Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-15
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dian atrocities in the voice of q dreaming
child; oath following oath as smoothly as
ciotted cream laps the mouth of the jug. /
don't think Re knew he was saying anything
sulphurous, but nipe or ten of those oaths
were new 10 ne, and one even made the con-
ductor raise his eyebrows.
"And when n mans alone mostly, leadin'
his horse across the Hills, he gets to talk
aloud to himself MS it was, said the weather.
worn retailer of tortures. A vision rose be-
fore me of this man tramping the Bannock
city trail under the stars, swearing and al
ways swearing.
Bundles OF rags that were pointed out as
red Indians boarded the train from time to
time. Their race privileges allow them free
transit on the platforms Of the cars. They
mustn't come inside, of course, and equally,
OF course, the train never thinks of pulling
up for them. l saw q squsw take us fly
ing snd leaving us in the same manner when
were spinning round "a curve. Like the
z Puujabi, the red Indian gets out by prefer
euce on the trackless plain and walks stolidly
TO the horizon. he never says where he is
going.
Impressions Of Salt Lake City.
am seriously concerned for the sake of
Mr., Phil Robinson's soul. You will re-
member that he wrote a book called Saints
and Sinners" in which he proved very pref
tily that the Mormon was almost altogether
an estimsble person. Ever since my arrival
at Salt Lake / have been wondering what
made him write that book. On mature re-
Election, and after a long walk round the
city, 1 am inclined to think it was the sun,
which is very powerful hereabouts.
By great good luck the evil-minded train,
already delayed II hours by a burnt bridge,
brought me 10 the city on a Saturday by
way of that valley which the Mormons, over
their efforts. had caused to blossom like the
rose. Twelve hours previously I had en-
tered into a new world where, in converse
ton. everyone was either q Mormon or q
Gentle. II is not seemly FOR a free and in
dependent citizen to dub himself a Gentle,
but the Mayor of Ogden-which is the Gen.
tile CITY Of the vallev-told me that there
must be some distinction between the two
foeks. Long efore the fruit orchards of
Logan or the shining levels of the Salt Lake
had been reached that Mayor-himself a
GENTLE, and one renowned for his dealings
with the Mormons-told ME that the great
question of the existence of tn power within
the power was being gradually solved by
the ballot and BY education.
1--WE have" ouoth he. "hills round and
shout here stuffed full of silver and gold
and lead, and all the powers of the Mormon
Church can'tk keep the Gentle from 1ocking
in when that's the case. At Ogden. 80
miles from Salt Lake, this year the Gentle
vote swamped the Mormon at the municipal
elections, and next year we trust that we
shall be able to repeat the success in Salt
Lake itself. In that city the Gentiles are
only one-third of the total population, but
the mass Of 'em are grown men, capable of
voting, whereas the Mormons are cluttered
mp with children.
Old Mormons Versus the Young.
81 guess as soon as we have purely Gen.
tile officers in the township and the control
of the policy of the city the Mormons will
nave to back down considerably. They're
bound to go before long. My 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 'em, will mix with the
Gentiles, and read Gentle books, and you
bet your sweet life there's a holy influence
working toward conversion in the kiss of an
average Gentle, specially when the girl
knows that he won't think it necessary for
her salvation to load the house ND with
other women folk. I guess the younger
generation are giving sore trouble to the
elders,
"What that you say,about ~polygamyP It's
- pNA1A OANANO AZ" bA1CA a OAAA LON
long ago. The Mormon has to elect one
wife and keep to ner. IF he's caught visit
ing any OF the others-waal, do you see that
cool and rest,u III brown stone building way
over there against the hillside2 That's the
penitentiary. He is sent Their. to consider
his sins and he pays a fine, too. But most
of the police in Salt Lake are Mormops,
and l don't suppose they are too hard on
their friends. 1 presume there's a good
deal of polygamy practiced on the sly. But
the chief trouble is toe get the Mormon 10
see that the Gentle 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 90 to pieces in q
very little time"
And the wish being father to the thought,
"Why, certainly" said ], and began to take
in the Valley OF Deseret, the home Of the
Latter Day Saints, and the abode, perhaps,
of as much misery as has ever been CON-
pressed into 30 years.
Polygamy Among the Bengal.
The good folk at home cannot understand,
but you know how in Bengal to this day the
ehild-wife is taught to curse her possible CO.
wife ere yet she has gone to her husbands
house. And the Bengal woman has been
accustomed to polygaDy for a few hundred
years. Yet she has a thoroughly feminine
hatred OF her rival. You know, too, the
awful jealousy between mother-wife and
barren behind the purdah-the jealousy that
eliminates sometimes in the poisoning of
the well beloved son. Now and again an
English woman enjoys a high caste Mussa-
mani dhai, and in the Offices of that hire.
women are apt to forget the differences of
color and TO speak unreservedly as twin
daughters mutually under Ewes curse. The
dhai tells very strange and awful things
She has, and this the Mormons count a
privilege, been born into polygsmy, but she
Ioaths and detests it from the bottom of her
jealous soul.
And to the lot of the Bengali co-wife-
1.-THE cursed Of the cursed-the daughter of
the dunghili-the scaldhead and the barren
mute" (you know the rest of that sweet COM
mination service)-one creed, of all the
white creeds to-day, deliberately introduces
the white woman taken from centuries
of training, which have taught her that it is
right to control the undivided heart of one
man. To quench her most natural rebellion
that amazing creed and fantastic tumble of
Mohammedlsm, the Mosaic law and i'm
perfectly comprehended fragments of Free
Masonry call to Its aid all the powers of a
hell conceived and elaborated by coarse
minded hedgers and ditcherh. It il q sweet
view, isn'tit?
And the Valley Is Beautiful.
All the beauty of the valley could not
make me forget it. And the valley is very
fair. Bench after bench of land, fat as a
table against the tanks of the ringing hills,
marks where the Salt Lake rested for
awhile In its collapse from an inland sea to
a lake so miles long and 80 broad. Before
long these benches will be covered with
houses. AT present these are hidden among
the green trees on the dead fat OF the valley.