| Show LONDON july 26 1872 1875 editor deseret Je seret news newsy it is now nearly three montas since we lafr our homes in quiet utah to act as mis siou aries in the british isles the hurry bustle and change of our journey being over our relatives and friends visited their thousand and one curious questions replied LO 10 and after afier getting once more inore used to the climate and the th erain aln ain we find ourselves assigned to our various fields of labor and now have time to contemplate the nature of the work before us pon eor some time past the journalists have been flooding the country here with slander and non nooh ense sense in regard to our people and endeavoring to make capital out of u by ridiculing in anonymous anonym ous oua paragraphs ad aud books and in some instance rt in bouks bours a people of whose doings and intentions they are ignorant Ign prior to the case mormonism mormon Murmon ism iam seemed to be the tho leading topic hut but happily for fur the public mind tile tiie great claimant came to its relief or it would have suffered much longer with attacks of some one going to brigham young a Mor monito to be at present there seems to be a lull to kind of a storm and the idea suggests it beir heir to the ibe minds of those sent here to preach the gospel and give correct information regarding the laiter latter day da v saint saints as to 10 bow how wo we can get this matter fairly benore before the ibe public and acquit ourselves of the duty we have to perform I 1 am happy to inform you yon that in the london conference we have very fair hopes of success notwithstanding the ob obstacle stace in our way is very great viz indifference we lately sent an article to one of the leading papers in which we to remove to some except extent the thick coat of prejudice the papers bad the liberality to publish it entire we have held open air mee moe meetings tings in streets adjacent to crowded thoroughfares and been teen listened to with very i good attention we are clearing the cu cupboards of the conference house ot of tracts tract a and publications that have been on hand band for years and distributing them at these meetings and on our travels already there seems a spirit of enquiry awakened and the dead those who bave have been indifferent as regards their duties among the saints are co coming ming to life meetings are better attended and baptisms more frequent we feel we have a great and good work before us in this great city and with the blessing of our heavenly father we hope to accomplish the object tor lor which we are sent and be worthy of a welcome from the power that sent us ns forth when it bids bid us return bishop J B fairbanks to is our president with elders W H kelsey junius junins F wells weila and your contributor as traveling elders wo we have been traveling in company until now but in consequence of the london conference extending over so much country we have portioned it off in three districts each elder taking charge of one district the president superintending super intending the whole we feel united and well satisfied with the fatherly manner of brother fairbanks our young friend junius F is setting a worthy example for one ot of his hig years president fairbanks and the brethren unite in kind regards to president young also presidents smith and wells and praying for your continual success iu in the kingdom of our god yours in the cause of truth S S JONES THE UTAH INDIANS brigham young for twenty nive anve years past has managed to maintain between them and his hla people the most mosi friendly relations simply by dealin dealing justly with these unfortunate savages ard ara ar by supplying their urgent wants in food and clothing from time to time when neglected by the government but always omitting the whisky the poor ignorant indians indiana do not noi understand ta the e meaning of these reservations to which they have been assigned they can only see that the white men have settled all around them have driven off kr r exterminated their game and have occupied the pasture lands upon which they have here hene heretofore tolore depend depended td for the winters subsistence of their ponies and that in being cooped up in these theae reservations they must eventually be starved to death for what do they know about farming especially in a country where not an ear of corn can be raised without artificial irrig irrigation aton 7 heretofore these indians nave have had a wide range over the plains and mountains and from the wild game cap aured by them and from their ste Ble lings alinga of horses and cattle and from government rations and clothing they have got along verv verr comfortably they like all the rest of our wild indians are nomads and they have no higher idea of liberty than the liberty of wandering about at their pleasure A reservation means to them im slavery and starvation and to reconstruct them theol to the habits of civilized life after the manner of the cherokees and chickasaws Chick asawa and to the drudgery of systematic labor will require time and patience JV Y herald IN ILL lla onobu some of the federal ap poin tees teea to utah appear to be in III ill odor elsewhere as well as here the new now york tribune is batis satia satisfied aed ged that civil service re lorm in utan utah would be healthy when a governor an ap appointee of president grant can be manager of a mining bureau and ana use his gubernatorial orfice office and great seal to advance the personal ia interest of himself and his ambitious ring the tribune is simple minded and still manifest i i traces of the honest sim alm simplicity plinty and guilelessness of its late philosophic director As if federal gubernatorial appointments were accepted nowadays for any other purpose ur than that of self interest pshaw kate rate field says human nature is excessively cesa ceka frail particularly when it goeb to paris there all its weaknesses bleak out and like the measles come como to the surface hixa bixa thinks many saints would become full grown sinners it if they only bad nad the opp opportunity ort unity that paris parts affords for developing their latent capacities kate kato must have had bad quite an experience hinca binco she went to paris two maiden ladles in louisville loul Lout avillo were very much shocked the other day when they observed a young lady in a neighboring yard dig a deep hole and bury an object carefully shrouded in white cloth they at once notified the police of of fou play aud the body was waa exhumed it turned out to be that of a lamented cat eat and the auspicious suspicious spinster w were ere ero ho hooted doted by the crowd |
