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Show Till IRREPRESSIBLE "OIORJIOS PUOliLE.11." - f The New i'ork Herald was once looked upon as a mentor in the land : but it is failing. Its old dietatorial style remains, b'jt it now often assumes without knowledge and speaks without reflection. Its issue of the .'list ult. has an article on the exhanstless "Mormon "Mor-mon problem," in which an unusual degree of ineorroet assumption appears. It deals with the subject not like a journal that had kept a "special" in this city for months, but iu a style that one might look for from a London paper pa-per which hears occasionally of Utah, and is not very sure whether Great . Salt Lake is not an inlet of tho Pacific Ocean. . It talks of the social condition condi-tion of this Terriiory iu a string of generalities that might have beeu culled from the text-bouk of a school-boy, and indulges iu platitudes as stale as they are pointless. But when it gets to discussing actual occurences, the ignorance manifested is utterly inexcusable. inexcu-sable. It talks of Governor Shaffer having ordered that the arms in possession pos-session of the militia should be handed over to the "Adjutant General," witji out seeming to be aware that his Excellency Ex-cellency had forgotten to appoint such an officer, and only created an Assistant Assist-ant lor his own personal convenience ; and that only United States and Territorial Ter-ritorial arms were demanded, of which the supply in Utah is enormously deti-cieut. deti-cieut. Following this statement it says : The latest dispatch from Utah states that on Friday iast forty United States soldiers made a raid on certain houses in Provo, fifty miles south of Salt Lake City, and that physical force was used by them. No reason is assigned for this interference of the troops, but it is probable that the Mormons refused compliance with the Governor's orders to deliver up their arms, and that the soldiers were called upon to execute the order. To comment upon the absurdity of this is needless. The Jkmhi h;i.-been h;i.-been in the habit of having such horrible pictures of Utah presented to it, that its mental vision has become distorted. It imagines there must be a rebellious feeling strongly and practically prac-tically manifested in Utah, because it has published so many stories of the kind, furnished by ''reliable correspondents!" correspon-dents!" An! on this assumption it gets off a diatribe which is a crude jnixture of misstatements and vague theorizing, strung together like the effort of a fledgling poetaster aiming to air his downy pinions. The Ilc-ald sagely informs the world that "the Church records have already been removed to a secret hiding place several hundred miles touih of Salt Lake City," and seemingly rests satisfied that the werld will accept this as fact upon its assertion, without . questioning the secret eources by which it obtains its astonishing information. Not long since it had Napoleon dying, dead and charging at the head of the French army alternately, and the poor man wouldn't die to accommodate it. But it further intimates that the "faithful" here are about to make another an-other exodus away to "the mountains in the region of the Rio Virgen, near . the dividing line between Utah and Arizona, where some of the Saints have already gone." It wouldn't even wait for Major Powe'l to make a report . of that country, through a portion of which he has lately passed, to see whether the alleged projected exodus was feasible in that direction. The Herald does not intimate how the pickings are to be divided among the "ring" when the "faithful" shall have led their houses, orchards, farms und other property to the "honorable" individuals in-dividuals who are fo anxious to obtain them. "The march of civilization," it says, "will do much in time to solve the Mormon problem;" but it considers it "the duty of the government to assist as-sist and accelerate an march among the Mormons," which is very kind of the Herald, and would be very kind of the government, Keeing that such a march in this region is usually attended, attend-ed, in a more than ordinary degree, with the characteristics of civilization which keep the rriniinal court" of New York a little more than reasonably well occupied. The Herald further lioclaren, and this is the pith of its article, that "it is the duty of the overnment to sustain sus-tain its civil officer in their execution of the laws in L'uli;'' and if these laws are not sufficient Congress, it urges, Hhould pass manures that will be efl'ec-timl. efl'ec-timl. Of course by effectual is meant the breaking up of the religious community com-munity in these valleys, arid driving all who Would adhere to the "faithful" to some location the heaven of mnny sects would probably answer, as it is "beyond the bounds of time and space," and the New York Jliruhl doesn't circulate cir-culate there. But the llt.rn.ttl need not trouble- itself about the laws not being effectual, and (Congress may poslpone further legislation. It is easier to net in motion judicial machinery to ignore certain laws that are somewhat inconvenient, incon-venient, and interpret others to suit the circumstances. This with pliant officials and a vindictive and corrupt "ring" will probably be all that is necessary, nec-essary, althouz'i the Herald's surmued provocation for the Provo raid, ha not existed anywhere yet but in its editorial editor-ial cranium. As "the wish is lather to the thought," and as the desire i ot only of the HeraldbvA of parties nearer the Wasatch mountains, undoubtedly is to have trouble provoked, the rea-on of the assumption is not difficult tr-rive tr-rive at. We beg to inform our namesake name-sake of the Empire City, that the ha.J-est ha.J-est fighting yet done has been between the Salt Lake Herald and the "ring:" and the latter are now indulging in a small laugh, though their faces will likely "slip" after a little, and their mirth become rather lugubrious. |