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Show TROUBLE. ! Thorc are conflicting vi-jwd relative 1 to the pret-cnt condition of attaint in i Utah. People hero ami people at a I (iistanco differ in tli-ir opinions as to lliucau.sti oi thts trouble. Homo main- Uiii very earnestly that it is an e'Jort ; to carry out the Chicago platform ot tho Republican party. Others, who uiuli -frit:! nd the oy:cln of certain par-tic. par-tic. In.Ti;. h!d that it U moro than thU an.l mt-aoH a rcliiuus cruaade j 1'ur political purpo.sos. To openly at- ; Uck a religion is ho flagrantly uncon- : fttitutional, so anti republican and so contraiy to the genius oi AuicrU:an I iiHlilUtioiia, that lew would have tliC 1 hddne.s to attempt it; and therefore I the attack is first made covertly and I uud;r a false guise, lest the American people should understand the truth, ai.d repudiate it so emphatically that all concerned in tho attempt would be compelled to stop hhort. When Dr. Newman attacked polygamy poly-gamy on Biblical grounds, with ono of tho present Utah judges as one of his chairmen, they, with the church organization organ-ization which tiiey represented and of which iho President of tho United .States is a member and an office holder, hol-der, recognized tho religious element of tho discuHsion. Unable to cope with his opponent in argument, and departing from Utah beaten on bis own grounds, the next movo was to attack by a show of law, or by any and every means power could command, the faith ol'a community which they could not overthrow by argument. That is point tho first. Tho fcoeond rests upon it. The publio mind has been excited against llio mormons ana against polygamy, by most outrageous misrepresentations; and now it is bolievod if a successful movo can be made against tho religious faith of tho Mormons, by an attack on polygamists, it will add votes to tho party bo successful. United States officials in Utah to day, who are among tho most activo in the present crusade, do not hewiute to say that they care nothing about polygamy; it is something some-thing of an entirely different character they aim to roach. Will thinking men reflect? |