Polygamy Increasing in Utah
A little while ago, says the Salt Lake “Tribune,” we printed a roster of men who are actually reputed, and doubtless correctly so, to have entered into new polygamous relations within recent years, very recent years indeed as compared with the date of the manifesto of 1890. The “Deseret News,” referring to that list, apparently accepted it as correct and undertook to belittle “the polygamy scare” by saying that if these were all who had gone into polygamy since 1890 the list was a matter of no great concern. This admission, however, on the part of the church organ, serves not to limit the number of new cases of polygamy, but as a foundation upon which reasonably to assume that polygamy is alarmingly prevalent; for to every new polygamous case that comes to the notice of the non-Mormons there are doubtless 100 that the non-Mormons never hear anything about. It is entirely safe, therefore, to say that the new cases of polygamy are numbered by the hundred; perhaps it would be no great exaggeration to say, by the thousand. At all events it is a sure thing that there has been such a recrudescence of polygamy within recent years as could not have been dreamed of at any time between the outgiving of the manifesto and the conferring of statehood upon Utah.