Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-08-04

IN ancient days fills the hearts Of the
people here who have oheyed the Cos
pei. We are the only people that /
know Of that are IN this condition. Com
monWealers, industrial armies, may go
to and fro IN the earth and cause all
manner OF feeling because Of their
movements, but the Latier-iay Saints
are not disturbed by these things They
are not numbered among them. The
Lattcr.day Saints are not aEitaioB, but
are stable people. We may have
privatIuns. we may have difficulties to
contend with, but we have "a liked pur.
pose In view, and that Is 10 build up the
Church OF God UPON earth. to- establish
His righteousness and to gather togeth-
er a people who love Him. ahl---in deal
Justly one with another. who will De
honest, truthful, upright. and vittuous,
and who will cultivate every principle Of
virtue connected with the Gospel Of the
Son Of God, and be undistufbed by all
the agitating influences that may sur.
round them. We have determined, with
the help OF God, that we will seek to es.
tablish and maintain virtue in the earth,
that the virtue Of woman shall be re-
spected by Us aud by our children after
us, that every human right shall be re-
spcc,gd IN our midst; aud that anything
contrary to this shall meet with our
disapproval aud opposition. The
Latter.day Saints have set out
to do this and to create
o. possible a new order %! things In the
earth. As / was remarking 10 q geuae-
man yesterday we have lived In these
mountains now close ON 10 fifty years.
We have been organized a5 a territory
for more than ioriy.thfcc years. Our
legislatures have met during all this
period, and until within two or three
years almost all the members Of the
legislature were Momons, for the reason
that there were very few others here.
But during that whole period there has
never been a breath Of suspicion con-
ceuing the uprightncss Of the members
OF the legislature No man can say
with any truth that a Mormon legislator
ever had his palm crossed by bride
money. nor his interests promoted In
any manner TO induce him to lend his
voice to the support OF any act that
would favor some special individual or
class. ln other words, there has been
no bribery II has never been said with
truth that any Mormon official has been
open to bribery, Senator Stamford,
OF California, IN my hearing in Washing
ton, made this remark, eve have never
had 10 send a man 20 Utah to watch the
Interests of the Central Pacific Railroad.
We could trust those people and we
knew that our rights would be pro
tected." But in every state OF terrific.
rial legislature where the railroad passed
through they bad 10 send agents to
watch the legislature 20 prevent wrong
being done 90 them, ] think this Is "a
remarkable record. ! do not think it Is
cqulucd on the continent Nor has
there ever been a breath of suspicion
concerning the fidelity ol the Mormon
people to their engagements They are
an honest people. OF course, We have
individuals among as VINO are not
honest, but take the people as a whole
and when they make a promise, or in
cur au obligation, they keep that prom.
Use or obligation sacrcdly. And today
there is no community in the country
that have such a credit IN the Eastern
States AS the Mormon people have ~
an mercantile circles. ] am thankful
Tor this. hope Il will continue, and
trust that where there Is dishonesty 10
will be eliminated from among MS. This
Is our aim. The Mormon boy that would
be unyiftuous IS as wicked IN our eyes
as a Mormon girl who is unchastc or
unviuuous. We DO not think there is
any sex in vice We do not think that
men can take liberties with women that
are rcprehcnsiblr aud wicked iof women
90 take with men. We hold our Young
men and our middle aged men, and, IN
fact, our men all ages, to as strict
accountability 90 regard TO chastity and
virtue as we do our girls and oui
women, and with the help Of God we
are determined 10 do so. We are "a
situated that we cannot check vice as
we should like 10 DO. Surrounding cir
| cumstuuces are such that We do not
have as much power iu this respect g'
we would like. but this Is the sentiment
/ OF the people aud Il Is being lngulgatcl
! aud encouraged w the breasts OF ouI
young people. Il Is a remarkable fac
/ that those who trespass 10 this diTec
/ ton lose the Spirit Of the Lord unIes
| they repent. and they become separate,
| from ms; for they separate themselves bl
their own conduct and by the spirit the
possess,
We want to perpstuate Ia the eartl
/ these principles We wish To- inaugu
rate reforms. We want to do every
| thing in sucn a manner that Il will be Al
example to the world. Al the presen
! time there b. a ,loodtile OF corruption
] sweeping over the earth, and especial,
/ In our own land. Bribery prevails. TN
| judiciary ~ many places Is corrupted
the executive department of the gov
/ eminent IN various places Is not admin
isteted as it should be; laws are enacted
which frequently have their origin d
! corrupt motives, until the poor aud lh
meek and the lowly have no chance d
the struggle OF lie, Il Is IN favor OF th
rich ana those who by means of thcl
money can exert influence that all tnes
things run at the present time. This /
one OF the causes OF this dissatislactlO
that is so visible all over the land.
do not sympathlle with the operation
of these marching 'armes, but Their
IS cause for all such movements.
want to say 20 you, Lattefdl
Saints, that you ought 20 have your eye
opened TO see what God has done AN
IS doing Tor you and your children. II
has fulfilled His promises 10 as, w
have had our troubles here, but the
have been the result 0i the misuse ,
power and Of persecution in some 10
stances, but We have been promise
peace We have been promised th,
the Lord will deliver u.s. and lie Ia
done so. lie has given unto us sy
tenn by means Of which the poor 40
made 10 rejoice, II there is poyerl
among ms, II does not, ] trust DO ar
l case amount tn drsUtuuDn II 10 dDa