Show A LITERARY ganius it does seem surprising that in the midst of increasing goodwill and kindly feeling among all classes in this territory some men should take the greatest pains to harp on alie threadbare barnof murmon hostility to the gentilee Gen tilea it is also a matter for surprise that the majority of the leading periodicals so rea dily throw open columns to the publication of these sc reeds in the current number of the forum appear an article from the pen of capter Cap tEC batton of the xa S geological survey entitled church and state in utah which is intended to be a legal effort against alie admission ot utah as a state had liis arguments brien confined to the legal status of the case the gentleman would have been entitled to credit but like a great many other writers on the mormon question liis antipathy got the best of him and in consequence we find him guilty of libel he says the mormon has no civil liberty he may indeed assume it but if he does so lie ceases to be a mormon the democrat elects his own rulers and officers alie supreme rulers of the mor mons are a self constituted and self per petua ting body by which all subordinate officials who are of any real importance are appointed and the layman or the elder has no voice or weight in the matter this genius then goes to explain the various duties of the ecclesiastical officers in this mormon as a sample of hia elaboration we present liis version of a bishop the of the mormon community is the bishop he is appointed by alie central authority of alie church alie knowledge or consent of the people affairs lie is to administer in reality his powers are very great for while they are advisory in form and name they are dictatorial in fact he controls the occupancy of alie laud of the village assigning to each man his field and fixing his allowance of water he is alie arbiter of all disputes the mormon never gos of his own accord into a court of law but if he goes into court he will find jury and witnesses against him no matter what the merits of his case may be for it is to bo noted here that the mormon owes allegiance to the church above all and before all lethe laws and courts of the united states receive his allegiance and support just so far as they can be made useful in promoting the policy of the church and no farther remarkable is it not we certainly the mormon community will find something in this extract of which they duew nothing about and will de ide for themselves whether they are stewards of their own lands or as this genius would have them think leave their lands controlled by the bishop alio fixes the allowance of water necessary to irrigate that land ve aro truly sorry for these ecclesiastical officers for according to the statement of this writer they must have a vast amount cf labor to perform mr button refers to the organism of the first presidency and alludes to its secret sessions undefined powers its workings behind the scenes the enforcement of its orders and a lot of other stuff aud then days alie refusal of obedience by a mormon puts him practically under an interdict and a virtual boycott of a peculiarly painful and cogent kind even though the church liay forbear to excommunicate him lie is under a ban which makes life intolerable he is an intruder in a community where before lie was a member hid position is far worse than that of a gentile for a gentile having never risen to grace cannot fall from it he id an object of mingled pity and aversion to the only human beings he knows had the author of aliis wonderful revelation explained the nature of this ban which makes life intolerable to the disobedient mormon the article would certainly have biad more real interest As it is a person is left to conjecture the inference undoubtedly intended by mr button is that a disobedient mormon suffers total ostracism from liis former friends and is spurned by his associates wo certainly have seen men who have suffered themselves to bo severed from the mormon church but never m a single instance has he become an object of mingled pity and aversion as this writer would have men believe in closing this wonderful literary effort the writer says in the case of utah tho prospect is that if made a state a hostile power would be erected in tho heart of our domain though the written instrument of the constitution might breathe the spirit of hamilton or jefferson Jeff ereon the mormon people would breathe the spirit of Brig liam young it might be republican enough in profession alie practice odthe proposed state would inevitably be hierarchic the aims and aspirations of the cormons mormons are in complete contrast with those ot the rest of the people their kingdom is not on this earth tu them there are but two classes af people in the world cormons mormons and gentiles and between mormon and gentile there is in their estimation a nover anding succession of war and truce but never anything like peace and good willouch will much less anything like true union and coop co op aeration era tion the proposed constitution of utah would prove to be a the people of utah are unfit for statehood there is a farce tl e mormon is told by iiii bishop for whom he fiust vote and bo abys there arc never two carlies among them nay there is not even one alius the very foundation of republican government i is a mere shadow v without substance suffrage is nn empty form in which the voters simply express the will of priests and prophets and not own if indeed they can bo said to have will of their own |