Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-04-19
THE NEW BOOK ON UTAH.
Published by Union Pacific on States Re-
sources and Attractions.
Judge Coibern's broad Minded Treat.
neas OF social aud Political Con.
aisioss- 10y aisy Everywhere.

The long awaited book on utah. ita
resources and attractions announced
nome time ago by tho Union Pacific
NJ being In tho press "a Just out and u
copy has been furnished the News"
The work In done BY Rand Mentally and
company. Chicago. and tho author II
Judge u. y. Coborn OF this city. The
enterprise Of the Union Pacific In pre-
pairing the book cannot be too highly
commended. II IL a work which viii
bs invaluable 10 people who seek In
formation regarding our state and an
examination OF Its pages shows that
there II little left untold regarding our
agricultural and mineral resources. our
stock raising and manufacturing indus
tries. our Institutions. our attractions.
and our climate. IL viii form a veri-
table guide book 10 the traveller and
N certain to have Immense circulation.
Every county In the stat. IL given a
place within Its pages and NIL the re-
sources Of the state nv. to the. present
time are fully treated Of. An interest
inE feature being the many historical
facts which have been grouped toge-
Their. the broad mind and the trenchant
pen OF Judge Colburn are well illustrate
ci In his treatment of hc'MofTnon'
question" without which OF course, no
4 quotation from this part OF the work
II ~ follows:
'"rhe Mormon question belongs 10 the
past. IL II no longer discussed In
Utah. II IN OF no Importance In coa-
nection with present conditions In the
State, and viii In no manner AFFECT the
states future growth Or prosperity.
The hatred and uncharitahcneas once
provoked by Il no longer exists In Utah.
and but for the fact that thcru are In
the East persons who rtili believe that
II N factor In the social. religious. and
business life OF the state. the discus
sion Of the question might well be- clim-
mated from every published book and
article covering Utah. II Il confessed
that during the FIRST thlrty-nve years
81 ttnh's territorial existence the rcla-
tons between the "MormonaT aud the
IDENTITIES We're more or less strained
How could thoy well have been other
wiaef The "MorfnOns" had He'd from
what they believed TO be the perHccu.
tlona of the Eastern people. and, un-
mindful Of the danger OF the effort, had
moved 1000 miles into the wllderueaa,
there 10 build up commonwealth
wherein they could manage their own
nnairn-busineHa and governmental.
Naturally. they felt u proprietornhlp
over the region they occupled, and
looked with dirfavor upon the coming
Of those whose religious belief and
methods were different from their own.
National politics at this tlmo
received no attention but two local or
charlottesville Peoples Party, repre-
tentative ~ the Mormon element, and
the Liberal party, representative VI tho
uentile elcmnnt-for over thirty years
contendcd for political mastery. The
hnimoaiiiea cnTenderrd during this long
period need not be discussed here, nA
they have long since passed away. For
many years before the long conflict
closed n was apparent that these AMI
mositieS were decreasing, and that the
contendinR classes We're gradually
drawing nearer together. These signs
Indicated the beginning Of the end, and
the end came when the Mormon pco-
pie dishanded their party. surrendered
polygany. aud proclaimed the pcrpet-
unl dissolution 81 Church and state.
These concessions were AZ once received
by the mass 81 the GENTLE people IN the
spirit with which they were made. Tho
liberal party di-hnnded with hut one
dissenting vote. old antagonists shook
hands, old hatrcds were diaEipated. and
there began In Utah an erf hf peace
and good viii far more perfect than
could have existed had II not been
preceded with years OF conflict. Today
no one well Informed about Utah viii
dissent from the writer's statement
that there In not elsewhere In the Omit.
"a states more united, loyal, progress
rive, ana law-nhiiing people than the
people Of the "Forty-nfth state" The
name Gentle and Mormon are sell
dom now heard In Utah. The two
classes lnterminglc In social ana husi-
meas affairs, and religious belief has
long since ceased TO be u factor In poll
ties"