Show LEITING UP ON POLYGAMY things are at a deadlock dead look lock in utah and the mormons cormons do not know whether they are criminals today to day or first class prophets the war upon polygamy was commenced with vigor and one fellow named hawkins was tried and convicted of having more wives than the law allows brigham and several other large mormon lights were arrested and held to ball bail after reaching a point however where work should have commenced in earnest the prosecution i seems to have been dropped altogether it is stated that the prophet and his bis lieutenants are ready for trials the legal machinery can be set in M motion 0 tion ilon at onea onca the charges and specifications ficat ions are complete the witnesses can be produced whenever their pre sence bence is required and united states troops are on hand to prevent any outside interference but notwithstanding this general readiness affairs have been at a deadlock dead lock for weeks and months the consequence Is ia that the influence of these proceedings is seriously lessened if not wholly lost the mormon community are justified in thinking that the government does not know what it is about and possibly is anxious to retreat from the advanced position it haq hai assumed while the champ champions lods lovs of polygamy havo have had abundant time to muster and or organize 9 anize their forces and get ket ready for the attack when it does come demoralization has given way to discipline and the saints male and female are inspired with fresh courage to buten bumen the last extremity of adverse fortune rather than abandon the cornerstone corner stone of their social and religious creed nor hab bab there been boen on the part of the administration or the federal officials in utah any decent explanation of this thia un mastery Jy and unwise inactivity it has been intimated that a lack of money was the cause causo but such an excuse is ridiculous if false disgraceful if true surely burely the government of the tho united states would not instruct its agents to arrest distinguished personages and bring them before the bar of justice without furnishing sufficient funds to pay expenses yet this thia Is the only apology offered so far as we are aware for a shameful and ruinous inaction but fortunately the truth is likely to be soon revealed chief justice mckean of utah is announced ason aaen on his way to washington for the purpose of consulting with attorney general williams in regard tb to the best beat method of getting rid of existing complications precisely what these thebe complications a are is lanot not stated elated but it Is a acknowledged c that the affairs of the terr territory altory are la in such a terrible mudd e that several cembara of congress h avia had a slight glimpse of the situation openly declare thoy they will not vote a dollar of appropriation until full and satisfactory batis factory explanation is made we hope this thia may not bo be too long delayed and meanwhile it is much to be regretted that if the government had fully resolved u upon P on the suppression of polygamy its first movements toward that end should have been so lamentably weak and clumsy clum sy new anem york sra sta star r |