Show UTAH RAILROADS bof of senators windom window and hi siewart siewart sic Sie ewart warf wf cho tho utah dilt dill in the senate feb 26 1873 mr windom the who whole effort of that hierarchy is to prevent outsiders the heathen world the gentile world as they call them from coming in in and getting a foo foothold athold that will give them power in that territory Teri tory take for instance a case I 1 now have in mind at the last session of this congress the house of representatives passed a little railroad bill for utah incorporating pom po rating tinga a gentile company to build a railroad from salt lake southward not granting any public lands granting nothing on the face of the earth but the right of way and to this very day through the influence wielded by that organization here that bill has never been reached and lie lle lies lles upon your tableland tab table leand and will lie there and di die dle I 1 have no doubt at attile the end of this tills session why because there are the names of gentile incorporators in that bill it was unanimously unanimously y reported from the committee on public lands but no effort can move it further the moment etwas it was ascertained that a gentile company proposed to construct a road through the cen ter of utah the mormons cormons commenced shoveling dirt and graded a miserable sort of track running somewhat in the direction for the purpose of coming here and preventing c the passage of that bill by cl claiming aiming that they had already built a road over the same line it has been by means such as this that we have been thwarted in every effort to legislate for that territory mr stewart while my friend from minnesota is here I 1 wish to allude to this railroad matter I 1 do not believe in robbing cause they are mormons cormons Mor mons I 1 do not like the mormons cormons nis myself eif elf el I 1 do not like the mormon jurisdiction I 1 am opposed to mormonism I 1 have heard all these stories before I 1 am as much opposed to Alor mormonism monism as anybody but hut I 1 do not believe in robbin robbing them because they are mor mons now let me show how unjust it is to make an accusation against them on any railroad question they have built more railroads themselves than all the territories west of the rocky mountains P put ut together they have built a railroad from ogden to salt lake thirty eight miles they have built from salt lake down the vall tail valley talley eya and are building I 1 do not know tile the exact nui nul number ilber liber of miles but I 1 am told J putting utting it with the salt lake brandz branch some thirty or forty miles more it is ii seventy or eighty miles they have commenced bu build ild inga road and they are building a road with the aid of some new england ngian men north nort fro from ogden congress ell oil ss has refused to 9 grant nt them the e ight right of way 0 over r the public I 1 lands ads to build their roa roads s 11 minnes innes ota and your western country herm here had railroad land grants to any extent minnesota has had her seven million acres of grants for railroads arid other purposes while U utah tall tali has not had an in acre of land granted they have built the railroads with their own molicy money and what mon money ey they could coula get got from others and congress has refused to grant them even the right of way it seems to me that the people who are developing that country whether they tiley be mormons cormons Mor mons or whether they tiley be Gentil gentiles eg or whether they be jews whether they be native born or foreigners athey if they want to go into the interior of the country and build railroads for the general development of the cou country with their own money might well be allowed to do BO so and nobody need complain I 1 want all others toh avean aveau an equal opportunity with them I 1 am in favor of giving others an equal chance and giving them a chance to tc build railroads aud and giving them tile the right of way over the public lands it does seem to me that the railroad question cannot have lave much to do with this bill I 1 do not apprehend that the committee on the judiciary thought they were avero dealing avith the railroad question quentio aa when they preparing A this bill billo I 1 do not think wo we should lets le legislate ts to take property from the tile IG mor mons and give it to anybody else I 1 do not want a ball bill that can be used to rob anybody E every ve ry american citizen and every person within the jurisdiction of the united states is entitled to tile the adequate protection of the laws wo vo havea a law that shall shail be equal to all so far as we ve can that is the object and the only object anybody has in view and I 1 am as much for punishing crime as any other senator but I 1 want to see it done so that when it is done there will not bo be a crying shame that it is cruelly or wickedly or unjustly done that it is done for mercenary motives es that it is done to rob the mormons cormons of their property because if you fou deal deai unjustly with chemin them in regard to their railroad questions or in regard to their land questions or with regard to any question I 1 they will say with more or less justice to you that their acts are but acts of retaliation I 1 do not believe in treating them as outlaws but bring them under the operation of our laws give them competent courts and make them obey the laws but if it is the purpose to treat them differently from what you do other people to give them less rights to liberty and property than other people then you will create a public sentiment in their behalf that will enable them to go on perhaps doing unjustly to others recognize their civil rights recognize their rights of property recognize their ri rights ats to build railroads in the deserts with their own money and a nd then enforce the laws and demand obedience from them and treat them as you do other people give them courts compel competent gt to adjudicate their cases g give 0 them judges as strong strone as well ivell paid as your judges in other portions of the country and you will have lave no difficulty with utah it is only a question of manly justice on the part of the government of the united states congressional globe A public library for salt lake city I 1 the tile interest attaching to the tim formation of public libraries is being mug displayed not only in the easte caste eastern ru cities but already many of the smaller towns oil on the pacific coast have llave felt the impulse and are making the experiment an effort initiated but a few months since in in san jose cala a city one fourth as large as salt lake lias has resulted in the formation of a library of a thousand volumes owing to the liberality of the public spirited citizens of the tile place and with ti this is example before us we tile tiie lad ladies ladles les ies library association of salt lake hael haer having hafl 1 demonstrated the necessity and usefulness of our undertaking venture now to make an appeal to the generosity of the tile public for assistance si to enable us to place our enterprise upon a firm foundation and to work out the p plans ins for social and mental improvement pro that are its legitimate aim and object our library is not what we would make it either in quantity or quality while we have no unworthy books we yet lack the substratum of scientific and historical works books of reference lexicons etc which must form the foundation of any permanent superstructure and we hourly feel the tile need of the addition of standard authors to our shelves the function of the public library is to supplement the schoolroom school room to gratify the taste for knowledge that should be there found and t to 0 serve as an instrument for gor self culture consequently the leading which it provides should be in the best sense of the word popular and land its atmosphere fehere that of anfor information pation bation rather t than an entertainment we would add to our books works of history and biography which serve to stimulate tee the imagination and tend to strengthen character the utterances of the noble old english poets 0 outlines ut of physical and social science written by men of genius in simple and attractive style that would be intelligible and interesting to the average capacity and heavier draughts from tile the ocean of philosophical thought and speculation now agitating the meditative world this is the outlook of bur project but there is a chas ehas chasm in to be bridged brid cd before we can reach the goal of our ho hopes pes ves andave and we call on our friends to assist us in arching it over by con from their pu purses Ms we propose during the coming week to make personal solicitations soli citations to capitalists and business men asking either a donation ora or a monthly subscription and upon the encouragement which wo ire meet will wiil depend the future success of the library our reading room was as opened on the 16 of december 1 last and has been maintained from the proceeds of the course of lectures BO so disinterestedly offered US by leading thinkers and speak ers era of our city and we have recently y by me means ans of the funds derev derived 1 I from our concert and 35 donat donated d in money been enabled to free ourselves from debts incurred for books and have also aiso furnished a suitable room the lease of which we have taken for a year we derive no iio income from the room or library our object being to attract and benefit those who might feel even a small tax burdensome citizens of salt lake the free library is no longer a struggling experiment but is an established jact fact and to you is accorded the tilo high bi 11 privilege of promoting its healthy development A small band of earnest women ask your operation cooperation co feeling inspired by the strong solemn words of james martineau to individual faithfulness and to the energy of private conscience god has committed the history and progress of mankind MR wal SWA haydo HA ydo r prest ladies library A salt lake city march 1873 |