Show PRESENT PAST AND for a few weeks past the local at has been surcharged barged with rumors lumora of an impending raid upon prominent mormons cormons for alleged violation of the statute relating to polygamy and unlawful cohabitation these theae rumors have depicted depict eds a revival of old time activity on the part of spotters and informers it baa been whispered under the breath that there wag wae in atie hands of somebody or other a loog long list ot of men whose prominence and whose means to gether with certain supposed family relations relatione rel ationo ione rendered them appropriate of inquisitorial and judicial wrath mysterious references nave been made to a fund contributed from private sources for the employment of detectives to aid in the promised prosecutions the personal office and services of one or two well known attorneys are said to have been either retained or volunteered no as a bead headquarters quarto re forthe for the manipulation of the crusade and as an agency for the performance of its ike preliminary details vague and ambi ambiguous gnong as all this Is it to Is about as definite as the current stories are and it is further embellished with as many alleged particulars as to names and incidents as cupidity on 00 the one hand and nd credulity on the other would seem to warrant we bear of some who are receiving pay for services rendered irk in stimulating tear of spies we hear of others who are receiving pay for acting as spies indeed all we do hour bear of in this connection is that the underlings are working for money and as an much of it tie as they con can get while the principals claim that where they got their cash to expend to in such directions and bow large their supply is is in nob odys bust busi new it is always well to put pus people on OB their guard against again the professional blackmailer it in also at all times appropriate to analyze the fancies which imagination conjures coal urea up to turn upon them the searchlight of fact where such suspicions and fears are calculated to work an injury it to la a public duty to examine the motives of trouble and to tear away any virtuous mask maek behind which they way may seek to conceal their features so ao that honest men may not be misled into yielding credence or support to unworthiness nor reputable citizens become associated unwittingly with a movement which they would otherwise deplore and despise the NEWS therefore ventures at this time to caier a few suggestions on the subject mentioned because the moment seems opportune for assurances advice and information to those who most desire the welfare of our territory now upon the very threat old of statehood in the first place it is gratifying to be able to state that there is much more of exaggeration than of fact in the busy rumors to which we have referred those who are liveliest in spreading reading ep them and who affect to know most of the details of the plan have of course their own purposes to gain it is hardly necessary to probe into these ordinary intelligence genCo will suggest what they are in brief plunder 2 is the word with the hirelings and if there are any master minds connected with them in personal revenge and political effect will be found their ample motive in the second place it is deplorable but necessary to state that the names of respected and honorable citizens are broadly used sip as being behind and identified with the threatened stirring up some of these theme gentlemen are in official position some are prominent in business life this peper dots does not cot believe and will not dot unless forced to by their own conduct that the use of such mens names is authorized by them for why anybody of common COMMOD sense should desire at this most important tand and promising period of our whole history to inaugurate a program of such character and play into the hands bands of an unscrupulous clique sur suna oses human understanding that any special affection for or virtue or reaid staid for the majesty of the law is the ino eLtive to the proposed crusade Is too inconsistent to be accepted for a moment Is there no immorality in salt sal liske lake city or utah save that particular form charged changed against some of these prominent i mormons cormons Mor mons are Ar there ethere none in the ranks of the would be crusaders themselves whose who be vision is rendered oblique by beams of vice and debauchery the public pu ablio may pause long for a reply it will never receive one in the negative and yet we do not bear of any such names on the present list in the third place malignity and prejudice falsehood and bate are but too plainly at the bottom of whatever of a plot there way may be A disappointed and embittered cabal has been for weeks circulating in eastern newspapers the basest untruths un truths about local men and utah a impending statehood has been freely confessed as the warrant far fr these attacks president george Q cannon as an hm has been alluded to in these columns was wai made the object of the most violent Ferr personal ional abuse in ID a slipping clipping now before us from the he same ame now new york times he is further charged with having had children by his plural wives since the church forbade ys PY an allegation that Is ia wholly and absolutely false in the same game clipping occur the names of other men against whom are preferred charges charger which the NEWS of its own knowledge Is able to brand as aa utterly untrue previous letters to the same flame paper have abounded abou oded with like falsehoods all designed to fan into flame the old dying embers of bitterness and discord whatever there la is of the rumored prosecutions now referred to to is clearly a piece of the same tissue and in ia built upon tile the awe motives ike aa was the now infamous correspondence started in hate bate it ought not to prosper it should excite the disgust of every decent man fortified and continued in falsehood it cannot can not succeed truth will prevail the mormon people in their acceptance of the manifesto I have furnished an example of fidelity to pledges and of fulfillment of agree ment entered into such as has baa rarely it if ever been given in the history we do not know of a single instance in the record of civilized mankind where a proposition involving so much to go so go large a number has been carried out with such good falta it has baa been oo no less a marvel to the mormon people themselves than a source of congratulation and delight to people not of their faith everywhere have they been applauded for their consistency their steadfastness and their courage men formerly heir enemies have been converted into the warmest friends and have yielded then them un praise the people of the united states from the chief magistrate down have had hold held up before thom this wonderful change in local conditions the nation has baa been and Is in satisfied with what has been done everybody feels that nothing that could have been deman demanded dedus as ao evidence of sincerity has failed to be shown plural marriages as an seln in atit ution of the utah saina 1 have ceased with the manifesto this the NEWS declares again in all uon con ness and truth the church does not permit and it has halt not performed them men and women die ate observing the laws jaws against that feature of their religion in all conceivable honor and sincerity of course the be polygamous families previously existing are not yet ex duct but to is that a sufficient reason for reviving a raid upon them was wag it to be expected mat they uld be all killed afi on the contrary all the former and arguments from men high in national affairs and in positions to control its policy were directed to the suppression sion of plural marriages for the future the past was to be condoned existing exia ting were to be recognized and made legitimate in the he natural course of things the system it was urged would die out within a few years if its propagation were tr to stop it could not be long until the course of nature in the age of the plural wives and their husbands would put an end to the continuance of the problem the local courts sad nd honorable public sentiment here bere and everywhere every where else ele reiterated and emphasized this tate view by declaring that bat a mans duty to his hie plural family was wai to cherish and oars oare for them we need cite none of the happily rare instances where a mans mana failure to 10 lo do ahli where he seized upon a narrow construction af the law for a warrant to neglect and relieve himself of responsibility for his bis plural wives and nd child children re n au objected him to rebuke and we believe we understand the temper of the american people well enough to know that they are abundantly satisfied with the be progress program that has been made in the settlement of this vexed problem with th i beginning chat has been made it in ia settling itself as aa fast a as it possibly can except by the actual extermination of the he women and children wedded and born in it no statesman no judge oo no citizen with any of the instincts of humanity would want the process hastened in any such way the administration does aloes not want it congress does not want it the american people do not want it the he oon non mormon part of population do not want it justice prudence fairness patriotism to any aay nothing of generosity for past assistance in reaching and adhering to agreement all demand that any further furher manifestation of bigotry or persecution cease utah to is on the eve of admission into the sisterhood of states her past with all its troubles is r behind up the future radiant with hope and Aun sunshine shine and prosperity smiles before up we will not believe at this thin crucial moment this parting of the ways this entering upon full maturity with prospects all joyful that success succeed an attend the efforts of ane one or a hall hair dozen mar war plots to gratify private spite and wreak personal revenge by resurrecting the discord the strife the sorrows only lately buried and thus thug and soil the opening page of our fair now new record |