Wichita eagle., 1886-08-27

anti Chinese immigration law has upon the
importation of coolies. OF course, it is
met with stern opposition by all the poly
gamous leaders in Mormondom, but the
law is inflexible, and, as result, the Nor
mon president, John Taylor, and their late
delegate in congress, j. @. Cannon, are
refugees, and this mornings Herald, Nor
mon paper, publishes list of forty-six of
the saints who are now in confinement in
the penitentiary for term of six months
to three years, added to which is a fine of
$500 the penalty for being polygamist,
and being caught at it). am disappointed
in Salt Lake, because l expected
to find it so intensely Mormon
that you could read it in the countenances
of the people, or like Chinaman, you
could tell one as far as you could smell
him. Iexpected to find all Mormon estab-
lishments with the ear marks of him npon
them, and the gentiles living there merely
upon sutferance. l expected to find Nor
mon women dressed in homespun, with
dull care stamped upon their features. Is
it possible see only the whited sepulchre
which within is full of dead mems bones?
Forbid it hevings! The time was when
fine buildings were only erected by the
boss Mormon, but the finest square of res
licences here have been built and are now
owned and occupied by gentiles. The
leading hotel was built and is now
owned by gentle. as well as the opera
house and the best stores, with one excep-
ton, are owned By gentiles. A tower sim
lar in construction to the Bunker Hill mon
ument is now being built Of granite by a
gentle on an elevation overlooking the
city and the lake twenty miles away. If
Salt Lake is ever to become city of great
magnitude | venture the assertion that it
will be accomplished through the energy
and wealth of the gentiles A people who
are thirty-six years in constructing a tenn
pie which Wichita contractor would
complete in two years will be left far to
leeward in competition with such men as
have built up Chicago and Kansas City.
and our own city of the Nile, and l will
here repeat remark made in San Fran
cisco which holds good in Salt Lake, that
more buildings have been erected in Wich-
ita the present year than have seen all
put together in this four weeks trip
on the Pacific slope This may
seem Ike wild assertion, but unless saw
with my eyes shut. the testimony of the
other Wichita tourists will bear |
me out At the risk Of growing !
tedious feel tempted TO discuss at greater
length the Mormon question. Ny land |
lady tells me that the Imprisonment of !
forty-six of their bishops and elders at Fl 1
Douglas, for the crime OF polygamy. il ,
looked upon by the whole church in the /
light of religious persecution. The blood I
Of the martyrs is the seed Of the church,
and the two sermons l listened to1t the 1
tabernacle today, where an audience Of
over ten thousand people sal unde. one
roof. pointed out clearly the line Of policy
to he pursued These polyganous convicts
were to pose before their adherents aad
followers Is martyrs. imprisoned for con
science sake'-an expression | heard used
IN both sermons and in prayer. The gen
tile with whom | have conyersed SAYS the
Edmunds law viii eventually fail in lis
purpose, but adhere TO the opinion pre-