Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1877-10-06

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Well, the chief purpose of this
wall was TO keep three or four hun
dred emigrants from being idle.
You see, we had a large emigration
one year, three or four hundred able
bodied men. They arrived in Aug
gust, too late to do anything on their
farms. Nov, an idle man is always
n bad man. Still, we had nothing
for them to do. How can I employ
them?' ! asked myself. Then I
thought Ut this wall. To make it
seem necessary, we had to pretend
that we were threatened by the In
dians around us. This was easily
done, fordsveral parties of Indians
had been lowering about the town.
In few dsys we worked up the en-
thusiasm fQi protection, and put
these hundr(ds of idle men to work.
The wage 1ere small, but they all
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And no Indians ever troubled
the town
"No, and I never thought they
would. But four hundred idle men
would have troubled it. We were
in more danger from idle men than In
dians. And this has always been
my idea; whenever have found an
idle Mormon I have set him to work,
kept him busy with his hands and
brain, and then he is always sure to
be good citizen"
This I found has always been the
Prophets theory. If poor emil
grant came to Salt Lake without
money, Brigham placed him on q
farm and guve him implements and
seeds. He made him self-sustaining.
Everything in Salt Lake was built
right there. A Mormon built the
big organ in the tabernacle. Nor
mons build and officer their railroads
and Mormons are building their
great temple. Before he died the
Prophet had Mormon furniture fac
tories, Mormon mint where they
once coined their own money, and
six cotton and woolen factories. In
fact Brigham Young taught his peo-
pie to make everything they ate,
drank, or wore, except coffee, tea,
sugar, and spice.
The river running down from the
Wasatch mountains behind Salt Lake
is a good water power with $50 feet
fall. The same water runs through
two million dollars worth of irrigat-
ing canals, and waters the whole
Salt Lake plain before it finally en-
pties into the lake.
Brigham Young was a good me-
chanic. He could make anythi ne
he ever saw. and when occasion re-
quirel he could invent new applain-
ces. He was q rough. crude man,
hut WAS terribly in earnest. He was
like Zsrk Chandler IN politics. Sher-
tnan n var. aai ~: Paul IN the min
is.rv He was always aggressive
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