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Show TDE AXTI-MORHOX CRUSADE. Captain CoiTmaa Sj Its EOVtts Hare Hem Bill. An Inltmlloc Ltll'r rrom "An Able VfrKrK (A;miI DaMxrat, Wattuaxtaa, U. C., Stpt.37.1 Soda Sit.ixcs, Idaho, Sept 3, 1S93. Sir I have carefully read Uie communication of Judge Carlton to the Democrat of August 30, ani fully endorse evcword of it. If liroof Is needed of the veracity of his statements it is furnished by tho Salt Lake Tnbune, which, without undertaking to disprove them, attacks at-tacks Uielr author in the mot venomous veno-mous personal abuse which forms the staple argument of that news paper when It has to deal ttilh an opponent. I have been Intlmtlelyacqualnted wIUi Uie Mormon eopIe for 17 years, have traveled through the length nnd breadth of their land before be-fore Uie railroads came there, and have had business nlatlons with them In which I. always (ound thorn trui worthy. Ilarring their practice prac-tice of polygamy, now fallen Into "Inocuous desuetude," there Is cot Mich a law-abiding people within Uie limits of theje United States. Andjetthrso are Uie men who In Idaho, where I have resided for many summers and know them to Im Uie most honest, conscleiiUous industrious and ober among the inhabitant in-habitant of this new State Uiese are tho men nbo ore dbfranchhied, excluded from Uie Jury box and denied every political right cx-cui cx-cui Ung that of being taxed. . - Judge Carlton says: "Of the whole Mormon population in Utah, only a very saiall r cent are lu polygamy. Out of tho adult males, from s- to fli per cent are not living In a polygamous rclatlou." In Idaho the proportion uf poly gamuts Is much less. Of the disfranchised voters, (here are not 200 who are amenable to iiuulshmeiit for transgressing tho law. It is not pretended that Uiere are more, but their crime is that they "belong to au organization that teaches polygamy," and it is tnaden condiUon of their voting In future tiiat they shall rondure satisfactory evidence thTt thry havu left the Mormon Church two years before asking for registration. It Win vain that tliey urge Uist the Mormon Church no lunger teacben 1ygamy and that Uiey producu Uie aulhorl UUve drclnraUon of Its president to the Associated I'rws that he has given "porire ortl'rt thai no mere ji'ioxif jnarnayts itall 6s totemn-ixd." totemn-ixd." They are asked: "Do you lie-liuve lie-liuve that Joseph Saiith was a jiropbel? lio you believe that lie had A reVeiaUou Instituting polygamy?" llralgntas well be akcd of the Presbyterian: "Do j ou believe that Jehovah was God, and that he 'gave wives' to David; that he sent Jdown fire from heaven to destroy the prophetg of Ilaal, and let looo tho armies of Israel to murder the Canaanitrs aud Philistines?" Of course the true Presbyterian bet.cves all that, oral Ieat he says that he dors; but as he Is not a iolygamUt, or a murderer hImelf,uo Is allowed to vote. Why, then, should the Presbyterian be ruled lu and tho Mornlou ruled out lu Idaho? Tha answer Is ready. Presbyterians belong be-long to bith killUcal parties. The Mormons are moUy democrat, awl they arc democrats not because they know or care much about the tariff, but because Uie infamous legislation against them has bwn enacted by a republican Congress that has sent corrupt governors and Judges to oppress their CO rellgion-bts rellgion-bts in Utah; that has taken ad vantage vant-age of nit obsolete territorial law to rob them of their Chun h prop, erly, and has made a law of Us own unparalleled In the meanni-vs c.f such sneak thievery, which coufi-cate.1 coufi-cate.1 Uie hard-earned savings contributed con-tributed to Uie "rmIratlon lund" fur the (mrpo-c of bringing their converts away Irom their jicverty In Kuropelothe enjoy mi tits and Uie hlrilnTs of this free (?) an I hapy laud. Tlie Mormons are accused of dli-loyalty. dli-loyalty. What wonder would it bo if thechargn were true? . And jt, in spito ef every devlca to bring them Into rebellion, they remain quiet uuder the indignities Leaped upon them, Hill adhering to the be-lief be-lief that the Declaration of Independence Inde-pendence and the ConstituUon of tho United States were inplrttl by the Almighty, who, In His own Kood Ume, will tee tiiat Uiey obtain Juticc at Uie hands of their country. coun-try. The Mormons arc by no menus the Ignorant toplu that thos w bo are themselves as Lruorant of them, of theif habits and their religion, a JuJgo Carlton lias amply proved that they are, suppose tlic-oi to be. It is true they are not "up" in the ila-cies or In the higher brant lies of literature', but common school education educa-tion is as geuerslly dlfful as in niPit favorer I btatr of the Uiiiiiu. Com;orntlvely uneeluealod men are annually sent to foreign lauds as mUtluiiarlr. but they are c!oe oK servers of what Uiey vu abroad, and ou Uielr return, in th- long winter evening, they disseminate among t.'iuir neighbor thcliitclllgcucothe luvcaojuired, -o that the Mormons know vastly more of what Is going on in the ouis.de world Uiu Uie world knows abcut them. Even In educated Ikostou It is common to hear that polygimy is tire corner stone of MorE.onkm,w hen it is only a stone tiiat has now fallen from its sujrstructure, and to bo told that the "Mormon Hible" lias superceded Uie sacred scripture, which aicmoro firmly believed in by Mormons than by auy Christian sect. The article of Judge Carlton is unanswerable. How comes It, then, that Uiu otlier members of the Utah CoiumUslon, to whlcli he tells your readers that that he was attached forseven years, differ su materially from him? In Uie firrt placu this Utah Com-nii-jlon never liad any raimiffttre. It never had accompluhed any work that could not liave been done by the secretary of theTerrilory single-handed. single-handed. It as the child of prrj u-dice u-dice and congre-clonal ignorance. Juuge Carlton is the only one of its memberj who has the caudor to admit that it was a piete of useless legislation, aud ho valuta both more than hi salary of $3000 a year. Those who have signed the majority rt ports valued their salaries more than the troth. Tiiat Is the whole of It- Hence their labored efforts to prove that their semi-annual vb-its to Utah were necessary for Uie suppression sup-pression of polj gamy and disloyalty, riiry are upheld in this pretense by the newspaper already referred to, but there is not a Mormon or a Gen-tlio Gen-tlio in tho common walks of life who doesnot look upon Uieui as actors ac-tors in a ridiculous farce. The effect ol Uie anU Mormon cruade for all thrst- iears has been for evil, and that continually. It has got the community of Salt Lake City by the cars. It has demoralized de-moralized society by Introducing bbsceiilty Into the press aud into daily conversation even among ladles of culture. By giving Uie impression that life aud capital were not safe in Uie Territory, It has retarded re-tarded the influx of a good and varied (-puIatioii, and has prevent-ud prevent-ud the investment of money there. All that vrus needed was to have madepolygatuy punishable like any other crime, according to IM degree. Criminals of nil sorts frrquenUy escape es-cape conviction everywhere, but In Utah, where the wlule power of Uie courts Is in Federal courts, who construe the laws of evidence to suit themselves, convlciiou of polygamy polyg-amy is almost always sure, tbcujjti otlier crimes, may bo unpunished. The fear cf Uie law mar have had a restralnlug Influence upon polyg. amy, but tlio etiutact with outMJo civilization which abs'ird prejudice and the malignant lies of tbosa whose malu object has been poliUciI control, could not repel, would aiomt have accompll'lied lu overthrow. That is fully proven in tho admir-able admir-able parymnJer review. Kbtr that all we. have a right to ask ol Uie Mormons has been yielded, yield-ed, It would be the part of a generous gener-ous government to restore to them the property It his stolen, but If It Is unwilling to do this, It might at leat for Ure future abstain from the enactment of needless and unjust laws against a jieoplo whom no tyrannical ty-rannical legislation has driven or can drive from their allegiance to the Cotutltution of tho United States. JoitN'ComivN. |