Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-09-19
Our Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON, Sept. II.

AnolS 10 H0io oedulilu luly Wulteuou
to the harvest out in Utah, inviting the
legal comorants to thrust in their sick
les and reap. gathering in the ripened
grain for their good and behoof and
leaving the chaff and the stubble to the
sorrowing ones who survive the red
handed polygamous old Prophet, Brig
ham Young. Already the first notes
of discord and strife reach us from the
desert city. Charges are so soon made
that he, forgetful of the interests of
Zion and catering to mercenary lusts
diverted the revenues ofthe church into
worldly channels and devised to his nu.
merous widows and children property
held in trust for the church. Ambi-
ton, greed, avarice, and self shness are
all elements of the situation to be met
and overcome in the choice of success
sor to the defunct despot, or the herit.
age of the saints promises to be sent in
fragments and they finally led captive
by the gentle invaders So conflicting
are the interests of the various aspirants
for the success sion that an harmonious
choice appears very remote possibili-
ty. Indeed, all the advices from Salt
Lake City seem to indicate that the
Mormon problem is in a rapid process
of dissolution without extraneous aid
from the Government.
''Is another strike imminent 2" is the
anxious query suggested by the latest
intelligence from Mr. Arthur, Chief of
the Brotherhood of Engineers and his
co.workers. Some correspondence be-
tween them seems to indicate purpose
to blockade all the nkslines of the
country month hence, when they are
most busy moving the abundant crops
of the present season TO a market; and
there are very few who remember the
devastation, ruin and death wrought by
the mobs of few weeks ago that can
contemplate their recurrence without
forebodngs of the most dire consequent
ces. When it is remembered that the
skeleton of an army left US by Demo
cratic spite and demagoguery is not
half sufficient to meet present Indian
and other frontier emergencies, even
after stripping our forts of almost eve
ry man and leaving millions of dollars
worth Of property almost uncared for
and with the return Of Sitting Bull and
his savages to this side of the line more
than an even probability, it will be
readily understood how well provided
the Government is for such a coutin-
gency. Willing ly or unwHlingly
Congress must meet this matter of rail
road management at the coming session;
and our future exemption from chro-
mic state of riot and insurrection will
probably depend largely upon the wis
dom and practical good sense it can
bring to solution OF the many new
problems precipitated by the late dis
turbances
OF course the determination Of the
Administration to include Messrs. Ar
thur and Sharpe in the punishment to
be meted out to MIR. Cornell for his in
subordination, is denounced by it's op-
ponents; and candor compels the state
ment that majority of its supporters
in all its measures looking to the good
of the country, would have been better
pleased if each Of these cases had been
dealt with singly and upon it's merits.
AS finally decided, if correctly report
ed, it leaves the impression that the is.
sue forced by Mr.. Cornell had not been
squarely met, and as though there was
disposition TO shrink from offending
mutinous Office holders whose social and
political relations might render them
formidable enemies. At least nothing
that has yet been offered in explanation
deters the censorious from that line O
argument.
1T is now regarded as very certain
that Sitting Bull is still On Canadian
territory and the Commission has no
yet been deprived of the opportunit,
to lmmortalize itself. The terms to b.
offered him are said to be pardon fo
past offenses, granted upon condition
that he at once submits to be disarmed