The Labor enquirer., 1885-02-14
THE TRAMP TRAVELS THROUGH
THE TERRITORIEs.
By One Of The Hol, order ef Tramp.

| Salt Lake City, the city of the Saints.
! Yes they are sanity (?) lot Of people
4 I have travelled over and around th,
world But if the Devil will only Civ,
me my choice when die, He'll or Utah
II will take. He'll eyery time. To
stranger upon first arrival in the city, b,
would think he had struck an earthly
Paradise; but, if be stays there Ion,
fenough he viii find that be has struci
q far less heavenly place than he at irs
thought II to be. I do not mean to 81
'bps s4ats slSss ~ gos'6 peesil1
but they are few and far between
There You will find specimens of hu.
manity rom all parts of the globe, from
the gray and grizzled Welshman to the
dirty Chinaman, You travel around
the city and you will hear the gentiles
cursed by all classes of these saintlyf?)
people, from the child in short dresses
to the Polygamist old Bishop. 1t is true
you will find some OF the younger Nor
mons who are shrewd and intelligent
men. Mr.. Young for instance, son OF
old Brigham's, he made one of the best
speeches ever heard in the city upon
the Mormon and political questions of
the day before the Young democratic
club. Andwhat did the Mormon papers
call him in their next issue? An apos-
tate, and a disgrace to the Latter Day
Saints And they would not print his
speech. Why? Because he told them
too much plain truth, But 1 am not
here to talk of these things only 1
must tell my brothers In the III. O. of Us
what | saw in my travels. My next
place ofrest was at Pleasant Valley juno
ton. After riding ninety-six miles in a
p. &, G. E. trnst parlor car. or more
plainly speaking, in box car with eight
fiat wheels and a broken door, with the
thermometer at 35 below zero, and still
falling / reached Pleasant Valley juno
tion,
But to the travelling fraternity would
say don't be deceived by the name, as it
is far from pleasant. Istayed around
Southworth's swill barrel for day or
two land, by the way, it has improved
since last winteS9, and then took ABB.
bolts air line coach for Scofeld and the
coal mines, the very hotbed of Mormon
ism. There, my dear brother tramp, you
will see slayary a lrnnat ihA s.s,is
IN lInIe. gvne PAST. i had Insuaged py
some means known only to the fraterr
nifty in good standing, to get few OF our our
silver dollars in my pockets, solvent to
the Valley House, keptby a good -natured
German blythe name of Arndt. There
l found good grub and a good bed.
Though as to my bed-fellow, the big ped
dler, can't say that he was SO very
good. But more of him presently. While
there went to the Pleasant Valley coal
mines. There the grizzly old monopolis-
tic Welsh Bishop Williams rules every
thing with the hand of despot. He
has from $50 to 175 men and boys work
ing for him, to whom he pays 70 cents
per ton land the, long ton at that. for
the coal they dig, and they buy their
powder, groceries and clothing from him
at a terrible high figure. He also, after
the fashion of good saint, deducts 10
per cent of their earnings for tithing.
which he says goes to the church, and as
have heard him say in the church
there unless you pay your tithing you
cannot work for me-" So you see the
men there are in slavery worse than the
colored men of the South were.
The miners at the Utah Central mines
get much the same wages, but they can
buy their groceries where they please,
and have no tithins to pay. I must not
forget to mention that while was rest
| ing my weary bones at M Elm Herr Arndts
there was an organizer of the Knights OF
Labor came there and succeeded in or
gauizing an assembly of that most noble
order, with nineteen members, some oi
whom are Mormons. AS l had l25 cents
of Uncle Sans money thought l could
not invest 1t in a better cause, so joined
the order. 1 suppose If they had known
that Baumgarten and l belonged to the
4 81. o. of T's they would not have let u'
ride the festive goat. After ] had8gainet
sufficient rest / once more took the ali
Lime for Pleasant Valley Junction. ate
| regularly and slept soundly for two DAYS
and admired the mountain scenery tt
! nv hearts content. l started out o
!; there in Mr.. Curtis caboose, but h'
would not recognize my credentials from
the H. o. of IT'S, so I had to wait ant
get pass from the assistant superinten
dent to Grand Junction upon the strength
:. of what am going to do in the future
las i was leaving Pleasant Valley juno
ton saloon keeper there (who | thel
J, Thought was a friend to our causel CAV
us a bottle of the spirit of Mormonism t
, cheer me on my lonely way, and as b
!, said to keep one from fainting from tn
j effects of riding in the vanished cars,
the brothers all know we do not approx
! of patronlzing passenger trains unless
: is the blind baggage. l gave drink
r that S. of M.Sto commercial man an
: took smell of it myself The commel
a;,l non CANA very near dying-aDd