| Show FACTS eny ANY suggestions r great salt lake city is nearly one thousand miles by any known practicable route from any important point of trade on navi navigable mable mabie waters and utah has not a single stream or sheet of water valuable for navigation within her borders proof all of the most correct inapt published Is isolated re renon region rehon non hon aside from other more forbidding peculiarities desirable for settlement by this illis money pleasure and t trade rade worshipping wor shipping generation ration no 30 for they never have settled anit neither could those of them who have seen it be cheaply even HIRED to occupy it Is it good policy in our ur government to have its extensive domain improved by her own subjects and by those who design to become naturalized as fast as the laws will permit most assuredly y yes then why such a tz general and I 1 most unwise howling by priests politicians editors and people concerning t the lie settlement of the most VIRTUOUS industrious place rEACE PEACEFUL FUL unni UNITED and LAW ABIDING population that there is is in the whole union the devil is too cunning to answer that question and when the lords servants and honorable men repeatedly and most plainly expose the reasons reason it really seems to be harder to beat the actual facts into the brains of those howlers bowlers how lers than it would be to split a white oak fork with a dough wed wedge e and squash beetle within the united states alc ale are millions upon millions of fertile acres acres where rains snows and dews distil dastil their timely moisture where insects do not ravage where timber is plenty good and handily procured where no droutha compel comiel expensive and laborious irrigation 0 where the soil is fertile and facilities for locomotion and transportation cheap easily acce accessible and abundant this all will admit utah is broken in every direction by rugged 1 barren mountains interspersed with sterile plains and dry valleys upon which dewis rarely if ever seen and whose parched surfaces are but occasionally and scantily moistened by welcome rain while the winter blockading snows snowa are greedily absorbed where and as they melt or devastatingly rush from the mountain gorges before the tilled soil is available for their aal application li cation catlon the few arid and widely scattered localities that will at best but barely admit of occupancy bya by a people whom the civilization and christianity of the century will as yet admit of living nowhere else have to be made productive by an immense I 1 outlay of labor and expense in constructing dams ditches embankments water gates sluices and canals to divert the puny streams upon crops that would otherwise never mature and oft after this vast amount or 0 extra thili toil the husbandman and tree grower grover are compelled to behold with what fortitude they may the results of their anxious care wither and die ere maturity blasting a their anticipations of healthful sustenance and frequently ii what hat the drouth has spared s p ared the devourer consumes for the grasshopper and cricket have proved to be joarder harder to cope with than the inexperienced have ever imagined 0 the scant amount of f fuel uel and timber which is mostly brittle small short hard and knotty is almost invariably confined to the narrow kenyons and high steep slopes of the mountains far if not always in distance at least in difficulty of bf access from the few places where settlements can be made and the best beat of it generally so located as to be pronounced inaccessible by many of even the most e experienced i encee settlers and to procure a alf scanty an and ana dear dean supply of which roads have to be laid out with much judgment 0 and made and kept in repair at great expense locomotion and transportation to and from and within borders is and without railroads and canals must be confined to the speed and strength th of horses mules and oxen and to the capacity and conveniences afforded by carriages ria biages es and wagons modes of conveyance raab rather to the dwellers amid railroads railroad canals and navigable waters waturs al almost in ast innumerable v strangers may be tempted to question the cor correctness liess iress of the tha above brief outlined sketch of utah and the conti contrast ast between her rugged uninviting 0 features and the beautiful beautia it 1 smiling t courtena coun countenances tena aces of the states and may enquire v icho ho knows concerning the truth of these statements capt howard sta stansbury bury the ite late capt J W W gunnison and ALL who have ever traversed the country with eyes and brains in their heads and with judgment and candor enough to fairly cepres represent nt facts as they do exist As yet the howlers bowlers in pulpit rostrum and press so solar bolar far outnumber the intelligent candid and truth seel seeking cing eing that strictly accurate statements about utah find comparatively but f few ew speakers writers publishers or readers in their behalf but what do ao the howlers bowlers purpose by their foul onslaught of steady highhanded barefaced bare faced vilification do they wish to forcibly ron ciSLY occupy the houses and fields built and opened in so remote and forbidding a region where scarcely ja a faint whisper of their hoarse howlings how bow lings is undulated across desert plains and lofty peaks the distance i is s too great the locality too secluded the toil toi for a livelihood too severe for that weak backed world ds erving serving pu pusillanimous sill all ail in ous class of inter medders med lers as they can learn without wit hout the trouble expense and disappointment of bitter expert ment if they vill trill but turn their attention to the information contained in truthful articles like this and who among L them is magnanimous enough to print quote and fairly comment upon it few feay if any among them are sufficiently frank and intelligent 0 to discern the justice of publishing both views of the question that truth and e error may have hav e a fair field i of combat they b brazen razen error and smother truth and who nho loves and applauds their course how opposite to that is the conduct of every true saint a int not having a paper large enough and of a grade of character low enough 0 to ren der deritt it compatible to print therein all cheslan the slanders derda against a dinst us which arrived in a six months mail president brigham yono yo yond no g notified the congre congregation r atlon aaion on sunday the ath dinst that if they would like to hear what was published about us in the tiie states they would manifest it by assembling in the bowery by 8 a am 0 on n the president deft morning of the the president c caused a used the whole six months batch tobe collected and requested two excellent readers to be present at the time and place appointed who read by turns for nearly four hours the printed productions duct ions of frenzied be clouded and addled brains to an immense congregation of the purest and noblest people to be f found oil on the whole earth and could editors scribblers scribble rs and speech makers ha have seen the smiles of derision and sneers of disgust with which their lucu orations brat ions and studied obloquies tules were received by each intelligent keare heare hearer r it might 0 beem seem that they would have afen wee n tempted to turn th their ein eln time efforts and publications into a channel that would in in some small degree benefit their fellow bin beings s but to mimi eburn perhaps those zealous friends of human rights and social progress b would kindly waive the expulsion of the mormons cormons Mor mons lest their being again plundered re d driven and murdered in this christian and anc and loving century should so scatter them amongst the people as to utterly contaminate all the whited sepulchers now glistening with such an outside sho show w of apparent purity for this tilis reason some may deem it a better plan to send officers and troops here with the thel sole view of sowing w dissension and corruption in the most united and ri right 0 lit seeking community in the nation such persons appear to have forgotten what their mothers learned them that water arid oil are not riot easily mixed they also fail to comprehend in spite of all our plain and philanthropic teachings that the corrupt the tile indolent the sycophantic the ease hunti hunting bunting Dg fictitious worldly popularity beel bee see A i ing n ac ac ale alc are all out of place in ut uta ula h an and d would soon leave for their congenial clim eimes dimes ea and society in III the cities of the tates states and thus thua sorely chagrin and disappoint their saric salic tim tin OR 10 lous tous us alders and abettors abet tors i possibly there uge dge re quite a nu number aber who are arc too zealous in good works to await the slow pro progress gress gresa of attempts to sow corruption in so unpromising a field or to be satis batis satisfied ficiA with tho the risk of the more rapid policy of again murdering and scattering and would doubtless far prefer tha the absolute extermination of a great and noble nobie p people eople Is it not a subject for re concluded on page 1201 continued from iron page section by those who think i I 1 to know that there are many in this boasted republic raised amid bibles and prof who are burning with madness to far more than reen re en act the 1116 scenes of the massacre of st bartholomew in france where the roman so inhumane inhumanly inh umani y butchered for their religious 1 elig ious lous bc be lipf upwards of protestants or the cruel barnin burnings s and headings be of protestants in england during 0 the reign of the cat catholic holic queen bloody mary mars mar or the cutting out of tongues and the hanging t of witches b by y protestants in most pious massachusetts in view of the alove above facts and comments we roost most respectfully and lin finlly ily liy lly ly sug bug suggest fest to editors priests politicians politician s and people that inasmuch as wo we live jive in a land where perfect freedom of oi conscience and worship IVors hip bip are guar andied by the constitution and statutes at large and inasmuch as dragooning dragoo t ning wrong and violence chan change chane e no true mans falth faith but rather cause it to strengthen P and increase the they Y cease exposing their folly and really strive and learn to do good we also humanely suggest thal that the rabid be not tempted to leave th their air comfortable homes in a pleasant land to ci closs oss desert plains and craggy mountains solely to molest a people who are peacefully and most moat beneficially occupying a dreary waste wate which n one none of them would ever improve lly prove unless through gik gli compulsion and take uhe the liberty of exhorting and advising C eacil each accountable dweller within tile the extended borders of the lunsted states stales who really loves his his bis country and andhor hez her free free eions to observe the thes f mormon nl motto of mind your own business 5 and not only to permit all others to observe wholesome laws do good and worship jehovah bovah Je as shall bs best t please each eacil individual but aid aia all in so doing duing so far as may be possible |
