The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1881-06-07

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serviency to the government Of the
Church, they bid defiance 70 seyery
civil law which eonhicts with any
tenet or any doctrine of their creed;
they are as regardless Of their oaths
as a ChiRAsnan, and bear as little al
legiance to the United States govern
ment as the Chinese Their ballots
are numbered III order TO detect for
whom each elector votes: the control
Of their priests, as. ID Mohammedan
countries, is absolute their organi-
cation superb; sthe discipline Of the
duped people perfect. In order TO
keep this ascendency, compulsory
tithes are collected, as they we're in
France before the Revolution, to the
amount Of more than 100000 an
nually. All these things are carried
on with reference TO, and for the purz
pose Of, building up and perpetual
ing the Kingdom Of Zion, by means
Of the Celestial Marriage, called by
Gentiles Polygamy. sta9r Ut hi
Now in order to, extirpate. this pc
cuiiar institution, what must be done
with the Mog4nons2 This is com
plicated and ponderous question:
question which asks intelligent Amer
lean craftsmanship to solve it. 1t is
q question which we cannot regard
much longer if we would. It must
be faced. We must either govern the
Mormons against their own will, Of
we must abandon them. To permit
monarchy to be erected in the heart
of eur country, to permit our laws to
be successfully set in defiance, and
the civil liberty of many of our citi-
zens, menaced BY a religious fmpos-
ture, is to acknowledge the weakness
of our civil institutions, and is. to in
vite their overthrow by Q handful Of
adventures. To buy them ont, or to-
induce them g &c away, Is impossi
BILE Our free institutions grew up
oatst, and s5esvpporead and main
tanned by, our ethical code. Nor
monism strikes at the very yitals Of
this code, for in the last Territorial
legislature thirty four of its thirty
nine members were polygamists and
members Of the Mormon priesthood,
drawing salaries from the govern
ment, Of whose laws they Sare the
constant sand willful violators; and
the sixth section of this faith com
mandstthem to steal from their enc.
mics, the Gentiles, while the seventh
section requires that apostates and,
rebels "shall be cut off BY the aveng
ing angel" which meads that they
are to be murdered by a man Or band
Of men detailed for that purpose by
the priests. That both these com
mands are carried into prompt and
fearful execution, we have abundant
proof. Shall our moral and social
and political Institutions then be
stabbed on our own hearthstone2
Never. Then there remains bnt one
course to pursue,--we must govern
the Mormons, come what may.
The most fragrant violation of the
laws of the United States, among the
Mormons, and with which most of
their other crimes are connected, are
found in the practice Of polygamy.
Hence arises the question, what
Governmental policy towards the
Mormons will best accomplish the
overthrow of pol gany2 In the last
few years this question has been the
subject of many faneiful productions
by theorists wrought up by the maui
seating details given US by Mrs.
Emma Smith, Ann Eliza Young, Mrs.
Stinhouse and various other writers.
And although with the theorists it
may be very agreeableto contemplate
the total destruction, at one full sweep
of polygarny and Mormonism in all
its connection, yet TO the practical
statesman the only available policy
Els, correct legislation by the Nation
al Congress and then the stern and
nncompromising execution of the
laws so enacted. The methods pro-
posed under this policy are two. The
first is tofftide'Utah among the sur
rounding States and Territories, and
thereby place the Mormon popula-
ton in the minority in each. There
are many objections tB.th;s. however,
some Of which We VIII consider. N
idaho and Arizona iiase each d
considerable Mormon population al
ready, and il . few thousands more
were added to each from Utah, there
VIC aid be great probability that they
would soon also have. 4 Mormon nd