Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-03-16
Apostle. and Other. of Their Faith.

Apostles and others of Their Faith.
 Mormons, headed by Delegate Caine of Utah, have had the man. tie of hypocracy torn into shreds, under the vigorous cross examina- ton of members of the Committee on Territories, who were desirous of knowing the true inwardness of the sudden conversion of Latter Day Saints to the doctrine of loyalty and cringing submission to the law of Congress. The wolf in sheeps clothing was found to be the char
 acter assumed for the purpose of securing Statehood. The disclo. sures made by the Mormons before this committee, and the subsequent defeat of the bill for Statehood, or home government, arc set forth in the following Washington telegram:
 A Washington telegram of Feb ruary 22d says: Utah's claims for local government have been thor oughly cooked during the past week, so far as this Congress is concerned at least. There have been some im- portant developments before the house and senate committees on ter
 ritories. At the beginning of the hearings of these committees upon the subject of statehood for Utah, the prospects were bright for at least partial success. Now the fat is all in the fire. Hot-headed Nor mons who appeared in the guise of reformed Christians" at an unex- pected moment lost their balance, showed their true spirit and lost all. Utah will now have to stay out in the cold latitude of a territory until she has purged herself of all Mormon tendencies.
 To begin with, the Mormons who now claim to be ex-Mormons, open ed up their campaign for statehood by presenting to President Harrison a most humiliating and abject me- morial for amnesty. They profess ed to have long since abandoned in the fullest sense the principles of plural wives; claimed to have a new revelation from heaven, and after pledging the closest fealty to our laws and the Christian church as it stands throughout the civilized DOT ton of the world, asked to have their citizenship restored. Then came Congressional Delegate Caine with his bill for local government. During the hearings before the com mittees of the two houses of con- gress the past week, the Caine rep resentatiyes of the territory, smart ing under cross examinations by the members of the committees who wanted to know the true condition of the church and the underlying aim in desiring statehood, so that intelligent action might be taken upon the measure before them. slip ped cog or two and showed their hands. They roundly denounced the system of federal government which has prevailed in Utah for the past decade or two. and railed vehe- mently at the Edmunds anti-polyga- my law.
 They charged the Utah commis- sioners, United States marshals and the federal judiciary with corrup- tion, venality and everything else despicable mentioned in the Eng fish lexicon. It al once became plain to even the most partisan democrats on the committees that the Mormons wanted the change simply for the purpose of placing the government in the hands of per sons of their own choice. The de- nunciations of federal power showed plain enough that with state gov ernment Utah would be dominated by the Mormon church. So the plea in moment became not only a farce, but an abomination. Had it not been for the fasco of the Caine crowd it is not altogether improba- ble that the request of the Liberals, who have been fighting Mormonism tooth and nail for years, would have been granted and Utah given a pro- visional government-that is gov ernment half way between the pres ent form and statehood-a govern ment by the people of the territory, selected under fedral laws and super vised by the President. That seemed to be a fair proposition. 1t is known | as provisional government.
 The straight-out republicans of the territory oppose any change of | the present form of government, be- lieving that the Mormon residents l of the territory have not sufficiently | departed from their old habits and | forms to receive statehood. As the | situation at present stands, the Nor mons have simply proven themselves i hypocrites, despisers of the federal | government, and designers who | would capture a state government | and rehabilitate Mormonism if they | had a chance. Utah will likely re- main a federal charge for many | years to come, and her disfranchised | Mormons will spend many days yet before they see the sunlight of lib erty.
 Mormons in Arizona dominate, or they, by the "unit rule," com mand the situation, and some ac- ton should be taken on the admis sion of the territory as State, or the same state of affairs will exist here as in Utah. Statehood under Mormon rule would be a blot upon Arizona.