The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-03-26

i. last in Utah until civilization hat
caught up with it, and that theI
it was doomed either to NOV,
on or TO die. Moving on is not as easy
IS it was when Utah was settled. 4
| very few years will see Mormonism dis
t appear by absorption, and auy attemp
, to extirpate it sooner is likely to caus,
more mischief than it will cure. Thai
bas been the view of the great msjority
Of the people Of both political parties. In
, respect of the Mormon question, at least
their
''faith is large in time
And that which brings it to come perfect
end"
In spite of this, Congress, under no
popular pressure, has passed an outrage
GUS bill, the effect Of which towards max
ing an end of polygsmy will probably
be very trising, and the political effect
OF which will ut most be to secure q re-
publican delegate in Congress without q
vote. There Is some motive for this, and
some motive which certainly does not lie
upon the surface. Are the republican
statesmen IN Washington Of purer eyes
than to behold an iniquity in Utah which
the general population is contented to
leave to the sure operation of time? This
Is hypothesis which can only be gener-
ally accepted in the CORDS Of marines.
Al we have just seen, the apparent pelit-
lcal motive is as inadequate as the APP
parent moral motive. What is the real
motive?
To answer this question it is necessary
to repeat that the one object in life of
the present Congress is 10 make the gov
arO m n to f. hn
thing which Congress must not do is to
confess or to let it be plainly shown that
our system of taxation is producing more
th erefore be revived. With twenty-five
years of jobbery behind it, and with such
leaders as it now has in Congress, the re-
party, and when q premium is put upon
jobbery by the existence of surplus
hard 20 spend in tie ordinaryNfoutine,
with all the profuss liberality of Con-
gress, it is 10 be expected that mon
strous jobs will be quickened and
flourish. A Mormon war would
get rid of any possible surplus. A
Mormon war would offer opportunities
for which the republican contractors in
sboddy and blankets and provisions have
pinned in vain siEce the civil war. A
Mormon war would ungette all the
values Of the country and restore to their
congenial element the political fsh that
swim best in troubled waters. a Nor
mon war would in ali likelihood abso-
lutely cut off communication by rail be-
tween the Atlantic snd the Pacific. In
word, Mormon war would meet every |
exigency of the republican party. It |
would eclipse altogether the large and |
liberal scheme of Ingalls, FOE paying pen.
sions to all claimants. and the yet more |
project Of Logan for spend |
ing the proceeds Of the whisky tax upon |
public education. In word, Mormon |
war wouldEust now be an ideal Job.
live take this view OF the matter we |
can understand the whole history of the |
bill. Senator Edmunds,
who took the trouble some months ago |
TO appear as light and trifing contribC-
tor to the magazines with an article on
The Mormon problem, was not, we are
glad to believe, in search of job so
much as of an issue. The scarlet rash
IN which Governor Murray broke out
The other day in an article which in
sisted that the Mormens must be sup
pressed at once, contrariwise showed
symptoms of one in travail not of an is
.ue but Of a job. The combination of an
issue with. job is one of the allurinR
features Of crusade against the Nor
mons which, as its Lroj ectors fendly i'm
lglne, will at once appeal to the country
Is great moral idea and to themselves
Is promising investment. In this view,
90, the wantonly bsrsh and oppres-
i've features of the anti bolygamy
ill and the reluctance of
he men who had it In
barge to permit any toftening of these
eatures of the bill are also Ineligible.
hey were useless for any avowed pur-
rose Of the measure. while they were
calculated with considerable ingenuity
0 annoy and harrsss the Mormons and
Dad them into resistance to the federal
Ulcers.
Nevertheless the World is of opinion
hat the scheme will not work. None
'ut few old women Of both sexes are
o wrought upon by the existence of
'olygamy in Utah that the wives of
Mormon elder will not permit them TO
leep. TIE homogeneous heart will not
'e fired, and as great moral idea the
Mormon crusade will be q failure On
be other hand. every important history
q the whole country will be at once ar
syed against crusade by which it will
,e psrslyzed, and the success of which
would only anticipate by a very few
ears the Inevitable result of time. The
ob is not without ingenuity, but it ia
likely that the ingenious prof ectors will
ave 10 try something else.