The Mena star., 1899-07-27
BRIGHAM YOUNG 5 VEBI
The Apostle Talks About Seyer,, Phases of the Mormon Question
 Especially Polygamy.
STATEMENT ON MISSOURI LABOR Llws

Commissioner Rixey Reports to the co.
 vention of the National Associat,on
 State Labor Commissioners Concern,u-
 the Work of His Iureau-The solu,.s
 of the Arbitration Problem DitNcnt
 Chicago, July 15.-Apostle Brighan Young, of Salt Lake City, the eldeS, k son of the former head of the Mormor k church, was at the Grand Pacific ho,e yesterday. His present eastern tr;n which will be followed by one to Neg. leo, is in the interest of the church. q, which he is prominent member. and which he declared is in a most prosper. ous condition. In connection with free discussion of the several phases of ths Mormon question which have comeinto II prominence recently, he also said the church expected, within compara lively few years, to begin the erection of magnificent city of the faith at In. dependence. Mo. which would be ts headquarters. He said:
 It was our former home, from which we Were driven by unreasonable and bitter preiudiee
  waste places of Zion We desire to build there the most beautiful city in the world Wewn construct magnificent tabernacle. much finer ili every respect than the one we have at Sat Lake City, ana in other respects make our old and yet new. home of tho church most beauti. fu place. We have part of the necessary land already, and are going to have no dificultyn securing all we need.
 Speaking about the prosecution of Angus NJ. Cannon for living with more than one wife, he said:
 The members of the Mormon church who have contracted polygamous marriages do not shrink from the issue involved in the case recently be- gun against Angus M. Cannon The present. is probably as good time as any for determining whether we are to live undisturbed the lives which the most solemn obligations have im- posed upon us, or whether we are to suffer the pains and prosecutions of those who have the courage of their faith.
 In regard to the contemplated pro ceedings against Congressman-elect Roberts. he said:
 have little doub; he win also be proceeded against, ard, as in the case of Mir. Cannon, we have no disposition to avoid the issue. We might as well determine now as any time where we stand and if we have got to go to prison, so let it be We can be imprisoned, but no power short of death can force me CT othersn the same situation to break the m solemn GOV enant that man can make l. for instance, coyeuantcd to be faithful husband to my wives and true fatherto my children. Would not be false to every obligation of honor and true morality to now cast them offg have had more than one member Of congress tell me that If broke the covenant thus made and cast on these children and wives who gave mo all they had in the world would be nothing less than scoundTel
 Statement on Missouri Labor Laws
 Jefferson City. Mo, July 15.-State Labor Commissioner T. r. Rixey is in attendance at the fifteenth annual meeting of the National Association of State Labor Commissioners, which is being held at Augusta, Me, this week, and will present the invitations of Gov. Stephens and Mayor Zeigenhein to the association to hold it's next meeting in St. Louis. In the report by states, given in the meeting, Commissioner Rixey said on behalf of the Missouri bureau:
 Our factory inspection law is inadequate and unsatisfactory It requires the authorities of all cities and towns of over 5,O01 to appoints factory Inspector to work under the supervision N' @f~ AAt'D- NNIiihtNNtQHti Nili DO IudRt tWp " ports each year of inspection of all factories and workshops employing ten more persons But no penalty is provided for failure to appoint, or to inspect and report, after appointments. How ever, through diligent effort, we have secured the observance Of the law by nearly all the cities to which 1t applies, with pasSably good results, and by this means nave prevented many casualties and corrected existing abuses. We made an enoH With the last legislature to secure remedial leg lsiatlon on this subject, but being the revising session attention was so diverted by other matters that the proposed amendment failed ol enactment. Anumber of bills proposing more stringent and comprehensive arbitration laws eamong them one prepared by our bureau) were considered by our last legislature. but the soiu- ton of the problem to the satisfaction of all parties concerned seems quite difficult and no cnanzes were made. The free employment olnee established by my predecessor in the eity or st. Louis in October iB97 is yielding very EatiSeactnrv roSult.