POLYGAMY SCARED & HURT.

Western Star, Issue 962, 4 July 1885, Page 4

POLYGAMY SCARED & HURT.

It does, indeed, look as if a genuine panic hadcset* in in Mormondom. Nine polygamous "saints" haviDg been arraigned before Federal Judges, within a few months, and. convicted of plural marriage, they'now abide behind prison bars, and not so much as one wife to console them; and their heretofore untroubled brethren shake in, ( couaternation.; Some have fled to safe.,hiding.places in:the Territory; some have sought security in Mexico ; and not a few', it is said, have gone to Europe —sent ostensibly by the Church authorities on a mission for recruiting tbffi Cbiirchi < Even President John Taylor, highest in power of all, is renfirted r ; ; missing, as also are two 'of his chosen, counsellors—Cannon and Smith, ten' of the twelve Church apostles, and scores.more - of the very elect, -^Scludrng 5, Brother Penrose, oditQT l, of'the' Church organ. It is believed';th'at not a polygamous Mormopjitsetpains.iopenly to-day in Salt All this heroic treatment .of the polygamy question, we may assume, cam'e ffdia the formation last year of a Gfcrand'Jury in which was not one polygamist. Conviction after Convictio#*Qf fjolrgamists followed. To Judge new Chief Justice of Utah, and Mr Dickson, District Attorney, great credit for these is due. Had otlfe'f 0 o&icials done their full duty, there would have been less for these gentWmeu to undertake; but great as was their task, and boldly as for a time they.-jwftre defied, they have wrought nobly, and with gratifying results. One year more of such active effort will cruish polygamy out of existence and dangerous power of the M'ttrffSU'Church when it is confessedly str&ugtejst, and will do much to prevent the Church's further growth.

There cun be no new localisation of the Mormon spirit and practice. Cai ; - fornia, for which Brigbam Young aud coirfpHnV'Vvere bound when he seized upon Salt Lake Valley, is a State of good agfi,, and would prohibit their occupancy,. In Arizona, where the Morinons'have done some colouising, five of them have lately been sent to prizon (rlj'cludiug three bishops) in iuiiufftatonbj; Utah's new legal policy. Idaho proposes the same line of action, and -irrll not extend her hospitalities. Catholic Mexico offers no allurements. Clear J v Mormonism, anchored in the territory it has made famous, must htild_ fi |jv ,i);s.,- anchorage, even to the letting go of,. Church aud iStaie un.on, itmi the putt In g away of those things tii;it s (.i'we;iteii the State's mural weii'are. The slight reference which I'rrsideirti Cleveland made to it in his maiignriu encourages our hope that his a<;ministration will actively continue wJiat -Mr Arthur so excellent]}' began.—•' American Reformer."