The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-07-02
Brigham Y0ung's Wealth.
HOW IT WAS sECURED-zIoN's Co-oPERA-
TIVE STORES.

The prodigious wealth of the Salt Lake
autocrat, Brigham Young, has been Haunted
in the face of the world for ten years, as an
offset to his multifarious crimes against
civilization and humanity. He has been
held up to view as one of the ablest execu-
tive minds in the nation; man capable of
vast achievements a ruler who moved the
one hundred and fifty thousand people of
his dominions like automatons, and made
all things within the radius of his power
move to his bidding. We have been told
that he was the second largest depositor in
the Bank of England, had millions in Lon
don real estate, and costly buildings with
out number; held the balance Of money
power in New York and other cities, the
lowest figure of his enormous gains being
placed at seventy millions.
The Corine Reporter tells how it was
done, by whom and for what purpose
The falsehood of the Prophets wealth was
sent abroad in quiet way, by and through
the horde of PROSECUTING agents scattered
throughout the United States and Europe,
and for this purpose When it was decided
by the Church to establish gigantic CO.
operative institution, with branches extend
ing through the capital city, and to every
settlement of the Empire, agents were sent
to Chicago, New York, Boston, and Phila-
adelphia, to purchase stocks for the multi
tude of stores proposed to be opened
Tho tv hoI IaI
them, and dealers We'd with each other as
to who should sell the most goods on credit
to the Chief of lions Cooperative Estab-
lishment. Merchandise of every descrip-
ton flowed into the Territory in an endless
stream, and the thousand stores were stock
ed. "Holiness to the Lord " furnished the
trade mark by which all Mormons were
ordered to buy. Accommodation from
the Church, which is virtually outlawry,
was visited upon all who dared to violate
the edict by trading with Gentle. The
institution has thus far made nc dividends,
and the Eastern merchants who sold it
goods were sold in return. When they
sought the whereabouts of the glittering
seventy millions, no part of it could be
found
The next scheme set on foot by the
mighty Brigham was to build few hun
bred miles of the Union Pacific Railroad.
He took large contracts, and it was reported
that he had realized immensely from them.
His profits may have been large, but he
claims to have received little or no money
for his work, the greater part of the pro-
ceeds going into material for the Utah Cen
trail, from Ogden to Salt Lake. When
built, Brigham hadn't the means to equip
it, nor has he paid the men who did the
work of construction. What was done
Pacific Railroad contract does not appear.
He says the Union Pacific Railroad Com
pany still owe him large balance on the
work.
His fittings cannot be over hundred
and fifty thousand per annum, and we
doubt if they are that much. His foreign
deposit cannot be large, possibly million
OF two, but he has tight grasp on all the
estates, goods, and effects of his subjects,
which may amount to thirty or forty mil
lions-certainly not more. Salt Lake City
to-day, though four times as large, is not
so extensively built as Denver. The build
ings are all adobe, and most of them are of
the cheaper kind. A few on Temple street,
the main thoroughfare, present an impos-
ing appearance, but they are built Of con-
crete or adobe and succeed off into square
blocks to represent cut stone.
Take away the forest Of shade trees, and
the town would have no attractions what
ever. If, with these facts in view, the
world can figure out where Brigham's sew
enty millions came from, it must find sharp
mathematicians, and get deeper into the
archives of Mormondon than we have been
able to do.