Something, surely, should be done. The United States should not yield to this anti-American domination over so large a strip of her territory. She should assert her authority, and maintain it there as elsewhere throughout our land. Surely, those who say "_let it be_" are not cognizant of the _vast territory_ which is now governed by the Mormon hierarchy. As Joseph Cook says: "The State of Vermont can be hidden away in one of the valleys of Utah and be no larger than a babe in a bed of full size." Utah has 84,476 square miles of territory; Vermont only 10,200 square miles. Massachusetts, with her 7,800 square miles, could be hidden away in one corner of this Mormon kingdom. Utah is larger than all New England, and about equal in size to the Empire State and Keystone State combined. Besides, its position is central, in the most important mining region on the planet; and also central in a group of undeveloped commonwealths, containing nearly a third of the territory of the United States. No; our Government dare not allow this Territory any longer to be ruled by an authority which is in deadly hostility to it, and sanctions what the law of the land condemns. CHAPTER VI. THE POLITICAL PUZZLE (_continued_). THE POSSIBLE REMEDIES--The military remedy--The Government responsible for the situation in Utah--The disfranchisement of polygamists--Federal trustees for the Mormon Church corporation--Confiscation of unlawful funds--False statements about Mormons--Letters from the two Bancrofts--The dissolution of the Emigrating Fund Company--The Federal Commission remedy--The Woodburn bill, or Idaho statute. The question at once arises, What remedies should we adopt to get rid of this political evil--this _imperium in imperio_. The moral, the legal, and the military are open to our choice. There are some who think that the evil is so great and the danger to our republican institutions so threatening as that there can be no adequate remedy short of THE MILITARY. Such a remedy, they acknowledge, would be severe, but the offence they consider as great beyond parallel, and the exigency most grave. But for one I am an advocate of peace. If there is any other possible way of overcoming the evil, the use of the military arm should not be advocated, for it would necessarily result in numberless widows and orphans, and involve a heavy expense of blood and treasure. Bullets have no eloquence for the American people. The less gunpowder we can get along with the better. Our old wounds are not yet healed, and we are not hankering after a fresh fray. The order from headquarters which would summon the army to Utah would send a shiver through the heart of the nation. Suppression by force of bayonet is _the very last resort_, and we have not yet reached that point; and God forbid that we shall ever come to that!