The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1870-03-18
THE CULIION (UTAB) BILL.

"Gath," George Alfred TownscnO oi
the Chicago Tribune, devotcs letter 10 the
Cullom bill on the suppression of polyga'
my as effecting the Mormon question. lie
docs not like It; thinks 1t loosely drawn,
and. In view of the diverse elements now
at work In Utah, that It is NAL apropos, and
will strengthen Brigham After reviewing
| the bill, hc interviewed Mr.. Cullom, and
failing to find Hooper Delegate from Ctsl')
dropped in on senator Nyc, with whom he
found number of Californians and Neva'
dans-and the rest We let him tell, for the
sake Of the way it is told:
Said Nyc, "thcrc is bitter fcud going on
between the Young party and the Smith
party, in Utah. Were We to give them tlis
prctcxt of n war just now, the malconten|
and rcbcllious party would be crushed cut,
and VIC should have, at great expense, to do
| what they would otherwise accomplish fol
us chcaply and peacefully"
II am from Virginia City," said tall,
sincwy miner near by, land have spent
three weeks at Salt Lake since Christmas.
Nobody can say much in favor of Mormon
ism as religion, or as moral matter. Blu,
the reports of atrocities there are always
exaggerated, and often manufactured. The
fact is, that there is q Gentle element in the
territory, which looks with greed upon the
inc property of tho Mornons, and which,
hopes, by making good use of polygamy
and the feeling against it in the States, to
be able to appropriate, or condscatc, or buy
up at reduced values, the Mormon improve.
ments. The Cullom bill proposes to ex-
ccpt the Mormons from almost all the priv
ilcgcs of the people Of less deserving Terri
tories. They have built up fine city, aud
introduced q system of irrigation and agri-
culture as original as it is uncqualled. They
occupied the site before 1t became the prop
crty of the United States, and Brigham
Young has been there in person for twenty
three years. What ever else he may bc, he
has one Of the greatest administrative minds
in the United States, and it does not look
fair to rob those people of all their improve.
mcnts, to deny them the right Of pre-emp-
ton, to break up their organic customs un.
der which the Territory has certainly four
ishcd in remarkable degree, and to expa.
triatc them because we cannot Immediately
stop polygany. The Gentle clement of
Utah is disorganizcd and always growling.
Look at old McGrorty as specimen of this
kind of Congressman. Why, Hooper is
Gulliver beside him."
1--WE, Americans on the Pacific coast, "
said the big miner again, ''src not more phi.
losophic than some people in Illinois and
the East We ought occasionally to look
oyer the head of what Mormonism is to the
fact of what it hss done. Like Puritanism,
.Quakcrism, and the Baptist fervor, It has
answered the purposes Of colonization In
America more wonderfully than anything
beside superstition could do. Those Nor
mons can get ten emigrsnts u Ncvada's or
CALIFORNIA; one. No other SORT of induce
mcnt but religious one would have built
up that half way house to the Pacific, and
made 1t the delight of 50 many an incredu-
lous traveller crossing the great plains. 1t
has clearly been an American, not Psovi.
Dental fundamentally in populating re-
mote part of this continent. At present the
gross feature of it is dccaying by the work.
Ing of natural laws. Schism has brokon
out. The births there as in every other
part of the world, run nearly equal, sex for
sex, and only the immigrant women keep
up tho complement of Mormon's family.
If VIC are going to put such screw ~ the
Cullom bill upon the Mormon flock, and
prccipitatc war and ravagc upon Salt Lake,
what shall we do when the Chinese ques.
ton confronts US on the Pacific slope? For,
as sure us Asia looks out upon Californis,
the destiny of the Pacific coast is to be ia
pancsc and Chinese. There is where our
immigration is to come from. European
immigrants will not 50 to California while
women arc gathering the crops of Iowa.
The Mississippi Valley offers far better in
ducemcnts in land and labor than the Pa
cific coast to Europeans. Neither Califor-
nia nor Nevada is growing. California cast
more votes in 1857 than she does to-day.
Despite our prejudice, the Chinese will get
our coast"
"And tl,en," said I, ''what will become
Ut the institutions we have planted there p
Senator Nye looked up and said: .os.
"Wcll If Josh can beat God, I'm for
JOSH" ... n..r @1 .s gre. 1..
That's the case In a nutshell, /" said the
big miner ut Is NOT In the power Of any
inundstion to make head against the insti.
tuti0ns we have given Cslforn Ia"
why" said Nye, II remember reading
sermons delivered about the time Mr. JET
ferson bought Louisiana, going 70 show
that the Catholic and French element there
would uproot Christianity III the whole
Mississippi Valley" '..s > ' ..'l ..'
II have read the Cullom bill,n said the
miner, in conclusion, ''and probably Il was
eonscicntiously drawn up, but It b loose
bill. 1t kills mouse with . mountain. II
Il q bad precedent and will work disorder
In tho Territories. rctsrd the speedy extinc-
tion Of polygamy, and he help to the dom.
ination Of Brigham Young. We have