New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-19
HOLINESS TO THE LORD.
CThe All-Seeing Eye.)
LIONS
OPERATIVE
MERCANTILE INSTITUTION.

Sunday after Sunday, Brigham Illuminated against
Gentle traders, and apostles and elders bishops and
teachers caught up and reechoed his vehement denunca
TONS but with only partial success Mormon dealers
compelled to purchase goods OF their richer and
more energetic competitors and the Church seemed
able to cope with the primary laws Of trade. AT this
juncture Brigham, with that shrewdness which has
characterized him. had revelation, and, at Con-
ference last April, it announced that "Zons Co
operative Institution should exist in reality as well as
in We TO this valley for SALVATION
preached Brigham, with audacious irony which 10
appreciated when remember that he Is one OF tho
richest men on the continents we came to this valley
to establish the Kingdom Of Cod aud 1t is not right that
some OF us should grow rich by trading, while the
majority OF remain poor IL is time to give 10 the
people Of God the profits upon the business they create
TO give to each Saint all that he at the lowest
cost price"
And the principal parent cooperative association
was organized Brigham heading the list OF subscriptions
with $4,000 every Saint coming down according to
his Several Of the principal Mormon merchants
sold out to thensuton some Of the Gentle traders
also succumbed to the pressure aud took what offered
for their goods and in few days the parent association
was in full blast with store for hardware another
for groceries another for drygoods and In every
ward and settlement branch associations organized,
the people of the vicinity furnishing the capital IN sums
Of SIS and upward No stock is issued, no receipts are
giyen the subscribers are merely credited with tho
amount Of their subscriptions and frankly told that
they cannot draw their money out again. Ultimately,
Mormon trade. already flowing into the chan.
nes will be entirely absorbed by cooperative inst
tutons.
Disastrous tho new movement has been TO Gentle
merchants, Mormon traders have been the heaviest
sufferers few OF the principals sold out ut good round
prices but the smaller only get the cost price
OF their stocks that and with business entirely broken
ND must seek some new OF livelihood. bitter
feeling exists against Brigham and cooperation among
these men, attempt 70 resist tho Prophets edict
would be speedy and utter ruin In the cooperative
stores the women do Of the selling the coDhn-
ing themselves production With the merchants, whose
occupation IA gone Brigham appears 10 have little SYM
paty Standing behind counters and measuring tape he
assures them is no employment for men with muscles
He advises them, they have capital TO turn manfac-
turers IL not farmers Good as TINS counsel Is
has not yet been generally followed Many Of the Nor
mon traders still keep open their stores Not that they
are doing profitable business but because they doubt
the success OF Brgham's experiment. No prohibition
has yet issued against trading with individual Nor
mons these traders not allowed 10 draw on Gus
tom from cooperative stores told OF one OF them
who offered cacoes at IS cents per yard when the CO.
operative price ls He quickly waited upon and
"counseled" under penalty Of being cut of from the
Church TO put up his cacoes to Is cents IL needless
TO say that he followed counsel" at once.
WILL 1T sUCCEEDI
Did no political OF religious questions hang upon the
s be an experiment be watched with interest. Tho
Mormons essaying cooperation upon grander scale
than has yet been attempted And they have great
advantages. populous community, thoroughly organ
led and controlled by single WILL unlimited capital
and an assured marketf cooperation upon such an e1
tensye basis is possible anywhere It must succeed here
Formidable as the opposition is, the Genes do not pro
pose tamely abandon the contest The great nrm OF
walker Bros who have for years done the larger part Of
the Utah trade have already marked down their goods
to prices below those ofthe Association and reported
intend TO put large stock in the market at NewYork
prices thus inducing constant struggle in the Mormon
heart loyalty to Brigham aud pecuniay interest
This firm has been extensively preached against but us
too deeply rooted to be easily driven away Brigham has
tried to buy them out but they refuse his liberal ohe
unless he also purchases at their own price everything
they own in the Territory, which wouli require some
thing like a round half million
RESIDENT GESTiLEs AND THEIR FEELING
The attractions OF the railroad towns and the efforts OF
the Mormons have largely reduced the uentle Popu'"
ton According to the best estimates the uehes anu
apostate Mormons in this city-men' women ana
children residents and visItorsdo not number 500,
pble the nopulaton OF the city is some 10000
with the exeeption OF few miners and an occasional
there are none but Mormons IN the settle
ments counting out Ogden Where some rev traders ana
nocuators yet remain. OF those here termed Genties
Large number arc Jews who accept the name "Gentie"
"a opposed to Mormon" and glery in it, They are for
,be most part Calforniazed" Jews perhaps the best
specmens Of their race in the world These people are
perhaps the Mormon haters in the country regarding
the system vulgar aud impous parody on the ancient
customs OF their fathers Mormon eoquence Is lost upon
them and don't think Jewish convert has yet been
made It proves Of to quote the example OF Ola
Testament worthless TO their descendants in Utah IN us
hcaton OF polygamy. They will tell you that II Father
Abraham were to TO this country with bis four
wives he ought be hung and that the ancient Jews
were as wicked people the Mormons they are sorry
the Phsnes didn't clean them out" The dentiies eau
not fully retaate upon the Mormons Tor their poey OF
non intercourse. Few of Them will enter "ourseye
store :" but for everything except merchandise they
must pay their money to Mormons The Two principal
hotels are both Mormon and both POOR enough
but It is doubtful If proper site for Gentle one could
be obtained. 1t certainly could not from Mormon.
There is one GENTLE restaurant but It's lodging accom-
modations are not good enough to enable to compete
with the Norman houses.
PoLYGAMY
Home with It's sweet and holy associations lie as foreign
to Mormon Bishop as to Turkish Paeha. The Mormon
idea OF is not whit higher than that OF tho
Indian The wives Of Elder who live In one on moro
stone mansions in Salt Lake City occupy precisely tho
same relation to him ~ do the sQaaws Of the Us brave