Show zhe ekie TIIE OVERLAND OVEniA TD salt SAIT LAKE lawe CITY THE september num berof the overland monthly published at san Franc francisco iaco laco sont contains albis atris an able article on salt lake city from the pen en of a writer who deals with the subject in a liberal and republican spirit and who evidently has haa had uncommon opportunities of knowing whereof he writes grites there are honl boni soni some points in his artie artle from which we edis dissent sent it could be b wise under the circumstances ma M who are bie aie not latter day 83 saina ta though q t in zer ger eyer favorably so lapres t 0 C ameter character of f he celii dus views seldom witte upped their thair if peculiar tenets in ca complete piete accord with it those who entertain the ahm B but 4 t 3 do does e s not prevent us from 41 r c t V k any all ali the tubeless tb eless less the honesty of d r xin WIN belr beil a ai A tives lives or the kindness of jr ahr u eat menta A a people and subject wh V laid omit it isso firo popular pop ular to 1 ridicule misrepresent 4 hafid an d condemn inclosing inclosing hib hia article ho he thu ihu speaks of the keople of utah territory 46 the public while none the less vigorous in its condemnation of their social system begins to give to them the honor which is their due for their persistent energy I 1 industry economy temperance and or order orden e the people of the pacific coast aspeel especially of our newer mining districts have al always a s been ready in their admissions of th the v vast vash t national value of the utah agricultural settlements tle ments at their very doors this cheap source of supply to the miners of the necessaries es of life has enabled them early to develop large districts and add vastly to the commonwealth it 1 is something for which we may all justly justl congratulate ourselves that during the fast last lash session of congress when a bill was pending relative to the forcible suppression of the tho mormon marriage system a bill so cruel unjust and vindictive in its provisions that that it bould should conde condemn inn its authors to endless infamy every member of the pacific coast delegation to whom alone alono the subject was in anywise familiar was found in the tho ranks of the opposition we may hope that the day for an armed crusade against any form of religious belief has forever passed cutting throats however valuable an exercise for the discipline of an army can scarcely be deemed a missionary work religious persecutions and wars have ever moved backward upon the dial plate plato the hands which mark the onward progress of the race mormon polygamy its evils and its cure are questions in morals outside the field of political action it is the department part ment ot of the missionary rather than 0 of f the jurist statesman or sold soldier lerf lerr our clergy and not our congressmen should take this evil in hand band already several eminent divines have taken this position and warned us that this is not the age ago when catholics can broil protestants protestants grill catholics or presbyterians rians hang bang quakers for the tho glory of god the tho faith of the forty millions of american christians is not endangered by the presence among them of one hundred thousand people heretical upon the marriage question and although the transfer of this great debate from congress to the pulpits of the land may destroy the entire capital ot of a considerable number of obscure politicians clans otherwise unknown and thus perchance still forever the plash and babble of these several fountains of dishwater dish water yet even then we have faith to believe that the republic and salt lake city shall live such sentiments find no response in the breasts of the thu happy family which reside in this city they want no transfer of the question from front the floors of congress to the pulpit that would spoil their game and dep deprive evl i them of the principal amusement which they have in this count country ryA As it is at present they illustrate the truth df dri watts sentiment satan finds some bome mischief eor for idle hands to d do 0 but deprive them even of this eriv privilege in ln addition to having baving noth nothing irig of use to do and what would become of the poor creatures we know of no men who have less legitimate business to do than some men who are sent to this territory at government expense but they contrive by hook or by crook to create business of some kind if it is nothing more than making mischief destroying wise mens labors unsettling everything they can and alg aig alp nuisances al uban T ea of themselves certainly such per persona bno want no transfer of the mormon question from Congress preachers prea chersi AW f |