Show experience IS A COSTLY SCHOOL YF we showed some unpleasant things resulting partly from the nation nations indulgence in the farst crusade 0 ag against ainest utah twenty years ago that tt crusade was based upon nothing for the orefuge refuge of lies is nothing when the day of fiery ry a trial treal comes we showed that those very troops and their bersi sent bent here herel to night fight mormon citi citizens zens zeni though therold not riot fight themo the rmon s were erl eri engaged very shortly after afier in fighting e citizens in another and larger tart part f of the union and in in fighting among I 1 portions of that army ivere were arrayed on both sides in the greaten great canal flit Wes we showed bowed that the he crusade against utah was the beginning of ilat national fonal ional sorrows of enormous expense suffering and damage to the whole republic which have not jef yet pass ed away nor will they for many years to coine colne come we showed that within a avery very few rew yea years yearb rs after the inauguration of that crusade the union was full of fighting inen men of its own citizens engaged iu desperate imd and deadly conflict with each other they were not so for fors s dunate as the people here were in ili patching up lip peace and harmony without coming to blows and arid bloodshed we showed that the armies R amies i of the were soon increased to four or five hundred times the number of ot soldiers that were enrolled before the utah crusade in addition to two or three hundred times the num number berin in the confider Con feder ate states and all in fighting trim and alad on a warlike fo footing oking we wo show showed e d that within a few years the public annual expenditures of the country countr were erni dbr based for 3 years barsto to nive five or six times the expenditure of the fiscal year yar previous to that in jn which the crusade was made against this territory and in some years year s much more than that to as is much aa as seventeen times those moderate figures of twenty years ago we showed tb that atthe the public debt in less igsa than ten years r sade wAk was s swelled to T TV li f very nearly one hundred times over the debt of the fiscal year preceding that crusade and this enormous increase of public debt was abt all for throughout the colip try nearly the debts of states counties and cities had also increased enormous ly y until 11 now some somo of them are unbearable ble bie and will probably never be a paid nor the interest either vvo NYO va a aiso also 8 showed that taxes had iacre increased asi largely and that the Anari financial cial clai stringency business depression hard bard d times wide spread puffer pu fiering Q and general poverty of the last few years were resultant in a greater or less degree from circumstances partly allied with und traceable to that crusade all the great misfortunes civil war enormous debt onerous taxes public and private extravagance crises panics i 0 haro hara hardtimes hard ti timeS mes I 1 0 v rey lack of e employment m p ament extraordinary priva ilan bf the thai masses inthe various larger iorge cities annl au d towns that the hag has bag been subjected to of late years sp sprang rarig from causes more e or br less lem cl clearly ear I 1 traceable t to 0 that th at crusade 1 V t h buen suen hard before drw t them b m one w that the pek people le orthis of this great federation would desi tesI hesitate hesitate tAte long deliberate gravely and count the cost closely before engaging in another such stich needless crusade yet the re are not wanting enemies of their country and their race to egg anthe public to just boeh boch another disastrous enterprise |