Show arrom I 1 the y I 1 t Y I 1 tribune Trl tri tune lune jan 30 pom commission mission v for jRaY utah 4 0 the proposition of mr wilson to ilietus td states senate lor tor for a S lonto in u quire quira into the utah 19 exceedingly well weil timed this col coi itsou with llie ilie mormons cormons ilas lias come to be altogether too matten matter to be allowed to go oil on without a thorough invests ill lil vastl vesti ca lon ion of the grou grounds ads upon stand ia and n d a distinct settlement in our jovn minds mainds of what precisely we intend to do and of the tile means arid and Ineth which we pro propose potte to employ y As yet ct as to all alt these points there pie prevails vails valls both in n the public mind and at washington itself to judge from the utterances in congress on this subject nothing but hut the most vague liea idea the tho sending an all army to utah is commonly linder tinder stood to have been wen undertaken oil on tha the ground that most of the united state states 11 the tiu 1 e all ilio ho were not mormons cormons bad had been compelled to qui quit i it iland and that ji presence of a strong military y force was necess necessary iry both to 6 inure the tile personal safety of the new governor judges and other and still more to enable them io to exercise any of the duties of their thein re sf ec clive tive it hesteen has heen been alleged that persons not mormons gormong resident ill hi lle ile lie tile territory or even temporarily pa pacing through it baye have en as a general thing subjected to great annoy j ances and oppressions oppress ions lons and that the presence of a i strong military force was absolutely necessary to secure bohose to eliose non whether residents or travelers tile the ordinary rights of citizens it has f further urther been alleged that there are in the terri epry gry pry large numbers of persons who are held hold at once in civil aa and spiritual durance compelled by fear and force to submit faau to an authority aud and to conform to a social and religious system which they abhor and from which they would gladly escape did d id diley they see atly any prospect of being protected in in doing g so and abd to afford this protection to those standing in need of it has been stated i though not in any official form as one of the ob ejects of the tile expedition i it cannot be concealed however that apart from win all these reasons for tor re the military i nili tary occupation of utah there is still another view of or the object 0 be the expedition which more than all the rest impresses the popular mind and is generally accepted as the object in the mormons cormons have adopted poly eamy pamy as a part of their religious creed reed and social practice a system abhorrent to yur pu sur ideas and manners in hh this character of polygamists the they thes y have become objects of extreme antipathy their pretensions to peculiar spiritual ensign enlightenment ten ment and to be the depositories repositories deposit ories of or new revelation cause them to be regarded hy by many religious persons not merely as deluded fanatics but as blasphemous hypocrites hence I 1 the p pending ending i expedition against them is enthusiastically girded regarded re as a sort of holy war undertaken inthe interests interest sf of morality and religion intended tp to convert the tile ampro mormons cormons ons to more correct I 1 ideas dens on the subject of mitri matrimonial relations and religious ird truth 1 to break up lip their polygamous households and to compel them to be content wih one wife I 1 each or should they not be brought to reason as to ibe the these e matters malters by the pre precept ept and example of the he new civil officers seconded ded by tile the officers and soldiers of the army then to tb resort to the remedy of dispersing them by fire and sword this till is view view 1 of the tile expedition is even faken taken and zealously sustained on oe the floor of congress it sell self 1 jf if the mormons cormons are ready to sef set themselves up as gods chosen people standing in the place of the israelites of old there theve is scarcely less dispo kilion in other quarters to re regard rezard t ard them as a sort of modern Canaan ites whose infamous wickedness affords sufficient warrant even for their utter extermination it is in n this last character of the expedition that the abe mormons cormons have resisted its entrance into their country they deny the charge of any refusal of justice to or of wrongs and oppressions oppress ions exercised upon those persons resident in utah or traveling raveling through it not of their religious faith they deny that any part of their own people are held field under restraint beyond that do domestic M estic and andie andje legal gai gal re restraint which exists and must exist in all well ordered communities they deny tl that at the officers of the untied states who have llave left tile the territory acted under adv compulsion or had any other bother reason for heir their conduct except di discontent that ahat they could lot tint have haven air own i way way was their 1 the enigo troops 1 jilt jato their thein cunti count y is ls that the they ey arp arg jq be employed as the tile instruments of a r religious 13 persecution and flie tile redl real of lile ike expedition is to annoy rob and plunder them and aud to drive them out of ulah as they have bave been jzere heretofore afore driven out of missouri and illinois the vast expense which must attend the maintenance cenance of olour our dur army in utah not to mention the horr horrors ors of civil wap war and ard the desperate chi character raster of tile the resistance which the mormons cormons abrea threaten teu ten to appo oppose to the entrance e of the troops affords abundant reason why the necessity of this tion should be fully established 0 and 1 id its object clearly explained what information may he be in possession e oft of we do not know ji now but all the tim knowledge which the public possess is vary tery very limited if the mormons cormons hava have chosen to pay more deference e ce to their thein religions ious chiefe chiefs thon than to the officers appointed med wed for the them in 6 by the united unite d states govern bent chient if they li have ave preferred we til fil e arbitration of boh bob of their bishops or elders to a suit adlaw at law before judges not cot of their own appointment that is no do more than they were at liberty to do we lve call can veli veil vell well conceive that the officers appoint ed by the he united states might find their offices almost arquite or quite a sinecure and that trie ane church jurisdiction might gradually elbow the civil jurisdiction aside without any ny acason acasa the part of the mormons cormons in actual ae defiance biance fiance of law we can well weil imagine too that in a fanatical community like that of salt lake city tile the few re resident gentiles might find themselves in in an un uncomfortable position and subjected to a thousand annoyances which yet might not place the mormons cormons in the atti attl attitude fude lude of legal doers unfortunately it is vt not necessary to go so 0 o far as utah to find nind abundant cases of that sort it inojo 0 supposed B u osea however that tile the lav invests st aliw n proposed propose by mr irr wilson would ghow show ghow something than anything of this brt such a r resistance es istance to law as would fully justify the Adm administration inist ration in having originally nally undertaken the expedition it would also afford the lite government all an excellent eunity for explaining precisely what they intend the troops shall do an all tx position in the present sta teof of public opinion much and whish might leave lle ile lie the I 1 cormons mormons wit any colorable grounds to resist he entrance of tile the troops |