The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-01-27
WHAT W EST HAS DONE.
And What He Would Do Had
He the Power.
INsIS1IEa on A COMMISSION
Our Governor Displays Some Anger
and Considerable IgnOrsnce-Z. O.
M. I. illegal. 80 c.

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MI illegal. 81, e.
WASHINGTON, January 10, 1885,
Especial correspondence of THE HER
AID l--Goyernor West occupied the
whole of the time devoted to the hear
ing this morning chiefly reading from
his last report to the Secretary of the
Interior and commenting on the same.
He preferred to do this than to make g
set speech as he thought he could do
both sides better justics-fcr. be it re-
NJ mbered, ths Governor is exceedingly
anxious about one thing, namely, deal
ing unfairly with the majority of the
people. He then proceeded to enlighten
the committee as to
WHAT HE HAD DONE,
as medium by way of harmonizing the
hostile factions. Referring then to the
arguments of the gentlemen of the other
side respecting the general qualifca-
tions of the Territory to don the robes
of State sovereignty, the Governor again
conceded all they had said |; and he
again reminded the committee how
polygamy would be entrenched with the
advent of Statehood, and how the
naughty Mormons would then rule not
only by might, but by power divine.
Then, Dc an "eye-opener," he told tie
committee that if q revelation were to
be given to "this people, requiring
them to offer-not their first wife 8 rela.
tons, but their first born upon the
altar of sacrifice. they would comply
with the requirement as cheerfuliy as
they would
A COMMAND TO ABANDON roLYsANY.
Whether the Governor intended this
compliment to cover the army of
would-be polygsmists, or whether he
alluded only to the muchly married
people, your correspondent is unable to
state. The reader pays his money aud
takes his choice. The speaker. COM
mented lengthily on the peculiar sys-
tenn of the Mormons. Its advantages,
the fight to the finish that was being
waged, etc. When Judge Wilson
asked him to give his practical solp ton
of the problem, he answered, "a Legis-
lative Commission.
For how long?"
Until certain results are obtained
the domInancy of the non-Mormen
element, or the non-Mormon idea,
whether it took FIVE. ten, one hundred
or one thousand years, to bring. that
state of things about" By request the
speaker gave the number OF imml
grants from 1881 to 1889, which showed
gradual decrease, the number for
1881 being 1928. and that oil 1888
being I,4l9. These ssimmigrants, the
Governor stated, had al, been
brought over by the Church. Here
the Governor made one of his broad
siders :" 1t was that the Mormon imrhf.
grants didn't come in familles'es other
immigrants came; on the contrary.
they came, in companies in charge of
prosely ters. who paid the travelling ex
psDses Of their converts, and after they
reached the Mecca of their faith the
church distributed them ION the gerry
mander principle) either over the Terri
tory or elsewhere, as it suited its
purposes; in this way Idaho had been
overrun with the naughty people. Mr..
Caine corrected his Governorship on
this point and
HIS aovKRFoRsuIr STOOD CORRECTED.
The superiority of the MOI mon over the
| Catholic system was then extolled; the
hoggish claims OF that modest people to
the earth and the fullness thereof were
enlarged upon and the fears of the
muchly-abused, down-trodden Gentiles
we're touchingly unbosomed forthe first
timely special request. D. G. M. l.,
| in all its hideousness, was then mauied
with bare knuckles; the way the
muchly abused Gentle was absolutely
compelled against his will 10 contribute
to the Mormon Church was shown up,
in his having, as stockholderin that
institution, to bear his proportion of
the iithing paid on dividends. TIE
Governor did not like 1.-The eye" over
the door, either This is all in line
with the stabsurd stuff" that be
has been dealing out to. the
already surfeited committee. Tul:
Iidge's Biography OF Brigham Young
was next introduced and literally
quoted from touching the attempt to
establish the Order of Enoch-that
grand communistic scheme that was to
do up" the Gentiles for miles around.
Med" himself or something equally
life like was lacking in this scene to
produce the desired effect. This trouble
with the majority of the committee was
that 1.-THE order" was eithe; dead OF
never had an existence, and they could
not see the potency of the Governor.
attempt to apply
DEAD "HoRMoE vAeARIEs''. ~.
to live practical issues. The History o
| Salt Lake City was next brought to the
| notice of the committee to substantial
the same point-O Order of Enooh or Co.
4 operation, and for the further purpose
OF proving, that tithing was obligatory
The authenticity of the work wal
established, the reYisers named
their religious status readily defined
that of George a. Meears accepted
, There was slight bubble a!
, to the faith of that gentleman
and it may yet be deemed necessary tt
determine by affidavit whether Mr.
George A. Meears fears God and pay,
his debts or whether he is an anti-Mor-
mon. After the Governor had tn Dr.
oughly ventilated himself on the point.
pamed and had filed the records quoted
Mr.. Warner asked him legal question
as to whether or not the law would
forbid the stockholders of he Coop