New-York tribune., 1871-12-16

be In tho majortyI in order to exist 10 not 10
ligou. it Is State polity, seeking expression III o's
To retain this majority the Mornons have visited every
species Of those who did not agree Win
them This has banded and welded the Gentes OF
together seefense. Tho statement that any consul
cradle number Of them eide with tho Mormons s false
There may be difference OF opinion as to how pest 70
Oppose them. The few Gcntes who favor them 90
90 from motives Of sefintercst chiefly peeuniary 80
much In explanation OF the hostile attitude OF the Cen
tiles Of Utah toward the MOrmOns.
For the Federal authority, weinformed citizens
should know that the extpation OF Utah poygany has
been the declared national policy since the existence
Of the crime was acknowledged, and that the Federal
officials Of Utah, with few exceptions from 1850 70 1870
done what they could in furherance Of this eocy
Why them should those who know better insist that this
policy Is something new, peculiarly President Grants
or Dr. Ncwman's or that ring" Of Federal oftIas in
Utah have started 1t for speculative purposes. end In
tn. same breath contradict themselves by Affirming that
the real spectators Of Utah-the dealers In paper
mining stOcks-are opposed to It. How could tho same
public policy benefit set Of speculators and njure
anotheri How can the firm but judcious enforcement
OF the laws fail benefit all business as we'll as other In
teres,s in the long rum especially when such pocyb
the only eectual means Of breaking down the ~"fs"
than Turkish exclusiycness Of the hormon''
word In pa ,sng, about mining and mining specnia-
ton In Utah Utah produced 62s3 tuns OF ore ana ~
tuns of base bullion 1870 in 1871 dve weeks from NOV.
bullion or converting the bullion back Into ore IN ound
numbers 10000 tuns Of ore. And the business began
after the era OF railroads aud the establishment oI a
culture aud not BEFORE as In tne o'her
Territories The Gould Curry mine on the CorastocK
produced 100 tuns Of day for seven yearsSo'S"
tuns per year. ls4 times the amount produced py Can
this year. This show the slight basis for the uhpre
sedented flourish of trumpets the Utah mins and
the excessive imitation Of tho speculation based upon
them Also the hOllowness Of the hope widely enter
tanned that the influx of Gentle population CONSEQUENT
upon their Development will OF itself serousy ahee'
Mormonsm, unless 1t strengthenedt. 1t.
To return: President Grant, his appolntes In Utan'
and the resident Gentes Of the Territory. cnfeavor
ing Just what their predecessors endeavore3 to %
neithe: less. II they are meeting witp more
success seeming it is to change In thr tnc'
and conditions not to change OF purpose or OF e,hoo
1t represented that pOygamy was dying out oi
itself when Judge McKeans Court met In september
last and that half dozen men, or less. ingatcd
pending prosecutions against It, This Is an ass"np
tOn purely, in the face Of all the probabilities III the
case-n the face Of all the Mormon leaders say about IL
who alone know, and in whose interest the assumption
Is made. The MormOns do not believe in and practice
poygamy for Its sake; they do both because th'y
are told to- their religion and all OF It to do as
they told, without question. The noVety ahui
suppose chief attraction OF the Mormon Church or sy
TEN the idea Of daily direct inspratonai communion
between its visible head and the Almighty The word
church. and is obeyed by good Morinons us thohsh
that head were God incarnste. That head brigham
Young has recedcd on the question OF poySaHS
by reason of opposition IN any shape whatever one
hair breadth until since the september term OF Judge
McKeans Court commenced, H. indeed, he has receded
at all
Ask Wells Cannon Hooper, Sharpe, any OF the Young
or her Mormon leaders and they will tell yon that po
Il amy has either waxed or waned because or any
thn said done, written by outsiders Indeed so far
from admitting IL to BE- on the decline arc these men,
that they believe 1t is bound to become universal IN
time. They actually acquired the conviction tDat
1t is improvement on InonoSamy. Orson rratt IN
sisted Oh 1t very recently in Tabernacle haranGe a
srenou,ly as ever he did. and one could see and icei
that his Mormon hearers we're with him tOa soul
Nevertheless since the Court met, though never be-
fore there are indications that the Head OF the Churrt
i beginning entertain tn" idea OF that revelation SuS
gested to him by Nj Cofax in 1865 this Is not me az
conccsson to the few thousand mining prosPectors aud
spectators in Utah. from whom, here to-day aho
~ class OF visitors whose only criterion OF crtH
seeming Sic cess, and whose quasi opposition ahoh"S
to SUPPORT: account OF the inharEononS aii" u
tile political action OF the Gentes OF Uth ho' to"
fear of the influence Of the GolOe schismatir wicp
amounts to nothing; but Is done as matter OF eee
.,ty In other words, II poygamy m"ans'ine anu I'm
pisonment without fail, then poygarny mas hp' "s "F
and must left behind. But they will never PIT IL Oh
that ground To give up the basis Of their religion %"
give il up ia obedience to the Inspiration wa'h 'hy
supposc guides the Church would be another thing.
They have not consider the nece ssity ~ gva
rp roygamy without casting about Tor ever! po'Sol
charc OF escape. They have looked both TO BrilNh
Anne rca and Mexico for asylum, and they profess
that they would hesitate an instant TO destroy thr
fixed property and march away If such were the word
Eut whatever may he said Of their industry andethcr
homely virtues, they do not seem TO he hcn nY con
tiglons States to be Immsrants OF dcsifnno @ @ ,":
nH
Il at they must appear in British America or NJ A''
rner tan % as nra,ty FIRMLY fixed At home
materially aud with the exception OF polysay aI ms ms
politically ar as GHSs Sonsohos Ih can and
nance to pJlygamy is natural to the younn. Poly
work. Sas sfTs Sr tle% nearly N Sas prolific
Of crime within aud without Their Ilirkmans and
S Stsr Ssys S s = Killing
not MURDER they claim u9ess War ~ snona men
growing out OF it, their chief antasoni,ms TO US;
With would necessarily fall to the sSqndd dtG nsT i of
the soaring hopes Which haTe % ,nSan Ssn"sd to nb
Esa sc tns hna woaS to ef ser dnon having
would be left and remain IN psace. IN nas vn p ne
poly Amy although they clan "it would be giving
ip everything" that it seems impossible they should
?r Ty ccu not however with any show Of consistency
at ALL take an active part IN the INCEPTION & shh
'oa , to open aVt door Of Tta sSnd,
from the head Of the church or from them ana t'ry
such bait TO give up 1.-THE basis OF their religion no.
ten thousand sIas or ten thousand @ cn %T1S ssy E
pressed he admitted that il should be revealed thst
poygamy had bad ts day and must DC @ ~ rr
religion" would thon bel to abandon polygamy
the same ash to cling to IL their rsS,9n G."
the word OF the Lord through the Head OF the Church
While they could not well appear TO take Tue INITIATIVE
I'm this heine and have therefore, Induced outside sym
pathizers TO 1t TO- them 10 s very pronaD;