Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-08-16
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Bi.NIetniic Congress.

Bi.Mstniic Congress.
WASHINGTON, August 18TH
The State Department says Ger
many is disposed to regard favora.
bly, the proposals of this govern
ment for further joint considera-
tion of the bi.metalic subject and
hopes the present efforts will result
in a bi-metalic congress, in which
all the leading States of Europe
will participate.
short Crops.
WASHINGTON, August l5lh.-
The United States Consul at Man
chester, England, says: The failure
of crops is much more serious than
it generally supposed abroad. The
demand in England for meats
and grains from the United States
will be enormous. Business is
greatly depressed. Last year more
than eighty thousand persons were
supported in Manchester by the
public. The coming winter will
probably witness still greater des-
titution.
VA
Iygnmy.
NEW YORK, August 18th
Speaking of Evarts' letter on Po-
lygamy, the Tribune says: 1t is in
effect friendly reminder that the
comfy of nations has been violat-
ed. But now that it has been sent,
more vigorous action is justified,
and Mormon missionaries who
bring back to our shores these de-
luded converts, can be arrested at
our ports and returned with thei r
victims as felons. The directness
and justice of this peculiar mode OF
procedure are evident, from the
fact that the polygamists of Utah
are mostly foreigners. Five years
ago Salt Lake City did not contain
a single American convert. They
were English, Scotch, Norwegians
and Danes, with their children
born in this country, reared and
educated to the faith and practices
of this most degrading of all social
conditions. 1t is hardly fair that
America should bear the obloquy
and moral degradation from this
plague-spot of brutality and vice,
which of right belongs to other
nations. Whenever the influx ol
foreign bigamists is checked, the
Government can then deal success
fully with those at home.
The Times says: We have moi
much faith in the efficacy of dip
lomatic circulars sent forth to in
woke the aid of foreign govern.
ments in drying up the channels
by which Mormonism is largely
fed from abroad. The assassina-
tion of Mormon missionary by
Georgia ruffians, and the imprison-
ment of Mormon dignitary on a
civil suit, have nothing whatever
to do with the attitude of the Gov
ernment toward the insolent biga-
mists of Utah Territory. But the
laws of the United States must be
enforced in that Territory just as
they are in Arizona or Idaho. The
law of 1862 is merely the re-enact-
ment into United States statute
of the common law against biga-
my. To say that its enforcement
! is persecution is the widest folly,
and to plead that religious belief
sanctions concubinsge, and, there.
fore, aXempts the offender, is to
put an argument ia the mouths of
any VINO may object to the laws of
any civilized community, and who
urge the rights Of conscience in ex-
tenuatiou. The fight against the
practices of Mormonism is not q
new one. The complaint that Nor
mons will be compelled to abandon
one feature of their religion or
tight, is well grounded. They must
accept The alternative sooner or
later.
Revolution in N svai Arch itSture.
New YORK, August I5tb.-The
Tribune says: This Greek letter
series is destined to revolutionize
naval architecture. The days of
heavy armored ironclads has gone
by, and torpedo warfare aud light
draft crafts with heavy guns will
be the main elements OF coast de-
fense in the future. A striking
proof of this tendency is afforded
by a new departure of the German
government. The Admiralty have
decided to build thirteen gunboats
in place of five heavy monitors
which had been planned in 1874,
and furthermore to abandon the
construction of two iron-clad float
ing batteries, and to provide each
war ship with small fleet of light
torpedo boats.
The Mormon luesiiou.
NEW YORK, August 15th.-A
Herald Washington correspondent
states that Cabinet officer appre-
hends trouble growing out of the
Mormon question. Itappears as If
the government would have to put
it's foot down with emphasis. There
are six companies Of the Four
teenth Infantry at Fort Douglass,
and more could be readily concen-
trated there. The tenor of dis
patches from Utah show an irri-
tated condition of the people, and
now that the intentions OF the ad-
are known, they are
not calculated to soothe the feel
ings of the Mormon elders.
Caution 40 Mining Stock Investors.
NEW YORK, August l5th.-On
every hand citizens are invited to
become suddenly wealthy by put
ting their means in mining and