The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-03-01

who spoke to him as he lay reading in camp m the shade of tree one Sunday, tha, he was doing this as penance. and was trying to get to heaven by suffering as the Mormon saints had suffered be- fore him.
 In the contemplation of this unhappy subject. and the consideration of any plan for the peaceful adjustment of 1t. beg you to keep the Mormon elder quite distinct from the Mormon layman. He s altogether different. He feels, like Gui;eau, that he has his mission to com mand. He could not be a follower. He would not submit to that for secsnd. If he had no one to command or to control, his mission would end. He would sink out of sight, become book agent. an oftice-seeker, anything, like Guiteau, with his dozen different enterprises. But, in dismissing the Mormon elder, bishop, leader, of whatever name. must also en- treat you to believe of him. as of the lay man, that polygamy is not with him an object, only a means. one of q hundred ancient steps on the stairway to heaven And say also that 1olygamy is not in- creasing, nor likely to, under ordinary treatment. And. wish the plan propose, |; will fade away entirely in only few years more.
 Of course, know that just here good many hery reformers. members of con- gross, maybe, will jump up. bring the ifs, down emphatically, and declare that they have no rights that they. by their indeceneies, have forfeited all decent rights, and all tha, rubbish and fourth of July folly. But this is serious subject. and l appeal 10 the thoughtful people of the country who, for ,hiity years, have sough, its solution. to think of it for once seriously. In the first place, the Mor- mons have rights, great rights. IL IS a pretty Arabian saying that a man who had planted tree and dug well in a desert had done more than an army with banners. lfyou will turn to any book of statistics and see what these people have done out there in country that 10 this day, bu, for them. had remained largely a desert, you will concede that they have earned a right 10 great respect. Such a thing as an idle Mormon. man, woman or child, IS rarely seen.
 The proposition 10 ouy out the Mor- mons and let them move on is absurd and small. It sounds too much like the prayers ordered by that early governor of Wisconsin. This proclamation of the western governor was 10 the effect that prayers should be offered up by the ! CO., pie of ,ha; state tha, the grasshoppers. then deyouring the substance of Wlscon- sin, should be m ade by the Lord to move on-into some other state.
 The proposition is hardly debatable. even setting aside all sentiment. and ab- surdly claiming right to send an army and kill them, as has often been pro- posed.
 No; that was tried longer ago than most of Us remember now. And II is safe to say that ii silly Joe Smith, and his wiser and better brother Hiram, had been lief, to die natural deaths, we would now hear less of Nauvoo and this second col ony that possessed it, than we do of the forgotten French gentleman who founded his Utopia there. Truly, the blood of these men has been and IS on the heads of these United States.
 Judging them from what has been, il Is bu, reasonable to believe tha, every prophet, bishop or elder would be canon Ised. made a saint, and. like the smiths be handed up 10 even 4 higher immortal fly ih sn Guiteau ever aspired to.
 teii you you might cut to pieces every Mormon leader tomorrow, and yet the day after a thousand and more would come forw ard from out of the four cor ners ot the earth seeking martyrdom. Human nature has not changed much senlsfe to say tha, false prophets will rise up 10 lead the ignorant of the earth as long as ignorance prevails on earth
 You would destroy the leaders :: would destroy the ignorance. No, the fact is here is fire burning in the heart of our wheat-held Wisely managed it can be easily pu; out. Ba; by too much blus- tering and too much blswing this fire Will spread al around. So wheH you near 4 man ge; up in high place and propose an army and violence 10 deal with these infiammable cranks" at the head of these ignorant bu, correct and industrious people whom they have mislcd. why, be- ware ef him. He has contracts and !" commissions behind him. He is even more false man than the fanatic elder infinitely worse. too.
 W hen Bughir Young was arrested and put on trial for his life was sen, from London to report. sat down there a, Salt Lake. Well, now. with all that intense excitement which had spread till Il covered the civilized earth and had brought me all the way from London. l want 10 tell you the coolest people were the Mormous themselves. Their faith, their peculiar confidence in their leaders. their absolute belief in their religion lef. them and kep; them all the time entirely undis.uIhed While people stood in knots or the corners IT London. New York. anywhere. discussing the Mormous and the fate of Brigham Young, ihe Nor mons themselves kep, on quietly follow ing the plough and ,ending ,heir aocks. But that each one of these faithful Nor mons had, hidden away and within reach. a musket and many bullets for f. neYer doubted. But he was no. afraid
 Nor did doub; the gull, of Brigham Young in the complicity of many nur- ders. am certain in my own mind ,ha, the Mormon chief < judged and put to