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Show tary political aotion mast be founded on principles of loyalty to the republic and obedience to its laws; that crimination crimina-tion and re crimination in connection with past offences is useless and worse than useless, and that the policy of Grant at Appomattox toward a vanquished van-quished foe is a good enough policy for Utah. ' v LET US HAVE PEACE. There is philosophy in political action as well as in other departments of human hu-man life. Under a republican form of government where, in theory at least, the people govern, political parties to be of any use and fit to live, must be based upon ideas, ' must be endowed with principles and a policy which commend com-mend themselves and it to the circumstances' circum-stances' of the times and to the common sense of the people. For a time equal to that in which the children of Israel emerging from a degrading de-grading slavery wandered in the desert, the Mormon people have been learning from bitter experience the evil effects of a degrading slavery. At last through the reforming and transforming agencies agen-cies of time and education, of penal statutes, of tines and imprisonment, a solemn promise has been wrung from the priestly class, to hereafter obey the law of the land. The force of circumstances circum-stances Joined to the presence of a growing disgust of the practice of polygamy poly-gamy among the intelligent and educated educa-ted young people in the Mormon community, com-munity, forbid that the polygamous system will ever again under any circumstances cir-cumstances obtain an effective foothold in Utah or anywhere else in this nation. Thnt the closely-welded system of the Mormon church like any other ecclesiastical ecclesi-astical organization whose churchty allegiance to superior priestly authority, author-ity, tends to weaken the political devotion devo-tion of Its members to the Republic, is undoubtedly true. But until tangible disloyalty to the laws and to the flag rears its snaky head, no act of disfranchisement disfran-chisement can be brought to bear upon this presumed disaffection. In the case at bar whore a large portion por-tion of the hitherto non-polygamous Mormons-.and a still larger portion of those of the fraternity just entering the political arena would gladly participate In our national political contests, what better opportunity than the present offers to cast off the factional armor of the bitter past and to occupy higher and broader ground. Let the dead past bury its dead. Let unrepentant priests and reokloss politicians destroy each other in a Kilkenny tight if they will; but let the level-headed men of the gentile and Mormon ranks drop their local fight and ally themselves with one or the other of the permanent political parties of the nation. For the last quarter of a eenturv. the few leaders of the Mormon people . by their blind devotion to a semi-barbaric system and their defiance of just law invited every loyal American to a life and death contest on Utah soil. The glove they defiantly flung into the political po-litical arena was gallantly taken up by the "old guard" of the liberal party. Aht how many of that noble band have fallen by the way, and in yonder city of the dead the precious dust of martyrs may become the seed of a new and loyal dispensation. If the spirits of the departed are permitted to return to the scenes of this life's victorious battles we can imagine a Robinson, a Robertson, Robert-son, a McKean, a Maxwell, a Sprague, rejoicing with us over the death-warrant of an infamous system. The grey-bearded grey-bearded survivors of that long-continued war should hail with joy the striking strik-ing of the black flag of polygamy and advance from each side half way between be-tween the old contending lines to strike hands in peace and well-assured hope that the young men now entering the political arena in Utah will unite in advancing the material, political, ediy cational and social development of the commonwealth. Returning to our first proposition, let us remember that permanent and salu- |