Show AND jers As reader renders will vill observe this number clones clos cios esthe the fifty fifteenth anth volume of the aj WEEKLY and mccu occurring aring so iea lea ica hr r the end of the year T ear car it hah haa b as been en deemed bew beet to avail ourselves of so favorable vre vrr an opportunity port unity and begin the next volume as near aa as publication dop dom danwill day will permit with the beginning of a how hew year this arrangement will accord with the most general date for the commencement of newspapers and other periodicals and consequently consequent lyt lyl meet the the tim time when ewhen the tho great reat majority aro are a accustomed to subscribe sub bub scribe or renew their subscriptions and aud what is of more inow importance will accommodate the customary mary mars I 1 lumage of closing accounts at the end of the year behr preparatory to beginning anew with the new year we jve trust ti that our agents subscribe subscribers i andt andi others 0 will bear 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borne in mind and produce a dow dol corresponding course of ie reeling feeling e all ali g and a n action in relation thereto reto neto twi THE deseret weekly vol 4 will be furnished upon the same samo term terms i as hs vol 1 I except that the circum trw trado trade do at preson tan d for sor a year tear to omner corner require us to change our figures for wheat froni bree breo ahree to two dollars ab a uslie buhe bu he deli dell v at erea 1 I at atthe the xi newa news wa office AND QUERIES tc we would wish to call the att ati attention of the citizens of this city and a na territory ry 1 1 and particularly of tle tie the tho old to a aadi few jew face faeta naeta which mial exist aud to a few ni eries erles thal that we deem peril perli pertinent nent at the Z present time that we may be tile the het bet teh 17 ter understood ltv it wll wil 1 be necessary to go 6 wack laek bae bac taca nearly nearl twenty ye Arsand notice seve several ral rai historical af points fioril that unil the tho present t and fact that tb this 13 te territory under tinder ve very vory ry dis sebus gebus circumstances poor and r dri driven X en J I 1 by the tite spirit offie our homes n tho the eastern eastorn tates cafes states stapes we came cameto to these valleys and commenced comme heed beed aneto aceto make homes in in an untried land and in what was then an inhospitable deseri dekeil we did not receive aid or assistance si from any source except that which the almighty Ali all nights vouchsafed to us we fac faced ea the di that lay before kus kub ild iid bythe aid kofl of providence ovid eneo enco overcame them theril but buta a short ijo rt time after our arrival liere here there vius bius as a rush osgold of gold see seeking kinig emigrants across the continent i i 5 10 i starting in the east borwhat for what was waa then deemed the EI dow dod waty travel stavel of utah anderl and supplied with 11 lyof of the means m eana of comfort for trans traub por tation which thoe thos pioneers lacked jacked they camo canio here hem worn out hungry and aud almost broken down who caad for those emigrant reinis t or t to 0 thir their want wanta tended on them and add fed them butof the scanty store which had been with xin zin unceasing ceasing toll drawn from alho wilderness that then existed here who sold bold rood food at reasonable prices to those who could buy instead ot trading on their necessities and demanding exo exorbitant rates when stern want would have haxe compelled therm thorn to pay whatever would have been asked who fed thois of them that were too poor to buy who instead of evil for ed good for evlin cyll acting the part maritana mar itans to those in distress who made the tho roads by which they came here bridged the river sand proved that a U country supposed tojo to be almost impassible for strong men could be traveled by weak women infancy and old aa abts thus lip up avast extent of territory for sett pett settlement lement and practical ube uso these queries are suggestive for every one who knows anything rf of gib the erly early history of this territory knows that it was the early settlers set fl ene ere who did these things then aa as now the settlers in this arid and adjacent valleys were surrounded sunio nied by bi the tho rugged mountains which rise east cast and west timber was there but the canyons were apparently inaccessible who made the roads up into those kan that the timber could bo be reached rt abc an enormous expense of time and lind means who erected saw mills u under disadvantageous circumstance that lumber might be obtained who cut canals and water ditches here that water might bo be brought from horn the mountain rivena rivera and streams stream to irrigate the hard and anid arid soil who after having to haul a distance of nearly two thousand lles miles iles evary arary gead send for tree plant root and grain now grown here for the sustenance of mannne begat beast and every implement and tool for labor cultivated the earth raised the 0 grain min and produce built grist ellla planted orchards and made a home of beauty in the midst of a desert waste did those who are iso so loud in their du outcries teries against the latter day saints or did tho first setters do these things lings ti I 1 I 1 I 1 having to build houses tit without yit hout facilities where there thero was nothing in the of a habitation superior to td the wick wiek 1 up of the degraded savage har having to amako imako I 1 ahl farms where the rains ralus of ile lle heaven yeu yen veu did not bless the soil and bring the vinter venter from a distance to irrigate them having to open roads between growing settlements and with the world I 1 outside baying haying all tile the difficulties lnell i dent to a new now country and many peculiar to this mountain desert to contend with having no ba books except such na as were brought C at great expense from the far east cast having in the tho midst of extreme poverty 0 t o orrest allying from the desert or starve tho the early settlers did nob not ne giett glett the tho education of tho the young choals were established and school houses were wore built and increased as the cities and settlements luere Inere increased bea moa in number and bize size size bize until now with from oneto one to eight schools I 1 in each ward every child in tho the territory has the opportunity of being educated who built those schoolhouses and established those schools who cheerfully paid taxes and liberally donated for foi that purpose was it those who talk of the ignorance i ce olour of our young or the early settlers the latter day saints who in the multiplicity of their labors and duties did not forget the thel rising generation but assiduously sought to impart that education and instruction st tax required to make them intelligent honorable and useful citizens who refused to pay taxes disputed the statutes made by every rAf iJ 10 in hns andwood and dl w A 0 nid nad not do any they thaid in ca or ot fostering education wars vas rz rs settlers sett iera lera or dr basit those who talk of our oar backward condition and di dl late upon th tho jek jck of to daiil T i i ii edis ekie cato eato 10 our ur children i these the and similar queries demand rc 1160 llon lion and I 1 lead ead oad to others which I 1 vear bear directly on points that are re ai at present the subject of agitation y wu fan oon need VV fe efe of I 1 aati aota acta gna dha dho llon lion of regaldo who hayend who have not been actively engaged in promoting the tho welfare welfare of this thia territory and who have labored to retard its progress gresz gresi and drain it sources of prosperity pe rity with the growth of the lac territory came increased labors and dna increased responsibilities of bf the people municipal organizations were formed works ofa of a public nature became imperative public buildings increased in number and size new now roads 6 were demanded city improvements in various places became requisite antl and were assessed under legitimate powers to meet them who paid those taxes tase gabit tho the early settlers or was it tho the persons persona of migratory habits who camo came here to make money that they might carry away to build up some other state or territory who was it with whom the properly appointed and legally authorized officers had to taxes so thata part might be begot got sooner than enter upon dexa and expensive litigation wag waa it not with some of those who had ta taken ken upa up a temporary habitation hereto here hore to make wealth out of early settlers who met the taxes assessed in a responsive spirit paid them freely and willingly and have thereby made raade the public improvements which mark the growth and i prosperity of the territory V was it or was it not riot the early settlers the tho latter day saints sainte who was it that contested the late law empowering a the assessment ment oftay for educational purposes dragging the trustees of a school district into court opposing them by every adall abid abw means and positively refusing to pay the tax was it not those who are among the loudest in their their thoin denunciations of mormon ignorance and the i lack of educational facilities hl here hene ere ene who was it that would spend a thousand dollars in opposing that tax loses assessed by i due authority of law jaw sooner than pay pat one tenth of that sum sura that education might inight bo be pro promoted noted while they were vere drawing from the people the very means moans ty by which they opposed the lawo law while speaking of law we might further ask who was ib it that strove tp to evade evada the jaw and wrest it from its purposed ends enos vas was it men iben appointed by the representatives of the p pep peg pie c here was it not men we were re empowered with F federal authority 0 to administer tee tho law who was it that carried on secret tramm traffie le contrary to 0 law in articles which aro are required to pay duty thereby robbing municipality the orthis of this city and the general government who was ivas it thal that took shelter under eN tended extended judicial protection continued and prolonged while engaged in such frame traffic who was it that lon con continued this system of defrauding the general government and the muni municipal capal government in violation of all law and prided themselves upon sodo so doing lu 0 and who was it that fostered and encouraged them organized secret associate asso associations ciati I 1 ons for the purpose involving extra expense and causing increased taxation on 0 n the people who were wore being thus doubly wronged were these things not done by those who were and are strong in their accusations rapael ty yei yet oes mis li ar jis 11 vin nd erwing we a it h ra C lb or ca opte e I f e Y juo luo woe who ho cry out dut against Wo r bail Z d their ignorante while refusing to aid in any way the fa bal education call for arm armies les ies to be sent rent here that citi united nito states may be pro tea tested e while while actively noti ely janda jania ged lna inn ina in aa courset cour courbet course set to 0 make life and und pr property inse inbe f cure cur where they have havo ve been fostered an courteously tie tle treated tiered Aed while hile hiie on the F subject of citizens we vve may as ask who are called catiz citizens e ns orthe of the united states in th this territory by the classa class elass of we wi are speaking Is in riot not every poor ulis bils miserable erable drunken fot foreign eigO cr er who refuses to pay taxes or do anything and goodin good in the honored with the title of american citizen which he would disgrace disara 1 c i e ifal if ha had been oven even born under the government to which he nas has never owned alle glance are not IrIsh Scotch french germans Engli english shand and natives aher countries at times found drunk in our streets a disgrace to humanity i inin inen men who have never in any way done an anything y to aid the territory or develop lus its resources except to hunt h a little for gal gold d which some of or them were not particular whether they found in be the gulches gutches of the mountains or in gentlemen gei gel itle itie I 1 men s pockets and are not no t these ar foreigners eigners who wh 0 disregard tho the law antl anil and live in inconstant constant violation of it called united states citizens by those who demand that an army should be sent here fiero while men whose fathers fought and bled for the independence odthe of the tho nation aro are spoken of as aliens and foreign foreigners eis eig 11 haye have wo we not iia lia biad d in this territory since bince the time when communication was opened up between this inland wilderness and anil tile the outside world one class cis 4 of people of peaceful peace ful tul habits orderly and industrious real sett seit lere leie who havo have doue done e all that has been done for the development of the tle the tho country and the growth of the territory and another class that numbered in it many who disregarded the law sought sough t to I 1 bur sur up strife and ens eng engender euder tuder bitten bitter feelings maligned the tho people and persistently refused to aid in furthering any work of a public and desirable character and afis was it not the first of these classes that tilled the soil made the country habitable and iny inviting biting made the improvements men ta which increased the value of property and thereby swelled the merr terri and municipal rete reye revenues nuee but there has been another source soum tf income in the territory furnished by i the early settlers through which much ruch has bas been done to increase the real rew and material prosperity thereof and by which public buildings have ben been erected edana and works ofa of a public character chai chal soter acter have been sied sled source of income we may refer at ut grea greater greatel tei tel 1 again it is well known that fhe the abo people of this territory haye have freely paid pidd one tenth of their increase to bo devoted to public pur purposes to earing caring for tho the poor the execution of public works the aiding alding of the deserving and ind to come from other lands and settle here thereby directly and extensively xan sav ely bly aiding immigration one great means bitans by which w the united states bas hns aliasso has li asso so ra rapidly risen to io the tho first place among the powers of tho the earth by every dollar expended in in aiding an honest industrious population to come and develop thebo these western countries the thereby reby enhancing the greatness and prosperity of tho the nation at I 1 large a rge t tho 11 0 maternal material prosperity of the territory has been promoted and in creased and in proportion its available resources are developed while the num ber her of those from whom the non hax fax k i paying cla ela class as denive derive their thein wealth la is increased |