Show f WILL THEY RECOGNIZE IT p rjpie Franklin Democrat Brookville ndiana of the 25th ult under the head of religious jotting has the following Fiftyfive millions against 200000 is about the size of the Mormon question The 200 000 are stiffiiookod and the 5000000 determined I de-termined It will take some years to settle the matter Tho other religious note has more immediate im-mediate concern for the people of Utah 4jTliG Mormons are nghast at the unyielding unyield-ing policy of the new Democratic Judge jUowora in Otuli mid well they may be for President Cleveland told tho Judge he intended in-tended to wipe out polygamy if he did nothing else and he is not the man to look back after putting his hand to the plow How long will it take the people of Utahto recognize those two facts that aro1 quoted from the Franklin Democrat f They are two important facts two stern facts and two facts that sum up the whole situation The two hundred thousand thou-sand people of Utah will not obey the laws of the Government under which they live laws that that Government holds f f essential to its existence and the fifty jfivef million people of the United States aro determined that those laws shall be enforced The Chief Executive of itheso fiftyfive million people has said that those particular laws shall bo rP c > I enforced and that Executives whole life has been a vindication of his word and his promise One might almost paraphrase para-phrase the teachings of Christ when He toldHis followers to be slow to anger and say that the religion of the people of Utah taught them to be slow to recognize things as they are It would almost seem that the plainer things become to common men the blind become more I blinded The people of Utah see the storm clouds gathering around them and they take refuge and find consolation in the belief that God is causing them to gather for a wise and beneficent purpose They are as a ship at sea whose masts are gone whose rudder is lost and every wayward wind that blows carries them nearer to the shoals of their destruction They claim to be the modern children of Israel but in their wanderings in the Egypt of their present dilemma they hate no cloud to lead them by day no pillar of fire by night They are as lost sheep whose shepherd is gone They claim to lead the way to heaven and yet know not what path to tread on earth In the wilderness wilder-ness they hear no voice calling unto them and they will hear none They are as blind men who wander amid dangers but refuse to heed the warnings of those who I seeThe I The people of Utah will see their danger dan-ger and shun it when they recognize the facts the Franklin Democrat has so plainly stated but not befcire |