Show I iI I j GKNT1LES STATEHOOD AND THIS I TRIBUNE I I i We desire that Statehood shall be I ° given Utah that their the First Presi f I i f dencys benign rule may thenceforth J i be unquestioned and that we may have I j I the further rule of robbery and cutting I the throats of all who dare to oppose any device or order of thoe chiefs The i j I foregoing extract is from the Salt t c Lake Tribune of yesterday and is a partial I I par-tial list of the objects winch that journal r jour-nal affects to believe the Mormons sack I to attain The sentiments are false i i the man who uttered theai knew them to I I f i be false and it is his misfortune that he I J j i I t has not enough common sense to comprehend I l com-prehend that every readpr is aware of 1 their falsity It was by a succession off J of-f I such baldheaded chestnuts that the a Jj paper referred to endeavored to meet 1 t i i our proposition that Statehood would be a boon alike to Mormon and Gentile il 3 j Gen-tile We said that Mormons had always been the oppressed and never the oppressors j i op-pressors and they retorted that Dr I 1 I I Robinson had been murdereJ that I Henry Lawrence had beau cat off the J i churcn that Mormon teachers are employed em-ployed in the district schools and that i I the Salt Lake police are terrors to a I Jawabiding community and are not i I handsome We said that Mormon rule I had been eminen ly honest aud judicious I judi-cious and are met with the Coil and deliberate Munhausenism I that We stand prepared to es I I tablish that in no Territory of the I United States has there been so much J i direct stealing by publio officers so j I many cases Of maueasance atm misfeasance i mis-feasance in office as in Utah we are told that offices arc given as rewards for outrages committed at the bidding Ii 1 of a chief that men get on the police 9 j l t force because of their known willingness f willing-ness to commit any crime demanded of f t j i them that Gentiles are taxed disproportionately f i 1 dispro-portionately and have to employ night 1 J j watchmen that in fact a despotism I has been established in the midst of the j republic which respected neither the I countrys laws nor the private rights of I a men menWe t We wonder why it is that the Tribune writes such stun It is impossible that i 1 any inhabitant of Jtah arrived at years I of discretion does not know the above i rot to be the double distijd extract 1 gip J of foolishness and falsehood It is I t I 3 barely possible that there are those in distant communities who are so dot od J I r I f of information and so far from any understanding a t j I I un-derstanding of human nature that f < t II they can believe it in part When as t at the present moment the situation t I I demands argument not assertion facts fs k not fiction is it not possible for the 1 r 1 i Tribune to come to the scratch in a serious I I j 1 3 seri-ous attempt to logical Must it forever i ftJ I i n for-ever ride its hobby horse tr We assert and our position is unassailable unas-sailable that there has never been a 1 I statute upon the Utah statute books r which discriminated between Mormon d 1 ft i t and Gentile that the latter has enjoyed I l C every privilege under the law possessed I 1 f fjf by the former that there is no reason i l 1 I F i to apprehend that the Mormons would r it i t 1 t make an effort to deny any I right or privilege to their religious opponents f 1 + op-ponents in case of the admission oft tJ J of-t I Utah We asseverate that choosing i the chaos of Territorial oppression as fJi II i experienced in Utah and the settle I i I 1 1 i condition of Statehood no businessman J business-man should for a moment hesitate r I i i t + f I There is no people on the earth with I 1 i t a finer commercial credit than the Mormons I t t r r Mor-mons and it is not unreasonable to Ij J I r conclude that a S tata under Mormonrule I1 i i L would enjoy a similar reputation bince N j I i 5 f I the organ of revolution the journal mat nas again given me easiness interests j a t t I inter-ests of Utah a black eye in reasserting if I I 4 that the garrison at Fort Douglas is 1 t necessary to restrain the Mormons ml f t 1 i cannot be sensible long enough to state j i seriously its objections to Statehood we 1 i I shall essay to do so for it It is not I that it is believed that any man will j 1 oe I suffer deprivation of his rights but f i A i that it is thought that the fight agains l x polygamy will be largely abandoned JI t i I and that the miners may suffer through a i f I taxation We believe that these items would cover the objections of every j sensible man who has any objections a I The Tribune professes to believe that the I Mormons will make a pretense of aban j ti I donins polygamy in order to secure ii t Statehood But that is where the sheet is false and sophistical r j We b < Htv > it to be generally understood 44 f under-stood that the Mormons have had t i pretty strong inducements to give upi up-i their plural ufarriage system and we J a believe 11 to he conceded that thy have 1 j not seen fit to do to r hi J I I I If the Mormons adopt a Constitution 11 I I It 1 J I I I prohibiting polygamy and we are unable un-able to see how they can avoid it if they look for success in this State movement or see fit to disfranchise polygamists or engraft any such provision upon the Constitution it will not be an entirely agreeable step it will DC in recognition of a determined opposition which seems to be widespread and which has phrased itself in restrictive laws The situation is thiswith a populous and wealthy Territory a lawabiJing and thrifty population a small proportion propor-tion of polygamists is it not possible for Mormons realizing the energy of the opposition to frame a charter that shall be sufficiently antipolygamous to suit the mind of Congress It will not be a spontaneous desire but a somewhat disagreeable alternative The effort is worth the trying and should and may succeed It is to get an instrument that will be more likely to be satisfact n n L L n ory here and in Congress that all classes of the people are desired to join COllie all and disagreeable as you fancy your suggestions may be to the Mormon peo pie make them known and they may find an echo in the Constitution The fact is that the situation has become so i disagreeable to all Mormon that the polygamous part are wi 1 ng to accept an antipolygamous charter and the monogamous part willing to urge it in order that certain other important rights that bid fair to perish may be preserved BAs to taxing mines it is hard tc criti cise the Legislature the State of Utah as yet It is true it was once proposed here but what of thatif it were unwise un-wise other surrounding commonwealths have also been unwise It was but a short time since that the Governor of Coloado recommended such a measure to the Legislature of that State Let Jew and Gentile join with the Mormon in the effort to secure a settled and therefore prosperous state ofI I affairs I |