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Show Cannon und other big guns advise tho church at the conference, which opens to-morrow, to promulgate decree abandoning polygamy us one of its cardinal car-dinal doctrines and declaring its loyalty loy-alty to "the Star Spangled Hanuer and its intention of not meddling in politics, if the Mormons shall iff! this, and we shall nol now be surprised if they do, their chureluind their religion will have no serious objectionable features. That this programme is likely to be carried out we have reasonable grounds of belief. "A great many Mormons Mor-mons seeing what Hie inllux of progressive progres-sive (ientiles has already done for Salt Lake and Utah, are now anxious to join, hands with the new element and assist in the development of this cily and territory. ter-ritory. They, however, fear lbe malediction male-diction of the more bigoted leaders of tlio church, and hence are hesitating. The "liberal" men among the Mormons are desirous that Utah shall become a stale, and hope the -day is not far distant dis-tant when nil discordant elements will be united with that one object in view. Statehood and till its benefits will surely come when the federal government is conviuced that the Mormon church is a 'non-polygamous and a loyal and non-political non-political institution. The Mormon church will be obliged eventually to ail in accord with popular sentiment regarding these matters; otherwise it is bound to be crushed out of existence. The shrewd leaders of (he church are beginning to realize this. They are conviuced that they must oliey tho laws, or emigrate to Jerusalem, Jeru-salem, as was recently hinted at in a Tuberimrle nieetilirr. AN INDICATION OK' MOKlfON KKFOKM. . The News of last evening published an interesting article from the (luelph (Ontario) Herald concerning Mormons in Canada. Lieutenant-Governor Royal recently visited the Mormon settlement at Lee's Creole, Alberta, where he found a village of ubout forty houses and three hundred inhabitants. The lieutenant-governor, iu his address to these i people, said that they were welcome, but that they must come to a determination determi-nation to obey all tho laws. Howasiu-! Howasiu-! formed that each man had but oue fam-. fam-. ily, and that they were not polygamists. These Mormons arc evidently good Mormons, and they have set an example, exam-ple, worthy of imitation by obstinate polygamists in Utah. They aro also evidently evi-dently loyal to tlio Canadian government, govern-ment, under which they havoi sought a new home and protection. Now let those of the Utah Mormons, who are inclined to disloyally, follow the example exam-ple of their Canadian brethren iu this respect also. We are glad to sen the Deseret News, which is the organ of the Mormon church, hold up to tho view of the Utah brethren the praiseworthy praise-worthy conduct of tlio Mormons of Canada. We consider it rather significant, sig-nificant, in view of the fact that the News has done this just previous to the annual conference of the Mormon church of Utah. We arc glad to see that the News is tit last gently wheeling wheel-ing into line with , the ideas of the American people. This gentle weakening on the part of the part of t he News is an Indication that tho Mormon church intends to come down from ils roost and become a civilized religious re-ligious organization. We shall uot be urpribed to hear Mr. George Q. |
