Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-12-15
WHAT WAFER DID NOT DO.

1t would seem that the spe cisl CORES.
pondents sent by the English press to
America the past season largely be.
longed to the "booby" class, and that
the way they were "guyed" In many
quarters indicated to a marked degree
their imbscility and irresponsibility as
newspaper men. This has been shown
up In the experience Of several parts OF
the country, and Utah Is getting It's
share. A few days ago we made
reference to the absurdities OF special
correspondence from this city to the
London Telegraph, and now
have occasion to note In the
same connection like cor
respondsncs to the London Mail. The
writer to the last named paper signs
himself g. w. Stevens; and II his
letters disclose anything worthy OF
reading, from the standpoint of 40.
euracy, IL is not easily discernible.
There 10 a lot Of trash about how mis-.
sionaries are sent out by the Church
and what is done with converts who
come to Utah; also about Church or.
ganixation, polygamy, and other mat.
tiers associated with the Mormon peo-
pie, all intended, Of course, to throw
discredlt on the Mormons. The source
of information 10 alleged 10 be
prominent residents OF Salt Lake
City, from where the letters are rs
summed to be written. Among those
to whom Mr.. Stevens refer 8
as giving him information are
'Iudge" who edits . newspaper and
a "iudge" who 10 secretary OF the
Chamber of Commerce. Here 10 an
extract from one OF the Steevens
latters:
"But!Brigham Young was big mani"
raid i.
"He was a natural boss" said the
Judge, but not near so big man us his
people made out. He pretended to re-
ceive telephone messages from the
Almighty every time, and they did what
he told them. But he was a bully and a
was not Mahomet, SIR"
But he did lot here.p
"He had lot OF men working. 1t looks
wonderful 10 make garden out OF O
desert; but it WAS the water did it. A
tribe OF civilized Indians down In Now
Mexico had done it before, and tho
Spaniards had always irrigated. / guess
you won't find anything here In the way
OF irrigation they haven't got in Egypt.
wan ~ hN 1..,I Ia.
back East 1t took man lifetime to clear
his patch of forest"
That was the view OF man who had
fought Mormonism for twenty years and
had beaten IL.
Whistler the foregoing came from
the 'Judge".editor or the "iuige"
secretary, or some other 'Judge,' ,!
Mr.. Bteevens does not make quite
clear, go the honors may 70 where
they will. But in view OF the fao
that many OF the reading public &C.
oept newspaper statements rs true, the
"humor" which led to "guying" tn,
green Britisher In the foregoing iash.
lon Will not be appreciated by Utah
people. No doubt all the land under
canals here can be walered in year;
1t Ia profitably Irrigated several times
year, which is more than can be sale
OF some other subjects under a differ
ent species of "irrigstion." But tn,
Indians did not do 1t, and the span
iards did not do 1t, and the Egyplia HI
did not do 1t, In Utah; neither die
water make the Utah desert q gar
den. The people who plowed
and planted and cultivated
who made the roads and bull
the bridges; who constructed tn
dams, reservoir. canals and bitches
who fought famine, and drouth, an,
Indians, and devouring insects; VIII
brought out the water from mountain
gorges or hidden springs and applied /
to parched soil and thlrsty vegs alton
when they had oosxed that vegetation
into existence by cesssless thought
and toll, and worry-these are the PEG
pie who made OF the desert q garden
The "wstet did ii" story Is not told b,
those who have practical knowledge G
irrigation by water. for they know 1t /
not true. Neither did water powe
reel of the stories about Utah told /
the gulllble Englishmsu who write
for the Mail.