The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-09-05
c,o Century" Article ON Mar
ID' rage and Divorce
,r.,rs eoScERSING UTAH
for the Admission OF Utah
Prospects .a-Tbs Gift Of statehood
81 IrrsvOcable.

orsI MARI age anu WV "
Of gs, ssnovipg is the article in tuIi:
l TIE lol Americans believed in 1865 that
. nS l..t Of problems had been WORKED
the a. The United States, and that the
s on, y hid nos no more to do nan q
COUNT siov It's well earned leisure, WIN
to envy! u,olsst or make it afraid, The
none me-, = ii the expectation has only
iu'-u. . more evident with the yeas.
Ds0U ".ar has come without its problem,
No II them have been great and
0om' small; but each in turn has
O'n'- .5 ;mpsratively for a solution. The
pal .e success of the country in meet
gen., -, has been due in no small de-
-ns - provisions. The problem has
gree I'm allowed to roll up TO its tuH
no. s;oI,tv of volume before the WisesC
pV. t.iaI that foresight could compass
s Sos bsen applied, and then modlhed IN
Las ,,;an - circumstances seemed TO
e4eo and To this general rule or action
GEN. has been no striking exception.
aLlsalVn-osIem. What s all be done with
U S,l t,Iornons7 is still unSOlVed; the
VIC Lei lines of all the attempted soiu
Sons have proven total tallures; the
nroblem is rising swiftly to a volume
TSirb threatens to be beyond remedy;
md experience brings no hope OF an
ar a-Tasment as to the solution. Surely,
'ba URGENT necessity Of dealing with
M dificulties need not lead US To
ignore this one until it passes the others
a2d asserts its claim to the lead among
an the topics of the time.
II has been g common belief that
yonng and the other Mormon leaders
Who founded their State of Deseret in
Isl6-4S we're coarse and ignorant men
and vet there are some circumstances
which are not easily reeoncllahle with
this view OF them. This is particularly
the case with their Management Of the
alasi international relations between
the Mormon community and the United
States. 1t may be that they merely
Numbered into the adYantag eous posi-
ton which We have found to cur cost
that they occupy. II so, it is odd that
thew have never happened to bIunder
out OF it. II is q possibility, on the
other hand that they have acted under
some guidance which was well read in
our constitutional Law, and possessed
also clear and far sight into the future.
Il may be that this is the reason why
their action has so constantly hit the
weakest Joint IN the national harness.
II We look back over forty years con.
nectiOn with them, and notice their
successes in meeting every blow that
has been aimed at them, il NAV aid US
in finding the cOunteracting circum-
stance. the remedy (which shall solve
the problem and at last bring the
natural forces of advanced civilization
10 bear upon them.
In 1896, when the first migration
from NauvoO to Utah was planned and
executed, the country around the Great
Salt Lake was III Mexican soil. 1t
required DO great foresight, however. to
see that the eliminating difficulties
With Mexico might result in war; that
The harbor of San Francisco would be
IN irresistible temptation to a con-
9uefOr; and that the annexation of San
Francisco involved the annexation of
the country around the GreatSeIt Lake.
Still, a this was IN nUbibuS:. it might be
or might not be. If il should not be,
the Mormon leaders would have gained
thar primary object. Their colony
would be on the sod Of a foreign, and
nat very weak, government; it would
be on the very outskirts of a country
which could hardly maintain order in
lis nqn1fof oSNrr. \ -r-nr7lI
less be close to the border of the United
States, snd at the gateway of immigra-
aol. Surprising that the other alterna-
I'VE should be. as il wss, proffered to
men, that TIE United States should
annex Utah, were the Mormons shut up
% their first programmed Were they TO
meet annexation by further migration
i ,5 sonora, or some other northern
-15Alcal State? What were the advan-
s1gts which kept them where they were,
Elose force the nation feels' more
severely With every year?
me American State, or common
s "JLa.th, has absolute power over the
IauolecIS otmarrisge and divorce. Any
1 HreLicsn State might at any time
SSG ;o!;nt plural marriage within its juris-
T T,;.iOn; II K SHOULD so viii. This fact
tbSr lave Kept the Mprmons where
az we're II the Sta ~ Illinois. with
m me 4a[i ose OF gsiaing control of it and
The fsI ~ :, a polygamOus. State, hut for
rsIst; -S' ttlst he SIS e hsd also The cor
bsc 49, Is'Ner. When tffe danger should
i- 1-otiie ilSiole 70 crush the minority by
= p.EO0lng It's leaders for violation IF
go la ffl4ge laws. while tolerating the
public ~ E'esslon Of The nAjority'S
SsintS s "p'Iioh. 4 Territory where the
stsr .,S 1 voluu be in the ma jority from the
pJlvSs-,'S : z only safe place to begin q
Ho>|'uoVS State. ttlt LtFl
eve, ~ would the American Congress
to hao S,,oE such a polygamouS Territory
as 55s s-ae = polygsmouS State? UnhoIy
seem tallTinstIve props sitiUn might
fsvo- mere vas every chance in its
perfao, L patience could secure herl
nUmhs-H"1fH. Given sufficiently large
pronos;.,nrl persons in a com nunitv the
SbonI5 Ou mat the American people
VS. ~ ,.,! AFen Them under absolute mower
mnD;.,.l. 'lin Ssble. The Mormon com
great mn on'y psrmittej polygamy. The
be rno ,-,s VI us members must always
Patience. oSamiStS. Let them have
prisonTD1G,-i let them submit TO the inn
Of tb Ii;le9t or Acknowledgement of such
coDyict..s lew polygamists as should be
nsioriteTu let them only remain a
G GprsSss ana the time must come when
oyer.sssTS,Sr,,.ii IN some weak. hopeless. or
STATE 81 rr' .e hopr should admit the
irrey,So', = tan. The gift of Starehood is
20 bo once q State. Utah could
gver deprived Of her absol lite power
ss9ge MAJ = Tlage and divorce by anv sub
F fio rba congress, CT by nv instrument