The Mormon Question

The Mormon question is likely to attract a good deal of attention again nest session of Congress. There is no doubt that the Edmunds Law is practioally a failurc so far as its true objects are concerned. It probably has disfranchised a few thousand polygamists, but explained to your correspondent by exDelegate Cannon it only affects a small percentage of the population of Lbat grcat ïerritory, for only a small percentage of the Mormons are polygamists. Cannon always insisted in the many talks npon this subject which your correspondent had with hhn that the Edmuuds law vvould be a failure because of this fict, that it would only affect a small portion of the commiiDity of Utah, as but a small proporción were polygamists. This view is again presented by Eider (ïross, who has just returned from England, where he has been gathering in a few lambs for the ilock. Ho further adds that only a vory few comparatively of the Mormons have more wives than one, and that it is only the fe.v who are wealthy and able to support a pluralityof wives that marry more than one. It is at least pretty evident that any attempt to regúlate the Mormons, based on the idea that only those who are polygamists need bc reached, is a mistake. ihose wh3 are not polygamists sup port the sins and systems of ihe church as vigorously as the otliers, and do the bidding of tüe disfranchised polygamists even more closely novr that they are unable to vote for themselves. The result is that the elections go just the same since the Edmunds Law was euacied as before. What the next move will be is the unsolved problem. There is talk of a bilí relep;ating the Territory to Government control, and repealing the law oreating the Territorv, but it is hardly probable that it will pass, as by many it would be considered an interferenue not warranted ly the Constitution. The question ajjpears to grow more diffieult as it is more thoroughly understood. The nuruber of Mormons is constantly being increased by the number of Mormon immirrants, the additions to the ranks from the southwestern section of this country, and by the growt.h of popnlatión in Utah._