The New York herald., 1871-08-23
M o ORM NISM AT BAY
We Adventures of Bessie and
Susie.
INTERVIEW WITH BRIGHAM YOUNG.
A Sabbath Scene in the
Tabernacle.
Brigham's Want of Faith in
the Press.

SALT LAKE CITY, August Is, 1S71
Just now it Is considered that no Western trip is
complete until one has abode day or two at Salt
Lake, shaken hands, II possible with Brigham
Young, learned as much OF Utah as a peep-show
museum Will afford and talked to every one you
meet about poygamy. Next the wonderful transl-
tiOn Of the Valley from desert into garden must
be admired and the Tabernacle visited; then the
tourist departs contented. with about as much use-
Sul knowledge Of its inner life ana social and poll
tical conundrums as when he came. or course the
tourists come here with Monogamic faith fixed In
their virtuous hearts. ana the polite hedging on
the subject in their conversations with such Nor
mons as they meet Is
HALF PoLrTENEss AND HALF PUMPING.
Among the visitors are great many ladies' yonng
and old who display as much curiosity on the "deli-
cate topic as their original great grandmother did
around the apple tree in "Eden's bonnie yard"
Fashionable society in London, some few years ago.
put the portrait of the Highland Gille in their
albums because he was The suDject Of an alleged
unsavory royal scandal, and about the same time
certain noble ladies OF spotless reputation In the
Court Of the Second French Empire wer eseen at q
bal ndsQue OF the de1nf-nonde, their avowed object
being to look upon the loose women who attracted
and led their rOue husbands from the path OF the
virtuous What holy horror howl went up from
London then, at the women whose curiosity drew
them TO compare themselves with the denli-nlOnde
OF Paris and yet this same modern Babylon was
staggering to Its hearts content over John Brown.
Let not a captious world, then, Judge too harshly
the women OF our lard who
PEER AND PEEP AND PRY
around Brighams beehive in the hope Of spying
some of the many "ights Of his harem." They are
only curious. you know, to see the abandoned crea-
lures, and then proceed to pity them 1t is only
few days since that Susan u. Anthony and Eliza
beth Cady Stanton passed through here, and car
ried their inquiries in those regards 10 an extent
hitherto unparalleled Wherever two or three
wives we're gathered together in the name of po-
lgamy Susie and Bessy were sure to be in the midst
Of them to ask the cyprian devotees how they liked
1t. Bessy reports a dissatisfaction among the re.
fined and beautiful. The numper OF this class
among the Mormon women OF Utah is scarcely ap.
preciable TO the naked eye, except sister
SUSIE BE TAKEN AS A STANDARD,
and then they count by thousands. They do not
say much about their interviews with the Mormon
masters OF this "relned and beautifuln human
STOCK but 1t Is TO be presumed they have their ex-
periences 1t greves the gzzard Of Susie and swels
the manly bosom OF Bessy with throb OF disgust
that the women Of Utah have had the right of suf.
frage conferred upon them, and that such of them
as use 1t suffer themselves to be driven in herds to
the polls there to support the inlquty which causes
them SO much dissatisfaction. 1t is women suf
frage 'hoist with Its own petard" So, after al
their cackling and scratching among the social mud
OF Utah. this brace Of '.sage hens,r as the desert
papers lrreverenty style them departed with an
unsatisfactory stone egg to hatch at their leisure-a
saddening instance OF misdirected maternal perse-
verance wherever it occurs. To be sure, one would
be sorry to judge the womankind OF our nation by
such vcarious specimens as Susie and Bessie; but
gratifying who resDects
the pure minded mothors ana sisters OF America TO
see them poklng their noses into the homes OF our
abomlnation, which the civilization OF 1900 years
mot to speak OF the religious view OF the subjecD
has condemned as the offspring OF unbridled lust
between which and prostitution
THEIR CONsCIENCEs AND THE LAW
draw no line whatever. safely be snid that no
one OF them envies the Mormon women their posi-
tion and it is certain that the male Mormons like TO
see those lady visitors less and less. Not few
murmured uiscontents have been uttered, IT is said
by the isolated saints OF the feminine gender the
sight OF the well-dressed worId-free Gentle women
who fit through their
MoUNTAIN-BARRED CAGE.
II is the railway which has brought this dscon-
tent their doors, for the outsae world was begin
ming to fade or had faded from their mental vision
as surely as II ever did from the farthers of the
desert in the times Of old. Times have changed
pen,-up temptation OF Ola Birthstone, a ST. Anthony
OF the period had railroad run past the top OF his
gopher hole and a bey Of beauX and bellies cropping
In daily with the morning papers and talking Fifth
avenue, Long Branch or Saratoga, it is within the
probabilities that the distracted holy man would
eilher take the frst tram for New York ask the
nearest blonde brunette to stamp his misera-
bic existence with tha heel OF her dainty gaer that
he might at least die happy. 1he female Mormons
are not tempted to this extent exactly. The males
seem to have learned lesson from the prairie nOGs
In this particular. The moment a traveller sp-
proacbes gopher hole the prairie dog after glance
at The intruder ruus into his retreat, but the owl
VINO houses with him hops about with siod. de-
hant blink, ana looks Tor all The world Ike Old
MORMoN AT HIS CABIN DooB
when some excursion party Is spying round.
Leaving the excursiontsts TO their pryng, there
Is another class which Is thorn 10 the side OF the
Latter Day SAINTS. THESE are the miners For many
years-almost from The time or their coming here,
In lss7-tne fact tnat the nnumerable mountains
OF Deseret were almost one mass OF ores and minerals
was Known among the followers OF Joe Smith aud
the secret was ealousy guarded, lest It might prng
would say The rich places OF California with their
native gold, caught the spirit OF the adventurous,
end how long
Hard SHINING, yelgw and cold"
was the miners idol there the red earth, all
SCARED and furrowed and washed, tells to-day the
purling mountain streams carried Tor miles ia the
wooden numes 10 rude. decaYing slulces attest 1t,
IN n' the ~ fantastic. s but suggestive names sH mat
cling to the mountains, guches. creeks and
canons OF the Goden State. Gradually the gold
fever subsided and capital went In quest OF the
precious gold Into the hearts OF the rocky hills.
and those who SHOOK their rocker on the surface
and scattered their golden gains with the reckless
ness OF the times became toers OF tue gloomy
quartz mine or started for other hunting grounds.
Colorado, Nevada, Idaho and Montana were pro-
spected and silver took the place OF It's yellow sister
IN the affections OF the miners; ior, as Marmontei
says:-"Quditd on mas pas Q1'On anne, u fdut
dfmer oe Qu'on a." Utah was left aside and its
great mineral deposits sleps their sleep OF thou.
sand years undisturDed, because stray Gentlles
were IN those days likely 10 perish the nesn,r'
anu persisted prospectors told tales. But the
miner followed the mineral trail the noun
talns where the railroad came, and last the story
was out that Utah was perhaps
RICHER IN VARIED ORES
than any other section OF the world. AS IL was not
surface diggngs there was no rush IN ~. IL is
all hard assure veins that the valuable metals lie
and Dence the hardy pioneer who scales the peaks
and scruunizes every inch OF his rugged path when
he strikes anything worth while must generally
FELL az best he can, for II wants money and nleny OF