Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-05-26

as Grant was when he said he would
1icht it out Oh this line if it takes all
summer: and Cleveland has the same
tenacity of purpose in the triumph of the
law as Grant had in carrying on seige
or working out campaign to successful
issue. The whole history of the Presl-
dent, from the days when he was sheriff,
and then mayor, and then to the
! Governorship OF New York and
the Presidency of the United States,
shows that he is a man who will do what
he thinks his official duty requires OF
him, and that duty requires him to see
that every provision OF every law is en-
forced, including the cohabitation clause
of the Edmunds act. So far as the send
ing of a Commission to investigate the
Utah question, the President SAID he
would take the matter under consider
alton And this is the great comfort
which the people of Utah have got out OF
the Declaration and Protest and the
mission of Delegate Caine, Apostle Tay-
lor and Bishop Cannon to Washington to
present that document. Would it
not be much better for the
church papers and the leaders of
the Mormon people to say to that
people that there is moth ing to be hoped
for from the President, and that the SEN
timent of the entire American people is
against their practice of polygamy? Such
is the truth, and why not tell it? Is it
that there somewhere turks fear that if
the truth were known, the people of Utah
would act for themselves and declare in
favor of law and obedience? If men dis
cover unpleasant truths for themselves
when those to whom they looked for
guidance should have acquainted them
with those unpleasant truths and have
not done so, the hearts OF those who have
been left in darkness until they found the
light themselves will be embittered,
and the bitterness of their lives will be
turned to hatred of those whose duty
it was to show them that light The ma
jority of the people OF Utah believe that |
4 Commission will be sent here to iuves-
-igate matters. Such may possibly be |
5he case; but if a Commission shall come. |
things will go OH much the same after |
heir departure as before their arrival. |
Yet the people of Utah believe that it
would be otherwise, and that with a.
Commission to investigate things here,
here will be such report made as will
.ause cessation of the prosecutions now
,oing on against polygamists It's
ain and idle hope begot of
Nothing but ignorance of the true stu
tion. If the church papers will but
eprint the clipping from the Omaha
IerdId which We quote above, they will
o their co-religionists genuine service,
Or they will remember that that paper
as ever been the friend of the people Of
Jtah, and that Mr. Caine is their Dele
ate to Congress, and when he says that j
resident Cleveland is solidly against a
alt on the Utah question, he so says be- ,
luse he well knows that such is the actual .
ct, and that there will be no halt, and
lat it is folly for the people of Utah to ask =
r one. Every man and woman in Utah
lould know that Hon. ssJohn T. Caine.
eir Delegate to Congress, has said but
riday last that President Cleveland is
'ldly against halt on the Utah ques-
on, and they should ponder it well and
TX themselves if the time has not ar
we'd when it would be wise for the peo-
e of Utah to call halt in their mad
reer Of disobedience to the laws of
cir country.