Show value drawings® each member of the organization took a number of acres which wore suitable for fanning some for By 11 grazing and a site for a home In this manner each participant was assured of land of approximate value Bicker-in-g conspicuously absent in these transactions because of the fairness of the plan In setting up a now colony the practice was accordmas ing to Brigham Young "to establish centers of population in villages and cities and to go out from these centers 19 to w ork the land® Consequently “rugged individualism was out of the question in a society with a religious cohesion 20 The leadership of Brigham such as exhibited by Mormonism Young was so strong that his wishes or ideas were usually put into a decree that had the effect of law to a Mormon Ho one can doubt that a strong leader was needed to keep the order together under the adverse conditions of early persecutions in Missouri and Illinois Under similar conditions with the frontier dangers added it was not in the least unnatural for the Mormon to want the close companionship of his fellow religionist and at the same time fortify himself against perils of the gentile This fact 19 Richard T Ely “Economic Aspects Hamer's Magazine X p 669 20 Ibid p 66S of Mormonism " |