| Show fa A FRIEND in in reva neva nevada id 1 iiii hab has kindly furnished ua us with a p pamphlet am p h containing ning the following C infer interesting estIng and very crede creel creditable report it was unavoidably crowded out i of our last weeks issue 2 hut but being so s 0 interesting we think it it will not be considered stale st ale aie even now 30 EE ip C 0 mum wlm st E and ard resolution 0 of 0 S pedal special of OJ the senate of the state of oe wedada nevada vada on me the Annat annexation ion ioa of utah i id s 1 X N T your your tour select com coni liftee mit to which was referred refe ried the subject of the annexation of the territory ry 0 of utah to the state of nevada respectfully res nes report leport that they have hatte hat had the I 1 matter under consideration lf in many respects the annexation annesa tion in theo the opinion plAton of your committee beof incalculable benefit to We sevada nevada vada vetto We would 1 uld be exchanging a state debt of six undred hundred la and elfy thousand dollars contracted in ten years yeara foran poran for por an immense extent of the finest territory in thet ther the united states with a population of about 1 souls this territory was organized first by the latter tatter day jesus jesua christ over twenty beark boand is I 1 today to day wit vit without hOutA a territorial or gunty county debt on one ode of the them most beautiful cities of its age and size on the cont continent ent the police pollee and internal regulations ions lons af the city and territory are the best beat perhaps in the civilized world the traffic in spirituous liquors is under the com piete control and subordination of the city ity and territorial authorities in the city of salt lake intoxication ig is scarcely ever seen amond among the gentiles much le fess less if f ever among the mor mons I 1 gambling m blang and houses of ill III fame are no not tolerated and are scarcely known its school system is unsurpassed L in its adaptation edthe to the wants of the masses maae naab ses innocent amusements are established under the and andau aidau au of the mormon church in iun the city and in all the larger towns in the territory in which the aged and the regularly a and id thereby develop the physical system systems enlarge thel ther an mental faculties and imp improve lethe methe the social and moral qualities they whey afford a rich retreat for all and desirable places for flot the young to spend their lei lel sure hou hon hours ramith with pleas pleasure breand and broft profit tj and thus prevent the contracting contract ing ino of habits of visiting dens of infamy whisky saloons and places of doubtful repute te pato pate in lessons of W legislative wand and official economy temperance and morality the annexation would prove prova a great acquisition to nevada this territory and nevada are ate separated only by an tin image connected by the great transcontinental railway the climate soil and resources of the two are homogeneous gene ous under Un derthel the narrow way system which is now being so rapidly developed by the legislature it will be but a few years tilt till the principal cities towns town agricultural and mining districts of nevada and utah will b be e c connected by a net met work of railroads and the most distant points will ba easier of access than many of our own county seats are at present for a number of years utah has attracted the attention not only of the civilized world but particularly of our own government and congress has suffered itself to be greatly annoyed by its peculiar institution polygamy after repeated efforts by congressional legislation judicial process and military po power the su suppression of polygamy has cogia cohla completely purely failed it is now proposed to turn the matter overt overl over to nev nov vada to 0 try the process of absorption while we acknowledge the high compliment paid to nevada on the part bf congress in thus Biring desiring de to refer so grave rave nave and important a problem to this itsie state for Fo lution after it has bag taxed the lugen ingenuity city of our wisest statesmen and most moat learned divines in vain your committee can but express an opinion and report adversely to the scheme of annexation the chances are thau that instead of absorbing polygamy wa wei would be absorbed we have bave no evidence that atah desires any such alliance but upon the contrary are of opinion that it does doek not it is true it ift has baa no voice tn in the premi premises sim bim the annexation depends alone upon the will and plea piea pleasure Aure auro atcon of congress and of this state but however de desirable annexation might be to congress and nevada each of the parties interested should have an aa equal voice it ia isag against fiina isinA the spirit and genius of our ird institutions to force upon the citizens of any territory institutions institution sor son or political organizations contrary to their will oi fo interfere with flient tenial interial in polity however much ve we may dissent from the doctrine of polygamy rny iny in the abstract or in the concrete congress nor nevada nor no other dower power should set itself or its opinion up ups as the e standard of morality for any church eom tom community or peoples in our territories or elsewhere polygamy is one of the tenets of the mormon church and they believe as ag much in ita its divinity and as religiously hold sacred its obil obligations gat igns as any other of the denominations of professed christians do the disciple discipline ne rites ceremonies and ord ordinances ivancev of their churches persecution but strengthens and vitalizes vita lizes the persecuted nentin dentin elation but makes more determined the denounced cire tion tiou and proscription but kindle kindle kindie the electric electria spark of determination and revenge it in the human heart religious persecution planted the germ of constitutional liberty e in american soil the absurdity of legislating morals into a co community has passed out put of the field of discua discussion sion bion and bee been U reduced to a political axiom to force religious faith into the human mind is antagonistic to the divine economy of heaven reaven and inconsistent with the free will and accountability of man nan errors in religious faith not pot consonant with the teachings of the gospel need no human enactments to eradicate them this can be accomplished only by divine interposition ter position through the agencies divinity has established the truo soli solution atlon df the question of polygamy will be bi hound found in the aa admission mission of utah mali into the union as a b sovereign ove oye reign state the gentile world will then come In into more immediate contact with the institution and its divinity or deformity will become patent to the heart and intellect of the tha outside world and the mutual and friendly contest content for supremacy by the intellectual moral and ancl religious force forces u upon 0 1 1 either elthor side bide will destroy it b by y a attrition t r t t pa 9 i or olt establish its divine or origin ini in either elther event congress and nevada and the r est rest of mankind while i looking upon the conflict as anxious spectators ought ta be sails satisfied nie fie 1 d with the finai final result your committee therefore recommend the adoption of he the following resolution to wit resolved that in lit the opinion odthe senate menace the annexation of utah tone to nevada ada od ought not to be affected effected M T S ISRAEL r t JAMES JINE W T small SUAL L i bave teil all mistakes Is thab that offu posing that the ilie better betten nature natura of a child td is to be drawn out and raised into the streng strength tW 1 which we would ouid desire to see in the man by making him pass through a cold and cheerless youth the very contrary is the case A system of petty netty restraints and privation severe looks and incessant chi dings only results in depraving the feell feelings of a young person he is like a flower which requires light and carnith war wart nith rith placed in a cold cellar where it never can ac acquire aire its proportions color or vigor it it Is impossible that a child so treated can ever attain to the proper characteristics of a well constituted man or woman |
