| Show THE press AND THE UTAH revolutionists WE vve publish today to day an article from dhe ghe pioneer press published at st paul minnesota a journal of good reputation the views it expresses on the utah question we have reason to bellive are held by the majority of people who desire the suppression of polygamy the jeresa tress has hit the situation exactly mr van zile and the small clique which he represents are afraid that time wili will be given to iet jet the edmunds act work deil Dell deliberation bera rat national rational fonal measures mea aares and lawful influence would be death to their hopes their only chances lie in precipitate and hasty action brute force and unprecedented severity toward the whole Wo mormon rmon people e the extinction of polygamy would bo be the worst disappointment that could come to them the plural marriage of the mormons cormons Mor mons gives them their greatest plea for rash legislation and the support of religious fanatics who help to influence the popular mind A political revolution in which they are to 0 omo come on top while the monr mon mormons cormons Mor Morr mons mono gamio or otherwise are to be trampled in the mire la Is the object they hey have in view the dress press perceives this clearly and has no disposition to play into the hands of these political trick it would be well if editors generally would wake up to the proper comprehension of this subject and to understand it as the st eaul faul paper does in echoing the cries that are raised by those anti antl ivator imons in utah whom mr van zile zila speaks for they are not really attacking polygamy but aiding a handful of political adventurer adventurers scheming for the possession of a territory rich in resources free from debt and in a thoroughly pros berous condition that la Is the whole story atory briefly told we agree with ithe the press in the belief that the proposed policy will not meet with public favor nor con gressional gress grets lonal ional endorsement because it would really do nothing against poly polygamy gainy but would only destroy all likeness to a republican form of government in the most promising territory of the united states the edmunds law whatever may be its defects has had no time to demonstrate its effectiveness or its weakness ands and mark it there ia Is no disposition po antho on the part of the 0 official now working for tor his own private ends at NV ashington washington to make it effective fec tive he would like to worry some of the leading men here and put to expense but U lie he would be very sorry to bee see an ann measure prevail which did not put pit the control of the territory into the hands of his fellow follow plotters the frees press is right on this question a aar ane while we do not agree with its tures on plural marri marria se e w we commend its ita thoughtful nun run ea passionate 1 utterances to the attention 0 of all public writers and speakers in the united states |
