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Show THE MOIOIOai QCEBTIOX. Now that the Sapreme Court of cbe United States kas decided that Justice McKean is not infallible in his judgment judg-ment or applicability of law, and that the adminiitraiioQ under the paternal, dictation of Rer. Newman was all wrong in its Htah policy, the time has come to treat the Mormon question on the basis of pood common sense. Be fore proceeding far the Government ought to be able to understand that we want these Mormons just where they are, for practical purposes. 1 hey came to the country more than a quarter quar-ter of a century ago, and have made the desert blossom. It was their habits hab-its of frugality that enabled tlieoi to subsist in such a country, and but for their peculiar faith which they strove to preserve by isolation from other and 1 antagonistic religions, the half-way house of the continent would not have been built. The Mormons were a great help to emicrants to this coast iu the early days. We have to thank the Mormons for affording a resting-place to the pioneers of our State on their way across the plains. Trained in the school of frugality and tern pern nee these Mormons are essential to muke the country they inhabit" ilouri-h. Vt e know of no other people who would be content to take the limited acres of a Mormon family and by patient pa-tient industry mako i lie ai productive. As the fertility of oilier sections is known to the residents of Salt LAc valley; as they know of the iiuihlc-s wheat fields of Caliiorui i, where the food supply is mado so almndanr by comparatively little labor, and fortunes, are piled up in a single year by the crop from thou-nnds of acr;, to what cauc cm wc attribute the contentment and patient industry of the Mormon ; who clings to his few acres that require irrigation to produce enough to keep his family from the beginning of a year to its end, but that he has subdued them from nature and it is his home, endeared to him by associations richer tfl him thai) thfi nlnrw nf ira-. li V, L. where, ard to a faith that makes hirr. religiously gregarious? Root out the Mormons and there is no people sc trained an to be able to take their place. Practically they are wanted just where they are. Tho mountains about them are filled with mineral wealth; the country is soon to he filled with peo pie differing with theiu and with each other in religious notions; one will tone down the other and in & short time only the most progressive and rational ideas will have prominence. Tho Mormons are needed to maka the soil yield abundantly for the benefit ol themselves and the mining population, popula-tion, soon to be numerous. This influx of population assures us that Mormon-ism Mormon-ism will have no ascendency io the new order of things. Already the effects of Gentile invasion are felt in Mormon society. so-ciety. The fashion plato has done wonders in the abatement of polygamy. With the introduction of the fashions the extensions of plural marriages ceased, because the expense of fittiog out one wife is as much as the head of a family in such a country can stand. When isolated from the world and compelled to nurse but ono round of ideas, with no outlet for their productions, produc-tions, the Mormons could by force of circumstances compol oonformity to their peculiar policy. But intercourse with tho world is changing all this, and changing it rapidly. There is no error so great but it may be gradually overcomo by contact with liberalized ideas. The Mormons are passing tin transition period. Of course there is a struggle, as there always is when deep-seated convictions arc felt to be iu danger, but all that is ; needed is to leave the change to time and the spirit of our free institutions. Th ere is no use of a forced proctss to get rid of practices not consistent with our notions. When the war of rebellion rebel-lion was over wo were positive that the misguided people of the South had been guilty of a great crime, but wo did not proceed to punish them for it. They plunged the country into a terrible ter-rible war at,d clothed the nation in mourning. They heaped up a mountain moun-tain of debt. The government did not proceed to execute vengeance upon the conquered rebcid, cither by taking their property in general to pay the expenses of a war as causeless as that declared by Napoleon upon Pru.-ia, and for which France is now being drained of its wealth. Nov was there any resort io tho crnnital courts or to the gallows. gal-lows. Tho crinto w.-.s a crime of a people, on whom a punishment shon'a not be visited, o it is with the Mormons. Their errors, their short comings, their crimen arc of an entire people. Like the propie of the South, they have been led, nnd led as m:ch hy (he forco of circumstances as direct inihieuce, to do what, in our judgments, is not to be justified, rftid Ihey arc entitled as a people to amnesty. Polygamy is in tho process of extinction. To judicially judi-cially decide upon it according to our ideas of the marriage relation, a great many children will be legally disinherited, disin-herited, ar.d mothers and their progeny pro-geny left without support. If we prohibit pro-hibit plural marriages and concubinage hereafter, and tolerato what cannot be helped, it is all that ought to be done. Sound policy requires no more. It is no time to punish for revenge The prohibition of plural marriages is only a matter of form, for, as we said, the fashion plate has done tho work practically, prac-tically, and the force of liberalized ideas will help to render a return impossible. im-possible. If tho Government can be mado to appreciate tho condition of affairs in Utah it will let well enough alone and dispense with all 6uch intermeddle inter-meddle rs as Mclvean and his coadiu-tors. coadiu-tors. Policy, not punishment, is the demand, and statesmen, not bigots, are required to see and carry it out. Sacra m ento Union, l |