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Show I1ATOH STEWART" RESOI.I'-TIOS. RESOI.I'-TIOS. The Reese River Reveille in a very fair article cm our communis cm Senator Sen-ator S'.ewart's liesolutiou introduced into the U. S. Senate, desirius in-foruiatiou in-foruiatiou as to the cost of guarding tlie overland route "against Indians and Mormons," says : But the Herald poes a little too l'ar when it says that, "had it not been for the Mormons there would not have been, to-da-, a Sc;ite of .Nevada i'oi him to be a Senator from." The Mormons Mor-mons had no agency whatever in ''making" the State of Nevada. The di-covcry of silver in Virginia City is what brought the people here who make the State of Nevada, and these ueoplo came fro'n California. The Reveille mistakes u. Wo are willing to accord all honor to the brave men who developed the mineral wealth not only of Nevada hut of other parts in the great west: yet our position was, and is, that, apart from the settlements made by the Mormons Mor-mons on the Carson, if they had not settled this interior country, made a half-way house for the emigrant emi-grant and formed a base of supplies, the opening up of Nevada, Montana and other mining regions in the west would have been retarded for years, and Nevada would to-day have been a Territory, if at all settled, instead o: occupying the position of a sovereign State. In fact the settlement of Utah reddered the overland route practicable, practica-ble, and without it settlers would havo had to work their way from the Pacific seaboard, as from the Atlantic, though with much greater rapidity impelled by the progressive spirit of the age. The Reveille closes its article with the following sensible remarks : We do not approve of Senator Stewart's Stew-art's resolution. The investigation it demands is in behalf of the Pacific Railroad company, whose attorney in the Senate Stewart is. He might have made his inquiry without wounding the feelings of any portion of the people. peo-ple. The United States Senate is not a proper place for the manifestation of hatred or prejudice towards the people of any section of the country. This Mormon problem, as it is cai'ied, had better be let alone. The peculiar fea ruro of Mormouisiu which so shocks the Pharisees outside of Salt Lake has been woven into the religion of that people, and whatever we may think of it, we cannot extirpate it by legislation. " Persecution is the seed of the church. " applies a; j well to the Mormon as to the early Christian church. Besides, morality at Salt Like, even as it is understood communities throughout the country ' Therefore, instead of throwing them-1 selves into spasms of virtuous indigna-' tton at the wickedness of the Mormons, our Pharisees had better take the' beam out of their own eyes, and borrow . from these Mormons their habits ol temperance, thrift and industry. ' |