| Show A traveler in utah prof donald TON nie who ho entertained at al the 0 opera 1 era nome monday evening afi with liia his illustrated lecture on oil napoleon bonaparte called at tile JOURNAL ollire yesterday mr is here not only for or tile tho purpose of giving lectures but is is alfo col purpose 4 of VU utah ali to take hack bac k to 1 crolic with him concerning this territory and its ita people this professional traveler says rhe future of itah is bright of its past I 1 shall not speak here but I 1 have made diligent inquiry it in eve ry wellin well uell in formed for nicil quarter and arn am I 1 d that ill ii my lectures on this thil interesting laid I 1 can say eay of tile the social question which lias hai perhaps retarded the influx of ca capital pital and population that it mas ex e ager agee rated ile and that it is settled with the lest beat of her mormon people I 1 nave come in close contact and listened to their so nicci lectured rot foi them in their tabernacles Labern acles ami i in n broken breal bread with them bliem in their homes I 1 may inay lie be an all incompetent oberer but I 1 believe that whatever or tile the conditions may have lave been in the past part there is no more reason to fear the of joseph smith in influence indu ence on oil tile ethics or polities politic of this country thin than the ilo de sciples of calvin or of coyola of buddha or of boh ingersoll you yon begin by thinking their beliefs absurd but when you observe their sincerity you yon invoke tile the broad christian principles of toleration ane ae i when lien you ha hie e compared tile the moral results of various systems you end by trea tini tint them with ie the mineral and agricultural wealth orthis of this territory i is ii i marvelous mai mati relous alie vist numbers of healthy boys and girls attending her elc excellent ellent ed educational institutions are arc sometimes facetiously styled her best beet crop they rhey aie equal at all events event sto to all any importation but when vilen which I 1 shall help to invite lias hag turned the mountain auis over every valley and opened up the mines which are becoming know n alien in place of the thorn shar shall grow u up tile lie fig tree and in place of the briar wall shall prow grow up tip the myrtle tree and the desert elmol rejoice ani and blos blossom as tile alic rose logan Lo gaii tile the last of our testing resting places in in this widla enoi known it territory errit ory is full of 0 interest to me Col colliado where we summoned lias has greater greit cr mountains am and baiger cities but where has it such I 1 valleys as these california over which lust hist year we ue sauntered from oregon to mexico with plaint pl aing to bu vast and climate so perfect it might supply alie world with nith fruit and wine has aas only here and thre suh cuili facile means ut of irrigation as obtain in utah all and preeminently in this cache valley when tile the future state of utah is 6 developed the lie conditions of life ulay may lie elev enviable bable indeed here it would seem pos possible gible for the toilers boilers of tile land and to combine comfort anil and recompense the destitute followers lowera fol of BriLli arn yount found a v wilderness ild erness by the shores of the great salt alsko and in less than irala a century tile they have conver converted teI it into a garden with villa les and toa towns its cities temples schools and smiling miling homes scattered in stately tr etches between the mountain sides I 1 shall rhall speak of utah us as I 1 leavo lave found it not as I 1 thought to find it and shall say eay of the young people the they are the best children I 1 have lave seen been in america the civility and the hospitality one ine meets with on every hand makes a plea in 1 which to rest reel professor down w ia speaks i of t his saddie ride and the view of the valley thus obtained college hei gitts as beier one of the greatest pleasures of liis his life the gentleman lias has tile eye of an all artist and the soul of a poet which make his description 4 interesting indeed |
