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Show THE PROGRESS 07 EVENTS IN UTAH. ' It was not Judge McKean who was to bo instrumental in the slightest degree in clearing away the ditlicul-ties ditlicul-ties in tho way of enforcing the law against polygamy, or of forwarding the settlement of the question. His niiaion was to talk and to throw obstacles ob-stacles in the way of any solution of the queotioi;. He reigned judicially: in tiiis district fur about five years and he did not bring a Bingle case under the law of ISO 2 to trial, and nearly all of hii judicial successes were barren failure. Not thirty days nave elapsed since his removal, and iu that time, under the auspices of a dignified and clear-headed and impartial im-partial judge, greater progress has been made in the settlement of the vexed question than during the whule period since the passage of the law. Insleid of sermonising and scolding Jude Ivncrson went quietly quiet-ly to work. While upholding the law of congress, he settled clearly its limitations, and instead of complaining complain-ing of hi.-, jurur.s, he laid a case of polygamy before a body of men largely composed of MormoiiB, who returned an immediate verdicl of guilty. The cajO was proven, and a honest men they returned a verdict ver-dict accordingly. It had boon the perpetual couip'aiut of certain inter ested grumblers that such a convic tion would be impossible without p completely packed anti-Mormon jury proceed on that supposition; but tried the case as he would have done any i other, and the result has shown whatj the Herald hiui always said, that the! peculiar difficulties in the situation i in Utah have been created either by parties interested in keeping up and exaggerating them, or by a lack of judgment on the part of some of the officials entrusted with the administration adminis-tration of the laws. By virtue of these mistakes an erroneous opinion has prevailed in many parts of the country in legard to the attitude of the people of Utah, which has been largely increased for political effect. To abuse the Mormons has been fashionable; to defend or speak well Jof them unpopular; and we know that in moments of -popular prejudice ami party zea), fust ice and fair play are seldom thought of. But patient industry and the rapid progress of Utah in all the best elements ele-ments of civilization have done their work, and the people here have actually ac-tually outgrown their few persecutors, whose heads have fallen one by one under the official guillotine. The places that once knew them will krow thein no more forever; and the re'gn of justice, decency and common sL-use is beginning to take the place of prejudice, hatred and judicial partisanship parti-sanship and tyranny. Utah will no longer be regarded as a disloyal and disreputable community, and we shall begin to reap the profitable results of this change. |
