| Show THE REAL UTAH QUESTION b NOTHING that has bas occurred in connection with the beligio political crusade against the cormons mormons Mor mons has disturbed the attacking party so much as the rebuff it has met in the recent emasculated cu legislation the money ape spent at in washington extracted extrac texi from the half dollar dupes has gone for next to nothing the buzzing of the two Bs being a poor offset to the cash squandered in the luxurious support at the national capital the milk in the legislative cocoanut coco anut was the oath pro vided aided for in section twenty four and that has turned sour on their stomachs As many mormons cormons Mor mons can take it they have no use for it some of tae L Ls la declare they will have hare nothing to do with it and denounce it as a fraud they say in print through their organ the fraud is s all on the liberals because they them have asked and demanded legislation to accomplish results in this territory which congress hallat has attempted to give but if the mormons cormons take the oath the legislation given is a failure 71 it must certainly be clearts clear to anyone that if the cormons mormons take this oath they will remain in power and andia it the liberals join joi a them t h em we will be simply ing at our own owa funeral now what are the results which these liberals expected to achieve but which have only proved a I 1 failure I 1 because the mormons cormons Mor mons take the oath hear what the democratic faction of toe the squabbling L Ls la have to say pay through their little penny trumpet 46 there is but one way to effect the political p political oli redemption of utah it is by overthrowing the power of the church and state party this can only be done by removing the representatives of that party from the local offices any scheme measure or legislation not ef that purpose amounts to nothing when anything which merely annoys the mormon people with without out accomplishing comp lishing the above named purpose is done there is no use in saying that it Is a step in the right direction I 1 the wrath and indignation of these plotters against the majority of the people of utah about a measure sup posed to have been enacted at their own owa suggestion should be proof enough to the country what was their real design congressmen who voted lor the utah bill imagined they were doing something for the suppression of polygamy editors who commended the scheme while they expressed doubts as to its constitutionality supported it with the same understanding ng so with the majority of the pub lie ic who paid any attention to the master er the polygamy cry was raised by the he rascals who are now cursing the law because they knew that would take with the populace and with congress but all aalthe the time what they were after was the control of the local offices cices in utah the suppression bf polygamy was not in their thoughts except as a blind to their purpose if such a thing were possible they would view it with even worse disgust than they express at the new law they want the territory and particularly its treasury and as they admit any scheme measure or legislation noc effecting that amounts to nothing noth lag let this be clearly understood by the press and the national legislators it is what we have told them many times in supporting what purports to be legislation against polygamy they merely play into the hands bands of a set of robbers and tricksters trick scheming for place and plunder plu ader pretending to 10 desire the mormons cormons Mor mons to come within the lawa 11 ll and declaring to the world that this thia Is all they are working for lust just as soot soon as numbers of the make the agreement which is demanded of them those professed advocates of law and loyalty are ready to tear i themselves in pieces and liko like a pack ot of snarling wolves are turning upon each other in deadly rage and antano cism over the result senator edmunds was their patron saint when he was supposed to be moving in the line ot of their purpose now he is no longer saint Je jerome romAll but an obstructionist they say he might as well 0 or r better be a thousand miles away he is sorry for our hunker hunger but when we ask for bread he gives us a stone what are they hungry for office what bread do they demand official loaves and fishes why W hy did they not say so honestly instead of prete pretending ding that all they wanted was to suppress polygamy and to bring the mormons cormons within the laws senator edmunds like some other public men I 1 is fanatical on the polygamy question he has been deceived by these hungry office seeking hypocrites a aad pol imagined he was giving them what they wanted now they say I 1 he in common with so many Is balg borant of the real situation here cor correct but bat only a few weeks a ago 0 I 1 lie he was the best informed man in n congress on the utah situation and what la Is needed what esthe matter why edmunds does not work directly into the scheme tor for tue spoliation of utah anda andja they lament he is the mormons cormons shall be b acted by smaller maj majorities oAties than heretofore but will wili not agree that they shall he be removed from office by the he only means they can be we have dane our best to make the fact plain to the country that the outcry against polygamy was one of the greatest humbugs humburgs of tile the times the howls of the creatures who hava kept it up for a purpose now demonstrate the truth of our repeated statement A small and unprincipled minority are and have been plotting to rule over and plunder the great majority of the citizens of a flourishing and promising territory and that is the utah U tah question stripped of the thin disguise that has been thrown around it to deceive the public let true republican and democratic principles pre prevail vai let local self government have free course in this industrious and peace loving community and those domestic affairs which atter after all ail only concern the people where they exist at but which have been magnified into national importance and absurd proportions will soon settle themselves and cease to be a trouble either to congress or the cou country atry |
