Show the mormon question there is a good deal of noise abcug the relation of the general govern government ment to the peculiar people who ho have made a commonwealth inthe in the deserts of utah SIn since the solution of the slavery problem the there has been no question about which the demagogues have shown so much cant as this mormon question we admit everything that can be said against the mormons cormons Mor mons they are polygamists and it is our duty as a christian people to extirpate polygamy which with slavery is a twin tvan relic of barbarism we admit all this argument and yet at the same time there is another point from which this mormon question is to be viewed and it is this that with all their faults the mormons are citizens and are entitled to the protection of the laws of the united states laying aside the questions of religion inq ani polygamy koly goly gamy we see in the mormon country the achievement of one of the greatest works of modern times when we come to write the history of the anglo saxon race in america the historian will dwell upon the fact that a strong arong self willed man mar marched ched thousands of miles over the desert defying the obstacles of nature and the attacks of the merciless savage bavage until he found a plain apparently a as far removed from civilization as the middle of africa is today to day that he there e established st a blis hed bed a community which in twenty five years has crowd grown to be a powerful prosperous well ordered Commonweal commonwealth tb rich in every element of material prosperity its capital one ef of the finest if not sot the finest city west orthe of the mississippi mish sis ss sippi P P W with t h a hundred towns and villages a e s d dependent e p ed den t u upon po n 1 it t a 9 state tate fate wh f frugality rug a lit y prudence and most of the virtues which underlie success in life are brought to a high perfection the historian will say that this was the work of aa an ang aug anglo angio saxon on of a plain rhan than man governed er lied only lib by a powerful resolute and rude intellect he will say that the people who composed this community were drawn from the lower classes of other nat nations fons lons that they were taken from worse than poverty and despair to a forel loreign foreign 0 an country and given contenta conten contentment tm ent and prosperity in america this thil work is one of the striking problems in our civilization ve we think it is emerson who remarks that with the exception of mohammedanism mormonism is the only religion of modern times that has shown force it is not wise for us in considering the mormon question to allow eur our dislike ot of polygamy to close our eyes to the true merits of what the mormons cormons have done in utah nor because we regard polygamy as a crime and its existence an ulceration in ju our society should ouid we justify the tho adventurers the off scour acour ings of the eastern cities who have hav e been tempted by the prosperity of af the mormons cormons Mor mons and have poured into utah meaning to rob the people of what they have sorely earned and men who go there for plunder not because they want to make war against immorality im morality and it is difficult not to see this gentile spirit in the proceedings against brigham young which were reported recently of his imprisonment in the penitentiary and in the fact that these acts acta of the fed red deral court were received with great satisfaction y the gentile community it is difficult not to see in most of the acts of our eur federal off omm meers officers in UL utah ah a demagogical spirit which should not be encouraged r let us deal with the mormon question as we should have dealt with the slavery question peacefully and to the end that our laws should be vindicated while the rights of the citizens shall be secured do not let the avarice avarico of eager bustling hustling adventurers brive rive us into ln injustice justl e toward the mor mons polygamy is a sin and a crime in utah but at the same bame prostitution is a sin and a crime in new york there is as much reason for the conduct of our federal courts in utah as there would be for the same conduct in new york upon the ground that prostitution was here a tolerated and almost recognized evil aud arid that therefore we as citizens had bad no rights which the federal authorities are bound to respect new york geraid He raid march 18 anything by the abuse of it may be made madd a sin and a crime but we deny that plurality of wives vives is essentially ither either a sin sin or a crime in this four fifths of the human race in all ages would a agree aree ree with us us which is a heavy majority comparisons are odious and we do not alloy allow that there therel is or can be any comparison between polygamy and pros titu tion one is hon honorable erable marriage and the aher other is 14 ls is shameless debauchery bau chery ED NEWS |