The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-01-16

le is not The end iustiies the means.
5, The getting rid of Cannon Is the one
thing to be desired. The means en-
: ployed are not to be considered. Were
K the Governor to Issue 8 decree that
on certain day George Q. Cannon
; must be gullotined, and the marsaal
should execute the decree, the news
papers that applaud Murray's recent
conduct would also speak in praise OF
him and his bloody decree.
: Bot there are soma journals
and journalists that can afford
: to be independent, and these are free
and outspoken in their denunciations
! of Murray and his conduct. One of
the bravest and most fearless, as it ia
among the ablest journals in the
country, is the Chicago Times. 1t ia no
sympsthizer with Mormons or Nor
monism, and in treating OF the reI;-
gious system OF Utah has ever been
as severe as any newspaper can we'll
be. The Times would gladly note the
end OF Mormonism, or at least the
plural marriage feature OF it, but ii
does not want the suppression TO be
brought about by unlawful methods,
nor can it lend its voice to applaud
the illegal acts OF the Governor, such
as that OF deprivipg the people OF the
right of suffrage, and the right to be
represented in Congress by the man
Of their choice. We reproduce below
az editorial article in Tuesdays
Times. which but voices the senti-
ments OF the free and thinking por-
tons Of the press, on the Murray out
rage, which, by the way. lie the term |
employed By the Times in speaking Of
the proceeding. The article is long, |
but will repay perusal, and especially |
by those here who have undertaken |
to excuse the Governors infamy:
It would seem TO be the case that the |
Governor of Utah is taking tie exact |
patny for the MOrmons. He refused q |
certificate to one candidate, who had re-
ceiVed some 1S, 600 votes, and gave it to
one who did not receive scarcely as many
hundreds. The people of this country d.
not love Mormo ism; but, however
much they nay hate Mormonism, they
have a greater hate for usurpation and in
lJustI e. So far as the prerogatives of the
governor OF territory are concerned,
with reference to the certificates of the
congressional delegates, it is limited to
certifying to the fact that this or that
candidate received the highest number of
votes, and, substantially, nothing more.
There Is no law, no constitutional enact
ment, which makes territorial governor
the judge of the election and the quslif-
cations of members of Congress that be-
longs TO Congress itself.
What the people of this country wish
Is the extinction of pJlyg4my by legiti-
mate process, and not by exlra-con.tltu-
uonAl acts, or by anything which is in ,
the nature Of persecution. If the at
tempt be made in any such shape, it will
only have the effect to strengthen the !
very thing which it is laboring to wea-
ken. This ostcome is seen already in the 1
case of Cannon and Campbell. So far as
q choice of men is concerned, there is no 8
doubt that the people Of the country :
would, by large mHiority, prefer the =
selection Of the latter, providing it could
be done in a legitimate way; but, as the !
matter now stands, the action taken By |
he Utah governor has reversed popular
ointment, and it is the fact that the @
7oice of The press and the people IL now | n
decidedly in favor of the return of Can =
ION. This Is for the reason that they3re-
ognize that the manner in which Can
ION has been treated is simply an mex "
disable outrage. Il
If this country wishes to rid itself of q
bis Mormon pest, it must go at it in q il
1sy that will have no favor OF anything &
D the nature Of persecution. 1t Is factJ :
hich Is we'll understood that, Whatevor \
nay be true as to lhe-leaders ofthe Nor u
l'ns, the masses are sincere nj their be- u
ef that polygamy is divine Institution, 4.
I'D that, IS such, it il their religion lust Of
; much as are creeds protested and be- nj
eyed By any denomination in the land. q;
ihl, be true, then the country has sbe- -
IRE IT tie problem OF dealing with what u
no I numerous enough to form state 1t
he ases are few in history in which al
ere has Teen any decided success in an mr.
tempt to suppress a religious conviction nr
: persecution; and there is no more -
leliSood that such an effort will succeed Se
y more in the case of the Mormons III
an It has in the cases OF any other rs gu
yious organisation. We may drive TIE De
OrmOns cut of the country; we have sti
ne this on two or three occasions al al
adv, and there is no doubt that we are y.
tong enough to do the same thing again, ~
Ovidi: We should 20 determine. 1t III
sy be the case that this will have to. be IA
q remedy in the end; but it is one which CD
ould MT be resorted to till all other ma
encies have failed. ma
Meanwhile, should it finally come 10 a w
in, where the only remedy against the -.
il Soeld be to drive these people from p
2 country, We shall only Increase thu ue'
hcult5 of that attempt, when it shall las
me, by anything which is in the nature BET
persecution. II there be any Olsen tbs
ms amorg the Mormons in the mat IL
Of polygsmous practices, It will -
~ need the application Of few IN Az
It and rigorous measures 10 close up Is
sse differences, and TO place all the II
ormons IN opposition as one man. Col
w his is to be brought about the TO
mes is not prepared 10 say, as it is one of
those cases 10 which it Is very much ~
IRE easy to say what should rot, than 'Ne-
lat stould be done 1t would, how eau
r, be entirely proper to enforce the It's
rs which are new in existence, and to hsy
that a polygsmous Mormon is dis
llided for certain duties, am ny which lido
aid be The representation Of Utah, in live
lgress, by mau who has more than ,ao
wife. BY this couTse, which could 'Oo
be regarded as pers ecution, for the can
;on thSt there a-e many Mormons OF
o do not either believe or pra tice bles
ygAmy, and who could lie selected as viii
congressional delegate - thereby ann
ding anything which would look like 80,
attempt to disfranchi,e the Mormoas, pen
lere would, perhaps. grow up in time, 'ue
opposition among the saints" which, pae.
le eud, would absorb the msjority Of GOrI
Mormon community. bTeS
claiI
WIEN TIE late Chief Justice s'es'