The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-07-19

uouDileSSf bul iOI ItI AoiAituuS anu
firmness, her husband would have sank
beneath his burdens. l hope she'll go /
back to Oregon when the women be-
come acknowledged voters and run for
the Office of Secretary of State herself |
president" Brigham Young has ten
dered me the use of the Tabernacle this
evening, and, anxious as l feel to get on
homeward, must stay and talk to the
Mormons, who will not enter the Insti-
tute because it is owned by the apOstate
Godbe and Others, whom the Latter
Day Saints consider infinitely worse,
if possible, than the barbarous Gen
tiles.
A Mormon gentleman accompanied
me to the residence Of Geo. Q. Cannon,
proprietor of the Desert Netcs, who lives
with his four wives, and nobody knows
how many children, in a large and fine
adobe house, and who met me with the
quiet dignity of a patriarch. L was by
him escorted to the Nelrs Office and
shown through the building from base
ment to attic. Here are all the latest
Improvements in printing and book
binding, and l was particularly inter-
ested in wooden machine called a
''stabber," for punching holes through
books and pamphlets. This curious and
useful piece of mechanism was invented
by young Mormon named y. II. Kel
ly, who is justly proud Of his handi-
work. \ man and his three little sons
were busy in a room adjoining, making
types. The foreman took especial pains
TO show me the whole process of manu-
facture, and l was especially interested
in the electric battery which made the
matrices to mould the letters in. Ills
arrangements are all primitive, but
they work excellently well. Then saw
the types and battered cases which were
hauled to Desert with oxen in the olden
time, and as thought of the indomita-
ble perseverance necessary to establish
the many enterprises which flourished
in this far of desert before the railroad
era, could not but mediate and adj
mire.
Rode out with the Governor and his
family to Prospect Hill, where with a
good field glass we swept the city, salt
Lake and the bold, bleak, nearby
mountains; but the objects OF most par
ticular interest to me were the long
double and quadruple adobe houses,
where victims of polygamy live and
propagate, and where the old women
are often abandoned, to dig as best they
may for sustenance, while younger
wives are installed as favorites of hard.
favored Mormon autorcats whose relig.
Jonah, mel
Passed the Mormon burying ground
the city of broken hearts, where tn,
largest class of occupants are "firs
wives" who died in their heroic efforts
to become reconciled TO the wonderful
beauty Of the practical workings of tn,
Mormon faith.
Yet the women are often rs jealous
advocates Of polygamy as the men
They are sustained by a religious yea
which is as enthusiastic as is that of tn
Hindoo widow who casts herself upol
her husbands funeral pile.
Apostate Mormons, or "Godbeites,
are thick and fast increasing, and tn
hatred manifested toward them by tin
faithful is deadly i'm the extreme.
Called at the Office of Brigham Young
who was not able to "see company.
The Office walls are adorned with pic
lures of the Saints, done i'm oil, and cor
spicuous among them is n large photo
graph of Ben Holiday, with his auto
graph at the bottom, preceded by ''rC
spectfully, your friend" Asked
Brigham would accept my picture I
adorn his Office, and was answered
"of course, and glad to get it," Wi
think about it when 1 get home agaiI
salt Lake city is beautifully and regt
larly laid out, and its running stream
and luXuriant shade trees are q livin
beauty.
L am to talk tonight on Huma
Rights and Motherhood.
Later. Have Just been visited
apostate Mormons-a lady and her tw
daughteTs-who have influential rel;
tives living i'm Portland. The moth,
: is a remarkably intellectual and engal
ing conversationalist, whose tale of no
4.
bright, beautiful girls, and the one idle
of all of them was TO borrow means
: run away. They have renounced II
Mormon faith, have had all their proI
erty taken away by Brigham Youni
1 and the husband and the father havin
I found other loves and founded 9th,
: families, they want TO flee like fug
u tives. The Governor and his wife,
5 whom as representative Oregonians
e am justly proud, ought to have an al
i preparation from the General Cover
ment to use at their discretion to al
: these fugitives. Oh, if women wei
, only i'm Congress as mems associate Law
u makers, how much human suIerir
; might be thereby alleviated.
u The Mormons have a wholesome fe;
of the Governor. He has vetoed man
: of their pet schemes of legislation, an
commanded their respect by his homo
able course, though there is no doul
= but that there are many who would d
light to destroy him.
At Independence Hall, where a ban
Of faithful progressionists meet ON SUI