Show STATEMENT OF UK I 1 red FED stares DIS tiller BATES hate moderation to be the rule danish punishment ment for lewd and lascivious conduct Condic Cond aut act ct with one of ones wives declared a perversion of justice there was in the city yesterday col george 0 bate united states district att attorney aney for utah recently from that territory and still more recently from washington and now that he la is re turning to the field of his bis official duties he made the following declarations tou tousling hing shing the existing conditions I 1 ii i utah and as to the gover governments limen timen ts pro gramme of action by which polygamy is to be destroyed peace maintained and lasting harmony and prosperity ensured to both mormon and gentile throughout the realm of brigham young the united states district attorney declares as folio follows ws that both gentiles and cormons mormons there are perfectly wil ling and so BO frankly to sub mit absolutely to the decision of the su preme curt ourt as iks made in the case of jeter clinton vs englebrecht engl engi ebrecht which does but reiterate the law regulating the judiciary of the territories for more thau than fifty yearb years and which was wag anticipated by every well read lawyer in the country and especially by the attorney gone gene als of the tho united states whose views on the course of the eles emes in utah have been freely and frankly expressed ever since the deel deci decision blon pion af f the loth of january last indeed this late decision but reiterates the law upon the subject of territorial courts their powers and juries as aa repeatedly announced by the supreme court of the united states and also by those of iowa and min hlin neaola it is also in full accord with the published opinions opi niona of the attorney generals of the united states from felix grundy to caleb cushing but this most moat important decision gos goes further than this and lays down the thel doc trine founded upon the constitution that while the united states may acquire territories and hold them for settlement bett hett lement lemeni they do not as under ather forms of government hold them as mere colonies but that whenever there are a lelent sufficient number of people in the territories to organize a local government the people thereof are entitled to such local government govern ment meni and when organized by Conia congress ess oss under an organic act then sa aj to all loaid local or territorial rit orial rights or laws they are as independent of the federal fejeran government as aa are the people of the several states and that the right of trial by j juries uries urles selected in accordance with local statutes is an inalienable right thia thib decision therefore is the most important one ever rendered by the united states court upon the rights privileges and powers of the territories all that is now necessary to give dive perfect peace to utah and to bring to punishment al alt who have been guilty of violations of laws is to provide some simple legislation for the enforcement of the act of con gress against polygamy passed in 1872 and which up to the present time has been a dead letter no attempt whatever having been made to enforce its provis provia ions lons by tnt ind bourth in utah or by the officers of the gavern government ment mont th there ere with such legislation polygamy will soon end in utah and this done nothing is required to maintain and enforce the law lawa ank ant and powers of the federal government ern ment but bat in addition to this tho the vast influx of gentile bankers lawyers miners and business men with their families and their importation if f the extra extravagance in dress and ornaments and the other expenses expense a of gentile ladies is fast ening the chains which brigham young bound around them then railroads telegraphs and commerce have already entered the doors of the sacred mormon temple and fashion with her mighty power will soon render it impossible for any man in utah to maintain more than one wife with these troubles ended utah will soon prove to be the richest mining state tn in the union and cheap jabor labor cheap transportation and all the comforts of home and civilization for those who dig in the minea mines will render peace aud and prosperity the rufe ruie perfect security to ilfe and property will hereafter exist there whatever may have been the crimes and violence in the past and when these people were shut out from all the world like those in japan and had bad no one but themselves to care for under the statute of 1862 polygamy could have been arrested and broken up within two months by simply em eling a grand jury of the united states and arrest arresting ing lug and nod trying a few of the more prominent cases then after conviction as test cases the president might have pardoned them and issued a proclamation declaring that thereafter the 1 lw w would be rigidly enforced it is no fault of president grant that this was not done for his hia orders were to tn enforce the laws but bu it was the fault of the territorial officers who either did not know the law or else sought to pervert it there being heing no law regula regulating ting flug marriage in the territory ot utah but only the religious law of the mormons cormons Mor mons in w which they claim ahat that they are protected by the constitution all attempts to punish them for fon lewd and lascivious cohabitation with an any y one of their wives is ii a mere perversion of j justice ustice brigham Brig hami hemi young has always avowed himself perfectly willing to td submit to the laws of the united states when administered ac accordi according cordi cordt ng to law all statements of danger of an outbreak or viola violence ilce rice 1 on the par pat part pait t of either gentiles or mormons cormons Mor mons are absolutely absurd they will say bay with the president de ut let us have peace new mew york nark merald berat dApril april 26 28 begging la Is almost A profession and one oneus ohe the later phanes of it is begging for the heathen at salt lake that isdor something to assist in the work of converting the heathen at salt lake of course in order to work upon pori he feelings and open the purses parses of tile the christian public in the easta esst east a very extraordinary and exciting story in the shape of a pious lecture or a sermon must be prepared and delivered and all the old relations of wonderful things in the land of the great basin and the newer old women gossip are carefully culled from and revised improved and adapted to the current circumstances and carefully and skillfully presented to the audiences which lecture or sermon i is probably exceedingly instructive and edifying to stiem ard nud is certainly highly amusing tp to people here who know just about bow much of it is true how much false how much highly colored and pud exaggerated how much slanderous and how much utterly lou one of the last of these peter the hermits appears to be the rev mr pierce sometime methodist prea preacher oher ober in this city according to the onondaga N Y standard mr pierce was enlightening lighten lug ing the syracuse people concerning utah and the mormons cormons Mor mons on the evening of april 23 and the most that we shall sy of his lecture lectura is that if the believe all he told them they are by no means ded den in the bump of wonder we have neither time space nor inclination to reduce all the extravagances tone down the high colors nor to deny the falsehoods to which he treats his bis bearers the rev bev gentleman I 1 like ike many other pious or political ical icil philanthropists appeared to rely much upon the intro of luxuries and nd extravagant habits to eaken I 1 mormonism and as the scriptures ay bay to lead scilly women eap cap captive away from it and we leave it to the verdict of all in intelligent tell tali igent u en and women whether such habits re not bad allies and calculated to weaken and destroy rather than thau to establish and strengthen peace good order and virtue in any community by their fruits fruita ye shall know them again A man la IS known by the company he keeps and we may say the allies alilea which he operates with mr pierce was introduced to the syracuse audience by mr lyford who has already decided to t go to that locality as a min minister ister fater the standard further said mr pierce closed elored his hla very interesting in 9 lecture by saying that the great need of utah territory was waa schools and teachers mr lyford announced that the apostate mormons cormons and gentiles wanted a minister there a christian church or minister in the whole valley they had said they would have a minister they would be bed d d if they have a minister and he concluded to go and be their minister he wanted to raise a certain sum of money dostart to start a school in provo was wanted and mr L asked the friends to subscribe the amount several ladies volunteered to call on citizens for subscriptions to aid in establishing tab lishing a school at provo a settlement near salt lake and it is hoped our citizens will give liberally in aid of this benevolent enterprise ir the and gentiles expressed their feelings in that style they certainly needed a minister of some sort one that could stand a little d ning and aud feel teel all the healthier for it however I 1 it is to be hoped that mr lyford hab has obtained the coveted for of course he cant come without it and neither friends nor enemies would be over joyful to see him without a cent in hib hla pocket is a dreadful crime even in methodist preacher at the same bame time while we do not object to the introduction of capital in this territory it is particular of great moment that the means be honestly come by no matter how tight the money market no good citizen could for a moment sanction the obtaining of money under false pretenses pretences e 9 a criminal act severely punishable in bome some countries and in all it ought to be held in sufficient abhorrence to be determinedly discouraged dise disc oura ourn ed even when obtained for the sensational purpose of putting down Mor monism 1 arof or of converting or squelching e who sincerely believe in it SOME bomm of our contemporaries now that it has been judicially ani and incontrovertibly decided that the t been unwarrantably proceeded eded edel by off officers leers of the law who ought to known and done better appear to ambitious to claim that they saw and condemned the judicial usurpations from the erst and ever and al always ways the sacramento record d discusses with the union of that city in a friendly temperate manner the claim of the latter paper to be the first and only ceri cerl eon een burer surer on the pacific Paci nid fid of the mckean mckind usurpations we accord to botn both those papers the credit of having taken rational views of the situation here than many of their contemporaries have among other papers which have expressed reasonable senti benti merits we may mention the omaha herald the ooatha isee iree the carson register So gister the idaho kerald herald the roese beese river reveille sometimes the helena gazette gazelle the colorado people the chicago times the cincinnati commercial oom Com merial thet the albany times the washington capital the washington ington lugton patriot the row rew york nation the portland monitor the banner of light and just lately the newyork new york tribune these those are all that we can call to mind just now doubtless there bre are others which have administered like outspoken censure to the usurping judicial officials and their ring confederates in all eases easer that have havo come under our dur notice where our contemporaries have spoken in a candid fair and lind manly way we have freely done them the tho b best beat est reciprocal honor that we could in the republication in the NEWS of their articles or extracts or in IG favorable mention thereof in moat instances excluding those portions which might be manifestly arising from y incorrect information or an imperfect Im apprehension of the circumstances and in some instances making such comments and correct corrections ious as it appeared to us esthe ae public had a right to expect at the hands of journalists who were wore better acquainted with the situation I 1 IT has been the practice of late for some of our wool growers and wool dealers to sell and send out of the territory the raw wool produced by our farmers and shepherds for the sake of netting a little cash this to ia a practice which cannot be com corm mended for several good and sufficient reasons exporting the wool certainly brings a little money into the territory which in iri mor most cases goes back again nearly as soon as obtained for clothing possibly made of tho tha very wool thus sent away or for other store goods and the number bene berle fitted by the transaction is ia tew few and moal moat of those are persons outside the territory th this 14 f can not be considered a very comprehensive or sound policy if the wool were retained in the territory it could be made into cloth in the local mills and thereby labor would be provided for a large number of our own citizens local manufacturing basl basi ness would be established strengthened and built up means would be kept in longer alid aud more extensive circulation in the community which could not fail fall to impart a more healthy tone to business matters the establishment of successful manufactures enriches a community but a community that exports its own products and imports its manufactured goods must bo be comparatively ively poor it may be that in the past wool has been sold for export because the holders were in financial straits and must sell something be that as it ib may it will be well henceforth for oora forb u better policy to be pursued and the wool to be retained in the territory for manufacturing purposes that our own citizens may be employed and the a 0 manufacturing interest encouraged and developed to the advancement of the general interests of the community |