Show FROM JUNIUS the chicago glou globe is a paper published in this city OR it pro leates to be a straight democratic organ and clamors loudly for partin support it was in high glee last fall bemuse because it calculated on government patronage e in the event of the he reele reelection strona on of grover rover cleveland the rhe truth is the advocacy of this loery ery sheet helped to defeat the democratic party in illinois everybody knows it is democratic for revenue avenue only it was got up about abar a year ago by a few discarded journalistic I 1 na listic C alto hacks acks from other papers some of whom ought to be in a dime museum as specimens of ancient coptic art in last sundays issue of this par ocular r paper per is a small article on n me U utah statehood question this professional home rule publication says 8 that at utah must not have state cooj 1 but ut when one reads the whole editorial I 1 I 1 page the fact that utah is opposed sod must be taken as a compliment to the territory in another utricle acle lc le judge tuley is condemned bemuse he does not bend the knee to w king john bonfield and to mother hubbard his prime minis csc ter in another article the chicago wie is denounced for exposing those very estimable persons the abortionist M D Is s in still another article senator shermans Sher mans bill for keng the control of congressional elections entirely out of the hands or of the state and placing them directly under unde r that of the united tates is severely criticized iced surely what is good for utah utah ought to be for illinois but the chicago does not think so the edi top concludes with an essay 0 alg meerschaum pipes and W signed Pol pollute luto 11 1 which I 1 I 1 sup suppose 18 tin for the word pollution TO this M ze Is a good specimen of the ty type which aich 0 opposes es utah statehood tt it is w no now gesn being gi distributed at the doors of democratic households at the oe expense ex amse of mayor roche and his pach dinae it want a union f democrats and socialists by the acer is meant every person who 11 S i lime 01 on his shoes and wears a full i beard to protect his face from neuralgia I 1 bitont protect wont hurt the demo cratic party very much next spring spring because it will be gathered to it its fathers by that time and its editors will be playing craps with biggers down on biler avenue I 1 read lately a series of letters written for the chicago ff herald erald by a person signing himself IL I L B G 11 they axe are of the usual kind written about the west interviews with governor west and other officials are given L B G 11 depended entirely for his information about utah upon professed mormon cormons eaters but he gives himself away when he says when in utah believe everything that is said about distances it saves mental exertion and enables you to tell a good story yourself and leaves the moral consequences with the originator of the tale yes es to believe eve every everything ng is a very nice method of ascertaining pertaining erta ining the condition of a people or a country and it enables you to tell a good story yourself that is just what the scriptural tramps in utah are doing they rhey save themselves physical and mental exertion and depend on malig ners for information this L B G 11 is a wit in a small way of the salt lake city hot 8 springs 1 he says they will obviate te the necessity of employing c a redheaded girl from erin n at a stipend I 1 nd of 4 a week to blow up the ditc kitchen en stove with kerosene once in so often what splendid humor there is in this at the expense of working girls who never kill their babies nor fondle pug dogs what taste there is in it when one remembers that john B R walsh proprietor of the herald is the son of a redheaded girl from erin a girl who was a credit to erin and to womanhood and considering the thrifty industrious capable son she did raise instead of raising kitchen stoves with kerosen ke rosenel elP when heia mr walsh sends a correspondent to utah again it is to be hoped he will pick out one whose hobby is not redheaded red headed girls from erin during last summer a representative of the cincinnati ewe visited utah and wrote a series of letters describing the situation out there from his point of view like all writers ot of his class who depend on active professional politicians for information he says many things from purely partisan or I 1 self interested motives but where he has to depend on his own intellect to grasp the situation he does so in a very logical and very perspicacious manner in one of his early letters he says the elective franchise and the qualifications for election to office are subject to the same disabilities and the utah commission appoints judges of election to see that they are enforced the voter is required to abjure polygamy as a practice and a belief As plural wives axe are a reT revelation elation by their prophet J joseph h and a religious duty the requirement re is in c effect that they shall abjure the mormon religion but the mormon church can absolve them from this oath and their conscience can plead zat that it Is illegal the abjuring is not of unlawful cohabitation but of polygamy so crooked esthe is the law gut but where else in the world la Is the voter required to make oath that he is not guilty of a statute crime before he can put in his ballot they who think that this strong practice will persuade the mormons cormons to sink the their r theocratic system and to cooperate with their enemies to induce a hostile immigration must think them a poor spirited weakly organized and easily crushed people more than all this congress has tried to strike theocracy in a vital spot by an enactment limiting the holding of church property to the value of under which the united states court for the territory has appointed a receiver for the church property the church edifices the tithing house the church farms herds and flocks and the e rest making this act retroactive on n property acquired ild tte prior 0 r 1 to the enactment and holding ing the p property to a confiscation only in utah is this law during the suspension of the appeal the working property such as the tithing house barms herds and flocks are rented by the church from the receiver for example the rent of the tithing house is a month in this way mcdue is arranged while the appeal is pending impending also a modification has been made which lets out the houses used for worship from the limitation it is hard to believe that this will stand review by the supreme court surely it il is not law for any but the mormons cormons Mor mons but what is the chance of uniting mormon and gentile tor for material development by this persecution of the church in his concluding letter he gives or endeavors to give a conderi condensed e a estimate of the condition of affairs in utah he says this concluding letter launches into a preventive policy to continue as long as the need the first movement is to go to the root of the matter by abandoning the pretense of free popular territorial government with personal disabilities which make it a false pretense to abandon the gift of suffrage subject to conditions which are nowhere else imposed to abandon the mockery of jury trials subject to disabilities which nowhere else are knowland know nand which destroy the essential quality of trial by jury to cease persecutions of the church and arbitrary seizures of its property which would not be thought legal anywhere else to abandon statutes and prosecutions which make that a felony in the saints which is a felony nowhere else in fine to abandon a false pretense of mormon popular government and to create a ge government vern ment of law and justice by the ample constitutional power of the united states the constitution confers on congress the power to provide government for the territory of the united states whether it shall create the forms of state institutions in a territory is a rational question depending on the conditions and competency of the inhabitants A capable central government would not abnegate this duty and commit it to sojourners sojo umers rovers miners ranchmen ranchman ranch men and sparse settlers but the form of free local government with arbitrary laws which take away the substance has no standing in law or reason it is neither government by the united states nor by the inhabitants it is not free government in any sense he depicts the situation as it exists but does not make himself clear as to his ideas of a settlement of the utah problem he would not turn over the government to blacklegs pimps adventurers crazy miners and others who have nothing more than a passing interest in the territory and he does not proclaim himself in favor of statehood but he leaves on the mind of his reader the impression that statehood would be better than a government which d disgraces is the republic and makes tyrants petty despots rapacious dolfl officials and persecuting monsters of american citizens who happen to hold office in utah of the executive and judiciary condition of utah he says the mind which has grown in the ideas of the limitations of law and the immunities of free political institutions cannot firmly believe inthe in the legality legahit of the anti mormon acts it is narg hard to believe that an act of congress limiting church property to can be made retroactive to confiscate property acquired by the church it is hard to believe that the just and proper way to enforce such a retroactive limitation is by seizure and confiscation of the property the appointment of a receiver by the U S court to take possession of the church property and administer it seems an arbitrary bit harsh and unjust act it is hard to believe that it is law it is hard to believe the lawfulness of an act which requires the voter to qualify by making oath that he is not guilty of conduct which the act makes a felony nor guilty of coun terian cing clug or upholding it in others in all the rest of the nation the punishment of offenses lenses of is by prosecution at law not by disfranchisement on general suspicion or by requiring the voter to purge himself the name under which pol polygamous marriage is ia prosecuted at at law is unlawful cohabitation Is the voter in aej any other part of the nation require I 1 to qualify by making oath that be does not unlawfully cohabit even if congress to is under no limitations in imposing conditions of the suffrage on the citizens of a territory and if it is lawful to require q rev voters rs to qua qualify by abjuring opinion and dayaw by swearing themselves elves not guilty of a statute statu of felon felony yet this is di different erent from law an and free suffrage as they are understood in the rest of the nation the requirement that juries for the trial of those charged with polygamous pol Y at marriage shall quality qualify by abjuring polygamy in practice and renouncing and condemning it in opinion is in effect a requirement that they shall renounce the mormon religion and shall condemn their church brethren bishops elders apostles and prophets tt violates the esse essential fitial property of trial by jury ury as it Is understood in all the i judiciaries udie laries of english law it is in practice the making of an anti mormon jury to try a mormon the requiring of a mormon wife to testify against her husband is a violation of the common law As a matter of course he touches upon Vy polygamy gamy and devotes considerable sid erable e space to the subject though it is now a dead issue here is an extract this departure from the traditions of law and liberty has been made in the attempt to give the form of government of the territory by the inhabitants while taking taki ng the substance from them because they are mormons cormons Mor mons it is justified by the existence of polygamy which for this occasion is made a mortal sin which warrants the deprivation of religious civil and political rights and demands the stamping out by p persecution cution but they who believe gme that t t the he israelite elite patriarchs had the close counsel of god in their conduct are not going to remove them from the polygamous abrahams abraham bosom to the opposite place because of their plural wives no rational person n believes it to be a mortal sin tt t is i s an offense against our civilization but there can be a rational way of treating it and a legal way of prohibiting and prosecuting it and furthermore the government which allowed the the practice for a quarter of a century should provide some humane mode of living and legitimate status for the wives and children of plural lural marriages marriaga entered into prior prior to the prohibitory statute this is what he says of the religion itself as a whole they are blind who think that the mormon religion is so IR ih begot ten and so slight a system of faith eidth that it will be abandoned their religion is biblical and logical it is the restoration of the zion of the chosen people with the addition of the atonement of christ it takes to itself and vitalizes vita lizes all that idea of a rebuilding of zion and a millennial reign which runs in all biblical C peoples I 1 ea it holds ho 9 that at no now as before fo hect re I 1 the he hurch church of god h has prophets he to I 1 inspiration na pi tion and revelation it believes elle ves the th e bible ible to be the word of god and likewise the book of mormon revealed through the prophet joseph smith by its prop to apostles elders bishops and other ecclesiastical officers olbers it reaches into all the life of the people and it unites with this a business organization which takes in all their temporal affairs afT airs conversing with a saint on their theology he spoke with a superior scorn of the theology which allows prophets then but denies them now allows revelation then but cuts it off way back which blaz claims the possession of the the holy ghost but denies any manifestations or which like the quakers sits idly and walts waits for the moving of the spirit or which has the manifestation of the the spirit in fits convulsions spasms and sies all this in contrast with the WO well ordered and biblical mormon system of consecrated prophets apostles and continued revelations he falls into the error of the usual run of travelers in utah with re gard to the operative cooperative co institution stating distinctly distinct lk that it is a I 1 church concern of course he was crammed with this belief by the louts bouts of salt lake city cit to show L what a gullible being I 1 he was when he trusted to alien sources for information he says the church relation of the great trading establishment entitled zions operative cooperative co mercantile institution ution called for short the coop co op is not so plain nor is the operative cooperative co coo o part apparent unless it be bet that a at all good mormons cormons must trade there the store is feet square of three stories it trades in everything it has outside shops and factories it has just started a boot and shoe factory with modern implements whatever can be made in the country it makes and thus it has a gr great eat system of organized workmen and workwoman work women it has absorbed or run out all the preceding mormon stores once brigham Brig haro had a store which he made a good thing in his various enterprises but this was merged in the coop co op what strikes me as most extraordinary in all the writers who touch on utah is that the whole of them harp on one string they confine themselves to certain features of the church but never enter into the principles of the religion nor do they touch upon the spiritual part of its doctrine perhaps I 1 cannot better illustrate what I 1 am endeavoring to explain than by gi giving ving a colv conversation ersa tion which general sheridan held with one of his friends shortly before his death it was published in the chicago tribune and here is the part |