Show JIOKJIOXS AM XOUEKS CIVILIZATIOV Let noboJy discouraged about the prospects or conversion of the Utah JIormoiM to the ways ol modern mod-ern civilization Ten or a dozen leading lead-ing men among tbem inclnding several seve-ral officeholder have already been indicted and arrested tot boodlins of the moil improved type One of J the ohicl boodlerx has been stored with no less than nine indictment for f freud against Salt Lake City Great tilings may bo expected from a people who under the dUadvantages and dl coungemcnU of frontier life are tuns able to engage in successful rivalry with here of older and more opulent and populous cities In ono of the most modem of the fine arts The foregoing Is from the Chicag i6e If there were anything In the farcical proceedings agalcst the gentlemen who have been indicted for political purpose it might be M > me encouragement IlClrons who desire to bee Utah con verted tomod trn civilizationThe truth isthere it I absolutely no grounds whatever for accusing thcso gentlemen of fraud or conspiracy of anything crooked Noneofthem hasbeen guilty of beodling and asfaras wa can lear neither them has beau charged with securing any boodle The whole proceeding against them is viewed by the community 1 munity here of both jiarties either as a huge joke nt the < xl < nse of the men indicted or a very shameful assault upon them III the Interest of the socalled Liberal party at the coming municipal election Hut there is something more encouraging en-couraging than this to the friends of modern civilization Here is a case in point A large number of Mentions who had never broken the law and agaiuit whose mural character nothing could be nl i leged have recently been refused naturalization simply because they were members of the Mormon Church On the same day that some of these moral and monogamous monogam-ous Mormons were rejected a secederfrom the Mormon Church was admitted to citizenship on his adducingproof that he had been cutoff cut-off from that Church for drunkenness drunken-ness Another case in jwint is this While Mormon who had never violated the moral or statutory law were refused citizenship men who had been confessedly guilty of sexual olTeuses were accepted as the fact that they had done one to several times was not judicially considered to be against their moral chancier nor to be compared wIth the immorality of belonging to a Church many of the members of which believed polygamy Mere are premiums on the prac tices of modern civilization t Drunkenness harlotry an J kindred I J vices are conduits to judicial favor and political privileges Mormons Mor-mons have only to break loose from the moral restraints of their creed and indulge in the liberties of socalled modern civilization to reap Ihu rewards of political enfranchisement and gain the nj riaue of the world And yet it is possible that most of them will re Sleet milan the query of a Master Mind who was just as unpopular 111 Ills day as they are in theirs What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his I own foul |