| Show general beneral graevs grants lobby hobby horses alors es tile the new now york sun covers the tiie mormon case wholly in the following statement of it it involves a very excellent description of one of several reveral of general granes grants hobby hors honses horses on the whole it is a good time to begin a crusade against the pe culiar cullar institution of utah nothing could be more shrewdly devised than the Pre presidents propos proposition to go for the twin relic of barbarism the party of moral ideas has pretty much exhausted its great indian philanthropy its christian statesmen have been falling away in public estimation and its capital as a great moral engine is pretty much exhausted avith congress occupied entirely with investigations into tile the moral obliquities of senators and representatives and arid the whole country aghast at the tile atoun astounding ding disclosures of infamies amies the like of which had not been suspected or dreamed of and with the tile general belief bellef growing in the public mind that thai the whole congress and party are rotten to the core it seems a very shrewd and cunning device to distract the attention of the public by stirring ipg up excitement in to the tile cormons mormons Mor mons an inoffensive people who if their peculiar pecullar institution is a blot upon civilization are at least working their way out of it under the tiie pressure of public opinion and tile tiie increase of light thrown upon it by tile tiie opening of communication with the E last ast il are they this is exactly our own view of the mormon question it is by no means new As lo 10 long iong ng ago as three years this paper denounced the institution ution of polygamy my in Uta utah hand and pointed tile tiie way of its certain overthrow but all this would not do political gamblers at washington political convicts and super cripples as mr taffe call cali C calls calis ali ail g them from front other parts of tile tiie country colm try desired to speculate upon this twin relic and the tile result is what has lias been seen general grant wanted polygamy as one ofie of several hobby horbes horses by the e foolishness of judge mckean mcke in in tho the first mid raid he now essays another he rides it now to divert attention from the leading attraction at washington ington another of mr grants hobby horses is the tile cuban pony and is tile mexican ila iia nag but the mormon is the leadin leading g hoie hoise se for the time and mr grant will perd perr perform orin a full fuli circus upon it if possible os parson newman acting ai ais ringmaster ning ring masten master |
