Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-07-29

there will be built by the Motm1
1900 miles u railrosd.
UNLIMITED RESOURCES.
j. Fewson smith. civil engineer
This road, says "l tell you In all o.
lnbors as civil engineer, can max
40 other return on Mexico, 80 far a.
have seen IL, than that It's resource
re unlimited" During Wag1.
drive through the valley OF Casa
Gaudes he says lac rode through seem
/ iugly limitless fields ~ wild Glove
ard native gra'ses, ~ high NJ 70 brus'
| the bottom u the waggOn.hnA NJ De
| passed. Antelopcs around ovcry-
where, Wild turkeys seem TO o.
/ the bushes, and ducks along the
/ course Of the Casas Graudcs river
number thousands. Ia the mountain,
/ game is abundant. white and black
/ tailed deer aud hlack, brown and ciu.
/ nimon bean ARE numerous. The ell.
/ mntc u delightful, aud when tue ret.
/ tlcmeuts number 100000 thrifty, In
| dustrlous inhabitants. such ~ are the
Mormons, these peculiar people will
again receive ~ credit they uan now
/ claim IN Utah, Of subduiug the Wild
wastes aud changing the desert into a
/ garden.
P1LYut,iY ~ DEAD.
10 may loo entirely natural TO abuse
n people who have been taught 70 be-
licyo u one wife wns good thing 20
possess, that three wives were thrup
| today aud the future will be Permitted
no more legal wives than any other
class uf citizens. Polygnmy " dead.
| Practically u never attained the proper.
| tons in Utah that have made u W great
n nightmare 10 eastern people. AHJudgc
| Carlton VI the Utah Commission asccf-
taiucd and admitted, In hia own wor,ls.
cor the whole Mormon population of
! Utah Oulya very small per cent. are In
/ polygamy. out Of the adult males
/ rom eighty.hvo 10 ninciy.dve per
cent are not living IN n p1lygamous
rrlation.n Hon. John n. Caiuo,
| Utah delegate 10 Congress, says
| "POlygnmy has teen more NJ q clog 10
us than an aid, The Church got along
| during It's mt yuhis without u ami
! pioapefcd. have had hut one wife,
and one family WINS all could sup.
| port" MILFORD Woodruff, PRESIDENT II
/ thu Church, says. 81 now publicly
! declare that my advice Ia the Latter
day Saints h 10 refrain from contract.
ing any marriage forbidden by The
| laws u the land" Mud u Mormon
conference NJ last October formally re-.
n0uuced "plural marriages."
~ UTAH ~ STAY.
The Mormon, arc Ia Utah 10 stay.
| Their towns nnl settlements extend
from Idaho and Wyoming down along
| the valleys of Utah Into Arizona,
/ Now Mexico and Mexico. An exodus
! would be- impmctiCable. The people
would moi drsrri thcir homes and pos
sessions, anu they could not take them
20 Mexico unless they could transport
! Utah and "a section Of tho Rocky noun.
tnins. II they could do this they
would hnd no placuin Mexico Tor them,
one might az well talk u an exodus
! of $50, 900 VI tho people NJ New York
state 10 tho western pralrlus, Why
should they leave their cities aud
homes, their farms ani their lands
| and 40 10 Mexico or elsewhere For
| eighteen ychrs this exodus has period.
cally cropped out ns news In
1879 Il was reported that "lirothcr
| Brigham and chosen CnhOft
OF several thousands nre 10 lice 10
Mexico" This bush was autographed
aud Published hroadca,t over the East.
But "Brothor Brigham" never went.
aud the "Llnu OF tho Lurdn c1ntin-
ued 10 reside In "Ilon"-Salt Lake
Clty-until the day Of his dcrth,
August =, 1877.
ENTrNpING THE Inns.
Ia 1879 900 pioneers settled In Ar.
zonn, aud gradually .he line has been
extended into Mexico. In 1854 the firs.
Mormon colony was established In
Sonora, Mexico. In 1855 another colony
was established nt Cuffalitos, Chihua-
huA. These and the present more ex-
tended settlements are hut part Of n
regular system Ofcolouintion begun In
1850 when Salt Lake CITY was only a
village. At that time the Church auth.
critics sent out exploring parties md
colonies, instead VI permitting n clus-
terlng In the suburbs Of that clty-the
centre OF tho entire system. This
policy has been continued until the
present day. When IA settlement IL
determined upon "a many volunteers.
| 100 ur 200 M the ease may be-, arc call
| ed for, They must ice provided with
NO many pounds Of hreadstuila, 20
| many bushels OF wheat, no many
plOws, horses, bccf-cnttle, COWS, oxen,
spades, rhOvels, hoes, guns, small arms
aud ammunition. There must be W
many carpenters and JOlnor-, n mill.
wright, n surveyor, blacksmitia, shoe.
makers, maspus and 10 on, aud no
more. There h nothing hnp.hazard
abou II. Their. Ia no exodus about H..
II IL growth, and nothing more or
less, tho Mormon leaders are the Yam.
key pioneer settlers Of Mexico, ~ they
Were Of Utah.
4 TRANspLANrRD PRODUCTION.
Their religion Is IA trAnsplanted
eastern production. Without poly
gamy II Il Just rs good an Ism rs any
Of tbs New England isms. This fact
| prejudice viii be- forced 10 admit n il
will give up what Bancroft calls "ths
| libertlnism NJ abuse" and dispasslOn.
atoly investigate, For myself / can
endorse the statements Of John Cod.
man, n Massachusetts, gentleman who
says; 81 have been Intimately nc.
quaintod with the Mormon people for
seventeen years, travelled through the
longth and breadth Of their land be.
| fore the railroads came there. and
have had business relations with them
In which | always found them trust.
worthy. Barring their practice OF
| p0lygamy, now fallen into Innocuou-
desuctude,' there H. not such o law.
abiding people within the limits Of
these United S'atos." VIII. II.
GARFIELD BEACu.