The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1869-07-24
The End Of Mormoni.m.

The End Of Mormonism.
The st. Louis Democrat declares that Nor.
fnonism is about to come to end in Utah
Territory. The argument is that the Mormons
are generally of foreign birth; that they are
ignorant and superstitious; that they have
been kept to the faith by non-intercourse with
the American people; shat the Pacific rail-
road has opened Utah to public gaze; that
thousands Of travellers and traders will visit
Salt Lake annually; that the church authori-
ties will be compelled to relax their despotic
grasp upon the saints, and accord the Gentiles
more privileges than they have heretofore en-
joyed that non-believers will settle in the Ter
ritory in large numbers, and rapidly over
throw Mormonism by enlightening and max
ing thinkers Of its devotees. This, saws the
Democrat, is what is being done, and what
the continental railroad will render the best
facilities for so doing. With no CONFUSION
or outbreak, the system of polygamy may
sink into desuetude.
The above epitome of what the ST. Louis
Democrat may haze said, We fird n the
Enterprise of a late date, given without COM
ment, which would seem to indicate that jour-
nails concurrence in the views above set forth
That respectable journal in st. Louis should
utter, and another i'll Nevada should indorse
such unmitigated nonsense and sickly bal
derdash, surpasses our comprehension.
Every intelligent man in the country. who
pretends to any knowledge of Mormon affairs,
is forced to concede that tho Mormon church
is as strong and defiant to-day rs ever, while
those who own the sway of the church and
acknowledge Brigham as their prophet, are
rapidly on the increase, both by the natu-
raj laws Of increase and by emigration While
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'opened up Utah to the public gaze, it is
equally true that that gaze has not in the
least affected the Mormon faith.
The kind of civilization which the railroad
brought into Utah would be about as likely to
convince the Mormon people of the error of
their ways, by contact with it, as would the
mobbing of Chinese in San Francisco on their
arrival in that city be likely to convert them
to christianity. Mormon morals and manners
do not suffer by any comparison which can be
instituted in the minds of their people be-
tween the swarms of cut-throat thieves and
prostitutes which followed in the wake of the
railroad
"Non-believers will settle in the Territory
In large numbers and overthrow Mormonism,"
says that veracious sheet. About the only
settlements that have thus been made in the
Territory since the advent of the railroad,
have been the settlement of accounts bv bank
rupt Gentiles, who were only too glad to get
away with whole hides from so undesirable n
place as Salt Lake has become since the nail
road was completed. Instead of Gentiles
hocking into the Territory to overthrow Nor
monism, those who were there doing II pros-
porous business in trade are forced now to
abandon their business for want of custom
and leave the country; and, apart from the
practice of the legal profession in the U. S.
courts and the conducting of some branch of
trade, there has been, at no time, any
profitable field for the employment of Gentle
emlgrants. The good lands of the Territory,
and all the mountain streams used for their
irrigation, are now i'll the possession of Nor
mons, and their mode Of cultivation by COM
bining together, and by frugnlity, economy
and industry, is such that no Gentle could
compete with them in the business of agricul-
ture. Besides, there are millions Of acres Of
unoccupied lands along the line of the rail-
road which offer ten-fold greater advantages
to emigrants than do those of Utah, which
will not be filled for twenty years TO come.
Such twaddle rs the above is only thrown
out as sop to those who are anxious that the
Government should enforce the law, by lulling
them into the belief that but short time will
elapse before the Mormon question will regu-
late itself without the interference of Govern
ment.