Show THE MORMON QUESTION WE hope our rea readers ders will not be startled at the heading of our article we think the subject is not altogether new to them they have heard of it before A contemporary in nevada the jreese reese eiver river reveille has discovered some sonae new features in the question he promises us a greater share snare of attention than he has his heretofore bestowed upon us he says now that we aro arc about to be freed from orom ah tho the 0 perplexing rp e x in le legislation siti 0 n attend attending the su suppression cpr es i 0 n 0 of fg the e i rebellion e b e 0 n vow vew wow we arill 11 alq be in a situation it to deotto devote devoto a little 1 more t time 0 and consideration to our mormon brethren I 1 this is consoling to us and we think it will be a relief to the readers orits of its co bluna jurans it klui vill be a e change after being surfeited with the long and dreary leaders on political topics which have been its ita principal matter for months we are somewhat in the position of a blacksmith of whom we once heard he was a burly stalwart fellow bu good tempered his wife was rather small but what she lacked in size slie site made up in temper she was a vixen her chief delight seemed to be when angry to vex and torment her good natured spouse she even went j ao far sometimes as to strike him one of his friends undertook to remonstrate with him for submitting to sueh such abue and asked him how he could endure blows from a woman without losing his temper per he replied that as it amused her and did not hurt him he did not think thinh it worth while to get ge tangry angry about it now if it will amuse the its to bestow time and consideration upon their mormon brethren 11 as it will not hurt us we feel assured that the brethren will have no objection jec tion in the reveilles rece Reve illes judgment it will require something more than the completion of the overland railroad to solve this knotty problem of mormonism li it thinks those who have looked forward to its solution through that means are over sanguine we are happy to find the reveille agree with us on this point that has always been bean our opinion we could not think much of a system of religion the perpetuity of which I 1 should depend on the construction non of a railroad and it is certainly satis fac tory to know that the reveille has a better opinion of our system than to think it one of that kind the reveille is evidently splenetic and the cause of it we can best state in its own words it says it is now becoming manifest that the president of the tho mormon charob church a mere more ecclesiastic authority has howerto power to control its laity in their relations of trader and ta traffie traffic even cven to their pecuniary disadvantage he has issued an edict against their trading with mith gentile and the decree I 1 is s obeyed more implicitly than is a firman from the grand pasha of turkey 11 it is too bad perhaps but we cannot sympathize with the Be beteille in thinking this a bad condition of things the mormons cormons Mor mons have always been just that kind kind of people if they would have been controlled by what appear appeared bd to be b to their pecuniary advantage they would never have come to utah tuey certainly had first in mis Mik missour missouri sour and afterward in did appear to be at the time a better thing perhaps it is unconstitutional perhaps it is criminal for a I 1 mere ecclesiastic authority ly to exer exercise else eise influence over people to induce in them to adopt a policy that may seem prudent and wise but ut if it ia Is eo rao we have failed tailed to get that understanding of it we do not think the Be would object to being placed in possession of influence sufficient to induce the citizens of austin austiff to follow its lead ix political matters and to vote for the nominees of the party of which it is an organ its editor ia is doubtless a modest gentleman eitleman ent leman ieman but we think we do him no n discredit when we say that to wield such influence would not shock his modesty in the least the reveille shows what it would do with those who from it because we will not trade where it says we caa get goods cheaper than anywhere else it has a punishment prepared for us now we always supposed that every citizen had a constitutional right to trade where and with whom he pleased in new bortt san francisco or even evl even n austin and with jews or gentiles in a all or any aty of thase those places to suit his own con valence veni ence enee and find taste if the reveille be correct we have been mistaken in ofir our idi idl ideas ea for it threatens us with a penalty for tor not trading to suit its notions it acknowledges that our refusal to patronize a certain claes elass class is a question full cf of perplexities and that it does not feel itself t competent to indicate a line aline of policy adequate to the occasion butone but on e su sur sue occurs to it and it puta puts it fo fortig rt for what it is worth to be candid wa we must say that we do not think it worth much it is the partition of our territory wyoming territory is esta established bUshed and it is almost without population let ii the southern line be extended as far west as salt bait lake city thence running as far north as may be deemed tractable pr actable then a portion of our southern border might bo be in time if not immediately united to a portion of territory taken fromnes from trew mexico and colorado and a new territory created this course of policy would forever as it appears to the reveilles Reve illes view deprive the mormon church as an ecclesiastical body of obtaining or wielding political power to any extent extent whatever of political in we ve basht would be divided instead of concentrated as sa ht present avery A very pretty truly oa on paper always presupposing supposing pre also that we are arc to sit still and allow the pro gramme to bo be carried out does the think that it is the soll soil that gives political power suppose we were to be divided up into two or three ter ri tories who would be the people my why 1 1 if f the cormons mormons Mor mons would be in the m majority a as they undoubtedly would be in each of these territories contemplated by the reveille instead of bending sanding one delegate to congress as at the present time they would send kwo or three not zot ot long sinco nevadas senators thought they would relieve everybody from all further trouble about us and solve the problem themselves and they proposed to annex utah to nevada an aix influential gentleman sent a to washington that possibly har had hat some influence in producing a change in their views they found such a move would suit us too well we might become a state and a power in the nation when the they least wished it the scheme received no further attention the Reve reveilles illes plan is opened to similar objections and it must conclude upon reflection that the I 1 knotty problem can not be solved io in the way it proposes but why make that a problem which is no problem liem ilem at all this whole subject is a simple one and easy of solution the people of utah mind nind their own business this is their creed they do nobody any harm if they withhold their patronage from their thearen enemies amies and be bestow it on their friends that is their indefeasible right others do the same without question it is this meddling dictatorial spirit spalt that has made us all the trouble we have ever had and it is that which makes us a problem let us alone and we are no knotty problem but vain plain simple loyal folks who love go god and our country and who are trying our best to honor one and develop the other the mineral product of great britain and ireland in 1867 was wa valued at 43 or in gold |