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Show AS OTHERS SEE THE SAINTS-.. The annexed : article, taken froiii .the San Francisco- Alta-California, shows such a true appreciation and proper grasp of the past and present situations in Utah that we cannot forbear transerring the article entire to the columns of the Democrat. ; The people here ought to be made "fully acquainted 'with the sentiment senti-ment "or the "outside world as regards them and their peculiar practices, and to thisend w-e commend a careful perusal j this article from one of the best-po3ted j and iuoet influential journals of the Pa-J cific Coast , - j The laws of the United Sbg for the pun- j ishment and suppression of pijamy in Utah have been enforced with fidelity Dt the ' I Federal officers. The leaders of the Mormon i Church have shown . a stubborn folly and I cowardice entirely unworthy of Brigham I Young's headship, to which they are the ' paltering successors. The great President j and Prophet was a man of unusual foreken i and intelligence. In its easence his whole s scheme was thoroughly , material. It was a ! method for inducing the population of a rich ! wilderness and enriching himself. He chose i to make a religious idea the marrow of - this j scheme, but it was chosen because at that time there was no otter sentiment sufficiently ' strong to move the masses of men he had to f use, m the face of difficulties and dangers j thay had to encounter. If the settlement of ' utan naa gone along the lines of ordinary immigration,-its present-state -would not have been reached for a hundred years Preai-J dent Young gave polygamy as bait to men, , and the promise of life eternal for a plural wife, asau-indncementto the women and ' aside from this masquerade and pretense ' his colonization scheme had in it all the ! features of most excellent business manage ment. Had he lived, polygamy would have i been ended by this time. He would have brought revelation and the law of Congress i togetherand to have .one ao would have! been entirely consistent with' the grand ob- ' jectsof his scheme for the settlement and cmhzation of Utah. He knew just when to i fight and just where a revelation from heaven i could be used to prevent a collision in which ' his people were to be damaged. i ; , . 5Cheie is no evidenoe- that Brigham Young ever deceived himself, but in the conduct of ( his successors in the Presidency of the j Church, there are indications that he did ; deceive others, or else those others are cow- r ardly and unfit leaders. Mr. Cannon, who is just now out on $45,-1 ! 000 bail, waiting for. his trial (for practicing 4 , poIyganW.'ia a member of the present Preei- i ! denoy. He has long been a member of Con-gresa. Con-gresa. He knows the power and has seeri t manifested the will of this country. He knows, that persistence in unlawful ways J means the wiping out of the homes of his people. Brigham Young used polygamy as a means to people the Utah basm. He would never have permitted it to become the means of devastating the community it had helped to build. This is being permitted by Taylor and Cannon, and for a ; year they have skulked in hiding, like cowards avoiding the legal martyrdom which has fallen upon their people. P? Y ' v ' - . t It is a pretty picture this, of leaders hid-ing hid-ing away from hardshirrand leaving arrest and imprisonment to their followers, when they should have been the first to court conviction con-viction and the dungeon for their religion's sake.-;! ;u J ? t i u . Cannon has been at last apprehended, and his son and two confederates have attempted the assassination of the United States District Dis-trict Attorney in his own house,, and in the presence of a Federal Judge. -. . When Warren Hastings had to at once compose the quarrels of the petty Indian 1 nations with eaoh other and subject them all to Great Britain, he chose a method that has been criticised for its violence and justified justi-fied by its results. He arrested and hung a leader of the high-caste Brahmins. Utah may be sure that violent demonstrations, demonstra-tions, ending in the murder of a Federal officer, may treat the whole church to the rare and radiant spectacle of the members of. its first Presidency all dangling from the same gallows. , ; !: to get rid of they will find a very proper outlet by directing it against their .own leaders,' who have left them to bear the brunt and 'kept out of danger. Well may they mourn - for : Brigham Young, for he would before now have had them in accord with Federal law and in harmony with the sentiments vnd practices of that civilization which has reached, passed and about to overgrow them. ' " - , " . . |