Show K KNOW NB UTAH sA HI L By ALBERT T F. F PHILIPS I 1 I In the late ato Os the tho Mormon ormon question agitated ns the people in the tho eastern states and d in lii order that ho be ml might ht have havo hand first-hand Information Horace then editor o of ot the New York Tribune and later a a. candidate can cnn didato for president nt of or t ti United States his candidacy candidacy candi candi- dacy being sponsored b by the party whIch which he had bad fought for years or-years years cars and b by tho the Liberal Republicans I llean paid a a. visit to Utah Ho I-fe arrived In Salt Sal I Lake on the overland stage of or Ben Holladay on the evening of or July 10 10 1859 His stay in the Utah capital capita was one ono week During his stay ho he was introduced to President Brigham Young by John M. M then delegate delegato to congress from tho the territory In his first firs interview with President Young loung he recounts his r re re- re S Said Sahl the n nOted ted e editor Hor Wo We were very cry co cordiallY welcomed at the tho door b by tho the president who led u us into tho the second story parlor larlor arlor of or his house Ho had three of or th them 1 and d they arc standing today name namely the tho Lion house tho Beehive house bouse and tho the White Whitehouse house houseS where I was waR introduced to Heber C. C Kim Kimball ball General Wells General Ferguson Albert Carrington Klias lias Smith and several other leading men In the church with two fu grown full grown sons of or tho the president After fter some unimportant con er conversations on general topics I 1 stated ed that I had come como in quest of oC fuller r knowledge re respecting the doctrines es and policy of oC the Mormon church ChUlch and would like Uko to ask some Questions questions ques Ques- bearing di directly on on these If Jr there were no ob objections ob- ob to which tho the president assented There was a a. dialog which lasted two hours President President Pres Pres- ident Young Young- spoke readily not always with grammatical teal ical accuracy but hut with no apparent desire to conceal anything 1 nor did he repel an any of or m my ray questions as Impertinent He was N very plainly dressed In thin summer clothing and with with no air of ot sanctimony or fanaticism CI S S SIn In appearance he le is n a. to portly prU rank frank good natured rather hav set heavy man of or 65 65 55 8 seeming to enjoy enjo life Ufe and to bo be in no particular hut hurry to get et to heL en Ills His associates are plain men evidently c bo born bon n and reared to a a. life lIro of oC I and looking so little like crafty hypocrites or swindlers ns os an any bod body of oC men menI I 1 ver er met Tho Tue absence of or cant or snuffle or-snuffle snuffle from their manner was as marked and general S S S Sin In another chapter Mr Greeley t tells of or opportunities opportunities for studying the Mormons in their social or festive C and in iii their devotional do assemblies and goes goeson goeson goeson on to I 1 conclude that it say polygamy as was a graft s on the original stock stoel of or Mormonism will wilt be outlived b. b by the tle root that root that there will bo be a a. new nc revelation reve rc lation ere ero man many years whereby the Saints will be admonished to love O c and cherish the wives they the al already already nl- nl ready have but not to marr marry any more beyond tho natural assignment of or one wire wife to each husband Was as Horace Greeley a a. J prophet His conclusions made in fn 1859 9 turned out just juat as lS he made matle them then thirty years ears I later ter when tho the manifesto regarding pol polygamy gam was given gl out after a revelation whIch manifesto abolished d polygamy from Crom th tho tenets of ot the church S S S Mr Ml Greeleys Greeley's opinion of or tho the policy polle that kept the federal troops in Utah Is thus set forth In his book The Tho Overland Journe Journey Very general genera is tho In Inquiry inquiry in- in in tho the army amlY wh why were wo we sent here and h why are arc we ve kept lucre here What purpose does It bc beyond ond enrich enriching In and Mormon magnates mas as its own cost and that th of oC the federal treasury every tr article eaten drank worn Irn or in an any manner mf bou bought hl b by tho the soldiers costs three to ten times its Us value in the states slates S S SI I have not so bad badan an opinion of oC tho ho Mormons as that entertained b by the army u-m u I believe o many of or its d doted devoted a. a adherents Including most of ot those I have met to be pure minded 1 well meaning people But I concur entirely in lit the conviction con of or th tM army and there thore is 18 no use uso in its Ith retention here under existing existing exist exist- I ing s orders and circumstances |