, 1870-07-14
rrRoM oUn SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.

brace it and free themselves from the chains
Of polyg at once. This idea is wholly er-
wives could ship OF all Of her co-wives, and
| rule alone in her husbands household, she
would vote for monogamy at once; but the
trouble is, that only one out OF house full, or
several honses full, could do this, aud the ms
jonty would certainly object to the change, on
! no bread" It is possible that very few Nor
mon wives might, if the opportunity was Of
fered, leave Utah and seek an asy-
lurn elsewhere; but it would be very
few indeed, I aseure you It is not that the
more refined and intelligent Of them may not
proper change, but that they have voluntarily
shut themselves OH from tho chance OF such .
| change in their condition. II the form Of
marriage into which they have enterod were
| dissolved by legislative enactment tomorrow,
where would OF could theso surplus ex-Hives
| gos Though q majority Of them entered into
the Eo-called marriage relation Of Mormonism
in good faith, and from conscientious con-
| yiction Of their courBe being right and proper,
and they cannot, therefore, be clsssel ss
common women, who have, through weak
ness or willtullness, fallen from the
upon life of vice, they ute still damned in q
certain Bense Of the word. and ef7ectually
deba11ed from tho chance Of entcring upon
lawful marriage with the Gent1teB. There is
10 considerable demand tor secondhand
wives IN any part Of the Omitted States at
present, and there is not Likely to be any i'm
proyement in the market for years to come, at
least. Even in the Pacific States marrying
men are at . premium at this time. Most Of
them, too, have children, who must be pro-
vided for, and to compel them to leave their
husbands, and 60 forth helpless into the
| We need lot legalizo polsgamy, but we can
manifest mastery inactivity, SO far az the
institution it.elf IL concerned, and provide for
| gradual extinguiahment Of the curse by IN
4 direct but more enectual measures.
The most available portion Of Utah is al
alone wholly, the population could, undor no
circumstances, be nore thnn .quadrupled, un-
| lees new territory aajacent could be opened
up. There is no such territory. Mormonisrn
cannot spread northward, for the Gentiles
arc ahead in that direction; westward, for 3
wide, irTeclaimable desert, incapable Of sus-
tanning population. extends from tho vest
eru shore OF Salt Lake to the eastern mining
camps Of Nevada; eastward, for tho Gem
| tiles already possess the land, or what thero
ia worth possessing. Will they 20 southwark ?
think not. There is not much available ter
ritoty north Of the Colorado River, and south
| Of Salt Lske, not already occupied by the
] Mo1moag. whose detached settlements extend
10 that stream: and the white people Of A1i-
| zona and the ApAches will see That It does not
| spread that way. There has been much
| idle talk about another exodus Of tho
eaints to Mexico, or the iBlanda Of the
Pacific. Mexico would not permit an imperio
make it very lively for such an immigration,
while removal Of tha Mormon people to q
distant locality like the islands Of the Pacific
Ocean would involve sacrifice Of their mate
rial interests, toll, suffering and distress such
az they arc not at ali inclined to submit to.
faf$ {n1n akn3.
they now are, living not lu1uriantly, bat ut
least comfortably, from their. labor on their
little farms, and are content to remail 80.
Brigham Young is also growing old has
failed yisibl5 aud to n very appreciablo extent
within the past year-and is no longer equal
out into new wilderness. conquering it, and
building up new empire He wzuts to be- let
alone. Many Mormons arc tfrod OF the iu-
cess ant axactions Of tho council and the med
ding Of the Church in their material Affairs,
but they respect brigham for whit ho has
they may while be lives, and then demand and
receive concessions from his successor until
the present church polity will have become 80
modified 1s to be harilly recognizable.
The maximum OF the evil of Mormonism
has been reached, and it cannot spread much
further. We need do nothing to provoke
collision between Gentiles and Mornons, and,
on the other hand. We can give the Genti1ea
aud "refouneEs" such moral support and as
sistaneo as will enable them to hold their own,
and gain on the peculiar institution little by
little. and tho Mormon faith shall become go
@ess' ssn' sufficient asae % ponts no 'a"ssf of ae
ence from other faiths to make It
more Objectionable and aptagonistic to tho
genius Of our institutions than Metho0ism,
or IresLy yterianism OF Catholicism. Let every
possible encouragement be given to the de-
3or{ {off Nf T&r1.
Motmons will not engage in mining to any
great extent, and Gentlles will como in By hun
dreas and thousands to every successful min
ing camp. While agriculture is OF necessity
the chief occupation Of the Mormon people,
polysalny cannot tlourieh in mining com
ulation. Il must be isolated, and, in fact, sit
uatcd just as it has been heretofore
situated in Utah, to exist at all on
the Amen continent. Tho Territorial laws
should be m1de subordinate to those Of tho
United States IN all things. and 4 sufficient
plicit obedience 10 tho laws Of the United
States on every occasion. Up to this lime
such 4 thing as a fair aud square election has
never tcen held in Utah. The elections have
been the broadcast farces imaginable. The
tickets are put up in full by the church leaders,
wished to have an actual voice in the selection
10 be heard. The Il election" OF Ma1imillian
TO tho throne Of Mexico within
the circle Of French bayouets, with no
provision for tho reception Of mo- votes,
one would be taken out and shot, WIS not
more complete swindle than tho elections in
Utah have been from the beginning, The
Government should SEQ that every step ia
taken to Eecure perfect freedom oF the bali
lot in Utah, not merely in name, but in fact;
and that ~ Gentiles q others Who vote in or-
poaition to the Church, as we'll aa those who
vote with it, are protected in their persons snd
property afterwards. Governors should bo
sent there who are not afraid to execute the
laws lmptrhally, and cannot be "captured"
and made mere automatons Of by the willy
President and Council, aR some have been.
In short, every induceMent should be offered
to Al influx Of Gentle population into Utah,
and IN few years the sttrition would wear
away the rough edges OF Mo1moniHm, polyg-
amy would gradually disappear, and, ia time,
Utah could be safely admitted as . State Of the
Union Competition would drive the Mozmons
to adopt the customs Of the new comers and
enter new fields Of industry, and the change
would come about gradually and almost imper-
cepdbly. but not the lesa surely and completely.
These are my ideas Of the proper method Of
getting rid Of polygamy and reforming Nor
moniHm.
AND THE aaAssHoPpEa SHALL BECOME BURDEN,
As We rode along the streets Of Salt Lake
City, We saw people at work in the gardens IT.
tached 10 nearly every homestead, driving the
grasshoppeTs in a~arms out OF the enclosures,
using green boughs to whip them with;
coming back. A person Walking along the
street wou1d have cloud Of them rising be-
fore him at every step. The grasshopper is,
next to polygamy, the greatest curse OF Utah
They are sometimes bad enough in certain
sections Of California, but never amount to
A7~-n 49, YtrH. p
Of Salt Like they have but = limited field to
work upon, and, when they come out in full
strength, they swaep every green thing before
them and the unhappy farmer sees the fruits
Of bis year Of toll destroyed in day ora week,
rs completely - il conaagration hAd passed
he left the city on one occasion when every
thing Was looking magnifcently, the trees in
full foliage, the flowers in full bloom, and the
vegetables in full luxu1iance. Three weeks later
he returned to find that every green thing had
disappeared; not leaf on tree, not flower
in the gardens, not blade Of grass in the
fields, all had been swept away BY the grass
hoppers, Whose bodies Lay 1otting by countless
millions on the ground.
Sometimes tbs grssahopper crop partially
fails in Utah, and the other crops have :
chance to mature. At other times the gulls
MIA, or possibly the Pacific Ocean, as il guided
IN in their infancy, thus saving ihe crop for
tie season. At other times ali remedies fail,
and they destroy the crops in all dissricts,
compelling the people to fall back on theiz re-
aerye gupply OF the crops Of previous seasons,
and making it necessary for The bands Of famiSr
lies to pl1ce all under their charge upon ra-
tious dealt out with spating hand daily for
the next Twelve months. If I. we're looklny
Tor a location on which to start = grain or frut
ranche, I cartainly should not select Utah
n conversation with Mr.. Young suggested
that Providence had bean more kind to u in
California. Soon after the Nintes rama have