Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-11-29

SAS esAAN VIM oktOA0eA4A VI viz AAs
He said that the outlook for the Church
was more gloomy than it had ever been
since its foundation, and that the co.opera-
ton OF all the Saints was needed to bring
confusion upon the enemies of Christ.
DE pleaded eloquently for the 1.-THE payers
to pay up, and his talk simply meant
that the leaders of the Church would
need the sinews of war with which to de-
fend themselves at Washington. When
Senator Jones passed through Ogden last
week Mormon delegation met him and
asked him if they could depend upon mis-
services at Washington during the coming
session Of Congress. He replied in terms
both forcible and profane that they could
not count on him to help bolster
up such humbug. When the
time comes a speech may be looked fer
from Jones which will command attention.
He is as well posted as anybody regarding
the Mormon situation and is crammed
with facts relative to the high handed out
rage perpetrated in early days upon the
Gentiles by the Mormon people under the
guise of religion.
IN HIS NATIVE ELEMENT.
To see the Mormon in his native wilds'
one must leave Salt Lake and spend a
week in the southern portion of Utah,
about Provo and San Pete. In Salt Lake
the better class of Mormons live. Some
are wealthy, and strangers who are enter
tanned by them notice their elegant houses
and sumptuous style of living. These are
the heads of the Church, the men who fat
ten off OF the tithes, but the 1.-THE payers
represent the rank and file and are never
seen by the casual visitor to Utah, unless
the visitor happens to be on hand at Con-
ference time. The Mormons living in the
vicinity OF the places mentioned are little
better than savages. Each old farmer has
four or Ave wives, who eat and sleep in
houses of but two or three rooms, In a
state almost bordering on barbarism. In
these miserable shantIes there is not the
slightest evidence of rehnement-no
books, no pictures, no musical H.
struments, no magazines or periodicals.,
and nothing, in fact, but pork, corn, rheu-
matte furniture and battered bed. quilts.
Here children grow up IN dirt, wretehed-
ness and ignorance without any more
knowledge OF the outside world than the
cattle they drive to water in the morning.
In these districts the Mormons have it all
to themselves, and the towns they inhabit
look like deserted mining camps. People
who talk and write about Mormon indus
try will change their ideas of the thrift of
the Saints by taking trip to Southern
Utah.
THE MORMON PRESS
Is peculiar institution. The papers have
not improved particle in the memory of
the Oldest inhabitant. The type is as old
as the Tabernacle, the presswork abso-
lutely wretched, and the news columns
are devoted almost entirely to descriptions
OF the finding of ancient tablets in New
Mexico corroborating the Book of Mormon,
and the healing miracles performed by the
priests, such as making the lame walk,
restoring the sight of the blind, and
other things done by Christ in Pales' inc.
There is a class of readers who would be-
lieve that priest could bring the dead to
life if they saw the article in the Neaus or
Herald. The following is an extract from
an article which appeared in recent num-
Der of the Neaos, and is fair sample of
hundreds in like strain
Just before his departure for Utah Brother
Palmer received letter from Elder NJ. Anderson,
President of the Minnesota Conference, giving ar
account OF a singular circumstance 1t appears
that year ago this fall islder Anderson, associated
with Elder jacobson, baptized man and his wife
in Minnesota These people had boy, about IL
years of age, who was blind from his birth, being
barely able to discern light Last spring this lad
dreamed that Elders Anderson and jacobson preached
the only true gospel, and ii he could be baptized
by them he should receive his sight. He told his
parents and they consented for him to be baptized
Next day Elders Anderson and jacobson, who had
not been in that part for six months, called that
way and baptized the boy. He began to receive his
sight from that hour, in accordance with the mani
festaton given him. In the latter part of the sum-
mer however, he met with an accident, by having
large nail run into his foot from the effects of which
he died in the fall. shortly prior to his death, be-
ing boy OF unusual understanding, he preached to-
a number of young men and women with such Pc
culiar power and spirit that they were not only as
tonished but convinced of the truth Of his testi-
mony. AS result of this, when Elders Anderson
and jacobson called that locality las month seven
of the young people who had heard the boy preach
made application to them for baptism, a they are
now members of the Church
D.