The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-01
COLD AS ALASKA
This Was Miss Kate Fields Audi
ence.
GOV. THOMAS INTRODUCED HER
And After Little Preliminary She Delivered q
Cr0ssrOad Stump Speech to Handful
of People.

After many free notices and great deal
Of drumming in the way of selling tickets,
the lecture announced to be gwen at the
theatre last night by Miss Kate Field took
place. The first part of the subject while
aeally very interesting and instructive,
seemed to have refrigerating effect
on the entire programme. The theatre
was cold, the speaker was cold and only
in spots did the audience rise to degree of
energy sufficient to produce some warmth
by the clapping of hands. There were less
than one hundred aud fifty present, all
told. A half hour after the time set, with
out note from the Liberal Drum corps,
Governor Thomas appeared on the stage,
accompanied by the lecturer, and said that
the pleasant duty had been assigned to him
of introducing the gifted lady of whom
all had heard SO much, and who
had so ably presented the cause
of Utah upon the platform and
in the eastern press. Possessed of graces
and accomplishments it was fortunate for
the territory that she had come to its aid
when most needed. For time she will
tell US of other regions, but the choice part
will be reserved for Utah 1t was not nee
essary for him to say that she was welcome
and always will be IN this territory.
MISS FIELD BOWED
her Acknowledgement to the slight ap-
plause and, placing her manuscript upon
the table, said that she had
been asked to talk of Alaska
and Utah, but if she were to tell all she
had learned, both herself and the audience
would be dead. Of our far-off possessions
very little is known and they are not much
cared for. Truly Bishop Berkly had said
% Efsap cjc he So ~
United States, but Americans on our east
ern seaooard little heed the additions to the
United States and Congressional ignorance
is no new story. Even the great Webster
had once asked what we could ever do with
this vast coast without harbor and an
empire of sage brush and cactus.
Shades of Massachusetts, senator gaze
and blush. The monarch OF empire goes
on and the land of the midnight sun knocks
at the door. Alaska is good for every
thing, said Seward twenty years ago of
the new possession OF Walrussia. General
Mcdowell said 1T would do well to
give it away, as the whole country was not
worth d, but cent an acre is a good
Investment and it is one-ffth the size of
the United States.
What can Alaska produce: Gold and
feet high. The biggest stamp mill in the
world is on Douglas Island, where miners
chip away in broad daylight.
There are dairys, coal, iron and yellow
cedar grows 100 to 10 feet high. Charles
Summers speech in 1867 compelled Con
gress to buy Alaska, and the statesman
who named this land Alaska can sleep
soundly.
AND NOW WHAT OF UTAH?
[ realize that the new corners to Zion are
little versed in Mormon history. cam
MOI of aSn ic he In al
to make these new corners appreciate their
duty to their country and their God.
have no interest in Utah except as lover
of my country and liberty. l came here in
1888 and weekly listened to treason from
the pulpit of ward meetinghouses. In 1887,
thanks to Judge Baskin and his assistants,
the Edmunds Tucker bill was passed. |
have never believed in the methods en-
ployed by Congress to redeem this terri
tory. l have always asked, not
for ipolygamy laws, but for dis
reimbursement of everybody in Utah and
the establishment Of a legislative commits
sion. If the District of Columbia can exist
without suffrage, Utah can thrive without
the domination of reasonable priesthood.
Applause by two boys. Brigham Young
left one thing out OF his calculation-miu-
ing. The evangelists of Utah are mining;
God speed their coming and bless General
Conner and his men who discovered the
first mines. That was in 1863 In 1891
Utah's mineral wealth will be fourteen
millions ana, when 1t is twice that and
fifty thousand miners are in Utah, she can
ask safely for statehood-not before.
When a man has lied 10 me all his life
and suddenly assures me hereafter he
will tell the truth l don't lump
down his throat with childlike confidence
and embrace him as my long lost brother;
l just express my satisfaction, and give
him ticket of leave. When he has served
his time aud proved profession by works,
then is time to kill the fatted calf.
A noted chief justice of Utah says polyg-
amy is dead, since the manifesto. Does that
settle it! The last time heard President
Smith was on this nation, that the people
would never live to pay the national
debt, because thereof. l am will
ling to give the saints the benefit
of the doubt, but don't think the Liberal
party ought to be disbanded. applause
by the governor.) The manifesto was only
a makeshift, good until the Lord opened
the way for return to first principles.
President Woodruff, only a plant tool
in the hands of designing men, issued
what was called in court the other day, an
inspir alton, and it is one born of despera-
ton. Sinners tarry in purgatory en- route
from hell to heaven, and purgatory is a
good stopping place for our friends, the
Saints. Don't you think it somewhat
rash to disband the Liberal party now2
(Approved by Thomas). The fear of dis
franchisement was the mother and the
hope of statehood the father of that mani
festo.
Leading Mormons made certain Repub-
lcan believed that their party would poll
a large vote, but liz Salt Lake not more
than one hundred end fifty voted that way,
and even an appeal to John Henry Smith
failed to elicit satisfactory answer or ex-
PLANTATION.
THE Lord allows mis- priesthood
to lie in order to. save his people, but
just wait till they get statehood.
Do you think it time to put supreme
faith in these one day Republicans, and
next day Democrats?
When Judge Zane calls James Watson "a
brother Republican, L don't think 1T is
time TO disband the Liberal party. But
division will not come if we stand together
and just remember the power of union.
WORD FOR YOUNG UTAH.
Young Utah largely depends upon old
Utah for existence. 1t requires supreme
moral courage to defy ones bread and but
ter. l don't expect any more from
young Utah than from average Cen
tilee So few have the courage of their
convictions, when they are opposed to the
domination of the church. If young Utah