The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-08

fully IN the world, the altitude being
about 5000 feet, and the early settlers,
being unaccustomed to the frosts and
storms OF these high attitudes and the
different methods of raising crops by
irrigation, were for several years COM
PEELED to haul their -four and other
necessaries over the rugged noun
tains from Cache valley, Utah. a dis
lance OF rs miles, the roads being mere
trails. rocky siding, and without
bridges over the wild, swift mountain
streams. To settle such a county, none
but the strongest and most determined
could accomplish; SO bleak and sterile
was the county that the shade and
fruit trees first planted out refused
to grow.
"All this is changed by the labor and
perseverance of this people, and their
learning how to cultivate by irrigation,
and to secure those seeds, trees, and
shrubs which are acclimated to these
high attitudes. Paris has a population
of about 1900, all Mormons, and there
is not saloon or gambling house or
any other place where intoxicating
liquor is sold, and this is, / am told,
the case in all the towns in Idaho
where these people have exclusive con-
troll
I'm travelling through the Mormon
settlements one is at once struck with
their improvements and the certainty
that they are persevering and andus-
trious; their country towns and vii
lagos are thrifty and their farms well
cultivated. Their buildings are >gener-
ally substantial, and many of them
stylish, with all the modern improve
ments that make a country look pro-
gressive and prosperous, and l beileve
these people are, as a rule, frugal,
industrious and honest.
LABOR'S SUPPLY.
"The policy of the United States
should continue to invite to our land
the educated and honest males and fe-
males of other lands, who are fitted by
the stamp of civilization, intelligence,
and moral worth; who can, when they
land upon our shores, adapt themselves
TO the state and condition of our coun-
trynlen and country women, and en-
brace the opportunities which an open
and an honorable field of labor may Of
fer to honest industry. Such classes
when admitted to the rights and liber-
ties of our free institutions, become an
accession to the elevated name and
standing to their adopted homes. 1t is
not this class of people or immigrants
who become a menace to our form OF
government, nor who offer a degraded
competition to American labor.
Now that this Democratic admins
tration has wisely excluded all further
immigration Of Chinese coolies, further
legislation is called for IL protect the
honest laborerS OF our country from
competition with the class Of anarch-
lists, criminals, and contract pauper Ia
Dor male and female, that are now
crowding to our country and taking ref
uge in our large cities, which is even
a more dangerous class than the Chi
nese. The shameful and monstrouS
system carried on by corporations, man
ufacturers, and contract agents, in Sc
country, picked and raked up from the
slums of Europe and brought &c the
United States to enter the fIei1 OF Ia
Dor in competition with American free
men, must be stopped. These thieves,
anarchists, and nihilists, no longer per-
mitted to remain in their native land,
must not be allowed to enter ours. The
governments of Europe have fostered
and encouraged the vile system of emf
grafton and the getting rid of their sick,
diseased paupers, and criminals, and
making the United States the dumping
ground for their human offal and for
the non-producing and disturbing eie-
ments, which they find it difficult to
manage. More danger is to be feared
the want of rigid and restrictive laws
in regard to this class of contract labor,
thieves and murderers, that are now
swarming to our shores than from all
other sources combined We want no
cheap contract or pauper labor in
IDAHO"
INVITATION TO RAwLINS.
The following is copy of the, letter
to Hon. J. L. Rawlins from the Demo-
Gratis up here, importuning him to come
up just for one evening:
''Pocatello, Idaho, Oct. 4, 1894
Hon. J. L. Rawlins, Salt Lake City,
Utah:
Dear Sir-Idaho Democrats congrat-
ulate you and the people of Utah, for
services you have SO ably rendered
them in Congress, and in this hour
your answering zeal and indefatigable
efforts in. Utah's cause, commend you
not alone to the people of Utah, but to
the people of Idaho, and the nation as
well. We feel that there is a bond of
friendship, and to a marked degree, be-
tween the people of Utah and Idaho,
largely through ties of early settlement
and latterly through the yet unsolved
Indian lands question. The fact that
you have so successfully combatted
eminent Colorado statesmen in their
endeavors to thrust the "UteS'' upon
Utah, together with other notable leg
islative achievements, makes our people
DESTROYS to hear you address them dur
ing the campaign, and to that end, the
Democratic county committee, eff Ban
mock county, extend you a cordial and
pressing invitation to deliver an ad-
dress at the opera house, Pocatello, on
whatever date you might choose to
name. Very respectfully yours,
u. F. KANE, Chairman.
81. 7. WOODS, Secretary"