The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-04-17
Address by Brigham Young.

On Sunday. November -. Brigham Young de
liycrei an address at the Salt Lake City Taberna-
Gle. in which he referred 10 the fact that five
times the MOrmous had been driven from their
homes. and had finally 10 travel through the viii
dcrncss 70 their present abode. They had been
directed bv their prophet 70 CCt out OF the way OF
Christianity and build up a community of their
own. They had gone 10 Utah without help IRON
the nation, but they expected 10 he permitted 70
retain their homesteads there. GENTLE traders
had followed them 70 get their patronage, but they
were not wanted. The outside world was full of
contentious and quarrels, and the Saints want 10
be free from them. The speaker then continued
We do not wish t. be broken up ami compelled
70 leave our homes again. nat do You want,
outsiders? You want all the money the Nor
mons" can make. | do not blame YOU for II |
never did. II Is reasonable and right. and you
are aS much entitled 70 il n 10 any other money
you can get. BUT we are not going to let YOU
have it. Is there any harm IN tins! kNclu-
sive." are WEI We are not half exclusive enough.
There i no other way to save tins people from
being broken up again than by trading with our
selves. | know this a well as | know the sun
shines. / have passed through it, and | know all
about it. Now, | do not wish To see this people,
of whom l am proud, and in whom | delight,
pack up their goods and 20 of again. W here
should we 20? When we were in Missouri we
had a place we could 20 to when we were in IL
linois we had n place we could 60 to but now,
that we have come here TO the middle of this con-
tincnt, where can We go? Is there another place
we can 90 TO?
If were 10 saw to the financial world, we have
taken it into our heads to do our own internal
business. and not foster those in our midst who
are not Of us, what would they say? They would
say this is the first step the Latter Day Saints ever
took that manifested wisdom. How exclusive do
we want to be? Just enough SO as to sustain and
preserve ourselves to build our own houses. make
our gardens and orchards, our carriages and our
own rlppaS pf amusement like pur theatre
built that theatre to attract the young ofour COM
munity and To provide amusement for the boys
and girls. rather than have them running all over
creation for recreation. Long before that was
built, | said to the bishops, - get up your parties
pleasure grounds TO amuse the people
This brings my former experience and that of my
friends right to me. Whenever we get into the
kingdom of heaven, where God and Christ dwell,
shall find something more TO do than to sit
and sing ourselves away 10 everlasting bliss.
mind of man is active, and we must have eX-
ercise and amusement for the mind as well as the
body.
Have we not the right to our own money? We
are not digging for gold or silver; we are not
bringing a society here among whom you can
hear shouting all night through our streets, or
cursing and swearing, or fddling and dancing.
DO you want this " civilization outsiders? There
may be a few who do not. | will tell you what
the priests want. They want to see a GROCERY at
corner Ofevery street, and houses OF ~accommoda-
between and behind them, and they want to
hear cursing and swearing, and they want to see
drinking and carousing, and the drunkard falling
in the street and rolling in the mire then they
come along with their long faces, crying, 80,
what n sinful people! !" We do not want any such
thing. We want to see every countenance full of
,heerfulness, and every eye bright with the hope
IF future happiness.
Now, if you don't want to quarrel, take meas
to prevent it. That is what we are after.
are trying to get the people to hearken to
counsel that VIII prevent n quarrel and a serious
II yOu can prevent a quarrel in n family
rou do n good thing. " Blessed are the peace
We are peace makers. We are prcscrv-
the peace.