The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-07-28
Utah--Crickets, G.rasshopp&rs and LScnsss :
Dreadful Prospect FOR the Mormons.

Dreadful Prospect Tor the Mormons.
According TO our los. advices from Utah IL
is quite possible that the kingdom and the
institution OF Mormondom will be extngnishsd,
or expelled, from our Western Territories
within few years, by cEusee and instruments
which have neve- entered into the calculations
OF saints, philosophers, OF politicians. Grass
hoppeTs, crickets and locusts threaten 20 do the
work which has c0nfOunded alike our states
men who believe IN the supremacy of "squatter
sovereignty" and those who maintain the
supremacy of Congress over the Territories
The intelligence which we published yeste--
day represents the crops Of the Utah people,
sover all that vast region limited district here
and there only excep.ed-as in process Of ALSO
lutte extirpation By grasshoppers and criokets,
and that new ally, in the shape Of locust,
was appearing in some localities to aid ia the
work Of famine The poor Mormons we're
naturally alarmed and bewildered st the fear
ful prospect before them; for with the co1sump-
tion OF their crops by those vo-acious insects,
rising out Of the ground in swarms and ea.ng
up every green thing within their reach, there
can DE nc other alternative TO the S.ints than
starvation, o. rapid exodus 20 SONS more
favored region Of the world, among The waste
places Of some other continent, O. me uus2-
propriate2 islands Of he sea.
The history Of the Mosmons Is the living
wonder Of these latter times. 10 treir origin
in she absurdities and abominasilns OF their
religious faith-in their prosecutions from
place to place-in their -alid Multiple Asion
BY reinforcements from all parts c. the civilized
world-and in their astonishing perseverance,,
industry and success, the creed, The p.ophe:,
and the followers Of Mormcndcm, are, il many
respects, without parallel in the history Of
religious delusions. Certainly he ms. sx-
traoTdina-y anomaly Of modern lines Is the
kingdom Of The Mo.mon ahief-an .ngsriuns IN
impeyio-an establishment Of polyga Of ne
epoch Of Jacob and Esau n .he midst OF the
institutions Of the highest civilization 0. the
nineteenth century OF the Christian dispense
zion. The causes, 100, which threaten tie ex-
tinction or expulsion Of these Mormons from
our continent viii be regarded by many as
scarcely less than mir aculous, though perfectly
natural.
In 1914 Colo-el Fremont, as tic IRE. re-
corded white man who had ever penetrated to
the fabulous Sal. Lake, gave us The FIRST in,c.-
nation Of that terra incognita Of the Great
Desert Basin. By reference TO his reports Of
that, and Of all his subsequent explorations.
and upon referring 70 the reports Of all c.he-
travellers, official and unofficial, in thu. region,
from tia. dsy to this !. viii be seen .ha. these
crickets AID srasshorpers are among the fixed
natural Institutions Of Utah. From time in
memorial the native Indians nsye been accus-
toned to regard them as par. Of their su5sis-
.ence. They make cakes OF grssshoppers and
cricke.s. They drive them into trenches with
a hot fire a. the bottom, where .hei- wings ard
legs are burned of, and they are roasted after
TIE fashion Of the loeosis OF Africa. Trese
American insects thus bear the same relation.
and serve the same purposes 10 the wild native
tribes, as tae locusts Of the deserts Of Ass and
Africa in their respective localities They are
bar to the cultivation Of The soil; they exist
where there Is no soil for cultivation, and
where animal life is limited 10 insects add
reptiles, and they s-e al eaten from necessity.
I he U.sh gasshopper is the African locus. OF !
smaller size, and the Digger Indian is bat q
lever type % the desert Arab
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