Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-07-28
THE LATEST PoIYGAMTc PROTEST

The country is becoming heartily tired
of the doleful proclamations of the case
hardened old ibertines who rule the Nor
mon Church. That such offenders against
the laws Of the country and domestic de
cency should be permitted to abuse the
public ear with their anathemas against a
Government that refuses to legitimatize the
Mormon harems, testifes to the breadth of
liberation in this Republic, but it is also
witness to our objectionable neglect to
crush out the iniamy of plural wifeism"
Taylor and Cannon, who pose as injured
innocents, hut criminals before the law,
Utah Turks and importers of ignorant
women from the villages of Europe to ca
ter a while to their lusts. and in their age
t. drudge upon the bottom lands of the
Jordan as laborers in the fields which the
Mormon Church refuses to permit its
bondmen. even the poor privilege Of pur-
chasing, but holds the wretches to be
stewards in possession for the Church.
In the latest address these saints, Taylor
and Cannon, say:
We cannot, however. at the behest of man lay
aside those great principles that God has com
muuicated 10 Us, nor violate those sacred and
eternal covenants which we have entered into
for time and eternity. Il is admitted as flnda-
mental principle that States shall make no law
impairing the validity of contracts. If this is a
correct principle concerning dollars and cents
how much more concerning eternal happiness
and the salvation of manyF While we always
nave disposition TO render unto Cesar the
things that are Caesars, we feel it intinitelymore
important to render unto God the things that
are Gods We can afford to live for our re-
ligion, and if needs be, die for it, but cannot
afford to violate our covenants nor peLure our
souls before God.
Loathsome rot insuferabe twaddIe, If
religious tolerance has reduced us to the
necessity Of enduring such hypocritical
pleas for crime, it is a grievous misfortune
But there is 4 limit to federation, and the
Mormon priesthood long since exceeded it.
II Is time that the most stringent measures
should be adopted, and the most vigorous
enforcement of them had. We have so
long had this Mormon evil before our
eyes, have heard so much of it, have be-
come so familiar with its discussion, that
the public mind is becoming Indifferent to
its enormity and vastness. 1t is worse to-
day in every aspect than in any former
time. 1t has contaminated broader area
OF territory, it has mere adherents than
ever, it is more defiant, and is really as
Stunning form that may seriously involve
the Government In short, the wretched
moral leprosy of polygamous Mormonism
has been growing all the time, gaining in
strength, and spreading in all directions.
and even now foolishly essays to measure
strength with the Government. The time
has come to crush the evil.
TIE public mind is becoming thoroughly pos
seSsed OF the necessity and ACCESSIBILITY of in.
voking the interference of the Government to
prevent the further destruction of navigable
waters in California over which it exercises
jurisdiction. That the Federal Government can
interpose a decree of injunction-not at all
likely to be evaded, and from the process o,
which there can be no esnape-is certain The
people must see to it that the Government is
petitoned 70 act in its own interest and that of
the valley
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