| Show tiie THE luthe ALTA 0 ON N T THE ili lil UTAH immigration quite recently we noticed the receipt i of a document from the rudus tr lal lai and aid society of Call cali california fbi nl which hns has as for its objects the encouraging of bf immigration ration and the aiding iding af pf of immig immigrants to come to and settle in this country we then said paid that utah hak had haa in an immigration system of its own which has been found toworu to work admirably inu lif it its ltv issue liue 0 of f may kaj maj may joth soth th the alta alia catl call 1 a lengthy leader ledder on the subject lot lof i of immigration el in which it laments ments ver over the lack of energy manifest in with reg regard aad dad aid to securing european ap immigration and speaks eulogistically of the plan pur pursued sued by the citizens of utah it points out the states that thab have made provision by law for encouraging 0 immigration shows that southern bouthern bulb ru fl states tates are ara now following in the same bame track and bidding for the prosperity and wealth which accompanies I 1 the influx of industrial labor and admits that in frugality if not in ind industry kisir i athe the bulk of the european immigration in especial lythe scandinavian and 06 iserman U esc excels els eis the native population with its on these matter matten swe we have little to do but it has hag blown I 1 hot and cold on utah as is usually the case and we would like to see journalists evince a little more moie consistency in fil their references to us with the amount of information 0 on o ti many mouy points which they evidently posses possess noyl the alta alia admits the superiority of thi system we have adopted for en courage big fig and securing immigration years agg a committee of ot the british house of commons complimented us in the person efelder of elder eider S W Rich nich richards aids 0 then the church enli Enil emigration gration agent in europe for having organized the best system of carrying emigrants of any emigration company doing business within its purvie at one time we are credited with being exceedingly peaceful and preeminently eminently pre industrious at another time with being enterprising and persevering at dt another alother time with having more common schools in in use than can b be found anywhere else with the same population we re are admittedly temperate orderly prosperous intelligent originating plans superior to those of all others of the same kind livin living and prospering where few if any baj but ours ourselves elves FIves would think of locating and yet every writer however much he may eulogise eul ogise us in any of these respects must bing fling in abusive adjectives sueh such as I 1 fanatical and worse or classical nouns such as when referring to ourselves selves and our faith I 1 if the alta alia or any other journal or lri individual will shaw us lis any instance in I 1 11 the history of the world of a people who could correctly be denominated fanatics performing such labors producing such results and evincing the possession of so much luch calm deliberate and clear reasoning intelligence we will admit their right to apply such epithets which must be offensive to every intelligent people tov toN to whom t they y are applied but nut if those who are esol free in their usg use wilf elif c carefully ulis ully suit buit webster and calmly on the course of those gro kro around I 1 u nd them with their own course it may be found 6 terms will fit much better nearer home an anc ancient leit wise saying correctly 1 has it by heir fruits ye shall know them still we are pleased with the thy candor in which the othealia touches the matter and give our readers the ther f following lengthened extract eara t it that h at they may judge of the toneann tone and spirit of the article after pointing out the increase of wealth consequent upon such immigration and referring to the states stat es that are most moat strenuously seeking to increase their population by it the article goes on to say it is no wonder then theu that those states are engaged engaged in a friendly rivalry with each ot other er to secure the splendid prize the wonder is that they have not thought of it sooner and perfected a system to quicken and cheapen it A greater reater wonder is that california and bregon oregon bregon have thought of nothing done nothing at all in the premises promises while the utah hierarchy have in proportion to their means and the inducements held out distanced all the rest of the states and territories about one year before marshall picked up the first piece of gold at coloma on the south fork firk of the american brigham young und oud a few of his most moat fanatical followers determined ter to establish a mormon settlement at salt sait lake it was th en al most a terra incognita the ultima thule thure of the most daring during adventurers nothing daunted they carried out their idea their men women and children were removed from illinois by wagons carts wheelbarrows and all manner of odd odd contrivances and about the time the first great rush was made for the gold mines of california 1849 the tho mormons cormons Mor mons had bad succeeded in planting a permanent settlement in the heart of the american desert the tho centre of the continent Fivel five years afterwards california had a population of not less than a vote of the utah settlements did not grow so fast but they grew and did not stop growing as ns own oos have bave donea our population now eighteen years after the beginning ol 01 of the gold excitement is not riot over our gur vote not 1000 we have gaina gained in the asiatic element of population but lost ioa in the Euro european peah since 1855 in 10 1850 the utah settlements were estimated at souls now they are estimated at all of the european races salt lake city has a population of and there are other places of six to eight thousand the settlement settlements bave bate spread in every direction they touch idaho on the north nebraska and colorado on the east arizona on the south and nevada on th the tho e west yet they are desert lands compared with poorest settlements in this state and yet it cannot be said that the people are poor in fact they are from all accounts rather prosperous in the main and in n marty many instances they are rich land and labor are carefully economized and frugality is the order of the day in social 8 0 and political afna afra affairs irs the have flocks and herds on ten thousand hills they have manufactures and are creating more a ag rapidly as they can accumulate capital to build them in spite of the frowns of nature of drought years and cricket years of tithes and all that it Is the observation of travelers who have visited the utah settlements that they are flourishing and prosperous but the greatest wonder connected with them is their perfect system of increase by immigration they have their preachers preach ema era everywhere every where in n northern europe i uro e all over england scotland scan scandinavia the free cities and small states of germany and every preacher is an em emigration lorat lerat on nent agent first to make converts and ind then 1 to forward them to utah where there is a system part social part religious and part political to procure them bread land and labor the wonderful success of utah is not in our opinion a tithe as much due to the power of fanaticism over the human mind as the elaborate system of the mormon leaders in finding out and collecting the laboring poor of europe and settling them in their country without their emigrant agents 7 and the means which the politico hierarchy place at their disposal to forward them and tile the care that is bestowed upon their settle men when jhb larrive Tar rive utah would almost A as much a desert to today day as it was way wal when Fremont first glanced gl planted anted i th the flag of his cou country on the tho s shores ores of salt sait lake nga itow california with her incomparable so soil climate and mineral resources with her great valleys and magnificent seaport her exhaustless forests of the finest timber her straight lookout upon asia and her lively shipping intercourse with all the world had some such plan to secure european immigration as that recently instituted at the west or as that thai saving baving its spiritual huni buggery which is peopling the deserts of utah chowe have anything of the sort why not |
