Show tl rite v london times timea and hap 11 elworth dixon g all that hm has avell in ani written te bout utah and mormons cormons Mor mons partly in consequence of it it ia surprising what erode crade and exa notions notion are arc entertained of fit th tarm tm in sn an article in tho the london ames cally recently Cn lly in this city the b w writer rite r in giving in M outline of the history of the a inte broadly cays that they now iu in utah bumber two hundred thousand starting with the premise that hut tho ho mormons cormons in a little less ices choku chhn A quarter of a cei century tury have increased 1000 to the th writer deduce deduc to the conclusion that there must be ba some grent great truth underlying the peculiar system whether the latler I 1 be the fact or not tho the argument is little better than fallacious however it may inay fco bp tho the custom ao to regard it and nd however the th doctrine success is not airry i we ini affy tf y ii rarely the criterion to madl jf if it ret bere the system of bicham young rould bo corta certainly it ft meritorious system for that it has achieved a certain success in an extraordinary degree is ia unquestionable any which whole communities to r ft aingie will must in a great deemo be suc BUC C in ono one sense ense provided that will be by nn ordinary quantum of braina in this thie light leaving entirely out ont of biow the in and independence of men which bs bi on entirely dunk in any such euch system the aggregate force forca of a community is ia increased and the unity thus secured results in a certain suc success ceris S so 0 o it is in utah tho the chief priest like tho th centurion of old is a man inan having authority he eye unto one come aud and ho he cometh bud and to another go and ho be goeth Is there f P spot which chich the church wishes cultivated forthwith a B sufficient number families of anai lifes sra ara detailed to found a 6 settlement sott lement sud pud p ud it iss is done aie ai certain wards in the city overcrowded A k given number aro called to go elsewhere doe brigham require carpenters laborers oranti or arti baue of any land kind for tho the temple or other work the order goei out and they arc forthcoming think of a community of from to 1 bot bot thus obedient to k arong master mind what connot or what should it not be able to accomplish of alty t ical beal for over twenty years has bas this community lived and struggled in the wilder tits for the greater part tf bf that timo time isolated I 1 frem tho lb horld the tha wonder is not that so mach laack bria been accomplished of mere material but rather so little add to thia the of religious fervor cortor chich if at the bottom bodom of tho rhoar system f fand nd wo we cease to be surprised that wen the desert ims haa bc been en read to blossom blos Bom but tho the were mere aggregation of numbers is no proof nor even au argument either of the divinity or truth of an any y system batem what imposture has ever sprang arom tho tha prolific brain of man but has haa had bad itt thousands thoua ands of believers the pages of hastoy history teem kith instances instance wo we need not go back to tho days daya of to was ulus our tho the history of the riss rise progress and explosion of niniva hiis even mora wonderful rond erful than mormonism Moro itself thousands embraced the new religion and AI devoutly bali oved in tho the prophecies of miller es as any hindmo over ever did or now bow does believe in the divinity of his wooden god vic tho modem doctrine of his claimed claici d nud find still boasts iti it con cemeris eris from all rants ranks and condition of people and so 10 it seems that auy any zeli cinfo which jihu hakea of the marvelous marr clous will win converts not by hundreds only but by hundreds of thousands while and aad avanant avan success are ara not an I 1 argument against the truth of any system they tan can hardly be relied on as evidence in its ita lup port but there is abroad a decided tendency end oncy to exaggeration in dealing with what is terrald tho mormon question as well ds As ft a deal of ignorance concerning in it the same 14 paper already rofA bolbus holds forth i A bill i is now before congress Con gross for regulating 1 the selection of grand rand and petit juries jurics in utah I 1 I 1 md ind if senator howards amendments are adopted ell all tho the peculiarities of the 41 mormon monnon community will become illegal and thor thoro o who practice thorn them will bo be rendered liable to fine and imprisonment it remains I to be seen been whether the federal go government vern ment vill till be able to carry carry out cheso changes without resorting to military coercion and even then aken whether mormon energy may not emerge I 1 triumphant from tho the struggle straggle i th writer seems to be utterly y ignorant of I 1 I 1 the fact that hat july 1862 nearly five 1 1 years team RU all the peculiarities peculiars pec ties of the I 1 mormon people hate been illegal and those vho aho practice them liable to fine f ine and imprisonment wo era aro abate that here tho the teachers tea chera of the ii pe ople while endeavoring to indue indu ceas as many I 1 ai possible sible to pra tipsily tic embrace polygamy freeh t to til into their minds minda that the gov I 1 ern mentis is unable to enforce eleby eien by military power any law obnoxious to tho the church but I 1 it gounds rather absurd to hear bear this pro proposition popi emanating from intelligent sources outbid I 1 of utah long immunity at the hands bands of the I 1 I 1 government has t giren iren this much plausibility to 0 o the ignorant but a a nation which has just I 1 i 1 I conquered four millions of people extirpated slavery and put down a gigantic rebellion t will ill hardly be scared from its ita propriety at the II 11 boa of the little remnant of humanity in one of ith territories an all such tall and I 1 i aro ua mere leather anil and prunella I 1 I 1 the government yin will never find it necessary emry nor to extirpate mormonism rmon niem lain by ti the e r word e es s it would never have undertaken I 1 to va the slav flavee esby by force and th day zy IS as fa far asun TC hope when the if 11 I 1 ae 2 nil M deem A r or prudent to i I 1 Emu EMI lilo to tho the conro conree of the rebels of I 1 the he south clr hepworth mixon the english trailer travel cr I 1 who arho avat baat several months in ia celoso sn inu I 1 1 E mato mate communion with tho the of thiv city aad ld g his ideas from ilicin indulges dula cg in im cirilar reflections ho fas colfax tho ho has bas lean been to confer wilh tollag of aro the affairs afi airs of utah the day appears to to to when which nish nigh the problems w idesa the put lit berow tho world mayhai 0 tobo dered by V practical man not in col ch on only 5 nor la in nd md iw in cot vw law only bai 41 m the rep nip fand in the I 1 I 1 ja ohad I 1 bad na na dolbt b board a groat great I 1 deal of ba a 11 r while hc awas was 4 hn i bAe butha discloses ft a arx acry impressible and credulous natura not only in the above extract but in luany other of Us his rec nt work |