The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-05-26
wILLINe HEARTS REsPoND,

| VISIONS Tor 1lmS6lI ana Idullly ~
provided from the church stores III
til they are able to take care Of then
SELVES. The cattle, seed, lumbe
provisions, etc., have not been give
by the church, but have been charge
against the recipient. When tn
time comes that he can pay for it h
must do it, but the labor of hi
Ineighbor has been one of love. II
knows, however, that as long as h
is an upright and industrious ma
he and his family will live in com
fort and
WHAT MORE DOES A MAN WANT?
In my opinion it does not max
any difference what fern Of govern
ment a man lives under so long y
he and his family are content. Thii
homeless immigrant has at las
found a home; can lcOk about hin
and say that he is the monarch o.
what he surveys; that he owes the
existence of these things to party
or creed. He has
A STAKE IN THE COUNTRY
He lives in, and he will naturally
uphold the institution through
which he has been substantially
blessed. He will go far and dc
many things to perpetuate that In
for but for it he would still
be a thing dragging out miserable
He may not indorse OF
practice pOlygamy, but the church
has helped him to get a home, and
that is enough for him.
Here is one little thing which it
might be we'll for our ministers to
ponder over, and in which the
GREAT STRENGTH OF THE MORMON
CHURCH
Lies: There is not a Mormon man,
woman or child In any Of the TWEEN.
ty-one stakes Of Zion who does not
know where they will get their sup
per and a bed. at night. In all the
Mormon cities and towns there is
not hungry Mormon to be found.
BEGGARs ARE UNKNOWN
them. There are scattered
through Utah. Wyoming, Idaho,
New Mexico, Arizona,
etc.-within the Jurisdiction Of the
church-in round numbers, 100000
members, and still this Arcadian
state of things exists. Where
is there another religion on the face
of the earth that in thirty-fiye years
Of work, can show the same result
! Your paper a short time ago pub
lished an editorial commenting on
an unusually large arrival Of Nor
mon proselytes at Castle Garden,
and among other things you said, in
substance, that the church paid the
fares of these people. You are mis-
taken. Not one dollar has ever
been paid by the church for pas
sages. Even the missionaries sent
out by the church are not allowed
to take sc. piece with them on their
journey. In the language of the
church, "they have been ordered on
a mission to certain place by the
Lord, and they must get there some
how" and they generally get there.
So with the converts. They must
get to the MOrmondom themselves,
Or else they are not wanted. Once
there the church will watch over
them, but not till then. In your an
swer to Ryan" you conclude by
saying: "They are aggressive to-
ward unbelieYers." The time was
when such was the case, but at the
present time it is not so. In
proof of my assertion, L have
only to say that the greatest business
rival OF "Zion's Cooperative Institu-
tion," is the firm of Walker Bros,
well known by all merchants
throughout the United States. If
AN AGGRESSIVE POLICY
prevailed in the church these men
would be the sufferers. They were
at one time members of the Mormon
and were close to the con-
fdence of Brigham Young, but they
rebelled against the tithing laws OF
the church and were turned out. II
is asserted that they do even a
greater business than the "CO-ops.'
among the Mormons. There are
many Gentle merchants in business
in the stakes of Zion and they are
money. The above facts, /
think, answer your assertion az to
their aggressive policy
They favor their own people when
they have favors to give or political
officers to elect. | fail TO see, how
ever, where they are wrong in this
Other religious beliefs do this. The
Methodist fayors the Methodist, the
Presbyterian ditto, the Catholic
ditto, and the Jew ditto. When q
is in the presidential
chair he appoints republicans to
office, and a democratic president,
if we ever have another one, will do
the same. The Mormons have
elected Mormons to all the offices in
tho gift of the people of Utah, and
in view Of the way In which the
Gentilss run affairs in this state, ]
think
THE MoRAIoNs ARE RIGHT
in keeping them out of Office there.
The Gentle merchants and business
residents seem to be satisfied with
Mormon dominion, but the polite
ians are not. They want the offices
and can't get them; hence their
tears and groans. They may be able
to make political capital with their
anti-polygamy cry, but while the
Mormon church is conducted as at
present no power but war and de-
can even shake it. Ifleft
alone polygamy. having outliVed its
will die of its own &C
cord. The young Mormons
DETEsT POLYGAMY
and in few years will deal it its
death blow, but the Mormon church
will live because its great strength
lies in the fact that 1t provides all
its people with homes Of their own.
New York Truth, May 18th.
w. MCC.