Show Biography of oi Brigham Young I and I History of the Mormon Church I i j M. M Verner Werner R R. R in ir La Ladies ies' ies Home Jou Journals Journal nal C Continued from tron last week week President Buchanan sent to Ufah in d to the tIle arm army t two peace commissioners Powell and mull McCulloch 31 cCulloch loch and aid they bore a proclamation on from the president telling tho the Inhabitants inhabitants in In- habitants of or Utah that they were were ere In-I In ina in ina a state State of of offering them pardon for all their sins Silis and crimes if they if-they they would receive Governor Gumming Cumming Gum Cum ming and his escort of soldiers Brigham Young consented to meet I the peace commissioners finally finaly final y and ami he Ie expressed his h s willingness 1 ss' ss to compromise com com- in promise in these words I r have no character l no ho o o to gratify ratify no no vanity to please If IC a aman aman aman man comes from the m moon moon on and sas Says he lie will pardon me inc for l kicking icI ing him himin himin in the moon moon yesterday I dont don't care about it Ill I'll accept ns pardon pardon it d dont don't nt affect me one way way or the er r. r It t was arr arranged between Brigham Young and the peace commissioners I the troops 11 IT allowed to march through Salt Lake but that they must not camp within the city The spot selected for their camp was Cedar valley foi fory four four miles away avay The Prophets Prophet's Influence By this time the ony any Mormons left heft in Salt Lake were tho those e who had been stationed there with willi straw ana ano kindling ready to start the fire on on in instructions from their leaders The final nal Cl entry try Into deserted S Salt ll Lake was vas described by an army correspondent corre s All AlI day long from dawn until sunset the troops and trains poured p through the city the city the the utter ft r sil silence i of af the streets being broken only bythe bythe by bythe the music of or the military bands bands the monotonous tramp of the regiments and the tile rattle of the tub Jag gage wag wag- ons Early In the morning the th Mormon Marmon Mar Mor 01 mon guards guards' had forced all their fellow fel- fel re fel fellow low religionists religionists' into the houses and ana ordered them not to make th their ir appearance appearance ap ap appearance during the th day d y The nu flu- flags that had been n Hying from staffs on the public buildings during luring tho the previous weel weeks s were all struck The only visible groups of or spectators were on the corners rs ner near Brigham Youngs Young's residence and in 1 consisted almost entirely of Gentile civilians The stillness was so profound profound pro pro- pro pro- I found round that that during th the intervals Is between be lie- tween the passage of the the columns the time monotonous gurgle gurge of tho tue tho city cIt creek struck k on aim every ev cv ry ear e r. r Soon afterward Young brought his 1 people eople back to Salt Lake from the south and the war between the Mormons and the time government P was s ostensibly finished h d. d When the Civil war soon after broI broke e out the army was recalled from frOID Utah Then Mormons could coul in the time blue be s seen en on the streets uniforms of the time United States arnn arms armi I which thy had purchased very cheaply cheap cheap- ly hy at the sales of army material Brigham Young bot hot up most of the thc army supplies and he lie made a large profit by selling them to his peo people le leand and to the time gentiles Though lIe he was no longer er governor of Utah Brigham Youngs Young's influence with his people made him himIe Ie supreme authority He Ze once said Tho Though gh I may not be be governor here ill my power loWer l' l will not be bo dimin I O man they can send hero here will vill have much Influence with th conin ny unless he lie tie he the tile ma na of or th their ir choice Let them send who h ney will and it does not my influence one particle As I said the first tim time I spoke e on the time stand stan m my govern governorship a T every very oilier her ship under my my control are arc and amI derive dc i e direct advantage rr from I my lY position in the During the tue Civil war Brigham Young r oung s sided ded with willi the norh hut but the ormon part In that war Y ar consisted In iii keeping the Indians Indian qui qui jUt l. l Lincon Lin Lin- con coin had said when hen asked aske what hl his pry pory to toward ard the Mormons irmon was wal that he lie would let them alone t if th they would let him alone and arid this unwritten un on- written agreement was wa's kept After ACter the tho ho Mormons had spent the he herst ten feil critical years of ot their existence existence exist exist- ence In Utah without out conquest by hY hythe the i elements clements or or extirpation by hy their op opponents P- P I the next twenty years of Brigham Youngs Young's life liCe and the life lire of or the church church were spent In in keeping I the community a n community Youngs Young's problem was as to tp maintain enough en public spirit in a communistic tic order of society to make mak very every everyman man ari willing to help another another The The The Mormon I rmon community was wa not communistic in the modern modern sense of or orthe r the t term m for ery e every man was allowed to t get t. t and to keep ke p as as' as much as he lie could but put at the time same time It was necessary to provide provide for the needs of or the whole and it t was Brigham Young's Youngs y Yo oi gs g's job to make make nis saints see s c the value of of contributing to the community i- i It t t was j frequently a assumed assumed- during duling dur dul ing Ids his life time that Brigham Young profited tremendously himself by the tile wealth of the church he did so much to increase It is true that when he lie died he left to his eighteen surviving ving wives and forty forty- forty our sur surviving stir su children a fortune of ot about two million dollars donars His policies w were re profitable to him personally but they were proportionately profitable profit profit- profitable able to every man in the time community he for formulates and carried out those policies he lie was accor according ing to time the capitalistic standards s by which he lie was vas judged entitled to an even ven greater personal reward lard than he lie ac ac- ac- ac P cumulated He drew no sa sala v from the time wealth of the community His Ills genius cuius for economic organization was worth orth to his community com unity in dolari dolI dolar dol- dol he l t tI to ta I I ar ari and amid ill cents whatever wS ask for fO f it but he preferred to exes I I cir j it iL it for himself as well a as am for tor the II ChUl h aid d. d he lie earned earll d liis lis r o oi living liv I in lug ing v bile une aiding his people to car eari i tehi i nm m Young not ot I only tic Us is is people prosperous but put he lie forced them to conserve tHeir prosperity He lie H insisted that in a was entirely dependent for lor food lood and sustenance upon its own l' l sources resources waste was intolerable o Brigha m's ms Power r I The church was organized CO rom rom- 11 under the control control of tho t th p p i ident The territory was wis was divided 1 in li into lito l- l to stakes of cit Zion ion over each etch of r f I which there was a president ao- ao pointed by Brigham Young Young- Yom g and ana approved by the people over whom l h he was to exercise supervision s Tins Tilts stake slake usually corresponded ed to a county except ttO c county was ts populous when several stakes stake st kO was divided divided divid divid- were ie formed Each stake ed cd Into wards and over each ward ward there ther was a bishop p w o t as vas ilis i selected by Brigham Young the time families families farni- farni bishop as in charge of all lI lies lies of or his ward and through him hun Brigham Young was t tab able abIo e to know time the e exact social political economic and nd spiritual condition of Dr every y Y member of ot every Mormon family it ithe hi il he so desired i 1 i The Mormons had each 1 al an nil o oral al vote that otC t that that ts they vere were asked at atthe atthe t tUIO the UIO semiannual conferences to sustain sustain sus sus- tam tain their leaders by raising aisi their hands and to oppose them just as publicly Young maintained d that nothing should be he done without his advice ad I and nd permission When a man decided decided ed to en enter er a certain business he hp was as expected to consult Brigham Young Xoung before he lie took toole action When a hall hail was planned his permission was necessary and iid J rore the tho far far- C t Tons ns ins were issued the list of or guests was submitted for hi his approval l. l Be lId- Before fore rore the tho married men inca courted additional additional addi addi- wives they were supposed to fo consult him on their choice and the young oung men were taught that thal before they hey made maae love iove lo to sp specific dung dun I women omen it was their duy duty to get th time the permission ot of Brother Brigham The symbol of the church was wa a n lu u- u rious and and- ominous on seeing all all s eye eyt with the motto beneath Holin Holiness to to the Lord That eye was wa for ill all practical p purposes rp ses the he eye e o of Brigham Brigham Brig Brig- ham Young youn b f v To be he continued i next week |