Show A VOICE FROM our mormon lime haie pounced with aith great avidity upon the following choice morsel which they find in an addi if ess delivered by land Commis commissioner ioner williamson Willi ainson to a gathering of if old settlers held in keokuk county lowd iowa on the alli dinst 1110 speakers devotion to ilia Y of the 1 young id 1 affecting A lipport leport of tile speech was published in full in uio the aig out oui ncy stull vi arf and tile the portion v m 0 reproduce beam baard rotation elation to tile the momon ill 01 it vs is ai follows I 1 CAU CAR cite in of tile gett lenient or a by a people w ho acro us pour lu verert poverty i in n iw v worst ort form foral buoy adny of thu hit people to aa ILORI I 1 arc taken ito ironi in alms I 1 houses in western and northern europe sail and placed or on I 1 plop lioard fk ni moorage rod and blI lud thence to ChiCa gorla new nev york alicy for far on tile may liy by charily charlt from chicago of wen a and alinn walked fand pushed or pulled to lo the alic kalley volley of tire great salt sail aale it a region sterile and barren anti and then ove overcame minno the rude forces and omissions of r nature bv by artificial menus means Stir supplied phed liy in a industry air bud wn fur for Y homra and nd I 1 of course to alio llio morena pio plo udder the of young I 1 hac to sar sav about tile the opinions or socia social ballati of these people I 1 film am only of their material w M aliat liat lot it luny 1 ay lo be achieved ili bv a lati left and rand lo 10 people T upon lo 10 arder to the example set act by them in this public ma latiner tiner in the hope that it may simulate others to 0 o man and pleats w thata a allic a of tile Is labor labar and sulli nug that it 11 cost colm these people to do the iho same earne I 1 hove ab alio abma or mornion f or nion in hn f pulled carts colia all file luicir callb a 11 Hs lance of moro more than 1500 miles at tile on end d of a dozen years trout from lenir arrival llroy ICY nere ining in ing in affluence our d oil by bv much that makes life do de shrable rable Ei RII all of him mas us mug by on en 1 ergy ere gy and toil front from one of the most bar reu aud and sterile places on oil ilia continent coul until unlit its by mail one such nun man as young ft ivnits as in macli laie v to alie ile 1 liow OW to avail e es ol at the pub aei ie linda ads under the alums lums anti and to organ azo emigration societies could make inako suffering milT cring among adiong ilia honest poor acho anho are arc a willing I 1 hug to 10 nork mork a thing of olllie 1110 post insl mabin a very few years and ca cauce use lubor labor to contained command its full value u inthout initiation or the issue of more greenbacks green backs than could bo be con COD cited into gold at par if commissioner ioner williamson un the subject he is discussing ing be is guilty of gross sen tation if ho be repeats ts rn arc q ra hea hearsay nay he is ia ili illy a public officer su in holding up to idinia alimi a guam ho accumulated vast health by fy impo turc ture and who lived ill n open anil and defiant io lation odthe of alio lassof laws of country lie ito is ad diming a community in ilia heart of a keate that is sin sill passed by none other in tho the union for the iu in lellig duee anpo and rise of its ib cli citi beiva their hardy industry and de notion lotion to country iowa was admitted as a state in 1916 and its 1 ro giess in bealh weal vea lh lb and pr production 0 duchon holders upon the mar ve belom land we mill w ill lie not t resort to ilia nus tables for oil an exhibit of the condition of that rapidly advancing state because we RII all know that iowa is fully abream of its western sisterhood in all the material attrial ni and moral qualities that render a people great with a population in kofl persons it had bad 2647 public c school Etli 2 1 teachers still and 34 cm children attending school illiterates lite rates over text ten years of age afe wele 2 pel rent of its school population OP u lation every sab school oi district in in the state is provided M aith ith acaru a commodious brick school I bouc douel and the educational wants of the young aro are supplied with the santo same caro care and diligence that bread bicad is provided provid pd them to eat general williamson acs cs to 5 tho the cormons mormons front from personal knowledge lie Is say 1 I have visited the homes of mormon people in in utah v ho he themselves pulled carts con containing all their wealth i a distance of more than 1 amo am miles at the end of a dozen dolen years yearn from their arrival they were living in affluence sent bounded by much that makes life debi desirable rable the two handcart hand band cart companies crossed the plains in they numbered nearly 1000 on oil starting anti loat ioa one fourth by exposure ani and starvation on tile hie way the sar ear rivers of these alit so handcart hand cart emigrants form but a email of the present population of utah does general Wilh williamson amri mean that the few families he be limited are living in affluence or that all the our living band bait emigrants are thus comfortably fort ably circumstanced and that they fairly represent the condit condi ion of all the inhabitants inhabit ints of utah if his remarks are confined to the two or three or half dozen families lie ho called upon they leilly beally ninan minn nothing because in iii every community we find a few members who acquire and accumulate shero the average citizen could hardly lie but if he desires to convey the impression that all or a large mairit majoryy iby even of tile the latter day saints live in affluence or with such ings as mako make life do litber eit liei lie a peaks irom from bli allow views and lupei aper adal obber observation like the tha amarii bated axtell or ho he willfully and perversely misrepresents represents facts in salt lake and other utah cities the bishops and other chief i ulers alers of the church frequently live in elegance and in all cases with affluence for they receive tithe of print mint and anise and tu and have sources of bevenue from their deluded still and defrauded followers wanli plate them at ease with tile the wol bl but the condition of a largo pi pa a 0 coition of the norman mormon p people ople is truly deplorable and those communities abath are not lot leavened halh ith the presence of non are invariably ft ithone a currency cui rency circie edtion woi and illegal coop co op is their of domestic do interchange and her this does docs not tin men to go round they are I 1 ie a deuced to the pi modo of bar ter general willia William arson Mii quite title un wittingly explains why his should lie be amny of tho people bo li altys I 1 10 to lo tt hoin I 1 refer were taken talton front from in wealon n find and aoi not ther ihorn liopo FLit ope placed on oil t d as steerage and thence to chicago rf rt t new Y corll ork they 4 ere aliu far on the way by Eliat ity by this the mormon Ifo i is largely le c crullo crul ld with haupers paupers from europe A submissive unintelligent and unskilled people who leave their native und land to better their condition cou dilion alio lie from URI ual gui guides desto to help them on their way and who ale ai 0 set down iu in salt laka ignorant of our amet kan in ill with no kno knowledge ledge of their rights right ins as ci cirioni cit ioni and to tile hie dictation of prophet ant and priest whom abom they regard as saluted bunici spiced in wi with ill tile vl dom or of the almighty the te ie legious duty they accept sad and pLa clico is ia to obey counsel ask no questions and attend strictly fi to their own bun 1103 beside tho the inferior quality of tin tile of lah th i 9 region re grion we me are am further told by this chief officer of of an taut national bureau that the valley of great salt lake 13 is a region naturally sterile bud and barren states as aa maouri Mi ouri illinois illmon 8 kanam ate aro favored faivor ed AN lilt fertile soil roil and a genial geril na climate lin litte tho idlers lAbors of ilia husbandman anre of blessed by abounding nature and in iii creo crea ns and plenty his PICAS tint ebors but utah dab thus we tro oro told bythe by the general land comoli sio ncr betiong contrast to favori blo conditions condit ioni it is it a re region gion matut ally sterile and lai bairen ren find and tho udo forces forcel and oil omi ligons ions of nature were only overcome by aati aiti acial arang supplied by an able indu industry itry tho the affluence in which rich the litter day saints are now h kimg ing has all been wrung by energy anti and toil 11 according to general declaration from one of the bairen bat ren and sterile places on tho the continent until its lion by man IV what list lesson does this bublie om seek to teach by tins this s shiling aking it il li lustia tion wo IV know that outside ou of utah is a widespread and want avant and penury tit bit by the cho otless I 1 hearths of them ald business is stagnant agnant Bt lab babir r industry p and alice evils exist cust in m a countey tt libio nature ii lavish of her bounties in where here fieo political rolt 10 lo ve lop tho the citizen s best arca qualities and a educational facilities aro are universal I 1 as ilia ballot tito anici bean call people liae not a lol irions leader they lick tho the inspired oil guidance of a laiad s god agod 0 one O no such mail an its as says saya this thia illuminated ilits ilas lumina ted in fit edich rac 1 I boiling to inanity tile people WY thattil public lands under tin der the lans anil to organize org anise slit ein if fration societies could nale make I 1 ia ing poverty among the honest poor who ulm are aio willing to welk a thing thins of the past P st lii Bligh illiam aill youngs young 8 plan of organizing lulng emigration to sent abend a swarm of elders to europe 11 lio con vert all who alto will lend an ear car to their marvelous inar s stones tot rest nut but all of I 1 whom ham are inmates of gf by a good de deal a an and J have bayo them bliem to zion at commuted rates generally a load at a time those elioso i tin unable able to pay their heir pau passage tage are raided aided by ilia perpetual emigration fu n d abich has been a riah placer sn ka the h hands of the tin ibi iffy prophet tho the beneficiaries giving their notes for the amounts advanced livable ili interest at ten per benl these notes ale aie told held as a lion lien upon whatever cpr tho the mikers may quire acquire be and are arc collected with ith a sli 1011 lock like rapacity its hid instructions to his followers how bow to avail themselves ives of the lind land laws abow liow woi thy ho he ia H to be held up now flow lie is resting in liis iiii grae an a public lenora benefactor for the utah bainge being composed priests and acting at as the mere diere registers of their in phed matters edicts would pass laws granting him timbered cany canyon oui valuable water nater courses and largo large tracts of the public domain tim litter latter lie be would have ed cd and divided into small parcels of five ten find and twenty acres each which ito io would would depow df boia of to the ivor leas emigrants at cigoi lionato prices not several severa I 1 hundred dollars an one acre payable in anguil installments instalments the purchasers aers haidy peasants accustomed to haid wm k anti and coarse fare would build up little homesteads 11 ith the added toil of their i wives ives and hald I 1 len en these meet were to all 5 and pui poses sei cifa in mind and body they mut alley oln athe the be behette hetts of the local priesthood or they were denounced as i and became the objects of oc CUtiOn to their more obedient bi ethren the product of their industry indu itry was inas mortgaged for several years year s to ca cancel neel their note sand and pay the in ti of ahr ir farnes ann aliza in her wife no 19 SAYS bays of her tot foi mer prophet master the ties has a muni most ob ejection to icing any of his fillou follo vcra erg become independent iu fit wor lilly nl af lairs either because lie is norald they n mill ill be able to act w 1 without counsil cou or advice from him and so ao lit to manage them or because liu atris jhai ous of their pecuniary success lie liui lab said ito ho wan man tile the only sail iq in the territory w m ho he knew bou tu to make money or how to use it and he be always nada finds smile ironic way to put a plop to their gro grou log ing prosperity 11 not this land diab ling bing man of god after his hid victim ind had tolled failed for aaa ears a to meet his hii payments would annul ilia contract and iribe the atice pi ice thus compelling the settler to give up tip his homestead with its improvement or continue his toil for added yeats the land commissioner uses the phrase under the laws bt bi illiam young instructed ilia bis followers how bow to avail themselves of the public lands under the gaivs frequent communications have been sent tn in the general land office El lowing how mornion mormon homesteaders end and pro pre devado the laws mr colfax haa bas closed the ft irasid lud bud perjury in public ad lieben made in half a derzen different states wives who vote under the uva of the teri ten ilog lion because caubo of their connubial relation roli tion to devout saints Sti inta file upon public lands in in the local land a urn he hee on oil the pei limi statement that they aro are heads of f families and they are talling taking up tho the land and lor for their own special cial use and berie fit upon these fah aibe a affidavits patents a aro rum issued sued the land is then deeded over to the ciuch quarried saint v lio is d by a benign bonan U goei 0 A bulent in proportion pio portion to tile it number al rab of wives ho he has haa in his hi loucki the intelligent ll ib ionian loco doca not require to bo be told that filet ilia lat lal ter day picked up in ilia felumb and by ways of europe mile ho is is under the doula nation ot of a I 1 spacious mpa apac cious ions priesthood still and iraq has stilled added to liis his household the bin ain and baiden bin den of po gania cannot bo be a pio jolious ril member of society in some of the distant of utah condition is one of squalid bovet ty and the children are aio prow grow ing 1117 up lit in utter biu barlam n exalted eLal ted Govern government areat officer to hold up lip ignant bouny I 1 out as an ex an intelli still and law abiding audience audic intelligent 0 oi rent ameri can citizen and to lo cite tho IW mormon community asan evidence rulo rule and achievement lot only falsifies fats babut but effendi offo ridi anil does violence morals |