The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-06-04
a CROSS OF THE CUR AND JAcKAL
"a sos 70 iadiTiduAls,

place to the Chicago Times. The cor
respondent speaks favorably of the
thrift and iadustry OF the p ople here
and what the people have accomplished
10 the way OF developing the resources
OF Utah, and the possibilities in that
direction provided the people were rid
of the present uncalled for agitation OF
the Mormon question. The Tribune
never relishes any thing of this kind II
loses irs temper at once. It's worthless
handful Of soul nereR yet raised itself
TO the grandeur of acknowledging the
virtues of an opponent; such fight as
that is beyond its power. Only generous,
manly bosoms are capable of such
nobility as that, and the sphere of the
Tribune is so low and groyeling that 1t
has corrupted the manhood of every
one VINO has become connected with it.
In this article we refer to, as
in many more of its kind that
have besmirched its pages in
the past, the effort is made TO strip from
the Mormon people of Utah the honor
OF having developed the resources OF
the Territory, and place it upon the
Gentle element that has driited into
Utah. We do not use the term Sen
tile element" out of any disrespect to
the nom Mormons of Utah, but merely
to distinguish class of people. We
would not detract one iota from the
need of praise due to the honest miner
and the capitalist who have developed
the mining resources OF our Territory.
Let them be accorded their pound of
fesh-their need of praise, but in the
taking Of it-mark TFibUne-see thou
dost not detract one scintilla from that
amount of honor due to the sturdy
pioneers and those who immediately
Allowed them, who had the nerve in
face of circumstances the most discour-
aging, TO undertake the spbiugation of
this then forbidding waste. The ad :
vice Of the leaders that kept them from
securing the hills in search for precious
ores, OF which the Tribune ever and anon
complains, kept them on the farms.
and led 10 the development Of our agri
cultural resources, which to-day, as
in times past, form the basis of our
financial prosperity; and has given a
stability to our population and society
that you will look in vain TO find in
countries where the mining industry is
the predominant one. The cultivated
fields and tens of thousands of neat
cottage homes and the peace and pros
perity of the people throughout Utah
vindicate the wisdom of the leaders
among the Mormon people, who coun-
seled them to cultivate the fields and
build up attractive homes, rather than
70 run to the hills in search Of gold.
The people of Utah are not poor be-
cause the Tribune esteems them so.
Trua, other lands may boast more
wealthy men, more palatial residences
more stately and costly public ed:fces,
but no land can boas: of having what
wealth there is so equally distributed
among her people. Here the richest
may be poor, bit the poorest live in
abundance. And let it further be re-
mem bered that the original settlers
Of Utah, when they arrived in
these desert valleys, had several
times been plundered Of their all by the
civilized. wholesale robbers of Missouri
and Illinois; so they had nothing but
their bare hands with which to make
the wilderness bloom like a garden;
and at the same time had to be con-
stantly helping their poorer brethren
over the wide dreary plains of the
eastern Rocky Mountain slope. No
wonder, then, If their material develop
ment has been of no mushroom growth,
when they have had to create their
wealth, practically without the aid of
capital. BIt if their accumulation of
property has been slow, the means en-
ployed have been honest, and their
prosperity is based upon so sure a
foundation that it is not easily shaken.
When the Tribune seeks TO detract
from the honor due the Mormon peo-
pie for settling this inter-mountain
region and making it possible to cor
struet the railroads joining the Atlantic
with the Pacific, and TO develop the
mines in these mountain ranges in the
present generation 1t merely succeeds
in toaming out its own shame. and dis
playingits pettiness OF soul.
The most amusing thing in connec-
ton with the effort to make It appear
that the MormOns are SO poor, while