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Show AL- -a ,r7, is- t 4w21...4 -;. ". church DepGrtment ,I of; g it. 8- - 47,4 -- - P THE DESERET NEWS,1SATURDAY, - ur AUGUST 4 ' by labor. I one little canal on which the settlers worked each winter for twelve long years, and reclaim. ed the ground where now stands a splendid little settlement of Me or 1000 people. The accomplishments of Utah have been brought about by pulling together, by "team. work." by. absolute unity and co. operation, which I believe existed there to a greater extent than in any other community. I remember that a of the Church wrote a pamphlet in which he announced tat in no other State or Territml of the Union were the city, the county and the territorial tame as low as in Utah. By the way. I lived there when the first indebtedness of to Salt Lake City was 1200.000 bring water through a canal to the one was and that and the city, only indebtedness. Brigham Young has the honor of having established in Utah the first department store in our countryInZion's Cooperative Mercantile stitution, of which I am now presi. dent, because of being president of the Church. I also have the hon. or of presiding over the Sugar Company. u hick mania. Utah-Idah- tt. ' 5 - Grant Defends Moinicinism in Estes Park Address (Continued From Pap Irour)1 hundred and one dollars, a batr.--- . one hundred for the sugar and One dollar for the sack. When people went to the theater they took, their molasses in a can, brought a squash or something else to pay the price of admission. and turkeys were Some Iffneli brought and chickens given in exchange for the extra value of the turkey. Local people performed in Shakesperian and other fine plays. Speaking of the status of the drama in Salt take City in those times, the Home Dramatic troupe. compteed exclusively of Mormon boys pnd girls, put on the play 'Haste Kirke" for one week and broke the record of receipts for any performance of a single play by the very best American talon so the Utah performers were ty good, to say the least. 1 Band Taberaorie Within twenty years after the arrival of the pioneers. the Mormon Tabernacle was built, with a seat-lo- g capacity of eight thousand. On special occasions, when the build- more ing lutiv been crowded, tha ten 'thousand people have been counted, including those in the aisles and doorstanding ways. By the way, we counted sixteen thousand people. including those seated in the building and those standing and trying to get in at the time Woodrow Wilson spoke there, that being the last coherent speech be delivered: he , collapsed on the occasion of his next attempt to speak. The Taben stack was erected .without the use of nails, the roof being pinned to 'ether with wooden pins and tied with rawhide thongs. Al the time of its completion, although a thou sand miles from civilisation, it was the largest auditorium in the United States of America without a center support to the roof. It is today the largest except where steel girders have been used in the construction. The Tabernacle organ was also then the tersest et gen. A concert was given in the build.. log by our tabernacle choir of five hundred yokes for the relief of the sufferers front the Johnstown flood. The net receipts at 11.00 a seat, amounted to 17.500, which was remitted to the sufferer. In early pioneer days our people built some splendid irrigation pro. ivy's. Some of them today would cost millions upon millions- et dol. Ian, and they were built by the labor of the people and the exchange of their produces. Brigham Young taught the people to sustain home manufacture, to be economical, to avoid extravagant habits, and not think of get-ting this, that, and the other which would not add to any actual cono fort. In those days we were clothed In what was known as "home. ' spun." In nearly every borne the wife would take the wool and pro it for pare spinning; she would have in her home a loom on which she would weave the rag carpets. When we built a canal, the only money we needed was for the put chase of plows and scrapers and for powder to blast the rocks. Most of our early enterprises were made possible 1001 22 1935. , Pre's. 1:0011 . - factures between two and three'. twenty4our. atta;dwd 11111 iminw with them questions. Burning Innis:or hags of sugar ot one bun. , without solicitation. questions they are which Must give voluntarily A deed pounds each pee, rear. ,Our a prominentplace in the history Three of the thirty were out of eel& of having to that of the town one people have the honor not and I did country ,sturdy approach, : t Me erected the first beet-sug&ornerier whom I visited at Nauvon.-',', feeling sure that he would ref use tory ever built in the United States Smith, claiming to be an to endorse the note. Joseph of America with American ana. So I had only, two refusals. The inspired teacher, faced adversity such as few men have been called ' chinery. There had been serene Eccles. voluntary signer. David factories built with imported ma. to meet, enjoyed a brief Dotson of lived in Ogden. He happened to chinery, in fact, way back in 1852 Iwo men who were en the ehear prosperity such as few men have' the Mormons Dent John Taylor - the list refuse to sign the notes. ever statained, and, finally. forty's three days after 1 saw hint. went (who afterwards became President He said 'Heber is my name one of the Church) to France to bring of the thirty?" cheerfully to a martys 'death. When he surrendered his person machinery from there to try ,to I said "No. only Salt Lake men t to Governor Ford, in order to pro establish the beet oast industry in ere on the list". of blood, the vent the shedding the Great Basin. But as we did not He said: "I would like to look at understand the chemical processes prophet had a presentiment of the notes." what was before him. 1 am going of the business it was a failure. I handed than to him, he turn' , 'like a lamb to the slaughter; 1 he In ,I8p1 there was. financial ed them wrong side up and put is reported to have said. 'but sin his name on the back of them, panic, and the wisdom of abandon- 1 as a as summer's calm of morning. and remarked. "When the note ing the beet auger project was have a conscience void of Wiens cussed and paying 350.000 to the the Church of Jesus Christ of Int and shall die innocent. 1 have no ter-dacontractors who had offered to Saints is not good , for , ' 'respecting this theory to advance $100,000 or several hundred thou. compromise for that amount, when extraordinary man. I shall simply "' Willard Woodruff, who was the sand dollars. Salt Lake city will be ; give the feels of my intercourse all the some as Nauvon, too provident of the Church at ', that with him. hot for a Munson to live in." time, said: "We will build that sc. t the man.".by He asked me to excuse his pro. tory if it breaks the credit of the else j way my mother and everyone Church itself: we must build it, be fealty. se I who knew him hi Nauvots.- - Ivith Benda Other 'resapies cause it will make an increased was 1 said he ; , When I was a young man, tom. ershom have talked,Most outatantl ' product from the soil and therethe fore be beneficial to our people. plea were erected at St. George. Ing looking man they bad ever ' Lefton and Manti. Utah. costing liessows Mosey seen.-- -is ',would what the passer-b; $750.000 each. Iteeently we erect. , I. as a member of a syndicate. ' ', instinctively have murmured upon ', ad a temple in Canada., exiting borrowed money in New York, Chi' individual remarkable the ntesting a . costing 11800.000; one in. Arbon. ) cago, Hartford. and San Francisco ' . whkh fashioned the mold who had r ,, $750,000; and one in the Hawaiian with which to build that factory. J hope the feeilngs 'of so ".... Islands posting 1250.000.- - Tbo Lotte- ", was to thousands secured the last $106,0011 is San i, hist ,, r, , fel. of ', many r-day Saints believe that while Francisco from Well Fargo Bank. "' , mortals- - , But Smith .. was : In my appeal to Mr. Henry Wads His body lay In the Momb the Se - low ' , one more and could this. than whir went to the spirit world and' worth, who was then manse, he not that the ca.. resist improasion to the the bank. I said to him: 'Mr. Wadsopened the prison doors, s .. resource were ! natural parity and worth. when you were in Salt spirits et thee who were to his stalwart person. I have al. and Lake City you believed in me as a Doug in the day of Nosh, 1 e: ". .",, ready mentioned the resemblance boy when I worked for you; you proclaimed the Gospel of Christ' be bore to ir,lisha B. Potter, ' of t to ',them. We believe literally In gave me $100.00 as a New Tears ' :" Rhode Island. 'whom I met le Wash. i , present, and stated that no one baptism for the deed. We accept was 1828. The likeness in ington elm in the bank should have a dolthe scripture which ,says. "IMP ; ', such as would be recognised 4 lar, because aU the others watch- - why are ye then baptised for the...- - not ', . in a picture., but rather one that not rime all dead? It the dead ed the clock to me how soon they , at a would be felt in grave emergency. , the for are then could get out of the front door 4 4 ' ' ye baptised why 'Of all men I have met, these two after 3 o'clock, whereasI came deadr Over 20.000,000 ordinances seemed hest endowed with that . .,,. back occasionally and worked at for the deed have been performed kingly faculty which directs. as by , in our temples to data. night. Now that I am one of the Intrinsic right, the feeble or confus.. Gives Pace loading officials of the Mormon ed souls who are looking for Church I ask you to believe in Me , - .. to guldauce. By the way, we are going 1 '' -- and to furnish the hundred thous-en- d We then went on to talk of 1. erect two templet In the near he ' ,' dollars necesary to complete ;'' Smith the , politicsrecognised tore this factory." i curse and iniquity of slavery,. ,,," I ty There are large sugar factories' , He said he could not do It. as hie ;, in Utah Independent of that, be though he opposed the Methods of eommittm would not approve of - abolitionists. His plan was fur. ' to the .Sugar longing it: that the securities were tao no the nation to pay for the slaves , The first lug.?.. Company. r, good in the midst of the panic. tortes built in Colorado were epee- ' from the sale of public lands- - 'Con- - ,, leaded with him to deposit the he said. 'should be compelled ated oy men who came front Utah.gross.' 4 ' money in Zion's Savings Bank and to take this course, by petitions We now have over 7150,000 peolb Trust Company. in Salt Lake City, from all parts of the country; but 1 in the Merck whereas it was pie and told hint we could convince petitioners must disclaim all al ',,, organised originally, In 1830. with, , the that bank that our securities were hone with those who would din. ::'. t ..,' Mx members. good. Finally r said "Mr. Wadsto read a testimony Rio; : turb the rights of property recosr., I dew beet-sugthe worth. nixed by the sConstitution and en by Josiah Quincy, a matt who industry must and shall be established. which foment insurrection.' It . knew Washington and others of have no authority to offer you, a :.worth while to remark that ' be founders, the country's great J the note of the Church. but Doo, .. was Smiths of advocet WKS was mayor who plan publicly mail ; ' . pledge you four notes of on the 'reception: ed eleven years later by one who '.' the, ton, and who was sr: Church of Jesus Christ or Atter. has Mixed so much' prectical,t--;---welcome Lafayette : conunitteeto due in six c. shrewdness With his lofty philoso. day when he canto hers from France months. $25.000 in a year $25.000 of the nation. la his - KZ. In leek when inen's minds ,. ..,'; 1. as the guest in la months, and $25.000 due in been moved to their depths on book. "Figures of the Paul.". be 2 ,, ;, two yearswith twenty endorsers, ,: the question of ...slavery Ralph sore I improbable , Waldo gmerson declared that it t individually and severally liable "It Is by no means for the obligation; you to write out for the' be met textbook in accordance some 'with future that 4. twenty-fivnames of the strongest the interest of the South and with use of generations yet Unborn will '' ' financial Mormon men in Salt (; the :settled conscience of the Nolth. a questiol something like contain t ' ' Lake City, and I will guarantee to American is a historical not it task a What i ' great thiir greet really ' flotht for this country to accent.; get twenty endorsers out of the of the nineteenth century has ex., .. twenty.five." erted' the most powerful influenceWish, to buy that property of the ' as the British. nation ' countryHe said: "My boy, that is an lot. upon the destinies ofnohismeans r.1::11011r, ..' is slaves.' West the Indian by on men( And it possibility; no twenty men He further says that the 'United that the fewer to that earth would guarantee, individual' written: thus be will be States to give every may brought ly and collectively, one hundred interrogatory Inch of their public lands for a thousand dollars for any church." Frope Joseph Smith. the Mormon e like thee We. who east " And the reply, absurd as it "Well," I replied. "we are a et ritsvkrpose doulultes seems to most Men now different from any upon the terrible cost other ', , of the fratricidal war which put ' r, church. I will get you the notes living, may be an obvious commonan end to slavery. now say that and endorsers all right." place to their descendants. History and .. a such volution of the difficulty deals in surprises He insisted it could not be done. paradoxes , .. man would have been worthy a Chris. 7 "Then you don't need to give me quite as startling aas this. ,Th. in this tian statesman. But if the retired' who established religiontram the money," I said at last. "All I r' and i whaler was in advance of his Unto ' , ask is that you :iv me the opporage of free debate, who is today accepted by hundreds of when he advocataed this disport. tunity." ; from " " as a direct the in tion thousands of I853.:,,, ,, emissary , Then he said: "I will give you public property - , the Most Highsuch a tore human what shall I say of the political one hundred per cent margin; I of by and religious leader who had tom. '... will write thirty namesyou have being is not to be disposed ' '' ' as well milted himself, In if you pelting his memory with unsavory asked for twenty-fivearicharts. , as in conversation, print, to the cam, can get any twenty out of the thir epithets. Fanatic, importer, , course in 1844? If the atmosphere tan.' he may have been; but these ty you shall have the money." , hard names furnish no solution to of etten's opinions were stirred by He wrote five or six names, tore e the problem he presents to us. Fesuch a proposition when up the paper, and said: "Heber. are and was and natics in were the discernible it living imposters sky, you were my office boy fifteen , word eleven ', not a statesmen-likdying every dayeand their memory gone years ago. Many a manI has Is buried with them; but the wend.' 'heavens the when will Net earlier, years broke in fifteen yearn , erful Influence which this founder looked tranquil and ,benencentr ', t write up to my successor in Salt ' of a religion exerted end stIll Word el God Lake City slid bell him to writs erta throws him into relief before It was the word of the prophet the names." of the living God. too very Potter. us, not as a rogue to be oriminateel. ,t ' Efforts lisecowient - but as a phenomenon to be explain. . day Saint will teU you. When I got back borne his sue. .s ed. The most vital "General Smith proceeded to uri., , questions moor wrote a, list of thirty names, ; ,A. fold still further his views - tiptoe Americans are 'asking tech other endorsers out I got, twenty-tou- r 0 , man , and He denounced the Hie. today have to do with thisA politics. of the thirty. men on the list, and . ;venerawhat he has left us.... one who was not on the list, who Ott Page Six) (Continued tion other than mine must deal was worth snore than all the other ' ' 4 , ' y d----at ' fine-lookin-g - ' finest-lookin- . z, 1 ' , . - - 1::, , ' ' : ,,,,--- ,, ',,,, ,,, ., 'A , A ' - ' ' . - ' : - ' ,,... Utah-Idah- o . , ,- , - , '. - ,: - er , ': ' , Saints-.-$25,0- 00 -- .,, e .7 , :. - s ) - ' r7 lit-ti- ' . 7 ,, ' ' , war-cleud- ' e ' - ' - ,,, ,A - , - |