The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-08
might have the population of California, or
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might have the population of California, Oh
million people"
POOR, OLD NEVADA!
With how plaintive cry she laments the
error of her ways and the folly of the
Liberal" carpet bagging style of develop
ment she has been practicing for quartet
of a century No wonder men like Samue
Bowles can understand and appreciate the
''order, frugality, morality and industry
of the Mormon people. And where the
wealth is, there do the "Liberal' birds Of
prey gather. Utah has become rich and
prosperous by the industry and frugalit,
not the Baskins and McBrides
and the vultures collect in her borders te
pluck her. At the same time that Mr.
Bowles thus wrote his praise of the Nor
mons, he did not fail to express his opinion
of polygamy and his belief that the Nor
mon church must and would modify the
rule in this direction. And this has been
the tendency of this people and must have
been the result by their own action with
out the intervention of either
THE vULTUREs OR THE FANATICS.
venture the assertion, without fear OF
contradictory demonstration, that the Nor
mon church is more enlightened in com
parison with its years, and despite its
doctrines whatever they may be, Than an y
other Christian sect at the same age of its
progress. Mormonism is not yet seventy
years old, yet we may compare favor
ably it's gravest sins and errors
with those of any other sect in Christen-
dom and grant it the need of morality,
humaity, enlightenment, civilization and
liberation in advance of any other relig-
ious organization known in history. And
naturally, too, because it is an American
outgrowth, born, bred and nurtured among
Yankees by Yankees. 1t is
NEW YORK AND NEW ENGLAND ENTERPRISE,
and certainly is entitled to the credit of
patriotism, despite the way of thorns its
earlier disciples were forced to tread by
the Suckers of Illinois and the Mudsills of
Missouri. We may believe the Mormons
misguided We may agree with Mr..
Bowles in his opinion Of polygamy, but
if we are Just we must also agree
with him in his congratulations ''to the
Mormons and to the country for 'the
order, frugality, morality and industry
that have been organized in this remote
spot in our continent"
The very location of the people of Utah
guarantees their advance in all righteous
and worthy ends and aims. The invigor-
ating air of the mountains is ever favor
able to the growth of the broadest civiliza-
ton and the highest morality.
wherever the snow falls there will be
civil freedom,'' says noted writer. "And
there can be no high civilization without
deep morality, though it may sometimes be
THE ENTHUSIASM OF RELIGIOUS SECT
which imputes this virtue to its dogma
under the name of its creed.n
The Mormon people, firm in the faith of
their own high development, may laugh to
scorn the race of fanatics and vultures
while they exclaim:
''For the strength of the hills we bless Thee,
Our God and our fathers Cod
Thou hast made Thy children mighty
Blythe touch of the mountain sod"
Indeed, there may be reason to belive
that, in the course of few generations,
the blood of the vultures and fanatics in
Utah may undergo so great a publication
that the descendants of the present brood
may become worthy and exemplary citi-
zens, lamenting the follies of their
ancestors as the descendants of the
witch burners of New England
do those of their forefathers. In
that event the Mormons of the future
may look back upon the present race of
vultures with interes as the personifica-
ton of the missing link in the chain of evolu-
ton between the outrang- outang and pre-
historic man. w. H. II.