Show 0 1 union T PACIFIC 0 j amat NOT now S al rous roux yOT OfOS Gs va T J f bothe rothe general belief that the advent of if r arthe the locQ locomotive motive and the great union pa j eine cinc nali kail ff effay ay into the salt lake basin is to destroy theoule the tha rule rulo of brigham young alid and the peculiar pecullar institutions of the this morr vor mon people may not he e well founded athe ahe rhe change may not work out theire aulta suits which leading newspapers in the tile so exultingly depicted if it is to do doshit will be in opposition to one of the ablest men living and to natural barriers which will resist external lorem pressure sure for many yesra yeara to come in our 0 opinion 0 mormonism lul idi 0 r m niam fakes takes a powerful hotd hold upon the reil rell religious alous convictions of its vo baries ift it faya biform of religion which seizes upon the believers in it with a 91 strong hold it allures men who embrace its faith with the most sacred en ti cements and fastens them to it with a spiritual pi ritual hope which entwines itself ih lb to the very heart strings it does this thia because it is founded upon uthe the T lovd love of offspring spring its whole unde r lying foundation is patriarchal As we ft are informed the mormon weaven heaven is pe peopled pied pled with the children of those who J live and die in the faith this as wo we understand it is the key atone of the 1 aich arch of polygamy aa as it exists in utah and accordingly of the religion of which W it is the most offensive feature 4 aside from the spiritual teachings of bf the ahe mormon H hierarchy ier ler archy it is aided by the most adroit external aids which human u ingenuity can devise if it im impo pa isis ses burdens upon those over whom it rules iules I 1 it t becu secures res th the e ready assent of th those ose obe who bear these burdens by promises which induce the most cheerful baeri bacri flees and we see proof of his him in the suffering of the people who cross ocean and desert through every privation to reach the sainted land of deseret the industrial character of the mormon peo pie is attested by the tha conversion of the barren regions they lri iti inhabit habit into a very f garden and itis it is probably true although it is denied by many that their social organism is as free as any other under heaven from the evils of indulgence and aud w crime calme not including the feature of polygamy ly gamy of course which is the key sto avone atone ne of the whole mormon system but how is to be that the advent of y lithe the union pacific into utah is not to destroy brigham young and mormonism ism ish we answer that gentiles will not riot inhabit that country in such numbers as to make such a result probable i I Vitis oltis cit fit la to be accomplished through leg i station anid and penal laws looking to the punishment those who i would rould thus ruin the system will have havea a haa nard i job od w hand band it will take fifty ady lueara to 10 assert sueh such a control in utah under the existing state of things in 1 I the first place people are not going thera td make homes upon tipon a barren soil soll when millions on millions of acres far nearer the centers of civilization which are abundantly fertile invite them to occupy and possess it in the second place we b have bave ave it on good authority that the farseeing far seeing young has control of all lands within the territory which can be made productive even by irrigation without which as we all know there is not a foot of it thet that is not as barren as stone but it is urged civilization will do it by mere force of contact and contrast be not so sure of that we tell you that there is a band hand attaching the believer in mormonism to that fai fal faith th which ia Is not so easily broken we have met and conversed with many cormons mormons in burday uneducated an a well as educated mormons cormons and it is not so easy to wrestle with their arguments and we believe it more than likely that the union pacific throwing them into freer contact with the outside world may be a source of strength rather than of weakness to this remarkable people omaha herald |