Show ut utah territory in studying the remarkable rise nise rise progress and growth of utah territory drom efrom irom a small camp of hardy P pioneers pioneers arriving here july 24 1847 in a mere sagebrush sage bresh desert to its ts present condition with a population of people worth millions of property a cluster of cities reaching from the parallel of br north latitude to the on the south linked together by roads ditches canals and cultivated farms the flie first question suggested ls is hoy hom how bot and by what power did president brigham young attract and arid hold this people here through all this quarter of a century the answer is plain to those who come here herel unbiased and look the ground over with honest and aud truthful eyes oyes and candid ear 1st these people like the catholics are dro devoted to their religion and that devotion is developed in all their lives and conduct everywhere at all times like the puritan pilgrim pilgrims severy every mall man woman and child deems it their daily and it is their thein sole sold li pleasure leasure to conform to the tile tea teachings ellings of theli their spiritual lea der and president all amusement amusements theatres theartres the atres balls parties an and frolics are part and parcel of their religion ligion ic and now even all dances and parties are opened and closed with prayers prayer and in former times th thir ir theatre here heie was also aiso opened w 1 itla religions iou lou services ad 0 d every everi true and dev devoted doted 11 mormon 0 rn 1110 is per sg se a temperance man an anti tobacconist opposed to billiards ten pins and all such games game Z and until the gentiles came such a thing as a 4 bawdyhouse bawdy house tenpin ten pin alley or billiard room or gambling room was unknown in utah plurality of wives prevented all now the gamblers pimps keepers of bawdy houses and all who live by the vices of their fel low men are protected here by the territorial courts and judges who in cases of conviction for violation of the ordinances of the cities by the local court courte are brought up on habeas corpus and discharged until within witch i a recent date all attempts by the local courts to punish such oali ou buses as selling liquor without license keeping gambling houses and houses of prostitution have failed by reason of the direct direel interruption by the tho territorial courts and judges on the absurd grou ground nd that local coo cou coorts courts ilao had ia oj jurisdiction u ris to punish local crimes and that all prosecutions against gambling prostitution drinking houses and kindred vlies vices must be earled on in the name of the unit united states by baxi a united states district t torney attorney ut in what is absurdly cal eal called ed united states courts here an absurdity never sought to be erl eri grafted by cepress Co press on this territory ad but there theren is a third power developed and arld enforced b here hero ero ere by president young and b his bis is p people eople which constitutes the very bedrock or of his and their success a power which the scientific world rias fras lias ilas sought in vain to apply practically all over the earth always thus far ending in fallu failure rebut but here under tinder the power nd influence of the cormons mormons Mor mons shi gwing results that eliat must amae amaze all thoughtful people and that power is the operation cooperation co of labor and capital hands heads and hearts hound bound together by bonds stronger than iron religion president young has hns spent hore bore more than a million of dollars in the last ten years and thereby has brought nearly learly able abie bodied men and women No pleni from england band the continent who taken from the very poorest and lowest classes in it the mining and manufacturing districts of those countries are now today to day industrious and hard hand ed operatives laborers and farmers here in utah much is said hereby here by the keepers of these bawdy b houses whiskey hell heil tenpin alleys and billiard rooms against the tithing of the mormon church as if their wages of sin paid those tithes yet all these tithes are a part of a co opera tive power used in picking up the poor the lame and the halt in fhi vu rope if they thy join the churchard chur church chand and translating them here where they are at once scattered over the farms workshops factories and villages of utah at the rate pr of 2700 each year and who then give n otes notes ba baek back ck to the fund for advances made to them and so the fund keeps growing and renewing nearly people have been added to this thi population in five years past Brig liam llam youngs power bucce eucce and atrium triumph h are due to practical operation cooperation co ca ty by which the pecuniary interests of a whole people are bound together and then the bands are riveted together by fanaticism if you will but by religion as they practice 11 it t the coat of arms of this people is qt the busy bee beena and then the eye of god 12 looking down over and on all and then C 0 P operation cooperation co in mills insurance ce Pomp companies anies factories mines banks stores and all departments of co commerce rh merce manufactures fett fatt tt tures and labor hibon and so this people can ean undersell and all others hence among merchants bankers mechanics and aud laborers ol of all kinds cheaper goods cheaper labor industry united with temperance and honesty command the market and outsiders cannot compete pete with this people and so the cheapest and best st rl iro vre ire re west of the tho missouri river is I 1 LO operative cooperative co store of this city here six million dollars worth of good aro are sold each year at prices less than at retail in chicago and detroit detro it if all your grangers brangers Gr angers would come here aud and study president youngs system and policy they will soon learn that operation cooperation co is i wealth is power is protection is all eliat that is needed to give glee the he farmers of the northwest the uhe control of the federal and state governments and thus enable them to stop the stealing c by federal and state officials and to end the taxes and robberies that now oppress them the main clia ella charges es against this people now are that they taij wiil will and do operate cooperate co in prayer lp in re rc ligion in voting ting in amusements in opening up the earth in son sowing seed beed in gathering the harvests in banking insurance bu buying V ing and boiling goods in working mines in growing stock and that they col operate cooperate e ach each with the other in taking care of their own people instead of wasting their substance and arid time tima on strumpets strum pets drunkards d ru gamblers and huch much uch innocent gentile people 31 the simple truth is is that the only faults if faults they are chargeable against the mormons cormons are first a belief that president young is 1 8 the prophet of the lord and second that years ago perhaps one fi in ten tel not more or of the marriageable men were foolish enough to hive have half haifa a dozen wives wires of one wife wire and half a dozen doen mi stresses as js is tie tle the fashion with member of congress cressand sand and all gentlemen of our large cities aside from these this people are the most industrious prosperous thriving people in this thi s union and by their industry y labor prudence temperance and chastity combined with co coo opera o emp tion and religion they have irrl irrigated planted sown a and nd reaped here until all that thal once desolate sage brush brush valley has ilas become the largest lagest and rich richest territory in this unton union at the close of the lasu iasu year our ohr tre of stealing ngai ugal nil all 1 the money in his custody as your david gage did as the ohp treasurer mrea erva surer of ofner new york did as twenty eight treasurer treasurers rem ers ens in iowa did reported that all debts were paid and a balance on hand of nearly such a thing as a mormon defaulter thief thief was never heard in public ablie or corporate life yet it a ba babers bakers kp erys dozen of politicians here herd are now praying congress to take away from us all gentile and mormont moll alike all our rights tights of seit goneril go verrl verri ment to put the lives property liberty und and happiness of all this people gentile as well as mormon alike under fhe ahe f special control of a triumvirate sent hither to harass this people and eat out their substance and to aid in taking away our charter abolishing the most valuable law and altering fundamentally the forms of the government of utah in my rny next 1 I will show what congress is asked to ydo lao and how it is to bo be done through the use of and tile the power to be conferred upon this trinity of politicians clothed in a little brief authority industrial age |