MORMON VICTORY IN UTAH.

Timaru Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 2841, 31 October 1883, Page 3

MORMON VICTORY IN UTAH.

(Xa>- York Times.) A gcuurul election was held in Utah on Mniidny, August Oth, nt which members of tho Legislature, Probato Judges, •Sherilfa, and other local oflicers wero uhoson. It was said by tho Utah Commission that this election would test the strength and efficacy of tho Edmunds Act. Tho votes liavo been counted, and it is plain that tho territory is ns compliitely under tho control of tho Mormon Church as it was before, tho Commissioners began their worlc. In every county, with perhapa ono exception, tho Mormon ticket Ims been elected. It is tniis that no one of tho persons chosen has been, or is, a polygamist in praclico ; but it ia also true that evory one of them was supported by tho polygamists, and was " slated " for oflioo by tho authorities of tho Church of Latter Day Saints. Tho Edmunds Act provided that no polygnmist or bigamist, malo or female, should bo allowed to volo or to hold public oflico in tho territory. It was thu duty of tho Commissioners to make a new registration of voters, and they undertook to excludo from tho list all persons who had ever practised polygamy. Tho result was that tho voters at the recent election wore apparently monogamists. But they wero Mormons, a.ud upholders of polygamous marriages, although they had nover boen s u 'lty of taking moro than ono wifo. Tho snmo statement can bo made concerning those whoso names wero on tho Mormon ticket. The new mombers of tho Legislature nnd the now Sheriffs and Probate Judges are monogamists iu practice and polygamists in belief. They aro all tho servants and tools of the Church. Some of them aro raero dummies. For example, tho Probate Judge of Salt Lako County, a polyganiiat who had held the oftice for thirty years, was disfranchised by tho Commission. His son, who has no legal knowledge or business training, waa nominated by the Church to tako his father's place. It is predicted that ho will not qualify, but will stand aside, so as to allow his father to remain in office, or that if ho shall qualify, he will bo simply his father's dummy. In other counties nominations of tho same kind wero made. It seems to ho proved that tho law has been successfully evaded. Those Mormons who had not boen disfranchised blindly obeyod tho instructions of tho president and tho twelve apostles, and the Gcntilus generally, refrained from voting, bec.iuso they knew that it would bo a waste of timo to go to tho polls. It must not bo forgotten, howeVer, that soino good baa been accomplished under the law. No practical polygamist can hold a seat in tho now Legislature. Tho legislators and tho county officers may all bo Mormons, and they may uphold polygamy as nn institution sanctioned by their roligion ; but they do not, and they have not, oponly violated tho laws ol modern civilisation by living with more than ono wifo. This is a step in advance, although it may bo a short one. The strict enforcement of a law that disfranchises practical polygamists and prevents them from holding office may make polygamy unpopular even in Utah. Although tho persons elected aro ir full sympathy with tho Mormon Church — a result that must liavo been foreseer by those who know that tho Mormons o Utah outnumber the Gentiles ten to on< — there are men who aro unwilling to ad mit that tho Edmunds law has failed unti tho new Legislature shall have refuse< to enact laws in accordance with the pro visions of that law.

[ WHAT SOME GERMAN PEOPLI LIVE ON.

The social condition of the workpeopl r in tho mills in Germany variea considet P ably. In some industries it can be pro 1 nouuccd as not unfavorable, but it i r certain that in tho textile trades the wage in many mills aro so low that tho hand f obtain only a scanty livelihood. Th X reports of the factory inspectors stat ,b that in some oases tho hands go horn to dinner, but in others thoy re ), main during tho dinner hour in th mill. Iu tho first case tho workpeopl Z live, 011 an average, in the followin way. Early in tho morning they tali coffee and bread and butter, or sometime oatmeal or water soup ; for lunch and i tho afternoon bread and butter, lard ( :h cheese ; for supper tho same, or potatoi ir with salt or boiled with fat ; for dinner c a Sunday ono half pound of moat wil in dumplings ; on Monday, herrings ar m potatoes ; on Tuesday, one-half pound i th meat or three-quarters of a pound ie marrow bono, with barley, rice, &c. ; r ly Weduesday, milk, broth, or meat sou [ 3) with melted butter ; on Thursda; of half pound of meat or three-quarte il. of a pound of marrow bone, with potato to or potato hash, without meat ; on Frida >r, potato broth, with suet and bak lie onions ; and on Saturday, potato soup rn coii'eo, with bread and butter or herri of and potatoes. la tho second case, t al workmen hare early in the morning, a

3 for lunch, tea, and swpfiSp- Me same a : tho workmen in the first case, but thi j dinner consists on Sunday alone of mea t and dumpling*, and on week-days o - warmed coffee find bread and butter 3 With this fare tho men are quite con 3 tented if they can spend at the same tim< daily Ad on whisky and Id on small beer ■ There" are workmen whose earnings d i not meet the above demands, and the; must therefore lire more scantily ; bu 1 there aro also others who are able to im » prove their average table so as to got mor f meat, and occasionally to drink a glass o lager beer. A report of a factory in t spector in the Wurtemberg district states > — The greatest pains for the iniprovemen i of the social condition of the workiri] i population have been without doub ' taken at Stuttgart. The Society foi i Promoting the Welfare of tho Working i Class several years ago founded tw< I establishments, and aro now doin; i much good. These are tho Publii i Kitchens, and tho Homo for Womei i Working in Mills. Tho first Publii s Kitchen has been in existence foi - seven years, and tho Becond for four ■ The price of a dinner of Boup, vegetable! i and meat is 3Ad ; for seven days, 2s. Tli< following figures show the number o . dinners sold in tho respective years : - 1879, 154,000; 1880, 153,000; 1881, , 144,000. In tho last year there was t surplus of £34 7s 6d. The Ho"\o foi , Women Working in Mills has been it i existence for thirteen years, and provide! ■ a home for women and girls bolonging t( tho working class. Last year tho Homi had 130 inmates, each of whom had abed chair, table and box. For the use of all ii common there is a largo parlor open al! day, and wanned in winter. For this including bed linen, a charge of Is poi week is made. In tho morning coffee can bo had fur id, at noon dinner foi 2id to 3id, and in the evening somo sour for Id. On winter evenings readinge from useful books and other entertainments aro given, and moral and religious instruction, sermons, and lessons in singing and arithmetic are delivered. Warm baths are likewise provided at a charge of 2id.

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