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Show WHERE DR. MILLER STANDS. The Tribune of Sunday morning desired to know where Dr. Miller, the editor of j the Omaha Herald, stands on the Utah problem.: Just where ho stands on the question he himself can only say, but we will assume to define his standing on the Utah question in part. Dr. Miller sees in the Mormon people many sterling qualities as pioneers and colonists, and as evidence of this points to their many thriving towns and villages ; to their well cultivated farms and the general air of prosperity that surrounds their unpretentious unpreten-tious homes. He likewise sees that as a people they are honest, frugal, industrious industri-ous and law-abiding. He notices among them an absence of that spirit of restlessness restless-ness so characteristic of western towns and communities, that spirit of restlessness restless-ness which too often leads to lawlessness. He sees those things, but ho sees some other things as well. We will attempt to tell what these other things are. He sees that the Mormon people are an extremely religious people, religious to fanatacism. From this fanatacism he has seen grow up the doctrine and practice of polygamy under the belief that the same was sent from God, and he has seen it spread and spread until it has assumed such magnitude magni-tude that the nation has come to look upon it with alarm and to heed it as a question that must be met and solved. If we mistake not, he looks upon potyga-my potyga-my itself as inconsistent with the Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon idea of the family, the idea that the heart and the hearth, and the bright faces of happy children, and the loving care of a fond mother and wife. makp. tb home. He recognizes that it is upon this idea of tho family as the unit of the State that the greatness of Anglo-Saxon nations has been built, and that this idea of the family must be preserved if the greatnoss of the nation is to bo preserved. He also recognizes the fact that it is the province of the State to define the legal status of the family and to say what shall and what shall not constitute a legal marriage ; and he further sees that the Mormon church has assumed to dictate in regard to this question of marriage and the formation of the family, and that its dictation dic-tation has been in direct antagonism to the law, and that special laws have. leen enacted for the very purpose of suppressing suppress-ing polygamy and unlawful cohabitation. That those who violate these laws must be made to obey them, the Doctor does not for one moment doubt. He fully realizes tho temper of the nation and he thinks that the sentiment of the country will sweep over this Territory as a whirlwind, whirl-wind, and that the people of Utah cannot can-not stand it. He thinks that the people of Utah are decidedly wrong in their violation of the law and he hopes that they will see the error of their ways, and seeing it, conform to the civilization of the ago and the laws of the land. He believes be-lieves that the Mormon people arc fast coming to "a realization of the true condition con-dition of things, and that they are about to abandon their unlawful practices, and that with such abandonment there will come a better and more healthy political situation in Utah. Such, we believe, is Dr. Miller's stand on the Utah question. That tho laws must be enforced ho holds as a primary doctrine of Democracy, and if the people of Utah persist iu violating them, the people of Utah should be persistently per-sistently punished. Dr. Miller is opposed to anything like a legislative commission or the disfranchisement of the people of Utah. If we havo misrepresented Dr. Miller we have done so unintentionally, and we hope that he himself will, in his own paper, define his attitude towards the Utah question, and we shall take pleasure in republishing his own defini- i tion 'of his own stand in these columns. |