Sacramento Daily Record Union

"FIGHTING WITH WORDS."
The Boston Advertiser hits the nail squarely on the head when it says: "Polygamy is not to be extirpated by heaping up laws, none of which are properly executed. It is not the size of the statute-book which determines the orderliness and well-being of a State. The resolution remedy is not sovereign in political ailments. General Rosecrans' scheme of a joint resolution proposing an amendment prohibiting polygamy is welcomed by certain sanguine observers as practically settling the vexatious problem. Before joining in such felicitations it would be well to remember the familiar facts that laws against crime do not enforce themselves, and that multiplying statutes and prohibitory amendments in the face of dormant or dead laws is simply aggravating the embarrassment of the country." We have all along held to precisely similar views, and recently expressed the opinion that no laws would be of any avail until Congress and the authorities manifested a disposition to enforce those we now have. The truth is, it will not be a difficult task to extirpate polygamy if once it is determined upon. But there are political interests involved that clog all progress in that direction. The Mormon lobby influence at Washington is far more potent than people generally give it credit for. While the people talk, and the press declaims on this question, the Mormon wire puller is secretly at work, and effectively.