The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-09-22
OUR VACATION.
A Little Personal Chat about Things Heard
and Seen.

/ believe it was Stonewall jackson who
said, a. his spirit passed away, LET Us cross
over the river and rest under the shade OF
the trees" To one Of the north, who in the
August days has crossed the heated and tree
less lands of Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah
and sits down of pleasant evening under
the glorious LEAKAGE that shelters the broad
piazza Of the old Townsend House tnow the
ContinentaD at Salt Lake, there Is a meaning
beyond the words In this saying. 1t suggests
comfort, content and peace. liked Denver.
1t is a beautiful city. 1t has magnificent
buildings. 1t il on the full tide of prosperity.
It's people are active, businesslike, energetic
and cordial-a happy commingling OF the
frugal eastern thrift and the liberal handed
and adventurous reeklessness Of the west
Denver shows what money, live men ana
public spirit can make even OF spot In the
desert, while a paradise peopled by fossils
may languish in obscurity. Denver owes lit
tie to nature and much TO man. 1t stands out
in the open, the mountains far away, the
streams running turgid and sluggish through
treacherous sands, and its altitude Of 5,2Oc
feet forbiddilg the less hardy fruits, flowers
and vines. 1t may have reached its zenith:
many think it has. But Colorado has no
other city and no rival looms in view. While
this Is true, and Colorado mines are opened
and worked and yield fortunes: while plente-
Gus harvests comfort the husbandmen: while
railroads are built to converge and concen-
trate their business there: while all fortunate
Coloradiaus come in from camp and valley
and invest their fortunes in Denver indus
tries, commerce and homes, what is there to
stop or impede the phenomenal growth and
great prosperity of this virile young city OF
the Centennial State? II rather looks that
Denver is only in the callow youth of that
which will mature into greater power,
strength and dignity as city.
But liked Salt Lake better. 1t is destined
to be to Utah what Denver is to Colorado.
1t has the geographical and Typographical
position and the nucleus of wealth, business,
railroad concentration, prestige and political
status that will command the future. 1t is
not half so populous a. Denver. In COM
parison its finest public buildings and bust
ness blocks are at serious disadvantage; some
of its residences, such as Walker Bros, Jen-
ning's, Hoopers and Cannons are fine
enough for any city in any land. But 1t Is IN
the grand glory of its fruitage and flowers
and magnificent trees: in It's rugged, close
encircling mountains with their deep canons
where sweep down the pure breezes and tn
living waters; in its great inland sea so close
by, IN its broad avenues, lined and embow'
cred with varied foliage: in Its thousand feet
less altitude that give bloom to the grape and
growth to the semi-tropical plants under the
very shadow of mountains sandaled with
vines and pinnacled with SHOWS, that the city
of the Sinful Saints wins the homage of the
visitor, and makes Montanian feel glad that
1t is only day and night distant. Salt Lake
City is yet sluggish. The blight Of Polyga'
nous Mormonism, with its church and State
government existing as a unity in defiance oil
the recognized decencies of civilization and
the republican Government that elsewhere
exists throughout this land, keeps it down
and back. The Edmunds law to break up
polygamy Is golng to fail. 1t is inadequate.
A religious superstition is the hardest thing
in the world TO tear out of the lives
of an ignorant but sincere people. The
they are the dupes of crafty and
insincere leadefs-even some of the leaders
may be sincere. They will resist the effort
to eradicate polygamy by every means OF
evasion they can conjure Up, but they will
never again as an organized people raise the
hand of armed defiance against the United
States. They assume to believe the crusade
IL hut N
herit, csnfiscate, and expel. Their eyes Will
be opened in time to the fact that civlliza-
ton demands polygamy shall end, that the
United States government with tardy acqui-
escence Is moving to enforce that edict, and
that no harm will come to those, in person
or property, who yield. The United States
Government is slow to do its duty in this
matter. II has made repeated and humilia-
ting failures. But it will get there, In time.
And then Salt Lake will be greater city
than Denver. TO its natural advantages will
be added the magical services of the AL
mighty Dollar and this city by the Inland
Sea will have no peer, no rival between the
Great Lakes and the Pacific. This, l
believe, its destiny, and the sooner the
Mormon church and the Mormon people di-
vest themselves of their sensual follies and
their un-American government, or our gov
eminent does il for them, the sooner viii the
better day dawn.
1t is scarcely possible to pencil in para
graph the pleasures that one may enjoy in
three days in Salt Lake. In company with
Mr.. Glass, representing Studebaker 81 Co.
Salt Lake, and Mr.. II. &. Walton, represent.
ing Butte, in a stalwart dignity that made
burly Bishops shy around the corner and try
to swell out their necks to worthier proper
tions, the New NORTHWEST people had q
delightful days drive to the principal objects
of interest in and about the city. Since
Brigham Young died and the faithful placed
upon his grave a ten ton stone to keep him
in and grave robbers out, but little interest
attaches to the Lion or Bee Hive Houses, AND
month ago his first wife, whose residence
was formerly pointed out TO visitors, CLOSED
her eyes on this world to test the issue will
the First President In the next, before Hin
who knoweth all the preceptS they had prac
| ticed. We drove through beautiful streets
meeting here and there old friends, seeing
there and here delightful gardens, grounds
and orchards, and through kind courtesie'
plnckiug the choicest of fruits and flares
| flowers Of on the sage brush lands score
or more of substantial stone buildings encir.
Gle the parade grounds OF Camp Douglas will
its park of artillery glistening IN the sun
beyond quiet enclosure where white stones
amid dense evergreers mark the last bivoua
OF the boys in blue; on to where Emigran'
canon yawns, and under the silver leave'
naples "Hank" recognizes the spot wher,
twenty years ago, just off the tedious trai
| from Pixies Peak, he traded his last hal
pound of Colorado tobacco with little Nor
mon maid for four spring chickens and Q
dozen eggs. Thence to the city, lunch, ant
| the train to Garfeld--a A-mile ride for 30 cts
"a refreshing tumble in the surf-a whit
beach, waters clear almost a. air hundreds Gis
porting In the beuyanJ waves where swim
mers cannot swim and landluhbers canno
sink a sunset across the waters that Turne
could not paint, breezy, hours ride acros
| the downs to the city and then, under tn
trees again, with the electric light intensity
/ ing the emerald of the leaves and making
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