Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1888 — POLYGAMY VANISHING. [ARTICLE]

POLYGAMY VANISHING.

Judge Baskin. Says that the Edmunds Law Has Started a Boom. Washington Special. “1 venture the prediction,” said Judge R N. Baskin, of Salt Lake, this morning, “that within ten years polygamy will be practically ex'inct in Utah Territory. What will do this? you ask. Why, simply the enforcement of theEd-munds-Tucker law. We, gentiles in Utah think the law ought Ao be more eevere than it is. However, it is effective enough, and through its operations the power ol the Mormon priesthood has been destroyed forever, unless Congress should be so foolish 'las to admit the Territory as a State.” ‘ What has been the practical effect of the'law?” Judge Baskiu was asked. “The practical effect has been to give Utah a boom such as Colorada has been enjoying for years, and which we would have enjoy ed, too, but for the political power wielded by the Mormon Chnrcb. This power had been need so autocratically by the dominant party as to make unsafe the investment of money within our borders. The result has been that Utah lagged superfluous on the stage, while younger communties like Colorado and Nebraska far outstripped her in the race. As soon as the present law became operative, about a year ago, our boom began. “Where we had two real estate agents then we have fifty noW> City lots era selling four miles outside of Salt Lake. Capital is pouring in frim ever/ direction. New mines are being opened up almost weekly. Money is plentiful and our future isbright beyond our expectations. If the i resent tide of immigratien continues, we—the gentiles, as all who are opposed to Mcrmonism are called —will, within a few yearj, controlthe politics of Salt Lake. When this, their great sirmghold, passes;rem their band?, their powi r will rapidly crumble away. Apostacv to the faith, which the church can then no longt r punish, will sfet in (we see evidences of it already, in fact), and from that time the extinction of Mcrmonism will follow as surely as the night follows the day.”

Bismarck’s Position. Dr. Pretoria?, editor oi the Westliche Post, St. Louis, said in an interview: “There is known to be a very decided antipathy between Bismarck and the Crown Prince’s wife, as well as between him and England, and it is by no meanß certain that it the Crown Prince should take the throne Bismarck would not at once resign, for re is too great a man tw obey the mandates of an English Princesp, even though they should come through a German Emperor. Bismarpk is in favor of ruling England out of the lißt of first-class powers, and it is an open Becretrthat'Bheis no kmgerapo werf ctl nation. Her army is so scattered aB to make it practically powerless. There is not enough of it in England to resist the stuck of one corp of the G erman army, and Germany has twenty corps. Bismarok would be friendly with France rather than with England, for he believes the French and German peoples have more in common than the English and Germans. If the Crown Prince is notable to ascend the throne and Prince William is declared regent, Bismarck will.not allow any aggravating measures toward England nntil alter the death of the Crown Prince.”

Tbe Boy Knew Him.r A physician who lives in the northern part of the eity is noted for his extreme leanness. He is very tall and thin. Several days ago. during his absence, a match boy called at the house, was admitted, taken into the back office, and the doctor’s wife bought part of his stock. The money was in a closet in company with an articulated skeleton, which was disclosed as soon as the. door was opened. The boy took one look at the grinning horror, and fled from the hoose,leaving both money and matches. This was related to the doctor, and several days afterward the same boy was seen passing the house. On the doctor’s attention being called to the fact, be went to the door and beckoned to the lad to come in. The match boy shouted out: “Not much, you big old skeliington. I know yer, even if yer have got on yer clothes.”