Show luy luv BUY bux AN ISLAND ac ae r i t I 1 q afy dwy who seem to be ed about abat what to do with utah and peculiarity Is the chicago herald a new paper which has baa just been started in that interesting city it states that this is the problem which anost attracts thoughtful sti statesmen it says utah is now a wayside station on one of our greatest routes of travel we rub against it going to and coming from our near neighbors the herald ia is fo to be pitied chicago is such a place of purity that it must be a cause of great annoyance to the herald to have the immaculate whiteness of the citizens of that burg soiled by pasal passing ng across the territory of utah to idd add to its grief it sees no very clear way why for this condition of things to 10 be remedied it says bays dalf if we persecute them there ia danger that they will flourish under it if we force foroe them to remove it ia Is certain that they can go into no retirement where the waves of comin coming populations will not wash against them t the tho to same as now within less leas than a this i is inconvenient they cannot be perse persecuted persecute cut ed nor driven with good results the writer must think the people of utah are lacking in politeness or good manners to remain in irr so prominent a position as that which they now occupy when they cannot ba removed successfully by persecution or crad that he evidently has this idea is apparent from his bis next sentence brigham had bad better buy an island in some distant dist antea sea tea and colonize upon it 11 why cannot this be done to accommodate the chicago heralda merald the pepo utah have got I 1 betwixt the wind wand and ills llis nobility and why cannot they one hundred and fifty thousand men women and children abandon their homes which they have made habitable and comfortable by long iong years of excessive toil toll and swartout star start tout bout out for some borne distant island to please thia this newly fledged chicago editor in this ridiculous strain do editors write about utah and her J people they trey speak as flippantly about breaking up one ono hundred cities and aud betti getti ew apts and having their inhabitants remove as gs khoii though gh they were talking about a pr prairie alriq dog village on the plains buy an island in some distant sea and colonize it would any man of sense talk of such a thing to the inhabitants of ja a jarge territory the folly of the suggestion is a only equaled by the arrogance of its tone A reader unacquainted with the pasit on of the people of chicago and that of the people of utah might easily infer from the tone of this heralds article that the former had bad in some way at their disposal the lives and fortunes of the latter the tone is one that might ight be used ay by a master to his WE slaves it is not the language which freemen free men use se to their equals the editor of the herald has fallen into the old mistake a mistake dating back so far that its first appearance is lost in hoary antiquity that because others do no not worship god at his shrine arine and in his temple they are therefore his inferiors such buch men seem aseem to have no true conception of the nature of our government or its constitution under which all classes and creeds have equal rights and tife the fullest protection what preposterous nonsense it would be for tee the people of utah to say to the citizens of chicago now that the continental railroad is 18 completed we have to pabs pass through your borders we are brought in contact with you yon and you are offensive to us the e frightful corruptions corrupt ions of every kind hind for which your city is so notorious shock shook and disgust us you yon are a nuisance that thad we wish ish removed we advise you to go to some other region where your practices and ana examples will be bb hidden from the eight and hearing of our citizens eit cit ikens liens who travel to and from the east eia leave your city abandon your homes and get away as far fat as possible we caro care not where only that you goh gol go yet for the people of utah to say this to the people of chicago is no more absurd than for the citizens of chicago to give similar advice to the inhabitants of utah the fact is we the people who have made this country habitable and worth possessing are ake still here in III peaceful peace ful fui oc byr of the lands we have reclaimed from we know of no reason N why we wd should not no tremain remain and enjoy thym them the country suns suits us aamir admirably ably it is all that we require at present and as for going away we have lio no idea of such euch a thing the herald says that we can go into no retirement where the wavea waves of e coining populations will not vash wash against ua us as now it states the case exactly ss we view it with this difference probably that its reason for imagining such would be the result is not the same as ours let a people with the qualities which the latter day saints possess union industry perseverance temperance thrift and the numerous other charac te which they have hare throughout their career go to any land however remote and they will draw around and ana an d to them population and notice such qualities have made utah what it is today to day such qualities would mckeany desert on the earth an attractive spot such qualities enrich and make powerful and desirable communities nations and countries of what use then we ask the men who suggest a iv removal of the latter day saints would a change of location be As long as day saints remain the people they are let them nowhere go where they would 1 and they would become conspicuous us and attract the tho notice pf af the world and then wen where would the problem be of which men speak would if it be solved it would remain to puzzle those who view it in that light more than ever this has been already illustrated illustrated in our history missouri viewed our system as a problem and she undertook to solve it by perse peise persecution cution and expulsion the first not being successful in bringing about a solution she tried the second but with no better result illinois je repeated the experiment and the persecuted ones launched aun ched forth into the wilderness those who assailed led and drove them thought they had disposed of the question but they made a mis take they only postponed it now with the results of these attempts before them there are those who suggest a repetition of the same acts of folly upon such persons the lessons of exi peri ence are thrown aiwas away why peri slat bist in vie viewing wing this system and its operations as a problem there is no problem about it there is no solution to be arrived at if there be the plainest and most direct method of obtaining it is for us to remain quietly in this country which aoda gods blessing has made so suitable for our raf rAl residence dence andthil and this thia is what we propose to do unless the people who posses possess buch such characteristics as dothe do the this territory be killed off they must increase and become more mord powerful and aa as a consequence q u ther A mastbe must be a ome omo in their h history is tory bhela darivin driving 9 or removing the them mm must cease we dp do not know a the world for this old silly policy to cease in than here in the midst of these mountains for it must be admitted that if ever a people earned a right to inhabit any land the people of this territory are fully entitled to this |