The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-06-18
A GENTLE GROWL.

with both hands knocking Mormon
dignitary over with one fist and
showing a Gentile's boot heels to the
sunshine with the other. Iii is bitter,
savage. Gen. Grant comes in for
his share of abuse for allowing the
appointment of Brigham Young's
son to the Military Academy-a fu-
ture commander of another Nauvoo
legion. the Journal thinks. 1T
boots not for somes interviewer of
Grant to say to the country for him
that he could not have prevented it.
He did not prevent it,, and Brigham
triumphs as usual"
As for the report that Brigham
contemplates removing to the Pacific
islands. the Journal boots at it after
this fashion:
Not he, Why should he? He has
a much better thing in the United
States-the Territory of Utah. Who
interferes with him? Does any one
imagine, for a wonder, that the laws
of the United States, where they run
counter to Brigham's wishes. con>ti-
tute an impeachment to him? = :
Brigham has no more occasion, as
things go, to remove his people to the
Sandwich Islands than Grant has to
remove the rest of us. Nor do we be
lieve he has seriously thought of it
since 1857, if ever, unless it We're to
remove them back to Illinois and
Missouri.
The chances are an hundredin favor
of Brigham's occupying a seat in the
Senate of the United States, to n of
his ernigratingt to the Sandwich Islands
or anywhere else.
Nor is our ferOcious exchange any
better satisfied with Congress. 1t
complains that 1.-The anti-Mormons
get no backing from Congress or the
Departments. Red tape is in the
way" Members of Congress-Sena-
tors-are ''afraid TO tread on the
corns of the Mormon delegate" and
worse than all the devoted few get
no backing from men who come to
Utah as visitors. They seem to all
become fascinated with the splendors
of the high church. The Lion house
is thronged with the beauty and
fashion of the East, the high and
mighty of the land, and the Presi-
dents house lis the scene Of a con-
slant leyee as thronged and success
full as any p%otentate in the world"
The following extract from an East
ern paper is endorsed, and gives the
editor peculiar vexation:
\ long procession of Eastern sight
Seers is entering the gate, and amongst
chem are many fine Young women.
many wives, many young girls and
children, and they pay as much res
pect to Brigham as to the Grand
Turk. None of them appear to
stand in dislike of him. because
of his much marrying. and they
push aside the Mormon brethren who
stand reverently of on the porch till
/ inc idiit~IlhNlIi- 'IibA4 ~ IN L I &c
Queer to see thai fine Boston belle. tall
aS "A queen. with the rose and blush OF
~maidenhood d%ignifying her for come
impending husband, shake hands with
the bland old Blue Beard. whose
hOnevmoOnS have been more nunier-
ouS than her wears. Meekly as Re
becca at the well she takes his palm.
and looks hOnored by his con>idera-
ton.
Nor is the Journal pleased with
the prospect of the future. The
new corners care nothing for the
Mormon Church or the head of il.
"TheyAcOme there to make money.
not to battle with Mormonism.
Most Of them are opposed to the
agitation of anything but the soil
which conceals the shining ore. Let
them have their %theocracy and their
polygamy if they want it, what is it
to us? We are no bigots."
And so the Journal has its growl
out. 1t is not suited with anybody
or anything. The breaking down OF
the Mormon stronghold promises to
be a more ~protracted job than ex-
pected. There are yet, evidently,
too many aspiring Gentiles and Gen
tile cliques-ins and outs-wise men
and fools-theives and honest men
- fanatics, quacks and rascals-to
blend into that harmonious circle
essential to exclusive gentle supre-
macy. Until there is more of the