The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-08-15

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Such man. not long s.nca, wrote a
pamphlet on the Mormon question
speaking Of it IN its economic aspects.
The wris er doubtless occupies a position
of some Consideration among the
knights Of Labor, since some 10000
copies OF his work have been distributed
among that fraternity. In the outset
he scouts the idea that polygamy is the
real issue in the Mormon question, by
saying: y 20 10 ai-- n ru..
We need no; waste words on polygGmy.
though me Utsh system Is wei worth st ny
1iat e 1of ne fssuei Thst Is but the gsu1i :
colored bait 20 catch the inexperienced
denizens OF economic waters. The issue Il
| again an econonic one-the extension OF
chesp le6or-the cent per cent, freedom o.
the means OF life OF the many by the fev,
COL fronted in Utah by an antagonist sys-
TEN OF social aid commercial activity. u,
After this he states that: r
The whole Mormon system, social, re
ligious, industris A., IA essentially based on
two fundamental principles: cooperation IN
business aud arbitration In disputes. Nee
less2rly. in the eyes OF monopoly restricted
competition; this Is a foe. II lould be faced
% no mote deadly enemy ~ i--
He shows that these two fundamental
features are of no recent Development,
but have been peculiar TO Moruonism
from It's inception. and have been the
prime causes of the opposition to it
wherever it has been established. OF
the settlement Of the desert wastes OF
Utah, he says: also eii
\. an frank 10 say that do not believe that
this conquest OF the deserl valleys of Utah
could have 0een wrested from Hstufe oy
Individual efforts, BY settlers isolated from
Zach other, without mutual aid and assist
snce; nor that this mutual aid. under sucn
CT 'eumstauces. would have beea xtended
but for the religions bond which knit the
pioneers into acommon brotherhood. The
presented too forbiddiDg an aspect 10 permit
Of this CREST conquest having resulted from
the unorganized and undRected lADofs Of
isolated settlers. It wss \ warfare upon
Nature BY drilled cohorts, animated By
ommon feeling, and therefore. accom-
plished what guerilla warfare would have
oet incapable of achieving. There
was needed the unifying element Of q deep
moral conviction. nerving mems souls 70
Withstand difficulties and wedding indi-
vidual interests together 70 form closer
social ties. We give credit for sincerity TO
the bigoted PuriLanS. TO the exiled Hugue-
nots, % The followers OF that truly Catholic
Lord Baltimore, when they sought 70 found
homes on this continent; but. for men who
in face Of far greater difficulties, and aying |
passed through persecution equally ~ ~ |
lentless as ang from which our forefathers |
fed, we are too often content 10 shrug our |
shoulders, and with sheer say, ssperstitioH. !
Thirty i've years ago the cooperative social |
cope OF the Nornons attracted the atten- |
ton and won the admiration OF such social /
istic apostles OF England as Robert Owen. l
George Jacob Holyoake, and fronterre
q Brien. the latter-of whom said that the I
Normons han created soul under the
ribs OF death"
And as twas by. this means OF com
bined efforts that the pioneers gained
heir FIRST victories over the deserts of
Utah SO this writ T attributes their sub
,equenr successes to the adherence to
be cs operative systems that have
been adopted. and which have shielded
he people from becoming the victims
# the individual rapacity so common
o those engaged in trade and commerce.
In his chapter on Arbitration IS. Litig-
Ition he gives an accurate description
Il the operations of the various trib-
mails of arbitration in the Mormon
hurch. from the friendly visit OF the
Yard teachers to the 6nl appeal to the
'irst Presidency of the church, and
'oints out the advantages that this
ystem OF arbitration affords to the
ommunity as compared to the disad-
antages Of arbitration. +: