The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-03-14
How TO Deal with Utah.

when the Republican party, in its carly
organization, pronounced slavery and polyg.
amy twin relics Of barbarism, great truth
was uttered. But. while slavery was tho
result Of violence, polygamy is the creation Of
ignorance. Now while we may, az we have
done, use force against violence, we can only
employ education and persuasion against ig-
norancc. Toward the last, force only nggra-
Yates that which we seek TO destroy.
Polygamy is in such deadly antagonism to
the Christian civilization Of the age, that it
can exist only when far removed from its m
hucncc. BRIGHAM YouNG and his deludcd
followers fed from the midst Of civilized life
to the depths of an almost unbroken wilder
ness So long ms they could live cut off from
the moral and social influences Of the outside
world, they hourished but the moment the
railroad stretched out its iron ann and
touched the pollution, polygamy began to
fail The public sentiment of the country
says to the people of Utah: "What you do
is not reasonable, it is not decent j and oil
ready we learn that q grave division has oc-
CURED in the Mormon church, that large
norton of the Mornons are out in opposition
to the degrading practice and that every day
the ranks Of the malcontcnts grow stronger.
This railroad is great enemy Of BRId-
HAM. The trains arrive crowded with likely
| young men on their way to the mines; and
the Mormon girls, seeing the supply, are not
| inclined to take part Of n man when each girl
can secure to herself n whole husband.
| Under these circumstances, common sense
would teach us to leave the evil TO its natu-
raj and speedy death But Mr. CULLoM of
| Illinois introduces o bill in the House of
Representatives at Washington, contound-
ing the crime of bigamy with the insane r.
ligious belief in polygamy, and proposing to
puncture it with the bayonet. This means
war All attempts TO correct religious error
through force result in war The revolt
now raging in Utah against BRIGHAM, and
gathering strength every day. will end at
once on the passage of such bill
and the Mormons will once more pre-
sent an unbroken front TO the enemy. The
prophet will cut the railroads, and our late
war has demonstrated that, in face Of such 1
force as the Mormon leader can rally, forty
thousand troops could not keep open oui
lines of communication. We are threatenc,
with an Indian war, and BRIouAI woulC
not be slow 20 take advantage of the situa
ton. Our remote settlements would be dc
stroycd. our frontiers disturbed, and the entir
Pacific coast once more separated from III
Eastern States. Aud for what do we rul
these risksG
No man can answer We have put u
with polygamy for twenty years, md nov
that il bids fair TO die out of itself, we sue
denly rush into this crazy action. Is
that these railroads have made the Mormo
property desirable, or that certain gold an
silver mines lately opened by old BRIGHA'
have been found to be 20 exceedingly rio
as to stir up our religious enthusiasm!
Utah is said TO contain over hundre
thousand inhabitants-a very sober, har'
working, thrifty people. The better way
20 admit her rs a State, and leave the in
morality of her people, as we do the in
s morality Of the miners and border rutiians,
! the schoolmaster and missionary, who wi
| find less TO do there than with the pcop
of any adjoining region.