, 1870-06-28

d. P. says that the passage Of this bill
" would be the beginning Of very respectable |
war" And say, man only makes himself
By talking such stuff. Tho Nor
mons have as little inclination a. ability to
fight the United States.
D. r. esys that, "so aoon xs Judge Wilson'S
removal became known, tho bar OF Utah, md
the citizens Of Utah. assembled and ntte1ed
their earne.t protest" which ia not 20. They
did no such thing.
The Gentlea Of Utah viii ba grateful to
Graut for sustaining Shaffar. According to
D. P, hsdeclined to examine Wilson's papers,
with tho remark !" I cannot continue you in
have harmony among my officials" hope
sis is t.re, even it D. P. did say it.
They-the said 0entiles-8iN also Appre-
ciate alr. Wilson's compliment, when he tells
D. r. that the Mormons "appear to us very
moral from the contrast between them and
their ne1ghbors' na. He must have
been reading some Of Senator NJe'a diatribes
against his constituents, as reported by D. P.
II Eye ia fair specimen, 1t must be acknowl-
edged that they ara hard Eat, Mr. Wilson'S
Co1iune illustration is not trre, however,.
There was but onc club room in Corinne, 1ast
year, and that went there from this sitJ. In
the fall its proprietofs went to San Diego,
md eince that there hare boon no "gamhliug
hella" in Corinne. There may be haH dozen
lewd houses, but no one in Corinne preteuds to
make sacrament Of prostitution. That is
done hero in moat every house, and the houses
hero where it is unblushingly p1actised as =
yice,-and there s1e such, ,-are respectable in
comparison. THERE'S great pfeponderance
Of saloons in Corinne, compared with Salt
Lake but, leaving out the ranaient popnla~
ton Of the former plsce, no mura liquor Ia
consumed there than in tho latter in proper
tion to the number OF inhabitants Tho two
saloons in Salt Lake are run by Geutilas, hnt
one Of them pays the city s7, 900 year as L.
cenee,-which amounts to dividing the profits
with Brigham, and nina-tentha Of its patrons
are Mor1oons. The Mormons drink 1s much
liquor in proportion to their spending money
as Any people in the world.
Wilson's telling D. P. that ho had no trouble
whatever IN executing the lawa ii Utah, ia rich,
considering that neither Wilson nor any OF tho
officers OF bis court, nor any Of his ofscial COL
leagues, ever attempted to execute the one Law
tho Mormons refuse to obey.
But rich ~ that is, it is exceeded By Wilson'S
proposition to send missionaries, especially
Methodist, among the Mormons, to convert
them to the views Of their immoral neighbors:
" They arc quiet, Industrious sort Of poo
ple," he says, appearing to III very moral
from the contrast between them and their
neighbors." And In the next breath, PoIyg-
amy is An unnatural relation, and 20 directly In
the faco OF modern civilization that it cannot
long survive tho contact-" But is 1t well,
Judge, to thus contaminato these quiet, indus
trionB, moral people b5 sending among them
their immoral neighbors ~ rniAaiopa.issa
Wilson il candid and correct in eoue Of his
state1nents, I will admit; e. g., who're he SAYS
"taat the erusado now going On against the
aainta docs not originate IN Any hostility to
their religious belief or Practices" Indeed, it
does not Murder, md lechery, and theft,
and e1toTtion, and treason arc not religious
practices.
Tho trouble with Wilson was, that ha was
too limp for tho new order OF things. The
President wants to prescribe pofygamy and
those who ptsctisc 1t. Wilson couldn't SEQ it.
Ho could satisfy h1uaeH that man living
NTH u dozen or twenty women as wives was Of
good moral character, and ! Chief Justice was
wanted whose ideas Of morAls wcra ~ little
tighter laced"
shAfer never refused to commission officers
appointed BY bis predecessor and confirmed
By tho council. He refused to commission
of6ce1s who had been elected By tho Legiala-
ture in Joint convention, without warrant Of
1aw. He refused, also, to commission Probate
Judges to exercise functions conferred on
them by the Legislature in defiance Of Law.
In both these po.itions, 4}ler he took them
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