Show SQUILLS A certain morning contemporary and which for the sake of clearness and definiteness and that it may not be confounded con-founded with another morning contemporary contem-porary we shall designate as Secundus has a long and touching tale to tell this morning of how by the persistent demands de-mands for justice by devoted men in Utah the Poland law and the Edmunds law were finally wrung from Congress Now this Tale of a Tub does not say to what the devoted men have been devoting devot-ing themselves and our Utah climate does not agree with favorable conjectures in their behalf If it is necessary to resort re-sort to conjecture to find out what the i devoted men have been chiefly engaged in conjecture alone shall be responsible for the answer Conjecture says First From the simple fact these men have wrung the Poland law and the Edmunds law from Congress it is shown that they belong to a ring and that they ring the changes on Utah and polygamy as much for scare as for cure Conjecture says that when Secundus admits the following It seems clear that polygamy will never increase anymore any-more here and that under the present order of things it will gradually be beaten down As it falls to pieces the whole structure which rests on church rule mustits cement gone slowly disintegrate and at the same time calls for a commission that Secun dus cares more for power than for principle prin-ciple and seeks revenge and not reform And further conjecture intimates a belief be-lief that some not all of the devoted men who have wrung wish to see if they cannot do a little of the ringing to which they say the people of Utah are continually con-tinually subjected which is in great measure true on their own account and that while a wise and bene ficent city council did vote 40000 to a church yet the devoted men would vote it to themselves And when conjecture had said this it drew a little closer and with a knowing doubting air said it was convinced that the devoted men of Utah were full brothers to the devoted men of reconstruction times in the South and that if they could only be transformed into a commission as they desire they t 4 would give us just such a free and glorious glori-ous government as was given to the South and that they would free us from the burdens of taxation and plunder by repudiation But in this we are satisfied that conjecture is wrong for these devoted de-voted men of the Salvation Army are made of no common clay and are above all parties all prejudices all principles and are true Americans tor ficcundus is their leader The thoroughly devoted men of Utah are not numerous but they are all powerful in their own opinion They are a kind of Thermopylae crowd with Secundus Amcricanus playing the part of Leonidas These heroes do not believe in soothing syrups for political disorders but are dewed to squills calomel calo-mel and those medicines which are most drastic in their action Belonging to the old school they rely more on their method than their medicine and when told that the old practice has been modified modi-fied and that now the doses are regulated according to the condition of the patient and that the patient must not be made to conform to the doses they reply that the rules must be adhered to whether the patient pa-tient lives or dies There remains much to be done in Utah even now but what we most need is political education for the people and not commissions for a band of self styled devoted men and men who are not so vastly superior to the average citizen either Both political parties in Utah have been entirely too devoted to cursing each other and never once thinking of anything beyond their devotion devo-tion But the devoted men will have to keep on devoting themselves in the future as in the past |