| Show II P I THE PIONEERS Written for tbe NEWS lbo history ol human Progress la I Ihe t biography of Ibo world pioneers They tire Ibo men who in aliases i have been first to 1 fees forward Impelled Im-pelled by h peof making Improvement I upon existing conditions They have leo the Usplred klckeri of all limp The earliest pioneers to North America teem to have been Ibo Notice man who tell their records down In Vineyard Bound Bal whether they came by design or Here blown out of 1 1 reckoning and made their discovery I by accident may liner ba known 11 Hut they did notblne apparently byway I by-way of mating Ibemtelvrs a caw home in a now world Columbus a true plotter aid one of the moot remarkable lie wa aolu alcd I by faith bleed on theory It li true but faith I ao arm that not twenty years of penury aurira and conlttme ly could shake his conviction that by ailing westward he wcnld Hod the eastern aide of the then known world nod Spain bten wortby of her great pioneer the discovery really by Columbus Col-umbus would have resulted In a grand clvllliitlon In Ibo South long before Ibo MII1f8r falled Tbo French prleats In Canaan pot tented Ibo true pioneer nplrlt They were wonderful men Nothing In history la more heroic than their longsuffering llb i ro f rC ooo suffering ana patient endurance oft of-t trials In Ibo wllderoei But they were not nationbuilders Their mission was wholly religious Their cljeot was only to save tboaiula of the savages True I they Introduced agriculture agri-culture In a mol way among the I mora docile trlloi and the Huron Indiana uttowod an deg de-g ul civlllzitlon But lb lr oinver I Ion In weakeolnz their tavago In ttlnotr only made them easier prey for their old law the Inquolf and In 16 9luey woe practically annihilated ArnerIca French plan tot ring lu Iiorih America was n vast amount of energy watlcd for lack of practical common aente I The greatest pioneers of our early hlalory were Ibo Uogllan and Ibo I Dutch Puritans ant Ilt rim who turned their backs forever upon home i and old Into the dark determined 1 10 10d linked whirr thry might war I SLIP In their own way without I molestation Faith o tlio basis of their pioneer movement also Jlut they were practical When they reached Ibo new world they immediately immedi-ately otto work lu clear ur Ibo timber tim-ber and make Ibo land productive They bad no faith that Uod would bring them food acroia toe ocean while Ibey worship ad him 10 freedom free-dom They knew that freedom to worship was lifetime without productive SAL ejllIbe The French were roT They loved the wlldelbo forces and itranu Tone Commonwealths and civilization I civiliza-tion were no part of their program But the EIIIb 0J Ditch began Hi once to develop successfully to ac qulre bourn build villages make I tITII ana religious lana and to BO forward for-ward aa If they t Had came to stay Tile clvlllzttlon of North America la I the I logical outgrowth of Ibo work of Ibo Pioneers of Massachusetts bay Too I despotism of Ibolr Intolerance baa long been cited against Ibm but It abould be romembired that I required men and of that women capable innn Clone to deliberately cut all lie and melt three tbouaind miles away for a land where they might exercise Inelr I religion In their own way They would b live no more Interference Tbelr will would be law flat fanaticism belongs to no one creed seat or time It la I always pot Ibis The appearance of u new toot at any time WILD elms of growth In It will excite fan ticlons Jiveu social R I I and political reforms bring I to Ibo surface For Instance when the anti I ncr y nvement was started lu 1323 f Ibo entire inflation church of tile I Country donouDced I But Chemait 4 remarkable ebullition of fauatlclim In modern times was directed 1 against Mormonlsm 1 met wllli terrible opposition and yet I was hotel upon I the tame Bible that upbeU evilly church In existence The teople of Ibo new sect were howeveMat devoted lo their faith at had been Ibo I rurltaot They had come tu stay lul within two years 1 wag nppareut they too mutt fi od a bomb where they fl uld worship without molestatlou I For that lurtoie they tent out their first plontoia aud Far West was faun 4 kid 10 Ibo border stela or Ibo boder i ruffian tar of Mltseuri Tlio Mor Inoue mOOJ there and M auto began 10 show ego 01 10cIed lruBpWly lint Missouri was a slave Brute and I tlie e Mormons write Yesi Th I anlillavery aultatlon had Its nllo J I New England The Allosourbsus 11 turned their gUI upon Ibo Mormon Aualu pioneer went cut and found a V homo In Illlnol Nauvoo Tons like niajlo anil In a low years Ibo tbrllty 11 Mormon bad become the envy ol IJle 1 almle4111009 Again tho mob spirit I rose Ijjvtjayhad lean killed at At I I Iou and there WEB murder lu the air i P I lot everything NOW lun Joseph I timltu I Bold hu woJ 10 lo the mountains moun-tains and establish a bolo whore only bliTagalkidlano howling OOYOI and I unconverted rlleouak IvoJ Uo i Ibo 00 01 IshidepAtfurshavas killed 11 by Ibo mb DrlKbem became the intent and Ibo third band of plooecr weui out to find ld n home They rested al Council IHulIs and Immediately tile new no A uun and exile beijan All tbrougn Ihe winter of 18450 Ibo robbed humid Mormoo were crooking Ibo bilehelp pl l The heijlra from Nauvao Was coo i Jong heartrending wow and many au arkctlgr 10 Iowa became Ibo homo of counts poor Morman forced out Dick unto deaiti but dragging Himself I way IroO Native 10 escape murder I 1 Then cattle Ibo fourth ad look outgoing out-going 01 tile Ion in tile tilting 01 1 1847 when Jltlzlism and his bald Be 1 cut In 1 to tile schooners la call ttie ttacklets desert In search of u epot aa faraway that the old mob would lor Jiars la oime ba an IniBOislblllly Uu I I bo4th ol July after a voyage Bill Ibuood tailed ho plouters entered Ibis valley sell Zion bid boo found Tot ml iUUlL wells here 00 mow Hilb up 00 the Waeutcn range Were 1 Potatoes of now as we tee usual now i oelgu Peak was In plo us 1 in I today 1 to-day Over In the west uleamuj the attest tea on enrln ILA 1 la yet Bu we lot I upon which tluso Jw10riatra > must lives bow dry oDd 11 I NO gretal Iroo I tel no forest grover no Productive Justices not a uwulllun in all Ibo e Btttibe A IsuJ 1 wife as barren as were I tb abated of MkaischiiSults Hay lu I 1S09 BSiut nrvr the volume efMce tile rcord stand 1 hock I that ventral July day ofl847nui tell me 1 juu can what will be lu 18971 I Her wee a Iw uu and women with thousands on lift wall far from oUPIIoolulnl br soil 100 land a uctert Wipe out the faltn wblob held those men aud 4 women aaau expanding unitnJ III u low months me group would hava scat lord and dttnppeatej llJt they came Dot for rlol DO for Ionic They believed Ibnele mOmhluooJ ul Ood to carry the Uoscel Liver the world nod yo thY cases 10 It do melt tis do thaimurk Tiled bl all cnDo of criticism they mutt have bun put dowasof deluded people wb Would tlniply starvo and leave their boo tltacblng lu the sun to tell Ibo world lu alter years of their fat What lived thru Their faith mad their leader Faith Iu their religion trust lutheir chosen director Fur yn and yean the > nu > rln < a of too Mor motasingathering hers I their IJln lions hen their notelm unremltlluii loll their luvlnolbl grinaniMarll persistence are 0 story not ohou IU cl men and women Hut they gained little by little year by year until their I prosperity again aonld cupidity ODd hate 1 anti again they were Inrosoed With CX Illtlou llJt t leir leader said h the werlj NJ mob shall ever aealu drive tbls paopl I Our women 1111childronwili take 10 gnu muuo lain slid we will dlu Incur Cracks aud over our bodies I our burning houses shall lalil rule before we will Urn U-rn whst wo have won from the demerit lie would bave been unworthy un-worthy to lead had be said lets I lie went sterility on with bit work oloolonizingthistuouiaLida who were gathering nom far lu twenty year bo papled Utah aad far lift Idabt uver Into Wyoming nuJ urty south Into AIJUa DO hud tests uls people witsulaggrartilyforaides tillers 01 tee toll Bull then he W49 gatbercj to tile fathers and passed loved and revered rev-ered by the Hairs who naJ protltej l by tile counsel as ow wo have bo 10 this world lie bad won a Sublime victory arklorst matold odJ anti the prosperity of Ulan ai a sister star It the qaluy 01 tales Is tbe best taonu Mont loins name Oj curbe I must got be forgotten that other than Mormon energy ha aJded to the prosperity and glory ol Utah Iartlculsrly Is this true ot the minium industry Hut that was sun UIIII because UrlgoDr Haiti his own people hick front mid loan alter gul mud made there au agricultural class Ills Idea was Chat nil prosperity is I based primarily upon proluotlveneis of toll that a rroiriertus pegple wilL out A Home nPIv uf fOOd Islmpossi tile Tojay the Unltel Hutles tutus to Utah for Its nun sucoiisul uolanlit and they are line to tun willow Bill fjmaliilii of IJrifbam Young UII wag mado by colonization dbe his half a rnllllou farms uuJ nearly nil ate under Irrigation Yea lu 1847 Irrigation was uuunowu in 10 United Statues 1 is a Mormon evolution evolu-tion lu American fanning and almost every Infuser lu Ub II DOW Or be bteu a Mormon 1 tuay be cllmoj therefore without exciting alouy that Iho success of Utll ttfloa the glory of Us great colonizer sand Cilia success must ba set down In any fair estimate as Ibo outgrowth 01 a does Juice also zeal that nave been oliiou Bud IUOUllol olblo1 Bud proll11 toe some time Without the ratio the people could not have held together 10 du the bd hara work 000Bry 10 outings thin vast inter uiouulalu ouu try from birreuoets to prosperity a its without Clio firm baud and distilling will of a leader reowtatzJ aitheln carnation of that filth Its Hrej would I have become Intel nod Ibo Sault cuoloI1 would not have bo Wlal Ul UuiUihouU be uure than it I lnl ticersishow lion culdlu part at tiller boa deeply reverential ihsiikfulne In memory ol the men n womi who lolled early aud late emilurej UC told hardship nu4 privation and woo boalesuadprosperlty lor Iho8 olIU pritout won weiu foclunalo oooub not to ballvliiflu loved times Ia tried Ibo touts of thu toilers us boy Dtr word tried btor AYlbID less I wculd be proms Ingratitude for and cruel forlIOIDe or tile moo ureles benefits oguferred upon their descendants by tuo heroes and heroin of lboerly Utah yeata who are passIng pass-Ing passing passing array but whove ineuiaHet lo Ihelr cbllJrua and their chldroo children boul1 evermore smell sweet niel bloa ui in the dust CIIAIUU KLMS |
