Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-07-06

now turned toward Utah. IL IL looked
upon a. choice land. Colony after
colony 10 locking Tor location or taking
% land In these valleys. Reservoir
sites are being determined, water sp-
proprinted, aud farms Will be made;
yet from these very locations, numbers
whose fathers have dwolt for years are
going on to Idaho, Arizona or other
distant places TO the neglect OF proxi-
mate land which their eyes have seen
ever since they had being. Verify
"iigtAncs lends enohsntmeDt to tho
view,D and "what we have we prize
not,o arc proverbs founded on apt
study Of what 10 aoen around us.
Tie question has been ssked, "WhAt
shall we do with our bOysP tits now
asked, "What shalt we do with our
gltlt?" These unappropriatod, untitled
or undivided lands are one reply to
this question, AMI II unity In COLOMBIA
tiou could go little further than
simple water often, Utah could
he almost one continuing town
from southern Idaho TO st. George.
Strength 10 frittered away In division,
and uncontrolled colonization carries
with II n train Of evils which are ~
"tho axe laid at the root Of the tree"
planted by our fathers anu the
prophetic.
An ob.orvant gentleman who visited
iats.y u much praised locality, tnia tue
resources Of the country were mngnii-
icloni; fairness was In the virgin coil,
anil utiyped from the living waters,
! but thsi mental, social ana religious
HE were Mt n low ebb, for lack OF op-
porlunlty and cultivation. Everyone
1 A. a a.afInns a
potatoes were Ia lavish abu ndhDce; but
school houses were widely separated,
meeting houses we've rare, and II
man was orderly, thnity and given 10
Improvement, his example was wasted
on ire. fresh sir. Townsiies were not
| laid out; it WAS long way to meeting,
! 40 the sabbath, II not disnoneted, was
partly la allegiance nud tbs beet ele-
meuis Of progressive life were dormant
from the wasting spirit Of Isolation.
Men costly fall into a tut. Habit
/ becomes second nature. Resolve needs
the stimulus ami friction OF society ami
responsibility. Organization anu Gu-
| peIyislon are necessary fOE ordinary
| humanity; and ~ be u hermit Ia tina
| living, cfOwdlng age, and 10 pull apart
| In all educational mpttety, secular OF
| sacred, ~ 10 revert to Standardization
7 and ignore tho genius OF the great
latter Ony work which psopled these
/ yallies anj made every man tue passes
sor Of n piece VI land.
Itisa pleasant thing 10 sec "lhe pe0-
| pie OF our choiUe,n progressive, thrifty
and orderly. IL h good TO see the rising
| generation accepting thatindepon ient q
/ WHOM belongs TO the tiilefa OF tho
soil. IL Ia good 10 know that tho
lesson VI hard times " TO DO found
Ia an awakened desire for land; 10
realize that Ia this city, ia Ogden and
elsewhere, dependence for a livelihood
upon trade 10 found TO Do pttoatinus;
that renting n hem, ~ n condition OF
bondage; that paying heavy taxes
giVes no commensurate advantages
over country life; anu that raising u
family with city ideas aud city uXlTsya.
Rances N not an upmixed blessing.
For these and oinef reasons movement
toward the land from these ceuicru IL
lust NJ healthy u sign here M In Pens
sylvAnia or other places, anu that In
this move there Ia wisdom, health,
peace, happinsss, plenty aud the enjoy :
mcnt Of life.
IL was resolved macy yoars ago, nEsi,
that "lhe earth II the horde and the
ullucss thereof" second, that che
will give IL T. His Saints" We plead
guilty to RCquieacence la thssr fr.
solves, AMI will lake our poIllOn 0ui
"in lRndp