The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-02-13
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the scheme upon which the foolish, the
unthoughtful and the vicious all fall
back, just as if it were possible or prob,
able that the question here involved
could be settled by the sword and bayo-
net in the nineteenth century in the
American Republic Several years ago,
a gentleman writing to an eastern news
paper from this city regarding the Nor
mons and their problem, suggested
half in joke and half in earnest, that the
business be turned over to the milliners
and dressmakers. His plan was for the
government to send out battalion of
these formidable enemies to the peace
of mind and the pocket-books of the
heads of families, and each member of
the army being provided with a
liberal supply of ammunition in
the shape of expensive bonnets,
fash ribbons, with silks and velVets,
costly feathers, and the other fummery
of fashion in high life, they scatter
themselves through the towns and
cities OF the Territory, and begin their at
tack upon the male Mormons by stimu-
lating and cultivating in the female
Mormons expensive tastes and am
billions for dress and display. The
idea was that with new notions of bon
nets and mantillas, the women would
make married life so expensive that
the men could not afford more than one
wife. 1t was argued that by this plan
the government could solve the prob
lem at third of the cost it was then
mourning by operating through the
courts. As q fancy proposition, the
scheme was clever, but in practice it
would hardly work, as there are just as
artistic and extravagant milliners and
dressmakers here as in other parts
of the country, and the tastes of the
Mormon ladies are quite equal to the
lavish imaginings of the artists in rib
bons, feathers, flowers and silks.
One of the new schemes devised by
the philanthropic and highly moral but
peaceful people of the east, is the immi- |
grafton of monogamists into Utah, the
development of the agricultural and
resouces" of the Territory and
"outvoting of the polygamists." A
popular subscription of 100000 is
to carry the scheme into ex-
ecution, and letter has been addressed
to the New York Herald for information
as to the numbersof Mormons here, the
number of voters in each county, and
he area of public land open to settle
nent in the Territory. There is one
eature of this plan that will strike local
itizens as something to be encouraged,
nd that is the ten million dollar part of
he project. If there was ever time when
hat amount of money would do good
n Utah, it is now; widely distributed
t would solve many problems, whether
n not it adjusted the difficulty of poly
amy. But, alas we fear this plan, like {
'thers that have been proposed, cannot
We put into operation, there being several
nsurmountable obstacles in the way.
Firsta popular subscription would fall
ar short of the magnificent sum re-
Iuired, as men of money as a rule,
AVE some brains and trains would ..
lever consent to the squandering of G
wealth in the direction indicated. The !
lext obstacle would be the fact '
hat what land open to settlement in
be Territory is not owned by Mormons C
Tould not sustain a homogeneous
Missionary colony large enough to :
vercome the majority in Salt Lake n
municipal ward. A Mormon charac- 7
eristic Is sense and foresight, and it has
I'd them into taking protective meas f
res when danger was hardly thought
f. They knew the value of owning the 4"
md when other people thought the
md was not worth owning. If there
ad been more of it, they would have
wned more, and thus strength
ned themselves against just such
ttacks as the New Workers
ow propose. That there was
o more land to own here. accounts for
ne large holdings in Arizona, Wyom-
lg, Idaho and Colorado.
Considering all the circumstances we
lust regard the immigration scheme as
lore of a failure than the milliner
Ian.
Another project about to be thrust
pom as is one that contemplates the
lrning loose among the Saints of any
lumber of "Josephites," who
re to be maintained at govern
ent expense, and who are to
,nvert the Mormons to their faith.
aiding them back to the non-polygam-
is doctrines and practices. A PAM o,
llet urging this scheme is now in press cl
New York and will soon make its W
'pearnnce as another contribution to re re
e literature concerning the Mormens in
the Mormons seem bent Gu
stubbornly keeping their own coun. IN
Is and working out their own DESTINY on
their own way. he
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