The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-09-29

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Oar Interest foes, those who lie upon
rs tie most vlllainously, and have
done US the most injury abroad, are
the men who have come into our
midst to coin our blood into money.
Must we sustain and enrich them, so
that they may be enabled to take their
fortunes away with them to the States,
where they viii abuse and Willy us,
and use their influence to deprive
US of our political rights? We
will not do that. So we have combined
together to drive them out of BUSH
ness, and we are succeeding finely.
Our Cooperative Association is a
joint stock concern, open to all Nor
mons, who have capital, which they
choose to invest in it. We import
large stockssof goods of all kinds, and
sell them to retail dealers at five per
cent. above gross cost; and Brigham
eDjoins it as q duty upon all good
Mormon merchants and traders to
get their stocks of the Cooperative
Association, and upon the people to
buy Of these Church merchants, and
not to trade with the Gentiies. But
we could freeze them out with our
lower prices, even if it was not made
a religious duty for cur people not to
patronize them"
Who are the principle stockhold-
ers in this Association pa
President Young has the largest
interest, having $4,000 ia it; I have
$4,000, and others more or less ac-
eording TO their ability or choice. It
is not exclusive, but open to all our
people. But this business proserip-
ton will not always continue. As
soon as we are treated more fairly, are
given our civil rights by the Govern
ment, and cease to be vilified and out
ragged by our neighbors, we will cease
to be proscriptive and fraternize in
our business relations The present
course is contrary to the teachings Of
our religion, but we have been drives.
to il"
"What are the civil rights Of which
you have been deprived, and when do
! you expect to possess them2"
1--WE have been knocking at the d or
of Congress for admission into the
Union as a sovereign State these if
teen years. and we have not only been
/ spurned and rejected, but we have
/
emies, and that old scoundrel, Blu
chanan. sent an army out to subdue
US. And every succeeding Admins
tration has abused US, and left us
to the mercy Of the saVages. We
ask for admission into the Union at
| once We claim the right to enjoy
the practices and principles Of our re-
ligion on an equality before the law
with all other denominations. Let
our religion take its chances with all
others, and if it is wrong and i'm
moral it will go down. Let the Su-
preme Court of the United States set
tie the question of polygamy after We
are admitted into the Onion as SOW
ereign State, and we will accept the
result. We are not rebellious. We
are an orderly and la9-abiding peo-
pie. Treat US justly and kindly, and
we are your friends. | believe Con-
gress will, at its next session, make
Utah a State, with her ono hundred
and fifty thousand people"
What are the political predilec-
lions of your people in the present
organization of parties?'
Il think decidedly Democratic
almost entirely so. Bt it might not
| be so after we were admitted as a
State. Our peoulias Church organ.
ization and institutions attach US to
the doctrine of States Rights. We
are opposed to a centralized govern
ment, and to consolidation. If admit
ted into the Union, our Senators and
Representative would always be
found voting against ali interference
with the rights of the States, and
would favor a return to the early
principles of the Constitution"
| have only given the substance of
q lengthy conversation, and may have
done my friend injustice in not giving
his views as fully as the interview did,
but [ was conscious that the subjects,
condense them as much as | might,
would spread over too much space to
secure perusal. [ have not touched
upon Polygamy aud other Church
doctrines. which would prove in
teresting, The views of the gen.
tleman above noticed are enti-
tied to attention, second only
to those of Brigham Young, espe-
oially in their political bearings, and
are, l believe, fair exposition, as far
as they 90, of Mormon sentiment.
Tomorrow is the Sabbath, and with
| it comes the Mormon meetings In the
old aud the new Tabernacles.