Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-11-23
FOUND IT QUITE DIFFERENT
Contrasting Picture. Of salt take twenty
Nv. Years Ago and Now Patriotic sen.
tlm.nt aud Departure Of Volunteers.

Colonel Charles =. burton today re-
cclved letter from John Horny Mar
TIN. clay Clements manager Martin
is an old newspaper man and ihtAitl-
can AGENT. VITA friends In lcglonary
numbers all over the United States. lic
psassd through utah many years ago
from the East en- route 10 she golden
West In search Of fame ana fortune.
That was before h. became journalist
or before h. wlH drawn into a ihcaifl'
cal career. II was when Dc was simply
. frcighicr "whacking' oNicams from
the Missouri 10 San Francisco. lie has
often visited SAN Lake since then and
has always had warm spot In his
breast for the early settlers ~ Utah.
u appears that he was here when tho
utah volunteers departed Tor Manila
aud that h. Chronlcled that event lot
the Detroit Free Press, which he sent
20 Colonel Burton with the following
article.
only q little more than quarter n
a century ago. l was one ~ the Gen
tiles among mass ~ Mnrmuni'
minors. merchants, Mcalcaua. hunters,
rra, mule kinnorH. ana bull-whackcrH
that formed the population ~ Salt LAKE
CITY. No fashions that had come from
the modes % Paris " New YORK cnuld
b. distinguished iisihf drcfs uf the men
and women who nllrd the streets Of
"Iion's ciiy." that day long ago, Ihcf,
Nefu soft HiuuCh hats 81 all Hortr ana
conditions. from the nhnpelcaH fhoddy
a. the nilvcr.trlmmed nuinhrcfn; there
were humsFuuu. handmade suits, the
fruit u the loom and needles ~ Indus
/ ifiuuH Mormon wives. The flannel shirts
/ ~ an husl OF the miners. herders and
/ teamairfH ~ the Mills and valleys gnV
| color 10 the picture. There were fiilny.
| Hiub-in hlgh-heeled boots. rakishlY
| constructed velvet and corduroy suits.
| and FILLED shirt fronts that den0t. the
| spnfi ur the stage driver ~ twenty-five
I years ago! ana there we're the bead
| bcdecked ana frlnrvd buckskin suits,
/ the patient work ~ the sluaw-wlveu
uf hunters and trapperi. Nog were the
rcd men themselves absent from ihr
crowd that iillcd the street hetwcon the
| struggling, one.at0ry buildings. ihni
/ was then the main thoruuTh:3re OF Sili
Lake, OK teams. mule teams. lean,
Elab-aldcd hrnnch0f and eayusea The
iough ntile horses Of ihe plains. stood
harnsslrd 10 al kinds % vehicles. o.
| carrying hlF loathern Mexican saddles,
Therr were no hurrahs, TO shouts ui
I Victor. no pcaia NJ laughter. Men with
faces hlanchrd aud worried. talked lu
low tones. and plaln'y-cltl, anxious
faced women gaEed with eyes niled with
fear Into the faces % strong men
looked 10nglugiy Tor hope Into face
wherc there was no hope.
brigham Young was on trial Z = ~
ne, Tho man ~ Iron VIII. and atruna
arm. that had led tres, people 0yei
sunny plains and frozen mountain
| hlEhiH 60 homes thfy bad wfentel from
unwilling nature In the desert. was ROW
struggling In the mosheH Of the laws Of
the United States Thoy remembered
their expulsion from Missouri thlriy.fiv'
years agu; how their beloved loader and
prophet. Joseph Smith. hal given up MI
lie 20 mrrcsfs public opinion IL
Illinois. while they had been driven out
On Ia the wind'fwgpt plains 90 Iowa
and compelled 20 sock refuge In for
elgn inndi and though they had, "
travel and toll almost unbelievable
placed almost 5000 mllea OF desert
plain ana mountain between them and
their peraecutors, yet only ten years IN
this far-off valley found them again b..
lig hunted by the soldiers ~ the United
states, And now, aFain, their lcadel
was nghting IN the courts the old battle
that had been whrci against this peace
tul ana industrious rrup' % % many
years. This II the picture ! saw twen-
iy.nve years ago,
nut shanks 10 railroads. telegraph
wires ana newspapers, thanks 60 IN,
agencies ~ enlightenment which We TO-
day enjoy-shanks % the broken bar
tiers Of religious and political intoler'
ance, | was. this May day w the yeai
lhiN privileged tu stand un the SAINT
street On Salt Lake city and see an
, other picture. The tall brick building
! hflsiled with buutlng, the Stars and
stripes waved IN the breeze every
where as FAR as tho .yo could rgieh'
The air was niled wfth Inspiring strains
u lhe bands playing our national arr
and thousands VI well-drcssed. ruihusi
hsNc men and Wumen were Wavlnf
nars ana shouting dodspeeds aud fare
wells.
The myriad ~ graceful spires ON m.
beautiful temple Hocmed a. point 70
Rladness intn the sinking blue fki
while the stately golden Image of tn
any "MOrnnl" ftNm ~ LOFTY place ul
the hlghes, pinnacle " the temple, ap
pearei 10 be trumpetlng defiance q
cruel ola CASTLE The cannon, the sam
uld cAnf,ln that lln ghtm Young an
hif people draFEad over desert, noun
tain aud plain years ago, was min
Farewell snlutea o. soldiers going O. th
Tar routh sous, saw stalNar, yum
men, 90 per cent ~ whom were Mot
mon born, che nons ana grandsons vi
men who were driven from under "a
folds Of our nag ffty years ago. In IN
marching order; l cav them wheel D.
o piaio0ns intn the same street IN whlc
their forefn theirs waited and watche
fnr the verdict that cleared shel
70 Prophet and leader brigham inunf
quarter ~ q century ago herpl
siulue ~ that great loader towerln
q at the had 81 the street. seemed % b
3 rnlntiug ln pride al be evidence u hl
e teachlngs OF loyalty 90 the nag While
9 had refused protection o. shelr father
! At their head rode thor leader CAPITAL
2 of Volunteers Richard w. Young, N
3 grandson N brigham Young, a Wef
4 inini graduate. an nccompl 'hed civ
4 engineer, a distinguished niilaer on IN
p stan 81 Ger. Hancock and a graduat
\ OF the Columbia law Schd n. Iie pu
q aside large law practice, p1aHcll pre-
I ANN .h.1All mo- IL l1un-L-L.u lhlI