tkefifcRAi3ijy l1 C CHICAGO Marcher i I have taken some painst ns Y ain by direct inquiry the ac3n i state of feeling in this com > ruzi3x sin s-in regard to the pending con i3 s sional action in reference to USah j In certain circles there is psreepi 1 4 ible evidence that the agitation oS the question has created adegrea c f sensation and the opinion is1 irasSjr f expressed in terms more emphatic i tF than polite that the dd Morrcfms ought to be squelched oat e ecta > ally this time Others sres of Hi < < HKi l I somewhat more pronounced inilrr iduality are doubtful of the soundness a t sound-ness of the proposed methods and a = Still others do not hesitate to denounce de-nounce the propositions erabodis 7 j 4 r in Edmunds bill and other ai aa ures of a similar purport Shsr trouble is with the latttr class thai = they are not public men and have no inclination or math root ro-ot declaring their views public 1 If they were placed upon the tent s or questioned by government ia r ir gars to their opinions they wonSS not hesitate to declare themseves i but they lock upon the matter as hey do upon practical politics as no concern of theirs The poptLlar r theory is that the government D i paid for attending to such business 1 out every man sticks to his OTJTD A A ailing The average good cities of the United States appears U have less influence on political ajsas y 1 tions than the similar individual England or France Then there 5s i 1 the press apparently a unit in finking fink-ing on the crusade Many of tae editors think they see n big popular I sentiment arrayed against tTtah and so echo whatever the preacfrers t b and demagogues have to say I others > ° fffSiJM f would like to get the republican republi-can party into a folly mil think that can be bfcafc accomplished by forcing them imo indiscreet action in regard to Utah IE There is absolutely nobody who 4 cares to defend the practice of a t polygamy hence all public defence Lf the Mormons is stopped for this feeling I think this popu raid would find stalwart opponessis among men who do not care to ex j ate a precedent so fatal religious and political hbertj as are mostioS the measures proposed in Congress 1 though the government lisa L i st retc ned the Constitution of thir j stti Juited States thl it has becom sx t very attenuated parchment dusSsig the lifetime or the republican pit p-it can hardly afford to strike outfit the direction now proposed pol yg = Li llfllilirfl amy bad in principle and in resciis a wi as 1 uelieve it to be could not SI outrage every principle of our r R = ublic or nationor government govern-ment we have as would the passage and enforcement of such a bill as Edmunds has offered in my hEm tile opinion The bad results of tlae system can hardly interf ere with < nor i reflect upon the state = or the peo B who declined to enter into such ab m rinai relations but the attempt I b Congress to d tine what religion beiicii shall pas current or Tflsafe 1 class of Christians shall be allows political privileges would strika as vital blow at tLe remnants of ons fiee institutions Where is the maw who has the courage and the tixs 1 t < position to attack this species eS fanaticism and strangle it as s oil y gallant Henry A Wise once graiapJesL y t with Know Nothin ism and scattered t scat-tered the priests and bigot woo sustained r sus-tained that dangerous innovation upon liberalgovernment 2 Evidently 1 r q the little group of Utah rebelsT J need attention and wise action M f ter all when we think how Ii1 there is in this Utah raid and OO1fl t fierce are its instigators we ar inclined in-clined to belie e that it will not succeed if timely and judicious ai > t i Th tion is taken In the people of Utah 1 EKE r k |