The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-01
HOW IT is VIEWED.
Opinions of Leading Journals on
the Manifesto.
THE HORIZONS DESERVE CREDIT.
"we Have No National War on Anything in
the Mormon Church But Polygamy'-
Deserved Tributes.

the Mormon Church But Polygamy'-
Deserved Tributes
The following resolutions from eastern
journals viii be read with interest at the
present time:
PoLYGAMY ONLY.
We have no national war on anything in
the Wormon church but polygamy.
The ecclesiastical machine is bad enough
and should be reformed, and will be by its
own people. But il has the same rights,
within the state as the Presbyterian or
Methodist or Roman Catholic ecclesiastical
system, whose edicts can bring no physical
force to execute them. Time and education
must end that evil. The laws were con-
cerned only with polygamy: public senti-
ruent, the public sentiment of the third and
fourth generation, will do the rest.
Nov is the time to bring all the forces
OF public opinion on Utah to bear, by all
the means the church can use or the public
press supply. But this is no longer the
duty of the nation. It belongs to the do
main OF private rights and good reason
The first thing TO be consideredis that now
the Mormon will be, and ought to be a
voter, N Utah or Idaho or Montana or Arl-
iona. ''-Nep York Independent.
WISE AND L..
Apart from their religious beliefs, no.
body of the American people deserves all
the rights ana benefits that a public can
confer on them more than do the MormonS.
They are temperate, Industrious, lntelll-
gent. Their communities are models Of
order, and have the air of general prosper
ity that is given by the universal exercise
of diligence. Their charity is of that most
practical kind, which does not seek to re-
lieve merely, but aims at making the needy
independent. Newcomers among them
have an acknowledged claim upon their
neighbors for assistance in establishing
themselves. In short, the Mormon social
system is far more wise and helpful than
the methods prevailing among most of the
Christian bodies Of the nation, if we may
trust the general testimony of those who
have studied the followers of Joseph Smith
and Brigham Young. "-NelU York Indus
trial American.
VICTORY FOR THE YOUNGER GENERATION.
A good many newspapers all over the
country affect to believe that the Mormons
are insincere in their promises to abandon
polygamy. This is great mistake. The
action of the church is simply victory for
the younger generation who have never
been earnest believers in the ancient prac-
tice. 1t would benefit no one for the old
men to abandon their families, but it is alb
solutely certain that the rising generation
have no use for polygamy, and that it
was more the pressure from them than that
of the government which brought forth the
remuneration, which is absolutely sincere,
and which, the country may depend. will
rigidly adhered to.-Helend Journal.
POWER UPON FUTURE CIVILIZATION.
Mormonism finally brought to bay in the
valleys and mountain Businesses of the
mighty west may be still only in its infancy
Adapted to changed cond itions, it doubtless
has the vitality and tenacity of other re-
ligious beliefs in other parts of the world.
The end OF polygamy may, perhaps, have
come, but the Mormon church remains as a
vast ana powerful influence upon the future
civilization of Utah and contiguous states
and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Herald.
PoLYGAMY WILL NOT BE ENCOURAGED.
1.-The recent manifesto of the president
of the church of Latter-6ay Saints has been
followed by formal surrender to the
United States law and the promise is made
that hereafter polygamy will not be en-
couraged or even permitted by the Mormon
church or its rulers. That is to say, there
will be no more marriages of men already
married. The disposition of the unfortu-
nate women who are already numbered
among the wives of 'plurauy married Nor
mons is still problem.
There have not been wanting the over
jealous with their cries Of determination,
forgetting that the experiment of eXtermin-
alton has never been successful when at
tempted against a people who believed they
were defending a faith. The history of the
Mormons shows that their nun oers have
grown with each successive effort at oblit-
Grafton, and it is not unlikely that had the
crusade which was SO fiercely called for
when attempted, the experience would
have been repeated. Boston Transcript.
4 TO HOLD THE sPoLs.
1t having become a fixed fact that the
Mormons have abandoned polygamy as a
practice, in obedience TO the laws which
have been decided to be constitutional no
way remains to keep 100000 people under
the dominion of few well salaried federal
officials, and sprinhiing of Gentiles in
Utah, except to pass the pending bill dis fran
cnis ng alleged Mormons, who mey de-
cline to swear that they do not believe in
their church tenets. VIII the Republican
Congress go that length in order to
continue their hold on the spoils, and if
so, how many alleged Democrats will vote
with thems a religious test oath is all that
is needed to round out the anti-personal-
liberty record of the present Congress-
Washington Gazette.
NO REASON TO DOUBT.
''There is no reason to doubt that these
professions and declarations were made in
good faith and that plural marriages in the
Mormon church are thing Of the past.
Whatever the religious tenets of the Lat
ter-day Saints may be concerning the pro-
priety or permissibility of such marriages
concerns no one but themselves. All tnat
can be asked of them is that they respect
the laws of the country of which they are
citizens. Nor would it be right or humane
to disturb the relations of those families
that have been organized and have grown
up under the old Mormon dispensation.
The women and children ought to be pro-
tected, provided and cared for. for in no
instance should the innocent be permitted
to sufer.-PittSburg appeal.
DECISIVE OF THE TROUBLE
The latest news from Utah seems to be
decisive of the Mormon trouble. The
president of the Mormon church in general
conference has come out squarely forbid
ding polygamy and declaring for obedience
tothe law as matter Of principle, and he
speaks for the apostles, bishops and elders
who sustain him unanimously 1t is to be
hoped that this Will terminate the very un-
pleasant political conditions in Utah. 1t
was becoming matter of concern to Am
erican Democrats that a populous and
wealthy territory should exist without
local self government, and be a sphere for
the exercise Of such exceptional powers as
have not been seen elsewhere in this coun-
try since the EXTREMIST phases of recon
struction. '-GdIpsston NeiOs.
TIE MORMON LEADERS DESERVE CREDIT.
'sThe Mormon movement will hence
forth get more respectful study than it
had while identified with polygamy. We
ft,la for