Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-11-01
GAINES CANT.

The following is the report OF IN inter
view between Il representative OF the New
York Mail and Delegate John Y. Caine
during the latter's visit to the East. When
asked about the probability OF special
law being passed to stop Mormon immi-
grafton, Caine said;
"Why, it is pure nonsense to suppose Il
law can be passed discriminating against
the religious views of immigrants. A law
can no more be passed to stop Mormon i'm
migration than 1t can to prevent other sects
coming. If Mormons are paupers. of course
they can be sent back"
"How do you like your new Democratic
Governor?'
II have nothing special to say about him.
lie is going ahead and occasionally blowing,
pretty much like the rest of them. He has
nothing specially to do with the laws
The Mormons thought the Democrats
would favor them when they came into
power, didn't they?"
mo; the Mormons are not politicians and
they expected nothing from the Democrats.
confess, though, that we are inclined to be
Democrats. We rather believe in the prin-
ciples of that party"
"How has the Edmunds law against po-
lygamy been enforced up to the present."
That is question | do not care to an.
stamped out religion? Were the Chris
tians exterminated by the prosecutions of
Nero" The war on the Quakers once in the
United States did not destroy the sect.
Persecution generally has the opposite
effect. As to the enforcement of the law,
1t is carried out with tyrannical precision
and bitterness. The Mormons would not
object to the law if it was not a class law,
made specifically to persecute them. If the
law was general and would reach any class
of malefactOrs i'll the Territory who violated
it, whether Mormon or Gentle, then we
would not object, nor consider it persecu-
ton instead OF prosecution. But it did not.
Gentiles openly violate the law, but Nor
mons only are prosecuted. They are dragged
up before the tribunals in Il reckless man
ner, and witness or no witness are found
guilty. An arrest is equivalent to verdict
of guilty. Mormons who have had plural
wives, and put them all from them save one
are ruthlessly convicted and sent to the pen
itentiary. Do you suppose that n man who
religiously marries a second wife and has
children by her is going to desert her and
her children? 1t would be inhuman and
against the laws of nature. That is where
the great hardship comes in
Then you predict severe times for the
Mormons?n
mo, l do not. We are suffering, of
course, from the present persecution, but it
will not shake the faith of the Mormons"
What do you think the end will be!'
1T will be as it has been in all other cases
OF persecution for opinions sake. The peo-
pie several generations hence will consider
the attempts now made to stamp out Nor
monism as we now look upon our ancestors
who burnt witches, The prosecutions in
Utah are egged on by the Gentiles. who
wish to get possession of our Territory and
property.
All of the rot about the persecution"
OF the Mormons, the tyranny OF the Fed
eral Courts, and discrimination in the en-
forcement OF the Edmunds law is the
same old story which is always told by
Mormon missionaries to the people in the
East. In Utah it is seldom utilized ex-
cept upon tourists, who do not remain
here long enough to personally inform