Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-06-08
now TO REPAIR THE EVIL.

There is no denying the fact that the
political situation Of Utah Affects most
disastrously our business and industrial
interests. The Mormon hierarchy are
obstinately opposed to progress, and
persistently avow their intention to drive
all intruders out OF their sacred domin-
ion. Claiming Divine authority for
their misrule, and contemning all Gen.
tile Innovations as inconsistent with the
Almighty design in choosing them and
their deiuded followers for His peculiar
people. their whole influence Is devoted
TO perpetnatiDg an era Of superstition
and ignorance, and closing the minds OF
tho people against the progressive and
liberslizing tendencies OF the age. That
this arraignment is literally and abso-
lutely true, We refer to the authoritative
ut,erances OF the high priests who for
six weaNsome days at the last Confer.
ence poured counsel into the ears OF
their submissive followers. Half dozen
of the most prominent speakers. includ-
ing Brigham Young, inveighed against
free schools as ruinous to the minds OF
the people, uniting them for useful in
dustry, pauperizing the young, and
which in twenty years Will
eat up the entire value real
and personal-of the Territory. Elder
Penrose, q slavish Church journalist, as
serted Divine inspiration and consequent
Instability for every ignorant and law
defying priest, and expounded a scheme
OF such abject obedience that would re-
duce community to the lowest condi-
ton Of menial abnegation and imbecility.
And eX-Delegate Cannon was not
ashamed to avow himself opposed to /
paved streets, educational progress, and
all forms Of material advancement and
development az tending to degrade the
cities Of heavenly Zion to level with
Babylonian communities, and deferred
the millennium, which is soon to show
the surviving congregation OF Saints that
the wisdom OF man Is utter foolishness.
While such an order OF obstruct,onists
and imposters are allowed to exercise
supreme control, to dictate what laws are
be made and who shall make them, to
withhold education from the young. to
drain the scant earnings from the i'm
poverished Saints. to choose fitting in
struments for municipal rule, who em-
in1pedimcnt in the way Of commerce and
industry, we can not wonder that blank
encouragement paralyzes the energies OF
this people.
The above from the Salt Lake Daily
Tribune of JuAo %, shows condition
Of affairs in Utah well calculated to ere
ate serious thought in the minds of al
true men. That some remedy is needle,
no one can doubt that the Government
has failed to do its full duty, so far Al
Utah is concerned, no one can deny
Prompt, vigorous action is now neces
sary. The unfit, time-serving officials
who pander to the priesthood, should b.
removed, and better. truer, ADLER mel
pu. in their places. and the faithful Off
GERS now in the Territory should be up
held by every legal power that the Gov
eminent has at its command. OF thi
there is no doubt. Still this will no
bring the relief that the situation de-
mands. True, some benefits will be tn
result OF change in the list of officials
but the great stain placed upon tn
American character, the blot upon tn
fair page of our history. the disgrace {
this enlightened age, polygamy, with a
it's inhuman. demoralizing effects. wi
remain. So long as Utah remains
Territory, with Territorial government
il will be under the control Of the churc
party. The judges may be able an
pure; the officers appointed to place b
the Government may be all that til
Jeffersonian rule requires; still the legi'
lature will be the willing servile slave {
the church; the wheels Of progress wi
be ologged by unfriendly legislature; pre-
gressive acts will meet with no favor
the counsels of the leaders, and no legi
iative act can or will be passed that hi
not the sanction of those who place the
seal Of condemnation upon all Of pr
gress that has tendency to eleva
the social. intellectual or NOR
status of the people. The Go
ernor may veto the acts that al
wrong and vicious, but no cannot caus
or procure the passage Of any act or ac
that the priesthood objected to. Juri.
that are religiously in favor of polyeam
will not convict men charged with tn,
offense. Lacivious cohabitation will
unpublished when the offender wears Il
garments that are bestowed in the f
dowment House. For these and 9th
reasons there is only one remedy for I
evils existing in Utah. That remedy
Territorial annihilation. Wipe it ont a
Territorial organization; divide it ,
give it to Nevada and the Territories
such portions as may seem best cal
lated to effect the desired end. w
Utah from the nehonal map; give
assurance to the people that law must
obeyed; that the Church is not above
State; that the higher the social positi
of the criminal the more certain {
punishment. Take from the Chul
party the power to defy law. and Il
order and prosperity will return to
region now so cursed by misrule and
naticism. There are 80 many reast
for using Utah as material to trim up Q
enlarge the boundaries Of Nevada, Nj
tana and Arizona, that We feel assu
the next Congress will take this nee
sary and effective measure to rid
Nation of the remaining twin relic, a
give security to the people who now,
hereafter. may inhabit the Great Ba'
and its surrounding mountains.
The negotiations for the purchase
the Black Hills have failed and H
Cloud and his chiefs sre now on the W