Show WHAT SHAIA IE ite none DOME WITH utan UTAH the mormon problem problem has always been an ugly ann ana and Te repulsive one and legislators have been BO so dis inclined to meddle with irith ib it that the question has been buffered suffered to drag pa on from year to fear year e ar until there is some danger of giving tn g the saints the tiie awkward handle of prescriptive right during daring all the years that that polygamy has b been een eon left alone however no practical scheme boheme for dis dia of the troublesome trouble troubie esom sorn crescence exe as been formed and now when the government does move itself itself to settle the matter the policy adopted Is nearly as objectionable as the former In dimmer differ ence was congress however has now taken the th e work in hand band and we are told that all trouble is to be be avoided by admitting utah to the union as a it state with a constitution prohibiting polygamy it would seem fair tha that polygamy should be abolished in this way and ithe suggestion of an sta apparently easy means of from the social moral and political entanglement threatened thre atene 1 will no doubt eril erli enlist lit iku many liberal minded persons in favor of this scheme but it is worth gorth while to enquire b atkind of a Stati state utah would ina ins make ke if admitted under existing circumstances cum stances IS it desirable to increase the power powen ower owen of oil the mormons cormons Mor mons and arid does bil all danger from them theta ceabe cease with the prohibition of polygamy it appears to us that there are many feat features in n their code besides that of plural m marriage arriage which are antagonistic to th the cpr it if not to the letter of american amerlean and republican institutions and that the admission of utah as a otate state would have a direct tendency to strengthen the hands bands of these people and retard that disintegration of mormonism which should be the main purpose in any line of policy adopted by the federal government supposing utah a state who would be bathe bethe the first Govern governor dr 4 it is ily scarcely necessary to answer answers brigham young the cormons mormons elect all the state officers and their thel rown own friends to congress it ibb la Is rumored and with much plausibility that tom toni fitch la Is seeking the position 4 of united states senator sanator from utah in trie the event eteng of her admission and all the th world knows that the eloquent ex con gressman Is the chief adviser and fiato of the prophet fitch is a keen politician and brigham is a born statesman between the two one in the lion house souse and the tho other at washington the state state of utah would virtually be a close borough in aich no gentile could hope to obtain office either state bbate or federal utah in fact would be more absolutely under the control of the cormons mormons than ever before and with the vable bbbie state organization in their hands the influence of the hierarchy would be stronger than ia in the days of old when ahen the pacific railroad was a till still an unfulfilled dream it may be said that even if this w was so there would be nothing ob objectionable in it so long iong ai the twin relio relic of barbarism was abolished but those who think so must possess a very limited acquaintance with the mon history that people haire have always been an organization distinct from the body of the nation their traditions their tenets their social regulations lA tlona are all dlf merent different from those of the american people at large the secret of their co heslor cohesion has haa hitherto been the ignorance of the majority which has been employed by the saga caga clous rulers and heads of the church to keep them subjection in and in harmony the tho best beat hope of the government lay in the influence brought to bear by the completion on of the pacific this thia s sluggish mass of superstition and agnor ignorance an ce and intelligent observers conjured con cured in n the tho opinion that two or three years of this unrestrained intercourse with the outer world would have sufficed to melt the crust of church influence and to have assimilated the mormon rank and file to the bulk of their fellow citizens so long as utah remains a Terr territory itou and under the tho direct control of the federal government the steady and undisturbed operation of these influences can be sec see secured ared and all efforts on the part of brigham young to regain his lost authority can be successfully baffi baffled ed but if utah be admitted to the union the game will be replaced in the hands of the astute prophet and he will recover the aseen denoy dency w which aich the gentile immigration deprived him of in such an event there is reason to fear that we should before long be called upon to remedy a far more anomalous condition of affairs than ever polygamy produced we find that we had contributed to ta the creation of a foreign if not a hostile hostilo power within our midst utah a bon son bense so a is free republican state from the gubernatorial chair Brigha mYoung I 1 would issue his mandates with enhanced authority and his coadjutors in the house of representatives and the senate in washington would second ail all his movements and support him in the execution of his bis policy of exclusion the gentile minority would be completely overs oTers laughed and powerless in politics they avla weald ba be subjected no doubt to such intangible anil anel an petty annoyances as might disgust them into emigration and every stop step of the state administration would be part of a deep laid policy the ultimate end of which should be the establishment of the mormon hierarchy upon a solid basis these are not idle fancies but obvious deductions from existing facts and they render opportune opportuna the inquiry with which we head this article what shall be done with utah sao be cord THE tre washington capital thus of president gran granis grants t a reference boutah in his message the next point of interest that treats tre one to 1 an agreeable surprise is his ex cellen cys reference to the polygamous followers of brigham the pious horror with which the administration approaches pro aches and treats this thib evil has always reen been to us a matter of amusement with no end and of immorality to ube use the mildest term at our dur national capital and mildewing mil mii dewing the civil service throughout the country our government is terribly di distie saed d over the practices is of a few bigoted ignorant people bome gome of these thesel have been tried and punished and the heart of the administration is softened it now recommends that for the benefit of the helpless and innocent issue of these polygamous people the marriages should be legalized this thib this is choice we doubt whether a more shocking proposition could be made and it exhibits the confused and blind manner in which the whole subject has been treated by the government ern ment the prosecutions gotten up haye hare been carr carried fed on not only without regard isgard to all legality but hut Ini in manner manney BO so conducted as to bring the law itself into contempt the juries have been leen openly and with boa boosting ing while the vicious ignorance of tf the judges has covered the whole efnair affair with infamy far worse than the evil it sought bought to arrest |