Show 0 j i 1 I i V I 1 I 1 correspondents at alt lake city tell us that matters there are approaching a crisis and indeed it begins to look as though there must be a collision or a back out the U 8 S grand jury I 1 id their enforcement of the anti polygamy law has struck at the tallest pillar in the mormon church by indie Indic inducting indicting ting 13 brig r t ham koung loung young toung for a violation violi tion of that law lawi he is too ill to be taken take 4 in custo custody dyt but it is understood that the au author thorf ties oves will apprehend him and bring him to trial as soon as he is able to appear appeal in court under tinder the instructions of chief justice mckean the terri terrik i judge his conviction Is inevitable abie able the facts are notorious ue that he has lived and does live in cohabitation cohabitation with several women said to be sealed to him as wives is easily pro provable the jury under the principle laid down by tho the othe justice wi will be composed of peri ert ent s ons sons who believe that the system of r plurality of wives Is simply adultery and they will not hesitate a moment over their verdict the head of the church will be convicted and condemned and d this wil be in fact a conviction and condemnation of the mormon A church the sentences will be light as the ob act of the authorities is 19 chiefly to test the efficacy of 09 the law and it may be that the tha mormons cormons Mor mons will take the cases to the supreme court on that the federal government has no right to enact laws regulating In morals morais brals brais buthi bai bat in the end they will have to choose bep bei be i tween the elimination of polygamy from their church and add another hegira they ft tv ill either have to abandon the practice of plural marriages OE or abandon utah the choice will be a hard one for 6 4 people who have been wedded d adfor for twenty three years to a system thatis that is the life and strength of their peculiar faith but they will have to make it for the government hab has now how gone too far in the business to recede we have reports A of large purchases of arms and secret drilling by the mor mons but this need not cause uneasiness the feeble population of utah territory Teril tory will not undertake a rebellion in which they would be almost annihilated the government Js concentrating troops near sait gait lake city and has I 1 already there a sufficient force to keep the hd mormons cormons in check till an army jarmy could be do sent forward fonward from the east and west Sepu bliGan I 1 I 1 v v pwe do not agree with our contempo bontempo i tary 0 in ahe the the statement that the government has gone too far in ju the business io to recede we rather believe that with all ail 11 honorable men it is never too late to mend if the government or we would ruid rather say the officials who represent it in utah have gone too far and we hold most decidedly that they have it is their privilege it is their imperative duty to retrace their unwise steps and make all possible reparation for the damage already inflicted if they see no wisdom in a policy that akili I 1 stoop to conquer I 1 justice required that they will at least when they nind and find themselves in the wrong acknowledge the fact and make atonement |