Show TIIE THE COLLAPSE OP OF i tue THE springfield ringfield Bp republican of the uit tries tiles its hand at a fling against the mormons cormons Mor mons p probably for the purpose of keeping up the policy of the late editor the departed samuel bowles the article is a strange mixture of contradictory statements and sho she shows w a how greatly befuddled fuddled be the brains of otherwise intelligent editors become when they attempt to touch upon me the mormon question the writer begins by saying that there are ar fewer signs of the collapse lof lot mormonism a year after the death of its its ita despotic prophet than were generally anticipated and closes by intimating that til the decay of is sure and will be more accelerated each suc gug beeding year in the future 3 that ie is it is decaying more rapidly every year but there are less lees signs of its collapse now than thero there were last year the Igns indicate the facts the prophecy is to on only lythe the product of of the writer yar lar personal desires he wants it to tu collapse but it domont show any signs of dissolution per haps it he keeps on and predicting he be may ultimately see a sign or two but as the wlee wise of this generation have continuously the speedy speedy downfall of mormonism for the last forty beare we must confess the signs cannot be very encouraging to them 0 the pulan Ile E ays eava more polygamous marriage marriages fl have been celebrated by them than in any previous year 21 but in the next parag paragraph rape rapS he laments thusly f the trouble has been to prove these supe superabundant abundant marria marriages es 11 and again ga in r As this rite A la Is performed in secret by the mormon priests of course the needful 1 legal evidence has always been lacking 11 well weil mr hir republican publican Ee bow did you find out about it how do you know how many polygamous oud ous marriages have been solemnized if tife the matter is kept secret and persona persons right on the spot hero cannot obtain legal evidence of the fact does it not look as if you were guessing or romancing about mormon marriages or writing on something that y you ou know nothing about but this editor at sea grasps at three straws for sup support poil or three supposed crumbs crumb of comfort the first is the united states attorney has just struck a new lead he calls the wives themselves and has just succeeded in getting a prominent saint sentenced to two years in the penitentiary 71 the second the quarterly qu artterly conference con feren ce just j held was very slimly attended the third he puts in this way another hopeful sign of mormon disintegration is afforded by municipal politics the independent voter is abroad in salt lake luke city as well as the easil As to the first boint point there has been no trial 0 of f a polygamy case forever tor for over three years and since its occurrence wa have had bad a change of judges and united states attorn attorneys eyEr cannot theMe the iee JRe in indulge du 1 go it its 9 re readers 4 der dee S with w 1 th urah utah uta 12 new news S less than three or four years yeara old oh what enterprise and what intini ate acquaintance with the tie subject bubl eel written upon bow Now N ow forthe for the second the tho mormon A Mor lormon mon moa church does not hoid hold quart quant quarterly eily exly confer encee what the publican republican ire Ite alludes to is the conference of one oue stake of the church in utah which is not the great semiannual semi kemi annuli annual gathering of the saints but only of those in the locality it was vas slimly attended on the saturday because of the bugy busy season but on the sunday there was as large a congregation as upon any previous occasion of the kind and for the third there asiano is is no disintegration of politics here mere and the independent wot vot botar baa always been seen in utah the peoples ticket has always polled a large majority and it will do eo so again on monday next we are afraid the poor scribe of the republican astrab a left nor a crumb to comfort him the fact is the springfield paper like many others otters seizes upon as a never failing topic of public interest when political or other subjects do not crop up in sufficient numbers and editors 80 ribble scribble away at it aa act ignorant of the question as of the condition of the north pole but sheltered from exposure by the corresponding ignorance of most of their readers but the public are becoming better acquainted with utah and its people peoples and their principles and progress every year and editors will find it necessary when touching on these matters to nind find out facts and cease hashing rehashing re the silly statements and groundless A speculations about the dissolution of a system which is rooted and grounded in everlasting truth and cannot be overthrown nor destroyed if the ide Ite publican wants iel reliable lable labie information about the mormons cormons Mor mons its editors ditora should keep on hand band a nilo filo of tho the DESERET NEWS general crook in answer to questions from the the tho omaha Jf eraldi re presenta tives as to the cause of the bannack annack war re replied pil ed very earnestly hunger not nothing elin alln n but hunger he further a sald eaid id t the h 8 proof is in contes conte tible that at t here there are cases where indians have actually starved to death on the reservatiOn reserva Mons st and added ahe ehe he must be bo a very contemptible being who would not fight for his we |