Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-12
THE QUEEN OF UTAH.

THE QUEEN OF UTAH. Past, Present and Future of Love.
 ly Salt Lake City.
 Mormonism on tho Decline All Ovor the
 Territory = Polygamy's Hateful Croed
 Being Driven Out by tho March
 of Civilization.
 "What pity that such Q beautiful city, with such splendid possibilities, should be held back from the magnificent propor- tions 1t will some day assume simply by the religious and social differences Such was the exclamation of Congressman Burrows, of Michigan, after we had driven around the environs of the once famous, but now ex- tinct, Brigham Young.
 , A fter spending two days In Salt Lake City with the leading Mormons and gentiles, and seeing every part of the city, with it's vast interests, and talking with the members of the Utah Commission and with Bishop Can uon-the latter the head of the Mormon church. have come to the conclusion that polygamy has received it's death blow, and that the Mormon church is on it's last legs, says Salt Lake correspondent to the Phil adelphia Press. If the church did not de- pend upon recruits from Europe 1t would make an assignment within two years. About every three months missionary or elder arrives from Europe with small band of benighted individuals, mostly an ex- tremely ignorant and unattrActive people, who have been proselyted and captured for the church. These are distributed around the Territory. and go to fill up the links made vacant by the operation of the Ed dc n i. The tithing system Is entirely broken up 'by the law, so far as can be seen, although 1t is supposed that 1t is carried on to a Him. Ilted degree under the guise of "voluntary contributionsn The Federal Government copfiscated the valuable property belonging to the Mormon church and occupied by the Desert News as Q tithing office. It is an immense square, partly covered by build ing for the publication office and offices for the clerks. There Is an abundance of room where the poor, ignorant people dumped the fourth of every thing they produced, and which was sold to regular customers, the same as 8 general merchandising house. Every fourth load of wood, grain or wool, or other produce of the farm or factory was brought here and given over to the church. Some other buildings belonging to the church organization, and used for business purposes, were confiscated, placed in the hands of Q receiver, and they are now rented to the church; but they are not used for the purposes they were once. Nothing tending to the teachings of the polygamous branch of the Mormon faith is permitted.
 The Federal officers, at the outset of tho Edmunds law five years ago, took charge of the great temple, which the Mormons be- gan to construct forty years ago, which has cost 6, ,0O0, 900, and is to cost as much moro and be the finest religious edifce in the United States, but 1t was soon found that 1t could not be confscated It was church property, and, although the business con- cerns of the church could be taken, the edifice could not. When asked the super intendent of construction when the temple would be completed he smiled softly and in his good Mormon regulation way said:
 sWe do not know. You see, sir, the church was cut otf from its regular and honest tithing by the Edmunds law, which gave 1t a backset in money matters. It may be quarter of Q century yet It Is to be used not as a place of worship, but as Q place of ceremonies. marriage and other rites. ordinations and so forth, and there is no hurry about it."
 It is my honest opinion that the temple will never be finished by the Mormon Church organization, for I believe the church will fast decay. It was once as pow full, tyrannical and ambitious, in its way, as was Rome under the Caesars, but 1t will be remembered that the Roman empire fell. The building of railroads here was the first black eye to Mormonism. If they could have been kept out quarter of century longer DO one knows what trouble or what loss of life and property would have been necessary to dislodge the Mormons, for they originally intended au organization rohv ipvincible except to the Invisible. Brigham Young opposed mining, because it would tend to bring in strangers not converted to his practices. He advocated agriculture, that being for him moro productive of both people and tithes. The railroads brought in those who exposed him.
 While the sound of the ox-driver pulling around the great marble blocks for the temple is heard, the music from the won- derful organ in the tabernacle Is waited out through the city, the soft low notes of boiling sunlight, the old tithing house stands, the tomb of Brigham Young Is viewed by every passer-by, and the i'm mense banking and mercantile houses founded by the Mormons bear their original signs and have their original customers, Mormonism has lost its grip.
 With Mormonism andits blightings out of tho way, Salt Lake City will become pow erful, and Is splendid field for the real estate speculator. Property is rapidly doubling up, and it will continue to grow rapidly in value.
 As soon as the gentiles get control of a Utah city Eastern men come in and real estate speculation goes wild. So confident are the gentiles of success that many of them, and some of the shrewdest Mormons, are quietly buying real-estate. Now East ern money will not come here on any >se- cprity. Salt Lakes plot Is most liberal Her blocks are 40 rods on the sides, with out alleys, and the streets 1s2 feet from curb to curb, level, clean and beautiful. There are stFeetrcar lines, electric lights, valuable buildings, and charming mount ain scene in the distance, turn as you will.
 A Question of Rowing.
 A man applied to 8 judge at Odessa, in Southern Russia, for writ to compel his daughter to leave tho house, because when che saluted her parents she did not bow to them. He said that he would withdraw his application if she would ask pardon and make the regular obeisance. The girl agreed. She asked pardon, but when she bowed the father cried: Lower down with your head-down below the girdle" She replied: II won't bend as low as that, not If I :hsve to leave the house." The judge