Show why is utah not admitted into t the he la union t W this question hats has been asked from time to birne by tile the secular pres of the territory with an appah simplicity w truly shing when tin tile fiath ia ro that thel there 0 pi no nn antell intelligent gent mormon leader or lay member who is irl 0 41 already Teady per perfectly erectly aware of the objection admission adrois as lie he could be N nuie made by arry any possible explanation for years utah ulu t has possessed all tile the ard requisites in point of population and civil organization to warrant the assumption of that dignity wherewith clothes a commonwealth this fact is not denied iv i ia hi undeniable and it has long been a matter of il hiitter denunciation among pulpit ora A tors and mormon writers that younger territories oties with less valid claims in these i have overtaken and outstripped iber in the race for state so vering ty but from the hour her aspirations attempted the ascension of that hight bight an incubus weighed weigh 0 pd her down and prevented her arising b in tile the full stature for which she was otherwise fitted and capable her evil genius ever has been and still is polygamy En grafted among her ansti by blind leaders of the people it has grown with her growth and strengthened with her strength like a liale baleful ful shadow has attended the weary footsteps of deseret in her annual pilgrimage to washington and when she M r cocked timidly at the door of the rational capital persistently i thrust its forbidding 0 presence side by side with her M for admission in defense of this deformed arid an d monstrous offspring 0 of un J 1 bridled lust abusing 11 their high and holy calling a of religious teachers the church leaders have already once dragged their unwilling followers into open rebellion against the government to which they owe allegiance and when pardoned for this offen seby their own reckless and defiant disregard of wholesome laws further f wronged a whole people who of their own accord would not so offend ly by causing them to assume an attitude altitude of apparent hostility toward that national authority to which their pnra pira how then should those men expect favors at the hands of a government whose clemency only en cou edura rages 0 cres them to more absurd arrogance and whose mandates they honor by disobedience ol 01 clience if their loyalty is manliest manifest ed cd while in the condition of territorial tutelage by a factious opposition to the laws of contreas Co Con nereas aress where they profess themselves so desirous of being properly represented what may he be justly expect ed cd to follow should their wishes be crowned with si recess conscious as the leaders are that the difficulties lie at their hair own door and add the power to remove it is possessed by themselves they ma attempt to deaf deceive ive the people by falsely represent representing in the government as inimical tf them and their religion I 1 forever haunting their imaginations in with the sleepless ghost of some fancied persecution se te of which they have been or are to be the martyred marty red victims however let the good people of utah reflect t I 1 audi and remember if they can the he time or place when the government of the uni 1 ted fed states ever sought to interfere any suet sect or religious in matters of faith but I 1 though leniett knien fc and long cufferi f rig it will 0 in the end exact straw 0 bierla s V nce of its just mandates mans mails pretenders po jio less lega than from the most obscure dividu in als being first ob obedient adient to the law all may bajo caboy their religion religion and wo worship god in accordance with willi whatever they th Y may maj profess ioness pay tit ti bings things should they desire 1 i an anda d not liot unless the they y do desire but a acting jn in i all things as becomes the dignity of ilam american erid aft cid citizens zini than V which rt fai 7 i i il there is no nobler title on earth least of all things thief s can cair any one coriS conscious of his afford to yield lip hh 1119 birthright bi of rea leaon reao re aon o n which is heaven descended andhor the proper exercise lie he cannot t escape accountability and become tile the weak and wil willing ling instrument of ambitious ambitions men at ill all events we do not mean that any anys shall liall hive he excuse of 61 ignorance we intend to blaze the infamy of the advocates c of poly polygamy gainy and point out to all the danger dangerous ons ground on which aliey are blanding and andio to which they ahey would lead such sach as follow reckless or of their obligations tv hy their country and to those whom they wilfully and treacherously deceive to such as err in ignorance we offer the advice of friendship but to knaves who are the un unblushing advocates of arony wrong we give the warning of open foes soft words as wo we have found wilt will neither tame their incorrigible arrogance nor persuade them from the path of evil and therefore we ive are resolved to make them feel the rebuke of a sterner logic I 1 to strip the disguise from their devilish designs and cause them to writhe be neata the scourge of that pub public I 1 i a scorn which they have too long defied and whose retribution they so r richly ic aly deserve and in answer to the question propounded at the head bead of our article we can assure the people of utah that when those whom they acknowledge as leaders become loyal and lawens abiding abi i adhn citizens citi or 0 r when the people themselves manifest an unmistakable determination to be no longer misrepresented and disgraced by their infamy then and not till then may we hope to see utah admitted into the union |