Show jg physic for utah ufah utah has just now a afresh fresh spasm of her old oid distemper Mormon mormonism lm ando has been its custom ever since 1857 is overhauling its political d drug ru shop for a remedy chatwill th that atwill will wiil set the patient on her feet again it if will be hard to find these politico religious disorders in a state are ary generally incurable by medic medie medicines hies fies in lif such cases aises the doctors orthe surgeons surge ons ous remedies only aggravate and spread the disease the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church just as much today to day as it was seventeen and eighteen hundred years ago ao and per perhaps haps after all the best est plan for treatment dorany for any and every growing superstition is to let it beverly alone and trust to the health and constitution of the country to slough it olt off gradually have died a natural death more than a quarter of a century ago had not foolish people and hot heads ignorant statesmen and short sighted priests fed it on that food most nourishing of all to a preposterous philosophy y and stubborn faith persecution lax MAX lebus letus deceive ourselves that beca because ilse iise this is the tile nineteenth and not the second or br the third or the sixth century land and Morn a religion most revolving to the spirit of the ag age e and its best weak in its numbers and disgusting in its tendencies therefore ran rank k agitation long and and trifling war with it resulting at every suspension of hostilities in III some new success of the church will not in the course of ages have a like effect in strengthening str it which has been ex exe perien ced by other religious movements once just now established and wide wido widespread spread throughout the civilized and se semi m i civilized world worlds the tragedy on calvary H hill 11 and the oli oil political warfare wa gd gedan in rome lor tor mor for the first two centuries afa aft after erthe the establishment of the thee empire empi rebut but paved the sure way to the council of nice and but for the fierce warfare waged by the sects of medina against the arab po prophet phet thea thia Koran horan would have died in its berthand birt hand would have llave never flaunted its ere erd crescent banners in the face of europe from the to the pillars of hercules its one eternal truth and two specious falsehoods flanked flank e d by theories and maxims taken fro from m the e epicurean and oriental philosophers swill will charm the tho ignorant the eccentric the the tho ambitious bit ious the su superstitious and the half crazed everywhere lierd andin all ages and when ve we reflect that these classes make up the bulk of mankind today to day hs lis they did seventeen or twelve ceri ceil centuries ago agos wo must seo see the darger that this utah cloud now no bigger than a mans hand is under ilke like circumstances of agitation as likely to darken the whole sky of the future as moslem T ism appeared to be when the perse cautions of caleb forced the prophet of mecca to shelter himself in a cave from the thet enemies of his faith this mormon question has from the beginning been treated by lay quack remedies both politically and spiritually it was a great mistake tak take Q to drive a whole community out of missouri and again out of illinois it was vas a 9 greater reater mistake to allow them to take possession in largely increased numbers of an en tiro tire territory as large as two states of the first class and to govern g overn it apportioning outfits lands and enact enact ennet its civil and criminal code by men of their own choice congress should have havo given to utah a code of laws at the tho start and senator morton was right on wednesday when he on account of this neglect of duty charged the spread and present existence of the crime of polygamy on congress nut but having made these mistakes it is going from bad to worse to attempt to correct them by halfway half way remedial laws these provoke as much resentment sent ment as thorough policy would and have not the merie merit of doing any apy good at all the utah bill as iha tha genato amended it day before yesterday is worse than thin no legislation at all it is simply ap applying n I 1 ving ying an irritant to an old sore which alich might ht have safely been left to times limes 4 hanges changes for a complete cure it will result in nothing but an additional dit lit ional lonal advertisement of the expiring religion n and the moral force livaich al always ways goes with those who ean an show plausible grounds that they ai are e persecuted the amendment gives the judges to the united states and the courts to neither of the parties in the contest it provides that three fifths odthe board to select the jurdes juries shall shail be federal ap poin oin oln tees and two fifths mormons cormons Mor Moir mons rions if there thero is virtue in the logic of in mi representation the jar jurdes juries les ies selected by such puch a board ought to be composed orn oin posed of gentiles and mormons cormons about in the proportion respectively as seven is to five or eight to four to be exact as seven and one fifth is to four and four fifths if the majority of the jury could nind find a verdict there would be some enso ense enso in this method of constituting it but a as 9 this is bof not the case a jury part mormon and part gentile til iii ewi will ili ill never agree on a verdict where the matter in litigation is of importance to either party the compromise om promise is a miserable failure and a plan to defeat litigation we lope lopo t the tho 0 telegraph has made some llope lunder alunder iii in presenting the proceed of congress on this sub bub subject jeet puo but if they were as presented then bill as it p passed assed the senate appears to be the most impotent le lation Either elther Congress should take lion ilon lioney bythe bytho the tho beard and enact a full code of laws for utah taking political and civil power quite out oitt of the hands of these perverse people or it should let iet them severely alone to the ae constant and silent operation bf the laws of trade and immigration and to the spirit of the age TO treat them with these irritating political quackeries quack eries is only adding add ing dry fuel to the flame of superstition and helping their missionaries by a great national advertise advertisement monty to spread it wide and far over the arth oarth every impotent congressional enactment against the M 1 or pr mons like this tills increases their numbers and inspires a fresh burst of superstitious enthusiasm the illinois mid upon them gave them a foothold in the heart of the continent where the tile ignorant votaries vot aries of the prophet 3 separated from the influences of a more reasonable faith and from the surrounding arguments of a became all the ther more the creatures and slaves of his will and the bitterer haters daters of whatever stood in the way of or questioned his liis authority this last feeble feebie attempt to cure the evil which jiow n Q w exten extends to over one hundred thousand people is lively to succeed only in daiv ing the men of nto jinto fresh pastures resin in arizona or mexico where they will plant the standard of their disgusting religion upon a more promising soil than it can find in the united states and like the tho indian tribes whom our stupid indian policy af the past drove to the bouth routh side of the juo rio grande Sr ande combine in future times to vex our oar people alyd and conspire against our government either elther I 1 leb let et utah have havo a it thorough reformation from congress which ab shall tuil till strike deathblow bior at the uhe root of 0 this evil or let the thing alone to tho the certain remedy which time population trade and silent contempt will brin bring g sacramento union peb feb i THE FREE VREE LIST illston 0 af W washington feb 28 mr horace F clark president of the union pacific railroad rall Bail road nowhere upon business of the company says say that over three thousand free oree passes have been applied for t this 14 year many bf them in the 1 interest te terest rest of senators and members of coi col congress as well as other but last night the executive commit committee tee teO decided that hereafter no free passes 0 s oyer oyer the road shall either be printed or issued the pro rata fare fate to san Francisdo francisco and return is the directors of the company are trustees of the entire interests the executive committee have been compelled to look into the thet rights and privileges of the company taly faly to issue free passes as well weil as to 0 r seek k every possible revenue to enable the company to pay its working expenses and liabilities and if possible impossible dividends to sto stockholders ck now that withholds the pay nor for its freight the necessity of cutting oft shefree the free list is imperative on a recent through train on the pacific rall eail road there were eighty ond one free afee pases passes mew yew york heralds |