Show THE PRESIDENT AND UTAH UTA H p vill t iu 41 the ines message sage of president arthur lias hns been looked for with much interest by all clas classes sei and shades of political and religious parties it camo came and wo we have devoted much of our space to its publication on the whole it is an able aa as well as an exhaustive document from it I 1 we learn tile condition of the na Q tot 1 I 1 t aton ton and our relations with the empires E kingdoms 0 and other republics on oil the globe but what lias been most anxiously looked for A in the life message 11 by thousands of people at a distance from bereis the presidents views on utah and the I 1 ill mormon question tho the chief Mar magistrate istrate has devoted a paragraph to this subject it la is I 1 not lengthy 11 r and may not bo be all that the foes of the great majority of the people 0 of 11 this territory expected T L I 1 I 1 in his re reference ferenc c to th tho Q report of eli a ar 4 tile utah made to the 9 01 1 secretary of the life interior ho he in I 1 I 1 forma forms the coultry that twelve thousand people had bad been I 1 chased by the workings of tho the edmunds 9 P roun dg law hey they arp are thus dis T W qualified other to lie hol I 1 doffice or to vote at any election in utah but this fact seems to afford but litt little ae ale 1 satisfaction to mr arthur and lie e I 1 expresses es fears that but little has I 1 j Y been beell done towards eradicating polygamy or solving the problem that 41 4 f has perplexed the world in general I 1 era and the american nation in particular for more than half a n V I 1 f C i t century it is a matter of much regret ta to him th that atthe tho members of 1 the present L U lah legislature arc are all I 1 u mormons cormons Mor mons r and he lie believes they 1 I 1 I Z will do nothing in their enactments I 1 towards the of A A I 1 extirpation poleg A 0 4 t I 1 5 JC amy but even if they should th the 4 t president says bays ino tile law vii I 1 ell i W the commissioners have been acting should bo be made more effective more stringent measures should be adopted by the national government I 1 for the suppression of polygamy y in this territory but nothing ia is said in the message of I 1 polygamy in any other place I 1 f I 1 i t the president has nothing origin I 1 I ginal to offer for the solution 0 of I 1 1 thi matter atis it is too grave too profound for his executive brain to grapp grapple lewith with but ho he feels that I 1 something must bo be said even if 2 g j nothing is done to satish satisfy y the cla clam in f or of the ignorant id orant fanatics naties fa who have hav IO 10 been ravin raving gand and demand demanding ing A the ile extinction of Mormonism hence he has to fall back on the sugg es t t i f 1 j tion I 1 of some of his las most radical ad I 1 4 alid says 46 a 14 I 1 1 I bayor therefore the repeal ofte of the 0 act net upon which M kiich the tile existing government 1 11 1 I 1 1 depends I 1 tho the resumption eption by the national legislature of tho the entire political control of the territory aud and the establishment era of a commission with such power and duties as shall be delegated to it by law 11 6 this much if not expected was I 1 devoutly hoped for hy tile rule or I 1 it ft V A A ru inn i t n r ring i ng z andily lindby all mormon mornion haters baters but there are many thou sand people in this nation who were I 1 not prepared for it neither neit lier did the they y believe bell eyet that t the president of the united states would 1 I 1 decoi recommend n such a sweeping measure for 1 I 1 tho the people of these mountain regions 0 O 1 I of course it affects all alike ever every y 1 11 1 1 roan man and woman in the territory I 1 I 1 regard regardless lem of hia hie or her politics cs afy 11 6 i religion or social ethics it dis franchises nearly two hundred 0 thousand people and places thorn them at r mercy of a few men who nia may y be veiled with almott unlimited I 1 power and from whose acts it may 11 be futile to attempt to appeal this recommend rec recommendation ommen dation will please tit the e L small minority and they will send 1 gifts and congratulations to each other but their joy may bo be of short I 1 I 1 duration 4 we do not believe that this recommendation of president preside F t arthur is in consonance with his sense of justice lle and right ho hag has been imposed d upon 15 and yielded to the 1 force of ima the influences that have e been bro brocht brought to bear upon ili him in I 1 a SC t and which ho he had not the rno moral ral courage to resist however ho lie has k in this matter made a record it is before the world and we suppose ho lie is is prepared prepared to stand by it i in n the meantime w we have no idea t that any mormon will lose one 1 wink of sleep over tho the matter neither do wo we believe that con congress gress y will adopt the presidents re becom COM I 1 Y T men emendation dation in regard to the gobern pent pea of utah I 1 |