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Show MIL UORIMN UTAH. TtsLnng and Bitter Tight Between Mormons Mor-mons and Geutile3 Has Injured tlio Territory Greatly- QUESTION OF TASTY DIVISION. Tbs ex-Congressman Describes What H Heard aad Saw During Mis Visit to tin Territory of Utah- Ex Congressman Kaswell (r. Horr has an article in the New York Tribune giving the impressions gathered during liis recent visit to Utah in tho interest of tlio republican party. Alter describing describ-ing the resources and industries of the territory ha takes up the "mormon question" hs follows: Hut how about the people of Utah? "With reierence to tlitm. my surprise was as great as with reference lo tho country. I spoke to six hirge audiences (iu the towns of Brigham, Logan, Frovo, fcalt Lake City and Ogden). There were 2000 people present at my second meeting at Ogden, ami for appreciation, apprecia-tion, enthusiasm and quick apprehension apprehen-sion that audience cannot be surpassed in any New England city. The long kiid bitter light between the mormons sod gentiles has injured the territory greatly. An effort is now being made fo induce the people to divide on different dif-ferent lilies. This is leading up to a Ileal question Is how best lo treat such a genuine belief, even though it bo ail a delusion. One's impulse is to crush it out by the strong arm of the law aud by harsh measures. The history of the world is that the crushing business seldom sel-dom if ever wins. The great bulk of these people are sincere, devout, earnest earn-est people, Prayer and piety seem to abound among them. In worldly matters mat-ters they are admitted to be frueal, industrious in-dustrious and houest. They have made a dry and barren wnste rioh in lielda of grain, grass, roots and fruits. Their religion may have bean bad; their husbandry has been gooV.. The Anglo-Saxons, the gentiies, are soon to outnumber them in Utah. The march of human events has already decreed that. Would it not be well if mormon and gentile could unite on some plan that would let the bad in each system drop out and simply preserve the good iu both A people'which has subdued on arid waste, which has created a wonderful country where nature seemed to have decided in favor of a desert, surely ought to be able to subdue sub-due and govern themselves. I predict that such, in the end, will ba the outgrowth out-growth of the preaont mingling of different dif-ferent kinds of civilization. Commerce and business have often worked wonders won-ders where bigotry aud intolerance have failed. Love of humanity, kindness kind-ness of heart, comfertable houses and good crops enable people to live as neighbors who have few religious notions no-tions in common. That such may be the solution of the problem which has vexed many of our ablest and best statesmen is the earnest hope of one who wishes for nothing iu Utah except that her people may bo good, happy and prosperous. bitter contest. Some of the pennies who have been engaged so long in the contests of the pust refuse lo believe that the mormons are sincere in their claim that they have abandoned aban-doned polygamy and will henceforth hence-forth obey the laws. Many good men iu the territory thiuk that khe mormons should be taken at their word and given a fair trial. I mixed as little as possible iu these local quarrels. More thaiLthree-fourths of the people In Utah today are nurmoiis. With their past history or religious belief I have no sympathy. No doubt the development de-velopment of that uninviting country Is largely due to mormon energy and pluck. Some day some wise man will bo able to explain the why and the wherefore of the various religious systems which have appeared iu this world of ours and may be able to show philosophically how aud why they took root and nourished. nour-ished. I cannot do it. I do know as a rule that heretofore persecutions have Iways ended in an increased growth Of the persecuted. The ashes of the martyrs have been the seed of all the churches, and without regard to their Faith. Tho blood of a prophet has often been the only thing which has made the lacredness of his calling sure. The moment a man suffers persecution for his belief the masses think he must be right or he would succumb and avoid his piiuiahriient. So, I presume, it will ver be. Tho future growth and prosperity pros-perity of Utah is of equal interest to mormon and gentile. The inllux of people into that territory from the east would be large if its real merits were once understood and if it could be decided that the government Is to he run on tho principles of love, Charity and kindness. There cau be little doubt that the mormon rule has been one of exclusive uess and prejudice. preju-dice. It has taken a long while for the diormons to learn that 100,000" people cannot manage or dominate U!).0:rt).O0O. They have no doubt been taught that they owe a higher allegiance to their church than to their country. Millions tif christians for fifteen centuries were taught aud believed the same thing. To destroy thr.t notion has cost tho world rivers of human blood. A mere handful of men cau never establish that doctrine in this world again. The world as a wholo moyes forward, not backward. From this time forward governments will permit people to hold what religious notions they please, but will exact of them complete submission to all civil authorities in matters which pertain to civil government. (Questions of civil politics will never agaiu be left to the decision of pope, bishop, apostle or priest, simplv because that is one of tho things that the world has outgrown. When this is once fully comprehended the mormons wrill accept the situation, no doubt, as other religious societies have done. , The mormons have heretofore had doctrines repugnant to the rest of the civilized world and leading to practices in violation of the civil laws of all civilized civi-lized nations. They have no doubt been intolerant in many of their practices, prac-tices, it will be hard work fortbem to change their views. Whether they do it or not, one thing is clearly shown by the experience of past ages. It is this, that thev will never be led to abandon their beliefs if their teachers rusort to tho same intolerance and unkiudness complained of by the gentiles as being characteristic of the mormons. It is natural for all people to think themselves them-selves right and everv one else wrong The mormons act as if they knew they were right. No doutt, many of them reallv think that they know such to be the fact. The balance of the world are just as ceitain that the mormons know nothing of the kind. Such a belief naturally nat-urally leads to intolerance. The prac- |