The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-01-08
Structures on Delegate Dubois
of Idaho.
BPAH's FRIENDS ARE BUSY.
Every Indication Points to Stermier
Session OF Congress Than any
Since the War.

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statesmen is busily engaged in educat-
ing public sentiment up to standard
where al will be lovely for its members,
and where there shall be nothing but
ruin and disgrace for those whose re-
liglous beliefs are obnoxious to them.
OF course the efforts to disturb Utah
come principally from Republicans, and
that party has generally been regarded
here as a bitter foe to Mormonlsm, but
there are individual exceptions iu that
organization. Utah has many friends
in both the House and the Senate;
few open and STRAIGHTFORWARD, but
many more privately sympathize with
the struggles of the Territory and are
quietly but efficaciously doing good
work for an honest cause, and when the
decisive moment arrives Will strike
powerfully and often.
A trans Missouri Senator was talking
with The HERALD correspondent to-day
and the Utah question became the sub
ject of conversation.
"Did you read the interview which a
reporter had with Delegate Dubois, of
Idaho7" said he.
said had, and had been not little
amused at the assumptions therein.
ut was outrageous" said the Sena-
tor: sit was an attack that had no ex-
cuse for its being made. But that was
the serious side of the affair The in
terview was positively funny, and es-
peclally to those wb0know anything of
territorial men and affairs Why, to
hear him talk one might imagine that
ne was the only politician in the west.
regard him as decidedly fresh young
man, with but little to recommend him
to public notice save his cheek"
The interview referred to was printed
in this city a few days ago and the
young man from Idaho has had it scat
tered far and wide. In it he was asked
What interest is taken by Idaho in the
Utah question:" and his reply was as
follows:
From one-fifth to one-sixth of our
population is Mormon. In Southern
Idaho four of the countries are solidly
Mormon. The first arrests and convic-
tions under the Edmunds act took
place in our Territory. AS United
States marshal 1 was forced to take
more or less prominent part, and when
l ran for Congress, made my canvass
and secured my election on the great
issue. This issue is a simple one, so
simple that it seems difficult to make
the people of the east comprehend 1t.
1t is merely the rigid enforcement of
existing laws, and the obtaining of such
amendments as shall divorce church and
state as Joint elements in the conduct of
political institutions throughout large
section of the west. 1t ought to be I'M
derstood that the Norm ms in Arizona,
Idaho, Wyoming. and New Mexico are
absolutely controlled by the central
church government at Salt Lake. The
hierarchy, with its insidious political
power, must be broken down in Utah
before its pernicious influence can be
throttled in the western Territories. AS
long as Morm0nism in Utah can
flourish defying our laws and preach
ing the destruction of family relations,
all of Utah's relghbors have a close and
a vital interest in any contest to abridge
its powers.
This was not sufficiently Vilifying in
its nature, but little later the oppor-
tunity came when the reporter said
But, as / understand il, Mr.. Dubois,
the new Constitution for the proposed
State of Utah expressly prohibits polyg
amy, and also prohibits any change in
the Constitution affecting the enactment
to make it a crime"
Il have no time now replied the
budding statesman, Ito enter into a
protracted argument to prove the bad
faith of the church in their plausible
plea of admission
No fair-minded man who has even a
slight knowledge of the real status of the
case would for moment allow such
senseless harangue as Dubois INDUCED
in to have even momentary Judgment
in his mind, but the great trouble is
that here there are many distinguished
men whose views on the Utah question
are imblbed from such poisonous
sources as the one just quoted.
Utah's friends are busy. Every day
brings forth some more malicious
charge than the falsehocd which pre-
cededsit and no matter how ridiculoRs.
how weak the statement may be, still it
has 20 be answered. &
New Years Day is great day at the
nations capitol. All the ladies receive
ard all the gentlemen 60 calling. and as
a natural sequence, on the day follow
ing, all the ladies are tired out and sll, |
or nearly all, the sterner sex have hats |
that areseveral sizes too small for their |
heads. The great event, the starting |
point, as it were, is the reception by the |
President and Mrs Cleveland. and on |
Monday fully 8 900 people shook hands |
with the Chief Executive and his beauti |
full wife. The ceremonies st first were
somewhat formal and elaborate, for the |
diplomatic curps had precedence and |
when the glittering uniforms and Mill
cary decorations had passed ont and the |