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THE MORNING ASTORIAN, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1904,
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UTAH'S YOUNG MORMONS.
A recent dispatch from Salt Lake says that the young
Mormons throughout the state of Utah have taken prelimi
nary measures to unite in an organization which shall have
for its object the strict enforcement of the pledges given to
the government when Utah was admitted as a state, says
the Call. They have announced a determination to bring
matters to a head at the April conference of the church by
declaring before that body a resolve to leave the religion of
the saints unless the practices of plural marriages on the
part of the heads of the Mormon hierarchy, revealed in so
cold-blooded a manner by Joseph Smith at the Smoot in
quiry, are done away with immediately.
This stand taken by the younger element in the Mormon
church is a worthy one, for it is indicative of the spirit
which should permeate the whole body of the sect in Utah.
It is the elevation of citizenship in the United States over
membership in the church of Latter Day Saints. From the
time when Joseph Smith, the first prophet, shut himself
up in his farmhouse in New York and read the mystical
tablets down to the present day the exercise of the Mormon
faith has been inimical to the exercise pf good citizenship
among the most ardent in the creed of Mormon, for the
primal doctrine of the church, as confessed by President
Smith himself, is obedience to the revelation of God
tbrovvf.i the appointed elders, all civil law to the contrary
nohvubstanding.
It was this conviction that led to the armed clash with the
militia of Missouri during the Mormon settlement there
during tEeTateJhirtie&TI
laws c t Illinois which moved the Mormons to intrench
themselves in their sacred city of Nauvoo and withstand
siege for several days. After their hegira to Salt Lake
the presence of a body of federal troops was felt necessary
for the preservation of the sovereign laws of the United
States. But with the lapse of years and the growth of a
younger generation, not so fanatical as their forebears, nor
driven to a desperation by persecution, there was developed
a seeming amenity to the laws of the land on the part of
the saints which permitted of the admission of the territory
to statehood.
The Smoot inquiry at Washington developed the fact
that among the very heads of the church themselves all
pledges regarding polygamy have been utterly disregarded
and the natural inference might be made and would be
made that such was the practice from the highest to the
lowest had not this body of young Mormons voiced their
denunciation of the bad faith o fthe members of the hier
archy as promptly and with as much vigor as they have.
The movement of the young Mormons is a long step in the
right direction and must be productive of great service to
the honor of Utah.
A SENATOR'S DISGRACE.
The conviction of Senator Burton, of Kansas, of a crime
under the federal statutes in representing professionally
before the postoffice department a concern against which a
fraud order had been issued is the first instance on record
of a conviction of a United States senator for such an af
fense, Kays the Ledger. There is something pitiable in Sen
ator Br: mil's statement on the witness stand that "he need
cd the ifluney." That serious doubts arose in his mind at
the time as to the propriety of his acceptance of the retain
er's evident from his testimony detailing the engagement
of his services. That he should have felt compelled to ac
cept professional employment as to the propriety of which
there was the slightest question is most unfortunate. It is
about as strong an argument as could be offered in favor of
sending rich men to the senate or to congress, men who are
beyond the reach of that necessity which "knows no law,
and which sometimes tempts a good man to do wrong. Sen
ator Burton needed money and the St. Louis concern want
ed a senator's influence. The result is Senator Burton's
disgrace.
It is worth noting that the retainer of $500 a month paid
to Senator Burton is more that the salary the United States
pays its senators and congressmen. The question fairly
arises whether it is right to expect men to live as United
States senators and representatives are compelled to on
such a paltry allowance as $5,000 a year. If men of mod
erate means are to enter congress at all, they should be paid
enough to enable them to support themselves and their fam
ilies without seeking doubtful and unprofessional and per
haps criminal retainers.. The Burton case also offers an
argument in favor of the, bill increasing the salaries of
members of congress.
It is'imjwssible not to feel keen disappointment and hu
miliation that a United States senator should be found
guilty of any serious crime. The conviction of Burton
should serve as a solemn warning to every other menuW of
congress.
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NATIONAL ARBITRATION.
One of the most mischievous bills now before congress
i the one known as the Foss bill, authorizing the creation
of a national arbitration tribunal to be composed of six
members, at a salary of $8,000 a year each, to investigate
all disputed questions between capital and labor at the re
quest of either party to the controversy, says the New York
Commercial.
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The distinct effect of ' such an enactment would
be to encourage strikes rather than to settle them. It would
act as an incentive for trade unionists to precipitate dis
putes with employers on the flimsiest pretexes by giving to
such disputes a dignity and standing to which they are not
entitled. There is nothing that labor leaders and walking
delegates so much desire as government recognition of
tradeunionisin, for such recognition would enable them to
bring powerful pressure to bear on employers and thus af
ford them a stronger motive for creating labor troubles.
The Foss bill is precisely of this character.
Furthermore, it would be a physical impossibility for the
proposed arbitration commission to investigate even one
twentieth of the strikes that occur in the United States in
the course of a year. Strikers would invariably appeal to
this body to make inquiry into their contentions and the
result would be that either a vast multitude of disputes
would go unsettled or be acted on in a hurried and cursory
manner. The law would simply serve to harrass employers.
The Foss bill has the earmarks of a scheme to provide six
ablebodied men with fat jobs. Its place is at the bottom of
the congressional waste basket.
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A TROPIC YARN.
A weird tale comes from the West Indies to the effect
Ithjflnrtsuiy. liAa ital'evil y" ftsLon Santo Domingo.
ts the story goes Germany is secretly trying to purchase
from Spai na debt o fabout $21,000,000 that Spain holds
against the republic of Santo Domingo and, should Ger
many succeed in this scheme, she -will at once proceed to
take possession of the Dominican territory and utter a
"defi" to Uncle Sam and the Monroe doctrine.
The yarn is absurd on its face. It belongs in the cata
gory with the fables about Germany's designs on Brazil,
Argentina and other South American states. Germany has
frequently declared her intention to respect the, Monroe
doctrine, and there is no reason whatever to doubt her en
tire sincerity in the matter. Certainly, if she had any in
tention to seize Latin-American territory, she would hard
ly be liable to pick out the brawling and bankrupt republic
of Santo Domingo. With the experience that she is having
at present with insurgent Hereros in her South African
colony Germany is not likely to be insane enough to covet
another colony of much the same order.
This West Indies story reads very much as if it were the
output of the tropic imagination of somebody who has in
terests in Santo Domingo and who is impatient to have
Uncle Sam rush to his aid. Perhaps the latter may even
tually be forced to intervene in that squabbling little re
public, but he will not do so until the time is ripe for him to
act.
Who owns the interstate rivers the state or the nation?
The future of vast plans for the irregation and reclamation
of arid land3 seems to depend largely upon the decision of
this new question which has been brought before the su
preme court of the United States in a suit between the state
of Kansas and the state of Colorado. 1 he Arkansas river,
rising in Colorado,flows for 280 miles in that state and then
for 310 miles in Kansas, until it enters Oklahoma. Each
state claims ownership of the waters, and the government
denies the claims of both. The irrigation of 10,000,000 acres
of lands that have been reclaimed and of some 60,000,000
acres which the government plans to reclaim, depends upon
establishing the contention that the rights of the national
government to appropriate the waters of interstate streams
is superior to the rights of the 'states th rough which they
flow, and the fate of the irrigation laws awaits the decision
of this case. In Texas the allied question of the power of
irrigating companies to condemn land for right of way,,
without obtaining the privilege of occupation from individ
ual owners, is now in court. There can be little doubt that
both the states and the nation will find or make legal pro
vision for the vast and incalculably beneficial work of irri
gation and reclamation which is now in sight.
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