| Show ulf win 1 iii lil U I 1 INT 4 4 TAle banger DANGER the excitement in utah over mr colloms Cul bill for the suppression of polygamy will be greatly intensified when the cormons mormons discover the actual provisions of the bill as it has been amended by the committee on territories after describing and declaring polygamy to be a crime the amended bill provides that for the enforcement of this law the president shall send a sufficient tent body of troops to utah and to this end he is authorized to employ the regular army and also to raise militia in the territory it further provides pr ovidea that the property of any mor mons who may leave utah on account of this law or who may be imprisoned for resistance thereto shall be taken and used for the benefit of the families of such mormons cormons Mor mons this bill means war its terms and its provit offit are arb in the nature of preparations para fara pa rations tiong for war its execution will assuredly be followed by war not only is the regular army to be e ordered to ito utah buta but volunteers are to be called for and these forces are to be placed under command of the experienced military officer general schaeffer whom gnant grant hrs haa jus just it appointed governor of the territory As a preliminary to operations utah must of course be placed under martial law no jno jury that could be found there would ever pronounce any mormon me guilty of the crime of pol poi polygamy gamy no kr jury y in f fact c t could be oita otta obtained obtained ined fitted to a servo serve e ve aa as a bo body idy for the enforcement of this law elther either the president or congress has the power of putting the territory of utah under martial law and if grant signs this bill there need be na no doubt that h ha 0 will be ard prepared to exercise that power these who may be declared guilty of polygamy are to bo be imprisoned and their property is to be confiscated we estimate that the enforcement of these pro visions ons ono would involve the imprisonment of f over nive five thousand persons and the confiscation of over nifty fifty millions of dollars worth of property this confiscation fis cation is to be carried out under the pretext of affording support to the wives and families miliea fa of the offenders and it is to be carried out whether they are incarcerated in prison or r fly ZI beyond the authority of the ta united n at states we pronounce it a mere pretext to say that the confiscated property willbe will be used for the benefit of mormon wives and children it if the husbands fly from utah their families will undoubtedly accompany them if the husbands are imprisoned which is an absurdity society will le be utterly broken up and destroyed st in either case the confiscated property would fall into the hands of the gentiles and this is doubtless the purpose of the bill will the mormons cormons fight will they fl fly will they give up polygamy fifteen years ago when the mormons cormons had less than a quarter of their present 9 they showed their entire readiness to 0 fight night for their system they met general johnstons army in the mountains harassed his hia advance on their strongholds strong holds and though matters soon boon came to a point at which warlike operations were stopped they gave proof of their power to ommer offer formidable resistance as well as of their willingness to confront any enemy previous to that time when in nauvoo they frequently d displayed splay ed a fil milar similar spirit and purpose having baving their troops always organized and standing always in the attitude of saints militant and belligerent in fact the Mor nor mornion church and army urmy have chave beh ben eirl eitl iio Ifo one neland and indivisible from the that th they were bath both organized by the prophet joseph smith we do not believe that any one who comprehends the system and spirit of brigham Brig bam young as he has kept them up for the last quarter of a century can doubt that the mormons cormons are od ed to assume a belligerent attitude if the principles of callows cui Cul bill are enforced against them by military power they will nut not give up polygamy for they thes hold it to be ag as much a matter of divine revelation as any other doctrine of mormonism they will not resort to flight in the direction of me mexico xa co or el oise olae severe bevere were not nott at least until they have made an effort to hold their ground in utah Oon gresa should understand this and find the country should be warned varned of these things before the pasa passage gerof of colloms Cul bill there is danger hat that att erthe circumstances of the case are ie developed pe d the be compelled d either to back down from Cullo culio curlonis Cul cui lonis ionis bils hlis ground or to undertake a bigger birger job than must most p people eople have any iga idea of if we force them into a hostile attitude the mor mons mono can give us a very disagreeable a very wearisome and tremendously expensive war colloms Cul bill provides pr ovidea for the employment of about forty thou troops partly regulars ana partly volunteers un the cormons mormons could give such a force two or three years fighting at an annual expense to us of not less than two hundred millions of dollars the government should not forcibly interfere with polygamy or mormonism at all the pacific forces are now in action that will make it impossible for polygamy to exist any great length of time m ifer ew york world |
