Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-04

.,,ry 10 the most trying year in
T,,ahs pioneer era,
s.nrersnce throngs have steadily in
ss.cd IN number FOR score of years.
"a with each session interest has
Zen kecner. while the good things
,rort have waxed numerous. lust
.,so century ago the valley in which
~. world may see today the achieves
vents Of the years between, was moth
H.. bit dismal waste. There was
.o,fe,pnce to he held. because the
..onle were piling straw in their houses
pr5 we're sharpening axes to cut down
~ trees with their eight years of root
ace and we're investing in oxen for a
,cne exodus to the south
I, was the year when the Threatened
nav Of determination was being waged
,,olnst the Mormon settlers. and con-
,.rence time came before the people
:, Tho east had been stirrd to action
.s,inst the human sharks and politici-
,,s who ranged upon the world as
birds Of prey, and had called then. off
fran their intention of making loot
If the Utah settlements,
Because no historian of national re-
pute has ever yet handled the facts OF
tba expedition to Utah, il remains as
elouded chapter, and yet if COM
Mate light could be shed over the en-
fire circumstances it would throw an
invaluable mass of evidence upon both
the shirt of the Mormon settlers, and
the ultimate power of the government
10 enforce fair play, even against high
officials misuslng the rights of their
offices. and politicians. seeking TO use
gSyernmental functions for private
ends
FLoYD'S POLICY.
For Secretary of War Floyd who
ordered the expedition west, no honor
is given in national annals. for in 4
short time the fact that he was seek
Ing 10 dissipate the Union forces in or
der to give the south better chance
against the north was to come to light.
and he was TO leave washington to be
followed by an Indictment charging
him with the theft OF government
bonds, while Camp Floyd was to be
changed in name by government or
der to Fl Crlttenden, In order that an
unworthy public servant might not be
honored in the name of an army post
DRUMMoND'S INFAMY.
For Judge Drummond, who wrote
ntftl fol lG IN
which the justification for the expedi-
ton rested. there was to come disgrace,
with the publication of the proof that
he brought a notorious woman here as
his wife. and that, too, at the instance
Of his legitimate spouse, who made
public her Indignation at his course.
10 this infamy was TO be added the
proof Of his falsehoods by an eXamina-
ton Of court records, he alleged had
been burned, this examination being
made by federal representatives them
selves connected with the army which
came to revenge the supposed insult,
KANE's DEVOTION.
For Col. Thomas Kane, ON the Other
hand, there was to be made lasting
and grateful name for his unseltlsh de-
yotion TO the cause of fair play and
Just treatment in which he was aided
by Capt. Van Vliet OF the invading
forces by commissioners sent here to
Investigate, and by an outraged pub
lie opinion which rose in behalf of
Utah as soon as the facts leaked cast
ward through tho mesh OF SANDER and
Infamous allegation made by the fore
runners of those who now carry on the
same kind of campaign, but who are
rendered less potent by the facility
with which fact may keep up with nc
lion in these days of more rapid news
transmission.
The sDring of 1858, in which events
made it impossible to hold an April
conference, saw the faith of the Nor
mon people put to its most rigorous
test
PREsT. YOUNG AND PROPERTY.
The accumulation OF property ran
On anti Mormon charge still familiar
10 jewellers IN Utah, lis the heart of the
aornon religion" property" said
Brigham Young. when spelling It out
10 Capt. Van Vliet of the invading
'osces' thar his people would devastate
wele tn'r valley and flee to the noun
"N's 20 refuge and IN the hope Of pre-
s'"'as AZ ieaat the gospel as they un-
ANAhlifn. il ~ "a h.
e'm'oS a9acrations, what do / caro-
wv property except that it may serve
"' purposes oi the Lord. II / am driv-
e' 90 'he extremity win burn every
p-"a'os ostry soot OF lumber. every
"''e' 'ftfy Tee, and every particle
''s 90 h1y S,Ge Nill burn. Be
~" ! E'i again abandon my pn1P-
'y Ss Z have IN times sone hy, |
wiz utterly lay wGfRe ,his land In the
,s'.e u Ar0eis Cod and our enemies
,"tN L0d ii as 6a,gen as when we
osae hs,s,"
AFIiL 1903.
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1s N'", 90 i.shbIL aCy % 90 their
- a'3nfaa a aalcicr tgraod 20 IN
~ 0'Ha6 of Tho Valley where a do
NV o. pioneering was Just nnlshsd,
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