Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-05-31

ipjuriBg him was guilty OF treason, II
any man came out here to depriVe nun
OF his liberties Q hole in the ground
two feet By six would be the only
quarters v~ouchsafed himl / am glad to be
ableto add that the rank and file OF the
Saints did dot seem to relish this sentiment
The polygamous priesthood answered every
attack upon them with inyschye; every leg
islAtiye attempt ct putting down polygamy
with evasion or open defiance and derislon:
For over twenty years the United
States statute against polygamy lay .
dead letter, during which tune q
whole generation grew up, who to-day see
nothing strange in such 8 state OF things,
because they have known no other. The
Mornons loudly proclaimed, as they shll do,
that ~polygsmy was from the Lord aud
could never be put down; they would never
surrender it-no, never.
Travellers from the East and West e
ing such language in the Tabernacle, ana
SEEING such isolation and numerical strength
of the church, have gone away shaking
their heads over the future, and fearing
that no settlement would be found except
that of the sword. And to-day We have
the modification of learning that all these
years the American people have been badly
hoodwinked in this matter. Socially, there
has been tragedy enough here, in all con.
science; but the political tragedy which was
supposed to be going forward in Utah turns
out to be q farce. No name has yet been
given to the performance, but an sppro'
pirate title would be, The Potency OF Big
Talk, or How to Bluff q Nation" The trst
act in the comedy has pasSed-thst IN
which the potency of the talk vas indis-
puted; in which the brethren hurled def
anee to a foe who, being 1000 miles away,
was supposed TO be well out OF hearing. The
second act is on the stage now, in which the
policy of gathering to Zion has been ex.
changed, thanks to the responsiveness OF
the deputy marshsl, for that of scattering
abroad, in which confidence in the Lord has
been replaced By a superior trust In
the value of absence from Utah. The third
act is looked for before long. lt is conf
IDENTIFY expec cd hat the Mormon Lord, VINO
has shown himself not unacCommodatlng IN
some respects in the past, viii now intervene
in his peoples extremity. 1t is believed
that as the United States does not seem
likely to give way the Mormon divinity will
DO so. In other words, President Taylor,
the prophet, seer, and reVelator, IS expeG.ed
to receive instructions from the Lord that
The Saints are to abstain from polygany TIL
the storm blows over.
Is it unjust 10 call this whole performance
a farce? Let US see what has caused the
present turmoil Somewhat over six months
AGO two gentlemen came 10 UtAn who are
responsible foa it all. Who are they? Are
thew violent, red.handed men, welding the
United States army in q furious onslaught
on the Saints. Not at all. One OF them Is
Chief Justice Zane, the other IS Prosecuting
Attorney Dickson. They are quiet
faithful men, who have come mere
with a simple desire TO do their duty,
They have, 20 the amszement and indlgns,
ton Of the MormonS, taken it for granted
that since Congress has seen fit to pass two
laws prohibiting polygamy 1t means them
TO be carried out aud not lie a dead letter,
and they have gone to work to 10 their duty
in the matter. Mr.. Dickson has succeeded
in conyictiug about halt a dozen Mormoas
Of pclygamy, three of whom now lie IN prls.
on. Besides the above there are several
|. under Indictment, and the marshsls aoe on
the lookout for others who ought to De.
This is the whole story. The ad-
vent Of two Federal officials, causing the
well+merited confinement of three Latter
Day Saints, this is the earthquake which
has conuulsed the Mormon kingdom. This,
combined with the Wstchtulness OF the OH
GERS of iustice. is the cause of the furious
diatribes in the Desert News, the bitter re-
ordinations of prominent Saints, aud the
marvellous exodus from Zion of its great
lights and diguatsries. If, in the light Of
thess facts, the reign Of buster in this Ter
ritory be rot a farce, one is 4 loss to know
what term to apply to 1t.
Now, after a generation has passed away,
the dawn of a new day begins to streak the
horizon; 8 dawn which every true man must
hope is 10 brighten into the full splendor oil
dsy. and not be quenched by the sullen
clouds and murky smoke of returning dark
ness. Let the law but go on and make
evasion of it next to impossible. Let II
stop up every knothole by which Latter
Day ingenuity can find q was Of escape
for the obnoxious relic and thai
new day will soon Hood these val
leys with its light, and thousands
of men and women who are now
bitterly and couscienciously opposed to this
work will, in their secret souls, be glad to
ioin with US in writing On, the escutcheou o
/ this Territory the words, Utah Redempta.
W. FORBEs COOLEy.