Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1882-06-15
AMERICA.
UNITED STATES.

FOur.Ply Cannon on the Edmunds Bill.
New YORK, June 1.-THE Tribune
says: George @. Cannon, ex- Dele
gate to Congress from Utah, arrived
here Saturday on brief visit. To
a reporter Cannon said yesterday
there is nothing new regarding the
Utah situation. Before any action
is taken on the part of the Mormons,
they will wait for the appointment
by the President of the Commission
which, under the polygamy bill
recently passed, is to supervise the
elections in Utah. The Mormons
consider that the bill is an outrage,
1t virtually vacates all the present
offices in the Territory, and prohibits
polygamists from holding office or
from exercising the elective fran
chise. 1t makes polygamy con
tinuous offense. Now, with the
spirit that has been aroused in Utah
by the agitation on the sub
ject, it might easily be held
unlawful for the Mormons even to
care for the women with whom they
may cease to hold marital relations.
The bill makes no provision for them.
That shows that Congress had conf
dence in the honor of Utah men. In
agine similar state of affairs in this
or any city where polygamy might be
supported from licentious motives,
Why, it would be Immediately taken
advantage ofby men to repndiate the
responsibility Of caring for the
women they had been living with
The men of Utah will do nothing of
that sort. The sentiment against
the Mormons has been manufactured
by designing men for the purpose of
robbery. Utah has no debt, and the
community is relatively more pros
porous than any other in the coun-
try. Its prosperity has united
greedy politicians against it, of
whom there are many on the frontier.
That such is the origin of the recent
legislation IS proven by the fact that
after these men gained their point
immigration died out.
The new law will not do the Nor
mons any harm. 1t has already
brought out three excellent publica-
lions by Gentiles wherein the rights
OF Mormons are maintained. To sup
pose that it will crush Mormonism as
religious faith is to expect a con-
tradiction Of all the lessons of his
tory. Only when carried to exter-
mination does persecution iniure
religion. But the law will I'M ure the
material interests of the Territory.
Capital is easily alarmed, and values
have already been unsettled in Utah.
This has injured the Gentiles princi-
pally, for the Mormons have little to
do with speculation. Except for the
peculiar character of the Mormon
people, the community would have
been completely Frustrated by the
agitation that has been aroused and
carried on recently.
Cannon will go back to Washing
ton to look after the interests of
Utah in Congress and the public de-
partments.
A Case for Judge Lynch in Nevada.
EUREKA, June ia l2-year.
girl, Minnie Eustice, this afternoon
swore out IL complaint against her
father, James Eustice, for incest.
Her mother died on the 18th of last
November, and just one week after
ward her father violated her by force,
and has been guilty of the same foul
deed repeatedly since. Before the
complaint had been sworn out, fear
ing that he might be lynehed by the
outraged community, the father ran
away on foot through the sagebrush
toward the Central Pacific Railroad.
A force of officers are in pursuit of
him. 1t is in all its details a horri-