Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-10-31

tutIopaI. no way remains to keep
loo, coo people under the dominion q
few well salar7ed federal officials,
and Z sprinklin- of Geut;ies IA 0iah'
excop. to pass the psnding b.ll DIS
franchising alleged Mcrmons wno
may decline to swear that they do TOT
believe in their Church tene... WI!
the Republican Congress go that
length in order 10 continue their hold
on the spoils, and, il 50, how many
alleged Democrats will vote with
them? A religious test oath Is All
that is needed to round ont the anti
personal liberty record OF the present
Congress.
Tie Baltimore, Aid., He'oid fin
ishes a comprehensive DISCUSSION Of
the question As follows:
"Mormonisrri finally brought 70 bay
in the valleys and mountain businesses
of the mighty West may be SILL only
in its infancy. Adapted 70 changed
conditions, it doubtless has the vital
ity anu tenacity OF other religious be
Iiefs in other parts OF the world
The end OF polygamy may, per
haps, have GENE. but the Mormon
Church remains As . vast and power
ful influence upon the future eiyiiiza-
ton Of Utah and contiguous states
and Territories"
From the Boston Transcript we
clip q couple Of paragraphs;
1.-The recent manifesto OF the Presi-
dent Of the Church Of Iatter-day
saints has been followed by formal
surrender to the United states law
and the promise is made that hereafter
polygamy will not be encouraged or
even permitted By the Mormon
Church or its rulers. That is 10 say,
there will be no more marriages OF
men already married. The disposition
Of the unfortunate women who are
already numbered among the wives
Of .plurally married Mormous is still
a problem"
"There have not been wanting TIE
over-zeqlous with their cries q 'EN-
termination, forgetting thatthe expert
ment Of determination has never been
successful when attempted against a
people who believed they were de-
| Tending a faith. The history Of the
Mormons shows that their numbers
have grown with each successive ef-
/ fort at CELEBRATION. and It is not IN
likely tina. had the crusade which was
50 fercely called for when attempted,
the experience would have been re-
peated."
The New York Independent has
published the Declaration, the Ar
tieles OF Faith, dispatches FROM
| President Woodruff, Governor
Thomas and Others, and has COM
menteI eii,orially on the matter.
We only have space for a paragraph
or two. It says:
I'VE have no national war on any
thing in the Mormon Church hut
polygamv. The ecclesiastical
machine is had enough and should he
reformed. and Will he by its own Pej-
pie. But It has the same rights, with
in the state, Is the Presbyterian OF
| Methods. or Romm Catholic oecle-
sias.i.zsl system, whose edic.s can
bring no physical force 10 execute
them. Time and education must end
that evil. The laws were concerned
only with polygamy; public senti-
nent. the public sentiment OF tho
third and fourth generation, viii do
the resi-"
''Now Is the time 70 bring AL the
forces OF public opinion on Utah to
bear, by ali the means the Church
can use. or the public press supply,
But this is no longer the duty ot tho
Nation. II belongs to the domain
OF private rights and good rea-
son. The first thing 20 be con
sidered i tha; now the Mormon
will be, and onght 10 he. voter, in
Utah or Idaho or Montana or Ar
IONA"
The New York Illustrated ian,
er6caH remarEs:i
"Apar; from their religious beliefs
nobody OF tue American people de-
serves all he rights and benefits thai
a republic can confer on them more
than do the Mornons. They are
temperate. industrious, intelligent
Their communities are models Of
order, ssa hsye fhe air OF gen
| erli 1iEospe-iiv isas IS. given by
the universal exercise o. dill
senee. TheirclIarity is Of that most
practical kind, which does no: seek to
relieve merely, but aims al masking
the needy Independent. Newcomers
among them have an Acknowledged
claim upon their neighsors for as
sistanoe ia establishing themselves
In short, the Mormon social system j,
far moro wise and helpful than the
methods prevailing among most ol
the Christian bodies o; the nation, IL
we may trus, the general testimony OF
those who have studied the followers
Of Joseph Smith aud Brigham
Young"
The Troy, y. Y, Time, COPE.
from the Helena journal with com.
ments:
Since tho Mormon Church re-
noun ced polygamy thero has no: IN
naturally arisen much doub; as to the
sincerity OF that action. The TFn,es
however, readily gives space TO this
paragraph from the Helena Journal:
a good many newspapers all over
the country affect 70 believe that the
I Mormons are insincere in their
promises to abandon polygamy. This
| is grea: mistake. The action OF the
Church is simply n victory for the
I younger generation, who nave never
been earnest believers in the ancient
practice. II would benefit no one for
J the old men 70 abandon their iami-
mics, but it is absolutely certain that
the rising generation have no use for
/ po.ygamy, and that II was more the
I pressure from them than that OF the
I government which brought forth the
remuneration, which is absolutely
sincere, and which, the country may
depend, will DO rigidly adhered 20. -
These extracts are all We hap-
space to print today. We may give
our readers few mere at some