The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-02-15

take us flying and leaving Us in the same
manner when We were spinning round
curve Like the Punjabi, the red Indian
gets out BY preference on the trackless
pam and walks stoiidly TO the horizon.
he never oAyS where he is going.
SALT LAKE cIrY.
BY great good luck the evil-minded
train, already delayed twelve hours by
burnt bridge. brought me to the city on
Saturday by way Of that valley which the
Mormons, over their efforts, had caused to
blossom like the rose. Twelve hours prev
iousIy had entered into q new world
where. in conversation everyone was either
= Mormon or q GENTLE. 1t is not seemly
for free and independent citizen to dup
himself Gentle, but the mayor of Ogden
which is the Gentle city of the valley
told me that there must be some distinc-
ton between the two fiocks. Long before
the fruit orchards of Logan or the shining
levels Of the Salt Lake had been reached
that the mayor-himself Gentle, and one
renowned for his dealings with the
question of the existence Of the
power within the power. was being
gradually solved by the ballot and by edu-
cation. 1--WE have quoth he, sshills
round and about here stuffed full Of silver
and gold and lead, and all hell atop of the
from docking in when that's the case. At
Ogden, thirty miles from Salt Lake, this
year the Gentle vote swamped the Nor
mon at the municipal elections, and next
year we trust that we shall be able to re-
peat the success in Salt Lake itself. In
that city the Gentiles are only one-third of
the total population. but the mass of EN-
are grown men, capable of voting, whereas
the Mormons are cfuttered up with chill
dren. / guess a. soon as We have purely
Gentle officers in the township and the
control of the policy of the city the Nor
mons will have to back down consider
Ny own notion is that it's the older men
who keep alive the feeling of opposition to
the Gentle and all his works. The younger
ones, spite of all the elders tell sern,
will mix with the Gentiles, and
read Gentle books, and you bet your
sweet life there's holy influence working
age Gentle, specially when the girl knows
that he won't think it necessary for her
salvation to load the house up with other
women folk. l guess the younger genera
ton are giving sore trouble to the elders.
What's that you say about polygamyg
not long ago. The Mormon has to elect
one wife and keep to her. If he's caught
visiting any of the Others--waal do YOU
see that cool and restful brown stone
building way over there against the hill
side? That's the penitentiary. He is sent
fine, too. But most of the police in Salt
Lake are Mormons, and don't suppose
they are too hard on their friends. pre-
sumo there's good deal of polygamy
practised on the sly. But the chief trouble
Is to get the Mormon to see that the GEN.
tile isn't the doubly damned beast that the
elders represent. Only get the Gentiles
well into the state and the whole concern
is bound to go to pieces in very little
time"
And the wish being father to the
thought, "Why, certainly" said /, and be-
gan to take in the Wiley of Deseret the
home of the Latter-Day Saints. and the
ever been compressed into forty years.
The good folk at home cannot understand,
but you will, what follows. You know
how in Bengal to this day the child-wife is
taught to curse her possible co-wife ere yet
she has gone to her husbands house. And
to polygamy for a few hundred years. Yet
she has a thoroughly feminine hatred of
her rival. You know, too, the awful jeal-
ousy between mother-wife and barren be-
hind the purdah-the jealousy that cul-
inmates sometimes in the poisoning of the
well.beloved SON. Nov and again an
samani dhai, and in the offices of that
hire women are apt to forget the differ
ences of color and to speak unre-
servedly as twin daughters mutu-
ally under Ewes curse. The dhai tells
very strange and awful things.
She has, and this the Mormons count
privilege. been born into polygamy, but
she loathes and detests it from the bottom
of her jealous soul. And the lot of the
Bengai co-wife-.'the cursed>b of the cursed
the daughter of the dunghill-the scald-
head and the barren mute, (you know the
rest OF that sweet combination service)-
one creed, of all the white creeds today,
deliberately introduces the white woman
taken from centuries of training, which
have taught her that il is right to control
the undivided heart of one man. To quench
her most natural rebellion that amazing
creed and fantastic tumble of Mohammed-
anism, the Mosaic law and imperfectly
comprehended fragments of Free Masonry
calls to its aid all the powers of a hell con-
ceived and elaborated by coarse-minded
hedgers and ditchers. 1t is sweet view,
isn't it?
All the beauty of the valley could not
make me forget it. And the valley is very
fair. Bench after bench of land, hat as a
table against the TANKS of the ringing
hills marks where the Salt lake rested for
q while in its collape from an inland sea to
a lake fifty miles long and thirty broad.
Before long these benches will be covered
with houses. At present these are hidden
among the green trees on the dead fiat of
the valley. You have read a hundred
times how the streets of Salt Lake City are
very broad and furnished with rows of
shade trees and cutters of fresh water.
This is true, but / struck the town in a
season of great drought-that same
drought which is playing havoc with the
herds of Montana. The trees were limp,
and the riils of sparkling water that one
reads about were represented by dusty
paved courses. Main street appears to be
inhabited by the commercial Gen.
tile, who has made of it a
the eve of the sun swigs the ungodly
lager and smokes the improper cigar all
day long. For which like him. At the
head of Main street stand the lions of the
place, videlicet, the temple and the taber-
i,acle, the tithing-house, and the houses of
Brigham Young, whose portrait is on sale
in most of the booksellers shops. Incl
dentaliy it may be mentioned that the late
ameer of Utah does not unremotely resern-
bic his highness the ameer of Afghanistan,
whom these fortunate eyes have seen.
And have no desire to fall into the hands
OF the ameer. The first thing to be seen
was. of course, the temple, the outward ex-
pouent of creed Armed with q copy OF
the Book of Mormon, for better compre-
hension, l went TO form rash opinions.
Some day the temple will be finished. II
was only begun thirty years ago, and up
to date rather more than $4,000 have
been expended in its granite bulk The
walls are ten feet thick; the edifice itself is
about 100 feet high, and its towers will be
nearly 200 And that is all there IS OF 1t
unless you choose to inspect more closely,
always reading the Book of Mormon
as YOU walk. Then the wondrous puerii-