The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1921-04-05

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hoods which they were. The ex-gov-
,ernor OF the state also said that no
better class OF people could be found
anywhere than the Mormons of Ari.
zona, adding that in one respect they
wore being robbed OF between $500
and 5000 per cent OF certain class
of taxes in Arizona because, ac-
cording to population they were en-
titled to have twenty-five or thirty
inmates in the state penitentiary, and
they had only one ClaughterD also
that We Were entitled to zoo or 500
per cent more OF the taxes set aside
for the support of the insane, being
entitled, according to population. to
seven or eight inmates in the insane
asylum, whereas we had none.
We ask people to Judge us by the
standard laid down by our Savior:
by their fruits ye shall know them"
I was reading last Saturday. in Chi
cago, from Phil Robnson's book
Sinners and Saints" in which he
states that he Is at the defiance OF
any man to find a single book, with
one exception. written on the Nor
mon question, that is not absolutely
untrue. because practically all the
books on that subject were writtet
by the enemies of our people, and are
unfair IN the book I refer to Mr..
Robinson gives tho Mormons a fine
certificate of character and among
other things says that he nearly
checked TO death for "a drink" among
the Mormons while travelling $50
miles to the south and a hundred-odd
miles in the north, until after inquir-
ing for a "backslidcr" he was sue
cessful in finding a demijohn. After
that he got along very well. He said
he had always supposed water was
for the cleansing of the body until
he arrived in Utah and there he
found It was used for drinking pur-
poses Mr. Robinson also refers 10
the fact that although We had so
odd per cent of the population In
Utah. the remaining II per cent Gas
, I recau) furnished so per cent Of
the inmates of tho territorial peni
Tertiary.
{ The first great commandment is &c
e multiply and replenish the earth;
a and Utah's best crop is babies
e We feel very proud of the record o
e our people in that particular. We car
e not begin to compare with other PEG
+ pie in furnishing divorces.
o Before We divided on party lines
in Utah as Democrats and Republi
cans. / heard a Congressman say
while making a campaign speech II
Salt Lake City, that hanging on th'
wall in one of the houses of Congress
In Washington there was mai
showing the states and territories o
the Union. The map was black or
iglnally, but as education grew. 1
was painted white: and he state'
that there were only four white
spots upon that map than Utah. a
!. that time Utah was territory an
n, we had no public lands 10 sell TO hell
= Us In education; we had forged I
the front without receiving ono sin
\, gle. solitary dollar from the sale o
public lands from the United States
J.. We have been branded as an ignor
ant lot. and yet for ninety-odd year
We have bee sending our young mel
:. to Harvard and other universities t
. get an education and they have mad
record OF which we are proud
While / was presiding over the Eur
opean mission of our church, l rea
in the newspapers that. we have over
taken and equaled one of the state
In the union for second place in r.
:, spect to literacy. Doctor WinshiI
one OF the great educators Of ou
. country. has given us. credit, in II
cent lectures. for having the fine
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