The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-04-11

genltors; bondage to which thousands
of ignorant women unwillingly submit
ted.
1t must not be imagined, though, that
polygamy has been wholly stamped out
in Utah, or that the Mormon Church has
cast off those who disobey the law. When
| the Edmunds law was enforced, a large
number of 1.-THE prosecuted" as they
STYLED themselves, moved away south in
TO Mexico, and are there yet; prosperous
aud apparently contented. Others stopped
in Arizona and New Mexico Some went
west and settled in Colorado, where they
are unmolested even to this day, al
though their polygamy is unconcealed.
Those who remained in Utah-and there
are many Suoh-have TO be extremely cir
| cumspect, but their tendency is toward
carelessness just now, because there is
not yet any effective statute to succeed
the United States law, which died when
Utah was admitted.
Purely business reasons make it certain
that polygamy can never again flourish
in Utah. Capital is timid, and although
the average investor looks mainly at the
promissory returns, he is, nevertheless,
willing to be reasoned with by those
great moral forces which are unques-
tionably active in the United States and
which would surely DO exerted adversely
to Utah in case lax administration of the
law should bring about renaissance of
polygamy.
A FEW FUNERALS NEEDED.
That MISUNDERSTANDING lygamous, of
course-will control Utah for some time
to come is reasonably certain; nothing
else could be expected when the fact is
borne in mind that Utah has until very
recently been Mormon possession. Had
the territory been settled by any other
sect that sect would doubtless have and
exercise that same control which is now,
as rule, in Mormon but loyal American
hands. A few of the old fellows-for
years associated with Brigham Young
and, therefore, thoroughly saturated
with his doctrines-are doing what they
can to be obstructive, but the oombina-
ton of GENTLE and Young Mormon is
remorselessly pushing them to the wall.
A few first-olass funerals would, how
ever, help things along amazingly. If
the progressive majority could only be
accorded the privilege of nominating the
occupants of dozen or 80 expensive cas-
kets Utah would jump ahead ten years
in twelve months, but as that cannot be
there must, for awhile, be trifls more
of strife than is necessary to the proper
conduct of public affairs in our newest
state.
WHAT UTAH HAS AND IS.
Comparatively few people in the
usually we'll infor med East have anything
like an accurate idea of the living, up-to
date Utah. With an area exceeding eigh-
ty-two thousand square miles its popula-
ton in 1895 was 247, 324. OF these hust-
lers after fortune 1876, S03 We're males and
100, 521 females; 1S9, S25 native and SO, 499
foreign born: 245, 1855 were white, ST.
were colored and 1853 were Chinese. The
number of farms in 1894 was almost
twenty thousand and of these nearly
SlSAOOOA tAotSou0 WCI0 1lOo VI AACuIu-
brance. Fully four hundred and seventy
thousand acres Of land wcse under Guilt
Walton, while nearly three hundred thous-
and other acres were fenced for pastur-
age, on which, with a trife Of assistance
from the uDfenoed ranges out in the
hills, nearly half million cattle, horses
and swine roamed and grazed; not to
mention the two and half millions of
sheep which in 1894 produced nearly n
million dollars worth of wool
MINERALS AND RAILROADS.
Then there are the mines-goId, silver,
lead and copper being the principal ro-
ducts, although the mountains of Utah
have within their bosoms every known
variety of mineral The output for the
past year was something to be proud of !:
Silver, seven and quarter millions of
ounces; gold, over eighty ne thousand
ounces; lead, more than sixty-six mill
lion pounds: copper, over eight hundred
and fifty thousand pounds; in all valued
at nearly seven and quarter millions of
dollars. OF the coal and slate and iron
and asphaltum that were mined and of
the lumber that was cut and marketed
there is no accurate record. Manufacture
ing adds largely to the wealth of Utah
and makes prominent contribution to the
annual prod uct of more than thirty mil
lion dollars. ~
The railway facilities are excellent and
continue to improve and extend. The
Rio Grande and Western has something
like five hundred miles of track, with
equipment good enough to please the
most fastidious traveller; the Union Pa
oific has a mileage trife in excess of
five hundred; the Central Pacific, the
Utah Central aud three minor roads add
sufficient to make the aggregate nearly
fourteen hundred miles.
OF colleges and schools and banks there
is sufficlency for the present, andIthere is
no lack of those necessary institutions In
which this afflicted and the criminal may
be cared for. Of scenery and climate
there Is no end.
THE CITY OF THE SAINTS.