The San Francisco call., 1904-07-19

wv tares. While the general public is sleeping off
its astonishnent caused by the testimony in
Senator Smoot's the Mormon church is reaching
far aheld for political power Its colonization scheme
in the hands OF the youngest of the twelve apostles,
of the late President Woodruff, who has all the
Yankee edge of his able father joined fanatica de-
voton polygamy and the political interests of the
church.
He is the son of one Of herd of wives acquired by
his father, and from the Mormon standpoint deserves
the religious honors that have come him notwth-
standing his youth. He is pushing colonization in Wy
omng New Mexico and Arizona with great energy and
intelligence The church is possessed OF ample capital
Its annual receipts exceed those OF the State OF Utah and
it the money for the aggrandzement of Mormon
everywhere In its colonization schemes the arid
country the church treasury has been heavily drawn
upon provide irrigation works 1t found that this
was expensive that the hierarchy began to finch
The first outlay much for the church But
its ambition to control Wyoming, Idaho, the coming
States OF New Mexico and Arizona, and regain Ne
vada is not TO be lightly given up.
In the dilemma disclosed by the of irrigation for
its colonies occurred of those that re-
garded by the church miraculous. The Mormons be-
ieve that Brigham Young had gu created in midair to
destroy the grasshoppers that devouring their
crops They believe that the Lord hardened the Gen
tile heart of Buchanan send Albert Sidney Johnston
into Utah with his force of regular troops make
market for their hay and grain, though there
exterminate the church
In the books OF the faithful will hereafter be written
that the of God blessed in the preservation of
these ordinances by the Of the enemy Govern
Of the United States in providing its the
OF watering the wilderness and the places
for the children of the Lord The Federal irrigation act
will be applied almost wholly within the region that the
church If the had been entitled "An act TO
provide the for extending the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latterday Saints and increase the political
power thereof would have exactly expressed the
uation.
The romancers who promoted the act in Congress
talked of the stewng millions in the city sums who
would rush for these irrigated lands and establish their
vine and fig thereon. So far there has been
OF that kind and none, organized morgan
lied, except the movement of the Mormons toward
every place where the United States is building reer
voir or digging ditch The church held Nevada
but withdrew from the Washoe Valley and from Lincoln
County valley of the Rio Virgin because of the
of maintaining irrigation. Now the United States
is bearing the and toward the first region tosbe If
rigated in Churchill County the vanguard of great
Mormon colony moving 1t is safe TO say that in the
States and Territories where the Government spend
ing thirty forty millions irrigation eghttenths of
the land will go to the Mormons.
The church is never taken by surprise. 1t
sleeps When the first National Irrigation Congress
in Salt Lake there Mormon delegates
Most of the apostles expating religious echery
in the Territorial penentiary. The congress act
of grace and courtesy invited President Woodruff and
Apostle George Q. Cannon address it and they
cepted. Witness the change since then The last
gress met at Ogden and was dominated by the Nor
George Maxwell and Mr.. Boothe found it neces
sary make alliance with them and the junction of
forces controlled the congress The meeting
located by the open dictation of Apostle John Henry
Smith, and the church took charge of public opinion
and policy irrigation far they Influenced by
the congress-
The romantic irrigators whose fancy eighty mil
lions OF people dressed in purple and fine linen and far
ing sumptuousy every day the lands irrigated by the
Government did take the trouble to think that TO
get prompt occupancy of these lands organization
urging needed.