Show REMARKS all ali bf pres president ident brigham arll arit young TAbernacle nov Noy ov r BY G D WATT br kimball elm Rim baily baliv in his remarks touched upon an idea that had not previously entered my my 1 mind that is that some of the people were e djs dissatisfied satisfied with me and my counselors on ac clint of the lateness of this seas seasons onys immigration I 1 do but bilt what such maybe may be the case as I 1 am aware that those persons now hout on the plains have a great many friends and relatives here but it never came into my mind that I 1 was in the least degree censurable cen for any persons being now upon the plains why because there is not the least shadow of reason for cas casting tinZ such censure upon me I 1 am about as free from what is alfrd jealousy 33 a 5 any ran rean that livell lives ilves I 1 am not jealous of any body though 0 I 1 know what the fee feeling lirt is but it never troubled me much even in my younger days neither am I 1 suspicious of my bi brethren ethren therefore I 1 was not suspecting any censure of the kind just named aside from entire want of foundation and aside from my freedom from jealousy jealousy anh ani and suspicion dicion there are are other reasons why I 1 could not be DC expected to have indulged in the suspicion of such a charge our oar general epistles usually go from here twice a year and the immigration the pt gathering herine hering of the people ig is dictated in hose those epistles with a consi considerable erable degree of minute detail I 1 also advance many ideas on the same subject from time to time which are written and published punished pubis hed arid and I 1 write a great many letters on this subject an and d many of these are published hed there beere is not a person who knows anything about the counsel of the first presidency concerning tile the immigration but what knows know that we have recommended ended it to start in in season true we have not expressly and arid with a penalty forbidden the immigration 11 ration to start late but hereafter I 1 am going to lay liy an injunction and place a penalty to be suffered by any elder or elders who will start the immigration across the plains after a given time and the penalty shall be that they shall be severed from the them church for I 1 will not have such late starts yon you know my ray 1 life ilfe if 05 there is is not a person in in this church and kingdom but what must acknowledge kaniv ledge that gold arid and silver houses and lands etc do multiply in my hands there is not an individual but what must acknowledge that I 1 am as good a financier as they ever knew in all things that I 1 put my bandalo hands band sto lo 10 this is is well known by the people and they consider me a frugal saving laving man therefore there chere is no ground or room for their suspecting that thit my mismanagement caused the present sufferings oil on the plains I 1 presume that br kimba kimball ll 11 never would have thought of such an idea had he not have heard it say that th it we start a company from the missiouri river as late as the first of jitney june and allow them three months in in which to perform the journey then they have time to travel moderately and one mont month of good weather fon for leeway ay in which to finish the journey provided tiey they do not complete it in three months then t they ley may be ninety days or more in in coming a t thou thousand lousana sand miles which a child of four years old could walk walh w alk aik in in that time they may stop and feed their heir teams and after they arrive they will have the autumn in in which to look lock round anti and prepare for winter this is is my my p licy llcy and then durin during the first half of the journey the cattle can get what is is called prairie grass hiie while hile it is is at its best fo for r it is easily killed by frost and cattle must have the privilege of feeding upon i it t before it is too dry or frost trost bitten the month of june is the best month for that grass and this all know who are acquainted with the western prairies then they come to the mountain grass in in the latter part pirt of their journey which though probably dry by the time they get to it is is filled with nutrition nearly as much so as grain and will fatten cattle they can come along moderately take their time and arrive herin august they should be here in in that month what for to help us harvest our late wheat corn potatoes to help get glut up wood put pat up fences and prepare for winter this plan also puts into the possession of new comers time and ability to secure to themselves their winters provision dodou do you not see th it such is the result I 1 have known this all the time I 1 have always said send the companies across the plains early companies have suffered loss upon loss of lives and property but never by the dictation of the first presidency do you yon not riot readily understand that if the immigration 0 had bad been here a few months ago or by the first of september that they would have had opportunity to rest and then to secure wheat to lay tip up a few potatoes to get tip up wood and lay in the staple necessaries ces saries f for or winter but dut our elders abroad siy by their conduct all the time that we here in ili the mountains do not understand what is wanted in in the east as well as they do they do not proclaim it in in so many words but their conduct does and arid by their fruit fruits sye ye shall know knos kno v them their actions assert that they know more than we do but I 1 say that they do not if they had sent our immigration in tile the season that they should have done doney duney yoa you oj and I 1 could have kept conr teams at home we could have fenced our five and ten acre lots we could have put in our fall wheat could have got up wood for ourselves arid and for tor the poor that cannot help themselves and thus we might have been providing for ourselves eg and making ourselves es com coin fort agle aSle whereas now your hands and mineard mine are tied this people are this day deprived of thou i sands of acres of wheat that would have been bowed sowed by this time had it not been for the misconduct of our immigration affairs this 1 year yean ear and we would have had an early harvest but now we may have to liv live ille e on roots and weeds again before we get the wheat I 1 look at this matter as plainly as I 1 do upon 3 our faces I 1 have a philosophical forecast and I 1 do know the results of mens work I 1 know what the conduct of this people will produce an in their future life if I 1 have not this power natii naturally rally raily god has surely given it to me well what shall be done why we mist must bear it the tile elders east fancy that they know i more about what is wanted here than we do 10 j and we have to bear it let me have had the dictation of the emigration from liverpool 1 and I 1 could have brought many more persons persona here and at a cost of not more than from three to five dollars of what it has now cost provided I 1 could have dictated matters at every point that is is not boasting bo astur astus I 1 only want to tell you yott that I 1 know more than they know but what hav have bave e we to do now we have to be compassionate si onate we have to be merciful to our breth ren liere here is is br franklin D richards ichards who has but little knowledge knowledge of business except what he has learned in the itie church he came into the church when is hen a boy and all the public business he has been in in is the little he has done while in in live liverpool 0 0 england and here is br daniel spence spencer b br r richards first counselor and a man of awe aoe are age and experience and I 1 do not know that I 1 will all ail attach blame to either of them but if while at the missouri river they had rece received iveda a hint bint from any person on this earth I 1 or if even a bird had chirped it in the ears cars of ars richards and spencer they would have hare known better batter than borush to rush men women and children on to the prairie in the autumn months on the ad of september to travel over a thousand miles I 1 repeat that thai if a bird ba had d chirped the inconsistency of such a course in their ears they would have thought and considered for one moment and would have stopped those men women and children there until another year if it any man or woman complains of me or of my Conns couns counselors elors in regard to the lateness of some of this season seasons s immigration I 1 let the curse of god be on 0 n them the in and blast their substance with mildew and destruction until their names are forgotten from the earth I 1 never thought of my being accused of advising or h having abing any thin thing to do with so late as a start tart the people must roust know that I 1 know how to handle money and means and I 1 never supposed that anybody had bad a doubt of it it will cost this people more to bring in those companies from the plains than it would to have seasonably brought them from the outwitting outfitting out fitting point on the missouri river I 1 do not believe that the biggest fool in the community could entertain the thought that all this loss of life time a and d means was through the mismanagement of the first presidency I 1 know how to dictate affairs and anil DO no man need to have walked in darkness touching his duty daty with regard rezard to the forel foreign forein n immigration you can read their duty in our epistles letters and sermons and what is the purport of those documents on this point that we are new settlers in a wild ani aal uninhabited country arid and are thrown upon our own resources that we need all our teams and means to pre prepare are for those persons who are coming instead dp 0 of cr crippling i P us by taking our bread men and teams and goin going out to meet them and if it the present system sat iri continues this people will be found like the kilkenny cats which eat lip up each other clear to their tails arid and chev were left jumping g at one another such operations will financially financially y use ua up last year my back and head ached and I 1 have been about half mad ever since and that too righteously because of the reckie squandering of means and leaving me to foot the bills last year Vear without asking asling me a word of cot coi counsel insel without a words bein being 11 spoken to me about the matter there was over sixty thousand dollars ot 0 indebtedness incurred d for me to beere pay a Y what for to fetch a f few ew immigrants here when I 1 could have brought the whole w hole hoie of them with one quarter of the means what is the cause of or our irn im migrations being so lite this fills season tit tiie tile e ignorance i aud and a ud mismanagement management marln marin gement of or some who had hid to do with it arid and still perhaps they did the best they knew how are those thosa people in fit the frost and arid snow by my doings no my skirts are clar dar cl d ar of their blood god knows lra ira if a bird ind ild chirped in lit br franklins ears in florence and the brethren there had held a counci council lie would have stopped the rear reir re ir companies there aud and we would have been putting pu eting in lit our wheat etc instead of going onto the tiie plains and arid spend spending hg weeks and mouths months to succor oil oti our r brethren I 1 huke nuke these remarks because they are true As to toche uhe the companies now orr our we must bring them their in fit und and another year we will send men to the missouri river who understand tile the right manag manog ment or affairs girs arid and will send them in the speediest ediest convey conveyances ances inces so that they may mav may not get gel the big bi head heid before thy arrive there and then they may be able to do as we tell them then call can people come across tit the plains u ith haild hard c birts 97 ask ars edmund ellsworth daniel D McArt MeArt hurand williamn bunker banker who led tile the three handcart hand cart companies that have llave already arrived and the brethren and sisters ili in those thosa companies state stale that tint they crossd cross crossd d a quicker and el ellsler lisier than the wagon coina coin riis ilis llis anis those who cound counseled led tile tho companies com pinies ti to come on have luve mearll all gone back to their assistance after staying at home but about two days after their return from fron a long mission thus matill manifesting esting their faith odith by ta leir works I 1 cannot help what is out of my reach but 1 I am on oil liand hand to send more teams arid and to send i i and arid send fiend until if it ia is necessary we are perfectly stopped in fit every kind of business br lieber heber says sis that he will send another team I 1 mean meal to so send nd as many more as he lie dos I 1 ought to send more than hr br Heber fieber for I 1 am ent fourteen days older than ha lie is I 1 call cin c in send more but i 1 do not intend that the thie fetters shall be oil on me tile another season I 1 will mention comet aing more you cannot hear george D drant grant daniel 1 spencer and others of the lately return rz turn turu missionaries millenaries miu mil lenaries speak without eulogizing franklin D richards Ri chirds they are full of eulogizing franklin D rich ards but they need to be careful I 1 or they will A ill lii h ive tile the bit bic bi head heady and become bacome as dead lind and devoid of th the spirit as old pumpkins and arid with them ft it is what could I 1 have done without br george and arid what could i we have llave done without br frankiin franklin and when you hear me editing you rabbi k know 11 ow ye that I 1 want to he be called robbi Rb bi and so it goes but I 1 suppose that th 9 is not hat what nhat bat they do it for dont you know that I 1 know whether you are good for or not without my praising pral shig you 7 1 I know all about you without telling what ahal hat t great things ou on have llave done coile colie and what you have I 1 not done doue but gut the very spirit some have in lit them hem I 1 of or pride arr arrogance gance ana ati self esteem has led men and women to die on oil the plains by scores at least their folly has lias and arid il it they had not have had any sueh such spirit about them god would lave whispered to them diem to ilove held a council and would have hape stopped them froin from rushing their brethren and arid sisters into such sum suf suffering fiering but w we must now rescue those p ople ope and may god help us to do icamen it amen tile iti ie above is all of the remarks made at that time that I 1 deem proper to print at present B BY y |