The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-10-20
The Executive Ability OF Brigham Young.

The Executive Ability OF Brigham Young.
Tho Mormon who is faithful TO his
obligations delivers, each season, at the
tithing house, one-tenth Of the labor of
his hands, the growth of his acres, the
result Of his ventures, generally small,
or the increase of his focks and herds.
No system of taxation ever devised pro.
vides for eXaclions so enormous; and
perhaps no set Of tax payers on the
earth submit so checrfully and meet
their demands with such scrupulous in
tegrity and punctuality. For twenty
community, now numbering more than
one hundred and twenty thousand souls,
and averaging from al early date in
their organization here more than half
the number, has been poured into the
treasury of the church, of which Brig
ham Young Is the spiritual President
and sole temporal trustee in charge
None save his associates and himself
can correctly estimate the amount re.
ceived or disbursed. Perhaps both have
Dccu ONci tStiiildtCt' ~ - Cutitully G.
ported, and generally believed, that
Brigham Young has eight or ten mil
lions of dollars deposited in the Bank of
England. A hundredth part of that
sum would probably be more accurate
estimate. The concentrated wealth,
however, of the Church of Latter Day
Saints will not, in my opinion, be found
in unproductivc accumulations any
where but ultimately, unless thwarted
by special interpositiOn, in institutions
of industry and skill, in railroads and
steam wagons, In woOlon factories and
cotton mills, grist mills and paper man
ufactorics, newspapers and cooperative
stores, cattle and horses and sheep, irri-
eating bitches, mortgages on farms, and
advance funds TO omigrants.
In these, and hundred unnamed in
dustries, extending all The way from
Bear River 10 the Colorado, the accumu-
lated capital of the church will be scat
tered, rs it is already 10 great extent,
in irrigating, fcrtilizing and even swell.
ing streams. No public or private ell
terprise, net based upon sound financial
principles, can engage the attention or
receive the Endorsement of the Mahomet
of the west. No public or private en-.
terpriso of approved merit need 60
abroad for capital. Tho managers OF
the great overland railroad find in the
head of the Mormon church prompt
rn,nnr.il,la rop at n 4, ,p
of dollars worth of railroad construct
ing. The Scandinavian or English emf
grant, who desires TO purchase COW
or n plow, or a hush.l or two of seed, OF
credit, can find the necessary accommO
dltion at the same unfaiing and ubi
quitous fountain Of advice and assist
> ancc. 50 absolute Is the general conf
,, dcncc in this Mormon prophet, that h
is able ut any moment, without the in
vestment of a farthing, TO WELD a labo
force equal to that of ten millions {
II dollars. For he can place and keep i
J. the field ten thousand men, who vii
= toll for years aG any avOcati0n whatsC
u ever upon his bare Endorsement of ulti
. mate profit. Unlike prominent leader
y of political rings in the east, this ma
Il invests in power alone those gains whic
they squander in iiashy libraries whic
J they never read, and in pictures an
y jewels, and articles of virtu, of the valu
IS and quality of which they are alike i;
It norant. His daughters dowrics are NJ
81 displayed in their wedding trains. IL
0 lounge TT Saratoga Dr Long Branch, an
n tarry for months in Europe without a
l. quain,ing themselves with the myst
e. rics ofroHge et-noir, or hente eiQuarant
d -Oceridnd WOnh,y.