Show TEMPER OF or THE MORMONS the to be tested I 1 in a legal fight and a disposition shown to trust american fair play special enco to theny boria SALT LAKE CITY juno june 15 before I 1 resume in my y itin itinerary crar through the tile 1 mormon settlements I 1 wish to rive ive your readers the 9 general eli c ral result of my observation a is to t the ho temper of the tion the urban cormons mormons Mor mons I 1 have e already spoken of their contemptuous indifference towards their vil iners in th alie e local press their suspicious pl cious mistrust of the officials hy by whose patronage that press ekes out but an existence their solidarity or loneness oneness on matters religious social and constitutional their liala amused indignation at the edmunds bill their determination to resist persecution as they call it b by every lawful means in their power and their general but cautiously expressed apprehension that failing lawful means they may be compelled to employ unlawful but of this contingency tile they have at heart very little real real dread drell F for or as I 1 have already te telegraphed to you the church has taken counsel from some of the most eminent legal advisers in th the states eStates and bas ha been assured that the edmunds bill is is an impossible sible and find ini impracticable practicable measure that the commission will be s unless their instructions are supplemented by a series series of elaborate provisions 01 of an arbitrary character and that if they are so supplemented the sense of justice and generosity of the nation will be arouse and public opinion be opposed to the exercise of such exceptional au authority dio rity the 11 mor mons are thoroughly aware of the sincerity of the national antipathy to their peculiar doctrines but they know too that the nation is is generous and forbearing they believe therefore that if by their importunity at law they can bring the eedmunds edmunds bill before the supreme court and can there obtain an au ati opinion as to ita its being unconstitutional the nation will acquiesce i esce in a postponement of violent t measures and leave py gamy to expire by a n natural aaro atro hy fortified therefore in the tile belief belief that they can b ar by legal proceedings procure a fina final hearing before the supreme appellate court of the country and expecting ig that liaf court will give a decision against the bill tile church is prepared to fight the matter matte rout out 1 I ands and the will arc are both theirs and lawyers may rest satisfied that the struggle will be carried up from court to court to llie the bitter and costly end but equally cc certain is aliz this that if these legal proceedings result in defeat and the supreme court rules in favor of the Co commission on the mor mons will not accept the verdict as final they have no intention whatever of sitting by quietly while the temporal author 1 aties of the church so lenient and easygoing easy going in its exercise arcise so prosperous in its lesul ts is usurped by a minority of outsiders outsider who so they allege have already planned among themselves a distribution of tile territorial patronage and the territorial treasury arranged for mutual accommodation as to road contracts and toll contracts and contracts foi new official buildings t settled for each others convenience various various new departments part ments of public emolument and inutility and installed their friends in imagination in the offices biow filled by cormons mormons Mor mons tax collecting by authority au authority thorit will become then a duty of the military for the men who now straggle in pre pretty tty much as they choose with theia ti things ingi and pay pay up lumps of Is conscience money now and again as good oo 00 seasons deimit t or a sense 0 of duty suggests will not I 1 mean that they will not pa pay beav heavy taxes for the salaries of men and the tile profits of contractors who do no more for the territory than the church now docs does at a nominal charge it is no use mincing words about it the normans mormons Mor Nor mons of the settlements do not intend to be fleeced or sac upon as they call it for the benefit of a self seeking political clique it may be that they are too ignorant or too priest ridden or too degraded by polygamy but whatever the reason this is absolutely certain that any attempt to govern these one hundred and fifty thousand 11 mormons cormons Mor mons by the nominees of some fifteen thousand gentile transients will be a signal failure while traveling in america I 1 have peen so much independence that ifft if it was judiciously distributed over L europe drope there would not be a monarch left but here in rural utah in addition to this independence in a general way there is at perfectly unique fidelity to a particular theory of liberty and this inner coil of independence ceso so to speak is as dangerous as dynamite put iut a match to it without shutting it up and it will fizzle and sparkle and sputter out but shut h ut it t up P confine it and then use violence to it it rt explodes guncotton gun guu cotton in itself is is a sort soft harmless substance you could quilt X a babas cradle with it but that man is not suited far for a statesman or a lexicography cr er who goes guncotton gun cotton up in in a corner and then putting a match to it the fowls of the air might find an afternoons diversion in picking up his fragments that remain romain but they would be inconsiderable no there f here is an explosive principle in this mormonism monism wh which iab if analyzed would I 1 think prove to b be simply I 1 I 1 american independence pen crysta crystallized lazed it is a grand kind ind of quartz this same in depend enc etal e it where there you will ivill all over the continent but in this one particular ar depression in the ro rock elc ca called led utah anum ft number berof of atoms have got together aud by a process of na natural tura chemistry that eliminates the prevailing ingredients of the rest of the rock have solidified the remainder see webster lVe llster unabridged by y an inherent power of tolie sive attraction but dropping dropping this metaphor the ru rural ral population aaion of this territory la is f far t too prosperous and too contented under the present kindly un costly regime of the church fo to see without alarm any signs of comial coming innovations with fear of change perplexing cormons mormons Mor mons tho the rumor has lins gone out through the past pasture ure lands of the northern valleys away up into shoshone e brou trou troubled bled idaho and down through the orchards and the cornfields corn fields of the south across th the e pine inc clad canyons into arizona has traveled from the snake river to the colorado from richmond to st george gerge that a cormorant flight of greedy needy men is is flap flapping fees ing its way towards utah to feed on its treasury under the pretense of moral reform and to substitute a gentile oligarchy for se self government government overn ment and obliquities for patriae patriarchal el lal food good faith T the h e ide idea is abroad 0 o ad it fama a per portas et crescio emindo and not all the protestations cfall of all america will reassure the cormons mormons Mor mons unless the church the president of the church john taylor supports these protestations with his voice they are very material men these latter day sainta saints of the church of je jesus sus christ they believe inch in cheap a victuals notates no taxes large fa famili milie esanu t n the gift of thell the holy ol 01 ghost and it is il no use triina trying t to d disentangle entangle ij such a creed I 1 remember in india listening to the 1110 pundits teaching their small brown scholars the rudiments r u ments of a hindmo education and wandering whether in afterlife after life those un fortunato furtun nto donld ever the rules of addition ad ditton from the reverence that should be paid to a I 1 cow or go on all their lives carrying one to the next column whenever they pronounce the ineffable name of the deity much in the same vein thinking over these people it interests me to surmise whether the present is only a tentative and preliminary phase of I mormon formon existence or whether they have made up their minds definitely that true religion is is incompatible with the purchase of gentile dry goods that the principles of cooperation are necessary unto salvation and that Z C M 1 I is inscribed on the gates of heaven I 1 at pres present elit it rea really ily seems as if it was so for while traveling through the territory and I 1 have been over a thousand miles of it I 1 was perpetu perpetually all struck ek by the ii u fi fidelity de with which the these se mormon ormo n peasantry af pf antry cling to the whole of their tenets in a lump there is no picking ing and choosing with them they aro are cormons mormons Mor mons or they are not and when they are I 1 find that they have an unbounded disbelief in political 1 I honesty li and a bottomless confidence in themselves and their leader to come out top |