Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-08-30
BRIGHAM YOUNG DANGEROUSLYIL ILL.

Salt Lake, August 2S-Brlgham Young Is
suffering from cholera morbus and inAamma-
ton of the bowels. 1t is claimed by his family
that his condition has improved to-day, but
those who should be best informed DO not
think he will live twenty-four hours
A powerful head man, that same Brigham
Young. Of the kind who are born to rule,
it seems to US, is he. Under his leadership
and absolutism the most orderly community
(for and of ITSELF on American soil has been
organized. There is no population in all the
country so well ordered within its own lines
and precepts, no people so loyal to themselves
and their ideas as the blormons of Utah.
There is not poor house nor any need Of any
in all the Territory. Very notably, all the
Mormon forces and resources are moved as by
q common cause and toward common object
Thrift is a chief characteristic of the colony
It is like great Shaker settlement. The very
blot Of their religious teaching and practice,
polygamy itself, is all that can be urged
against the usual current of Mormon life,
The massacres and assassinations done at their
hands are the natural result of their bigotry
as well as Of the prosecutions through which
they have arrived at their present numerical
force and their solidity and prosperity as &
people Much of this orderliness and eff
cheney Of system is due to this imperlous
leader, Young. He has maintained, or eZ-
acted, rather, most rigorous dicipllne in all
his dominions He has driven out sloth and,
in wonderful degree, kept down schism.
When Joe Smith was murdered by the mob,
in Illinois, Sidney Rigdon, Smiths associate
in the " discovery" of "The Book of Nor
mon" made some efforts to have himself placed
at the head of the Church. Brigham stepped
in, however, with his stronger Will and pur
pose, and the leadership was soon determined.
For more than thirty years this strong man
has ruled his people like as Moses ruled the
Israelites, 1t is frequently predicted that
when he dies the fabric of Mormon unity viii
crumble. Such, no doubt, is the likelihood
At all events it is not among the probabilities
that his successor will be his equal in point Of
ability, courage and force Of will. With his
great sagacity to direct him, no doubt Young
will, if he can, select as his successor man Of
middle age Sucn as HlH1SeII WIS WIl6il lie LOOK
the reins in hand at Nauvoo. Under the sue
censorship of such man the perpetuity of the /
Mormon establishment is possible. Brigham
cannot live many years longer, in the nature |
of things, even if he survives his present all /
ments-which seems very doubtful, sturdy .
and strongly knit as his grim framework is.
He comes of hardy race. He is a native of
Vermont, where great wrestlers are born and
bred and where men live to see their humid
redth birthday. He is to be compared with
such men as Vanderbilt and Dean Richmond
and Simon Cameron for forcefulness and rug
ged hardihood of fabric. There is no weak
ness in the composition. of such men, There
fore there are no scruples. They 60 straight
on, unhindered, to the end. And they mark
their own lines. When Brigham Young dies
as powerful man (in the point Of personal
as was ever produced on this CONT
nent will pass away.
P. S.-The news was received here yester-
day afternoon that Brigham Young was dead.
Thus closes one of the most eventful lives Of {
the Nineteenth Century. We believe rely
ing solely upon memory that he was born in
1901. His son viii probably succeed him. q