, 1880-01-21
WT,nt tie Mormon Representative In Con.
grcss Thinks About It-A Curious
Talk Ahput 1fOrmontsm by
a Mormon APOSTLE.
The Object Of Polygamy Is to Save Women
The Endowment House Snaps Its
Fingers at tho Processes Of
:. the Courts.
fhs Churrh Of Tho Latter.Day Saints viii Ntycr
Di,orc Itsslf lfem Polygamy-The Band'Box
0 Grtattr Terror 10 Mornons tlan
Federal Bullets.

Mormon polygany has not been received
with pleasure III the laud OF tho I.attcr-Day
Saints. Tho tlmo was when tho prophets
were predicting TINT tic completion Of the
Pacific Railroad would be followed by tho
destruction Of Mormon pOIygany. Tho
shriok OF tho civilizIng locomotive was to
have broken through tho awful circle thnt
Drighnm Young like R(clielleu, had
been drawing around hin. As the lido Of
emigration ruled westward, 1t was 10 linye
overwhelmed tho last vcstiges Of Mormon
theocracy. The prophets wcro false ones.
It would be rash thing to say tint, even Will
its founder dead, Mormon tlleocracy Is not rs
firmly established, us powerful, and as deitnnt
now as It was when Brigham Young held
undisputctl sway over tho unboulldcd coun-
try that skirts tho eastern slope Of the Rocky
Mountains, and beforo the whistle Of thc
engine lad been heard in tho Wiley OF tho
Green River 1t may bo that tic years OF
Mormon polygnmy aro numbered, that dis
gcns1ons ulny reni tho church Of tho Latter-
Day Saints, and tllnt the band-Dox 1nay allure
tho Mormon women, from p0lygalny, whiln
the bullet might only create the blood of the
martyrs which should be tho seed of tho
Church, 1t lnny be TINT what seems q
funRtlcnl religion may soon spend Its
strength, and TINT this generation may SEQ
tho limit of its horrid existence But cor-
tain It Is, TINT the predictions OF the preachers
that tho walls Of tho Mormon citadel would
fall when tho whistle Of tho locomotive
should first be heard at Salt Lake, MS did tho
walls at Jerlcl,o, liavo not been reatizetl, and
tilat tho followers Of Afornontsln arc rs zeal
ous, rs earnest, US fanatical, IL you will, rs
ever. How earnest they nrc, and how
difficult task the Administration has UNDER
taken In entering upon n now crusade
against Alornontstn 1Nny, perhaps, best DO
learned from tho talk with the representative
In Congress Of Mormon interests,
THE HON. GEORGE Q. CANNON, OF UTAH,
MORMON APOSTLE. 4
Tint talk I have elldcavorcd to reproduce
here. In the conversation, Apostle Cannon
sketches tic situation In Utah from Nor.
mon viewpoint, md gives tho reason why ho
thinks that Providence will support tho
Latter Day Saints, no matter how numerous
or formidable tho batteries that may be 1T
rayed against them. .,.-...--.
"There seems 10 be good deal Of talk
that tho Administration proposes to take q
now departure wllnteycr that may be, with
respect to poIygarly, and that 1t wants 1lew
Fedcrl officers In the Territory in order to
noro thoroughly execute tho 1aws now on
the statutes, and 10 help to crush out polyga-
my" snid tho other morning III beginning
the conversation which is recorded here.
"The Federal officers In Utah IN the past"
said Mr., Cannon, hnvo not been governed
by principle IN their treatment Of TINT Qucs-
tIon. A few have been fanatfcal upon the
subject notably Julgo Mexican, who prose-
cited cases agninst the Mormons In the spirit
OF an inquIsitor, rather thnn of q Judge.
Others have been Influenced, apparently, III
AISfs Y.,r A1,n4
.s'.,, sa,.1t ,sa,,. .,.",y .,,,,Io,, ,r,nxo
Wouin ieSu's !ion. t1 tae'' p1sGeutlon ,.t inu'e
l'as been no uniform, s!ra'g'tiorwara' anu
upright course tuken ZIP to tho present timo
In the treatment of these cascs. II tho dis
their so-calle4 errors, doubtless different re-
s woqa bsa haye {.1 bSsn ,aPnTs'tt 't,t ntqw 61t
tSat t has las 's Gec h iniluemung 1t those @ VII WIo % llayo
iakcn stems ngnlnst nolygally What Mr..
Ilayes chi DO II atltlitioM to What has been
"Iioyo lie N{ornonS anything to complain
Of now about tho lack OF ylgor In Utnh Of
the Government toward polygamy p
"No; nothing to complain Of lii that d'rcc-
ALE .n ANY rhoskcuIloNs Nc" q, lElSa MADE
OF tne gEohiM 4. posyEaSy Syyya hoo, fo,u
,lnndGSrstand ny tllo 4st IT, Grand 1 Jury under
the Federal @ statute OF lSE., b.lt tiao met 10 l
that Nrs e' npn to -" urossc,'t,o,, for s"fI tHo
act;on aftcr thrce vcors lnvo einnscG.
Willie i was at home, from tho cioso
case % ~ nolVaamo,!s @ IAN m,nrrare" T " VI ''''s'o
arrobabiS Won hayo sceii ao,no newsnnncr
statements that tic inv is being dctjcI. or
is sySi!is;. and that ense; lays ~; Sssi, Eno%. VI
Endowment iin,1sn wIi.! vo,InS | Women @ ~ WIN s