The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-01

nation by himself adding a rich widow to
his already crowded seraglio.
GROWING STRONGER ALL THE TIME.
''Dying out" Me- no, it is steadily, year
by year growing stronger and stronger. The
fittings of the church are estimated at ST.,
100000 per year, a vast fund to be used for
proselyting immigrating, fighting unfriend-
ly legislation, etc. The streets of the Nor
mon settlements swarm with children, the
results of polygamy and OF the church ap-
peals to increase and multiply" Saying
nothing of the tens of thousands of Mormons
in the other Territories, Utah has increased
in population from her IL, 900 in 1850 to 14O,
900 in 1885, an increase of 1900 per cent,
four-ffths of it Mormon.
Owing outl' Mormon missionaries go
out year after year all over Europe commits
STONED by the church, to proselyte, and offer
free passage to U tah to all poor converts, to
be repaid by them out of their labor in their
new home. In the slums of the great cities,
TO the poverty stricken miners in the bowels
Sof the earth, before the homeless tolers who
never owned foot of land these Mormon
, missionaries hold up the picture of their
mountain walled valley, with streams of
sparkling water irrigating the soil, free lands
from tue government on condition of actual
OCCUPANCY, free mines wherever they may
discover them, church authorities to guide
are no kings nor nobility, but all the people,
to the poorest are sovereign.
"Dying out!" Let those who lay this fat
tering JUNCTION to their souls the 700 ar
irving from Europe in single day in May en-
route to Utah, and 800 more in a single day
in September increasing continually the nu-
dnercal strength, the power and the audacity
tof this lawbreaking and law-defying organ
ization. Is the time ever to come when the
nation shall stir itself in its wrath and de-
mand obedience to its insulted law? 1t is but
a step from a polygamous Territory to a
polygamous State, with its domestic insti-
buttons fortified thenceforth by State power
and protection. 1t is but a step from the bal
lance of power in the Territories adjoining
utah, OF which the Mormon leaders already
boast, to absolute control of them. 1t is but
a step from their arrogant demand to be let
alone in their church despotlsm and law de-
fiance, to aspiring even higher, and by the
balance Of power between parties national
Affairs to verify their own Mormon predc-
tons that they are finally to control this
great republic.
Unless interior America is to be surren-
dered to the worst phase of Asiatic barbar-
ism, the duty of the hour is to place Utah
really, not nominally. under United States
law, and to strike at this defiant institu ton
such blows, in earnest and with such vigor,
that its leaders will understand that the ma
tonal law must and shall be obeyed Now
is the time for action. A Congress- Demo-
cratic in the House ana Republican in the
Senate, uniting in stern, decisive and efficient
action, would give to their constituents the
surest guaranty of success attesting that all
parties were united in this patriotic demand
Ii not now, when? Five years hence the
problem, with over a quarter of a million,
will be an hundred times more difficult than
it would have been when the anti-polygamy
law was originally passed, twenty years ago
when there were less than 0000 If we
are not cravens and unworthy OF
American government and institutions,
millions of citizens who believe
in the reign OF law and the
honor of the nation will declare, trumpet
tounged through the Congress which speaks
Tor them, so that not only all Mormondom
but the whole world shall hear, that the ma
tional law must be obeyed in Utah as in Da
kot:, by Mormons as by Protestant and Cath
olics, now hencefortb, and for all time
hereafter.
ACTS NECESSARY AND PROPER
Thirty years experience, until forbearance
has indeed ceased to be virtue, points out
several acts as necessary and proper to
bring that Territory into its proper relations
to the government and the law It's leaders
have so long and so persistently and fla
GRAVITY spurned and defied. Substantially,
.hey were all urged by me at the great anti
polygamy mass meeting at Chicago in Jan,
1882 before the passage of the Edmunds bill,
but will bear reiteraton now:
1. No resident of Utah to enjoy the bene-
fit OF our land, our patent, our mining, our
naturalization, or our passport laws, unless
On oath that they have not violated our ma
tional law against plural marriage
2 No marriage to be legal in Utah except
in public, and especially with public rec
ord OF 1t, as in so many States now.
8. Allow all alleged wives, legal and IL
legal, to testify in pclygamy cases. and re-
peal all statutes of limitation where the
offense is continuous Furnishing continuing
crime with continuing penalty.
4. Impanel all juries from law-abiding
citizens only. The present compromise law,
allowing Mormon officials to select half of
the jurors is a farce and a folly.
5. Establish the right of dover for the
only legal wife, which the Mormon Legisla-
ture abolished Would not this say halt
to the women who are sought as plural
wives?
g. Abolish the Territorial Legislature.
which, although paid its per diem out of the
national treasury has not attempted to de-
yelop Utah into a law-abiding State of the
nation, and has more than once had to be re-
strained by the absolute veto of the Governor
from unfrendly legislation against the gem
lille citizens there, who are faithful to the ma
Lionand its laws
u And, most vital and necessary. govern !
Utah. as the District OF Columbia has been
governed for years, by board of com mis- !
sioners appointed by the President and con- /
hrmed by the Senate. Louisiana was thus |
governed in its territorial era. The national |
district, with population 80 900 larger than
Utah, including President Congress, Su |
preme Court and thousands of officials, is
thus governed, and wisely, under a law
passed by both parties and by board in |
which both parties are represented. Con- !
gress mas the same power over Utah that it |
has over Washington City; and if the law |
IS wise one for the latter, it would be a |
thousand times wiser for law-defying Nor |
mondom.