Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-02-08
LETTER FROM CHICAGO.
Governor Thomas Territorial Re.
port Further Pursued By "Junius.o

4 CHICAGO, January IS, 1890. lSr'
= ciaI Correspondence OF the DIS
FRET NEWS. State papers and pub
lie documents Of all kinds are TIT
;. materials from which history i
n largely compiled. But the historian
e is not entirely iisregardful OF III,
Q contemporary comment on the docu
I ments. when the history Of Utah
L for 1859 comes to be written, the
historian cannot pass over the report
L Of Governor Thomas for that year.
j. In many respects it is n remarkable
/, document, but comment on II will
Q be looked for in vain. Not an infiu.
: entail journal in the country has re-
viewed it in full. The fact is it will
, not bear touching without revealing
the fiimSy material it is composed Of
and American journals are afraid
! that by handling it without gloves
the cause of 'tA1ormonism" would
be helped.
Let us try TO anticipate n little Of
what the historian viii find. For
1889 he will End that Utah has
forty-five Incorporated cities and
towns, thirty-four Of which are alb
solutely free from debt, and seven
Of them with an Indebtedness Of
less than $1,000 each. This fact will
not make bad showing in history.
Further win be read: ''Since
1850 the foreign born population Of
Utah has been increased by Mormon
immigration, 1904" Here Is
something TO myshfy the historian. |
Were there no foreigners In Utah in |
/ 1859 but "MormOno Ones2 The Gov !
erncr's w0fds would lead one TO |
think so. But when we read abcul |
D1go that shot the Irishman and |
the Irishman that shot the shystar |
lawyer, and thcprize fighting afirays |
aud gambling brawls, we will lie |
perplexed, for "AIormon" foreigners
don't indulge in any Of these amuse-
ments. But perhaps Dagos are not
considered foreigners because Col
umbus discovered the country, and
the Pope gave it 10 Spain
The Governor wants the grazing
lands entirely made over to few
COW barOns. What charming polit-
ical economy Forty years ago
Kansas was a desert as much as
parts Of Utah, and If few barons
arauF for Nrur NaaH afu
OF affairs We would have now
Forty-hye years ago 1t was said
that an ear Of corn or wheat could
not be raised in all Utah, and IL it
were gfanted then to baron or two
there would bc no flour in Utah
today 10 feed miners. FOrty-five
years hence the RECOMMENDATION Of
the Governor in 1889 will be looked
on as mere dream, or as the
prompting Of one interested in
land grabbing.
There is n great deal said abou
the mining interests Of Utah, and
OF the lbs, OOO, 900 recovered from
the bowels OF the earth. The
fact Is Utah mining is a
myth. 1t costs dollar for dollar
TO get the little gold aud silver that )
is got out Of the ground. And as
the Governor says: ''Nere the pro-
duction Of lead TO become unprofit-
able, nearly all the mining in the
Territory would cease" You see
the mining interests Of Utah hang ;
by hair, and the carpet-bags know
it. That is why they are so desper-
ate in trying TO steal the property OF /,
'AlOrmOns,o made by hard labor
II the lead should give out, where :
woull the real estate Of Salt Lake !,
be?
The Governor talks about the ne :,
cessity Of public buildings in Salt !,
Lake OH a grand scale in order to +
people with the majesty and :.
Of the United States !.
Government, He says there are
buildings got up By private =,
enterprise the size Of which dwarfs y,
1uf American imperialism. In Il
Chicago we have one private enter .,
prise building alone that would ~
swallow all the public buildings In =.
illinois, and yet We don't feel that :.
Uncle Sam loses any Of his dignity -
ly il. But the Governor wants an -
immense publicbuilding to teach an ~
'bject lesson TO Orlando the brave '''
md 10 Caleb the callOus, If Salt
AXE needs a public building for n
'ublic service she Onght TO have it, L
,ut the puerility Of asking for it on
he ground mentioned is obvious.
That philanthropic enterprise the
Industrial Home' is mentioned. an,
{ cost $500 TO build and equip IL. !"
ut not one word is said of what il II
as done, or whether it has any in !.
mates save the paid staff. This is
ne very important omission in the ~ ~
eport. no
Touching the Indians, the usver-
or says Of the Sanpete colOnyi Il
m informed that they are being
lught polygamy 10y the Mormon soi
Visionary who lives with them by
lie says, also, Of the Kane COUNTY Is
1lony; 81 am informed they prac- coz
&c poiygamy;" For State paper ect
lese two utterances read badly.
he Governor says he is ''informed,',
1t does not say by whom or by
hat means. Is il not his duty 10 lea
icertain the truth Of 'fnformation COZ
ceived," and then report? Has Gle
not an able staff Of assistants for Oh
suth purposes? Or could he NOT anC
sit these colonies himself? Suppose be
csc Indians forwarded n memorial iste
Congress stating that the Cover tia
" was In error, where would he be Tn,
en-? On,
The Governor says there is an i'm to /
ratlve necessity for appointing by its
tederal agency selecimen, clerks. Tn,
cordeTs, superintendents Of schools " {
I'd assessors. And it appears this pull
cessity IS caused by what he says It
a TACT, that a GENTLE in some trib
rts OF Utah finds himself in a Wit
'eign land. The Governor him ban
I admits that the "Mormons;, are to d
tlreIy composed Of native Ameri- Fra
as EnElishmen, Scotchmen and He
Surely no Ameri- low
considers himself entirely a eoul
eigner among Scotch and Eng. We,
D, anu as TO the Scandinavian. A
re is good ground for believing inau
Il they were the original discoy- mon
II 81 this continent, that Is, the Cha
sinal Caucasian discoveries. The STATE
I Americans today in this coun- exec
are the Scandinavisns, aud the viii
I'VE American who visits their to tn
onles Is treated royalty. Per- Of ea
s Mormonism changes man; but Der
y the Governor himself. He shall
:; "For human nature is moi not !
nged by the kind Of church II they
srs.' These are identically his will
words. He must in truth be n men
ef klnd Oh native American who the q
Is himself a foreigner among
tchmen and Englishmen, and
s himself at home among Dagos Re-
Clan-na-Gaels. He says that broth
state "Mormons' are numerous. mia :
that they are taxed and driver
oil the country. Why did he not y
.e allDWanca fnr fhia In L..