Show WHAT T IS TO BE lie DONE WIT WITH H UTAH V THE proposition of Pros president ident hayes to wipe out all semb semblance lince to a lican form of government in utah does not seem to meet with favorable consideration anywhere outside of the narrow circle in which the i project origin originated abed the etonian conspirators who concocted the little scheme which the president was indiscreet discreet enough to adopt a and nd recommend to congress would like ilke very much to have the entire control of this territory committed to them by legislative enactment A governor and three or four judges would have what is vulgarly called a soft thing as an absolute body in which the legislative judicial and executive power over so important a part of this great country would be blended in a manner more autocratic than the rule of IM any Y monarch in christendom T to 0 political aspirants and ambitious adventurers the prospect of such a prize is no doubt dazzling and worth desperate efforts to make a reality but they will be greatly disappointed their success received its culmination in the absorption of their plan into the body of the presidential message that was the end of ait until congress goes crazy a plot to hand over to half a dozen dersons or less a rapidly growing T territory errit ory ony which has exercised for over thirty years the chartered rights of the elective electie franchise local legislation trial triai by jury and similar common cons constitutionally 11 tu guaranteed privileges is nat ngu likely to meet with the slightest favor either among democrats or republicans and abd evan even in the event of the gods making the national law maker makers s ilav cmaj mad enough to establish such an infamous system in this republic we think that theco checo mm assion which would attempt to exercise such powers as those referred to would find that their couch was not noi one of roses but more like a bed of thorns to execute men measures against which almost the entire community are hostile is a taik tak that even tyrants whose dynasty is strengthened by the cu customs toms of een ten centuries find most difficult and in these times and under tife tige the liberties that have been exercised would be ba found ext to impossible in pU sible sibie shenew the new york herald considers the thing impracticable and recommends military administration and remarks we acquired utah from mexico as the result of military force if congress will see fit to administer its affairs by military force it can find a way to do so free from constitutional obstacles we remind the herald that if utah was acquired from mexico as a result of military force A mormon lormon aid was used in acquiring this territory the 1121 mormon ormon battalion in its famous and unparalleled march from the missouri to Al mexico exico as part of the army of the united states helped to urethe sec results of the mexican war and to add to tile the union that portion of mexican territory on which their brethren had settled and unfurled the american flag it would be a fitting return for their services would it not to deprive them of their civil rights and turn them over to military domination but if such a thing were free from constitutional objections which we think the herald would find great difficulty in proving we believe the great body of our people would prefer military government and martial law to the domination of a little clique of rapacious adventurers and political cormorants our intercourse with the military tary the regular army of the united states has been mainly of a pleasant character its off omm meers officers are of a different stamp to the carpetbag carpet bag element which has i been forced upon us they have had no private axes to grind an n the A lormon mormon wheel nor personal motives to malign and abuse us and ave generally acted the part of gentlemen A military government would perhaps be impartial to all classes of our citizens while the pre tence of government which the president was injudicious enough to suggest would mean petty and persistent persecution of the mormon part of the population the spoiling of the many for the enrichment of the few the abrogation of all the cherished rights of citizenship shi the establishment of serfdom an and the setting up of a power incompatible with the whole spirit and letter of american institutions and which would require military force to sustain it for any appreciable period so far as we are individually concerned we would vastly prefer the military government at once but under what pretence predence pre tence could bould a military administration be substituted for civil government in this territory Is utah at war with the general government Is it g giving ving aid and comfort to the eneal enemies e s ot of the united states are there no courts or legal officers here can congress pass no laws in relation to the territory Is it subject co eo domestic violence does social anarchy prevail within its borders if not what is the matter why a portion of its citizens believe they have the right under certain ecclesiastical sias regulations to marry main tain live with and protect more wives than one and to acknowledge rear educate and father all the of such unions in the fear of god and under religious impulses and motives but there isa is a law of the th e united states against this yes what then these people persist in continuing these marital relations notwithstanding the law and something must be done about it what is generally done when a law is violated why when the officers of the law are in earnest the guilty persons esons are indicted tried and if found guilty punished as the law provides ro vides but what is to be done if proof r f of the offense offence cannot be obtained ined then you cannot legally convict of course and the same meth method od must be pursued as in any other case if people are said to be engaged in smug smuggling ling and thus violating a law of the united states and proof of the crime cannot bo be obtained would you punish them anyhow how if witnesses are questioned who cannot testify that they have seen the offense offence committed although they know of the general belief or understanding that the law has been broken would you convict the accused on common rumor if not would you put the community where smuggling is alleged to exist but in which evidence cannot be obtained under martial law or deprive the whole people of the or binary rights of citizens citow s just because the legal leral leyal officers ont oft leers are not smart enough to secure legal proof of the crime alleg alleged med ged the whole outcry against utah is is both ridiculous and shameful the crime of these married mormons cormons Mor mons is not that they have intimate relations with more than one woman i that is a practice so common in christendom as to be a matter of sport and often of boasting in all classes of society from the solemn looking senator to the police court shyster and from thecil the millionaire lion ilon lio iio alre aire down to the mud lark your rich Lot lotrario lothario hario bario or vulgar of dens of infamy excites no storm of national indignation the mistress keeping husband or the virtue be tra braying ying sing lady killing bachelor is no object of congressional enactment nor noy general christian resolutions the illegitimate breed ers of the spawn th that at evolves into an army of criminals form no subject for presidential suggestions nor political party cries but the mor inon enon mons s marry all the women with whom they cohabit and believe they are right in it that is the trouble therein is the biffi difference arence if they only did evil knowing that it was wrong after the fashion of the world it would be all right with the world do you pretended champions of law think you soil can make the mormons cormons Mor mons believe you carea care a iob lof about their private social life if s so you are very much mistaken you i 0 political strife breeders bleeders bre eders are after political posit position ioni you legal gentlemen are after fees you priests are anxious to denounce a potent and spreading creed geed because i your craft is in danger you lawm lawmakers law m makers akos akob and presidents are desirous of pandering to popular prejudice worked up by smaller and more moro unscrupulous defamers def amers because you want to conti continue aue in power you pretended pious t ecta rians find in A mormon lormon polygamy a convenient object of denunciation to divert attention from your own shortcomings and the evils in which you dwell and in which many of you revel till you are as corrupt as the denizens of the god burned cities of the plains take all the polygamy in utah with its supposed enormities and compare it with the social horrors of your most civilized and church favored cities and it would be snowy white in contrast the whole country is periodically rouse roused dinto into a ferment over tic relations of a portion of a small community in the heart of the Rocky Bocky mountains and this great nation tion of nearly fifty millions gets terribly excited because a few hundred mor mons have more wives than one who stirs up the popular mind just a few unscrupulous persons who find this subject a P probable stepping stone to prominence and place behave no fears whatever that congress will pay any serious attention to the ridiculous propositions proposition s presented for its action we do not anticipate either military the domination of an appointed clique of fortune hunters to subjugate the people of utah neither scheme would belief in or practice ce of celestial marriage but we touch on the subject that its true bearings may be understood and that the thel motives and movements of certain ambitious and designing persons may be known and appreciated precia ted utah lives and progresses in spite site of ilie the schemes and plot tings of their predecessor sand it will flouri flourish shand and prevail when they lie in their political com coffi flins ins return into the obscurity from which they would never have emerged but for utah and sink into the oblivion whick which which is their certain fate in the not distant future |