Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-03-29
THE PROBLEM SOLVED.

THE PROBLEM SOLVED.
a feeling is abroad that the time has come
for more vigorous policy in regard to this
great moral and political danger. 1t was
hoped that the transcontinen,al railroad
would do grea, things by bringing travel ard
trade TO that CIeat metropolis Of dcspotism by
the sea OF Sodom. |, has done great things
1t has added millions to the wealth of the
Mormon chiefs it has facilitated the going
forth of emissaries from Salt Lake City to the
ends Of the earth, and the coming in OF
wretched dupes by thousands to swell the
Mormon vote, not only in Utah but in the
neishboring territories. There was hope that
acts OF congress against polygamy, and prose-
cutions before United States judges for marry
ing more wives than one, would break up the
harems of the hierarchy and open the way for
Christian civilization TO displace the bastard
Mohammedanism invented by Joseph Smith.
But Mormonism laughs at such expedients,
like leviathan at the shaking of a spear.
Let us understand the situation. The terri.
tories, whether before or after being inhabited,
are the property of the states, and are under
their united sovereignty. When Brigham
Young, with his accomplices and the horde OF
their dupes, marched into the territory now
known as Utah, neither he nor they acquired
ANY rights there save such as were given 10
them by the laws Of the United States The
constitution gives TO congress "power 10 dis
a,,f and, 10. A l.
tons concerning the territory or other property
belonging to the United States, for the very
purpose Of enabling the states as represented
in congress TO determine in what method civil
society should be organized, and what sort of
new states should be founded on the soil
which is their common property. In state OF
this union there is a divided sovereignty.
Each state, by consentng to the constitution,
has coded portion of its sovereignty, carefully
guarding the remainder. But in territory
the sovereignty is undivided the inhabitants,
till they shall have been admitted into the
union as a state, are simply under the sover.
eighty of the United States. In that sover.
eighty they have no participation. They must
shape their social order and morality, their
notions of right and wrong, their entire civil
zation, in such fashion as shall be acceptable,
not TO the King Of Asfanee nor to the Sultan
OF Constantinople, but TO the sovereign people
Of the United States
The government. then, Of Utah is under
the control Of congress so long as Utah is a
v,,l. III, h>,.
legitimate force there otherwise than as it de.
rives force from an act Of congress. Whatever
regulations have been made for the temporary
government Of the territory may be rescinded
BY congress whenever experiment has proved
that they are inefficient, and they give no ade-
quate promise Of raising up civilized state fit
for admission to the union.
For thirty years we have been making the
experiment, Of a territorial government in Utah,
and II is manlestly unsuccessful. Ii has not
answered the purpose for which territorial gov
ernmen,s are established. We, the people Of
the United States, have never yet acSnowl.
edged tina, the number OF inhabitants is the
only thing to be considered in receiving new
state into our union. The question is not
merely, How many are they but also. On
wha, sor, arc theyf Are they cviscd peo-
Pile 2 II they are in some sense ciyilised, then
IN what sense Are they, as people, capable
OF .eligovernmen, II they become state
will that state be a lit partner in the sovereignty
Of the United States 2 viii il be disgrace
and danger 10 the union The population d
Utah is at this moment numerous enough for a
state, but VIGOROUSLY that population, taken
as whole, is unit TO be invested with the
dignity and power Of state in this union
and there il no reasonable hope Of It's be
coming fit under the present territorial osgani
xation.
Doubtless there will be talk about the right,
OF the inhabitants OF Utah. Let all their right,
be respected and guarded. But lie, il be re-
memberd that those inhabitants are no, !
state. They are no, even body polite save
BY force Of an act u congress, which eongres.
can repeal At any time when such repeal shall
be deemed espedient. They are citizens o.
the United S,ases-as many of them as arc not
like the late u Delegate Cannon, foreigner,
not naiuIalized. They arc citizens in the same
sense ia which minors and inhabitants OF the
District Of colyg,bia TO say nothing about
somenl arc citizens; but lheiI ciizenship give,
them no political power, A. individual citizen,
they are entitled to protection by the na,iona
gosernmen, within the limits Of is jurisdiction
and any Of them who pass on, u the ieriitor,
into state are enii'led TO the protection Of III,
saie. A individuals they are entitled to IN,
same protection with other American citizen
in foreign countries. Every individual Of then
ha. nigh, 10 personal liberty, TO the possession
and lawful use Of the products Of his i4wis