| Show 7 THE dhe country countr y WE lve have before bedfor us advanced sheets of the mormon country A summer bummer with the latter matter day saints by john Codman Dedicated to the memory of horace f R clark united states publishing company compari 1 13 3 university pime rime new york this 1 I is a work i r of pages in bold boid biear dear type on good paper it is to be immediately published illustrated lust rated with twelve full page cuts and a lapof map of sit ailt lake city and sold ata at a rea reasonable price asan As an indication ot the spirit and of wo work rk the following wilL serve berve from the preface ah the manusar manuscript 1 apt lys weis wels hirst kirst offered ioa prominent literary magazine etwas it was returned with the objection that thit it was faa ini Ani impartial partial no higher praise Is is li asked for ii the book also aiso the folio following wIng I 1 froni from the filst first 1 1 chapter just benore before leaving I 1 waited malted on president PreAl dent young to pay a patt part patting parting g call ea expressing to him my boli rations or fur the polite attention of himself and of several members of hla his family he said 1 1 I am glad you h have ave been chivily treated stad but dont et iet that prejudice boik you in our tavor favor if r you lay say aay anything about us tell teil the he truth this is what I 1 propose to do in a running account of f travel with some co comments on t trio trie e social conditi condition oh oti 01 the people and the agricultural dondi condition tion and mineral country 1 the work is d divided into four chapters the author de describes scriba a three morl moil months tes pov bourna and nd ra ramble rambie r able chiefly among the mormons cormons Mor mons v several weeks in iii salt lake cit city olty and most of the remainder r of the time I 1 in n wagon and horseback J journeys outlets through the valleys and mountain mounta lw indebted to the ibb hospitality of mormon and get Pet gentino itile alke aike a an aa therefore says sass YSA tho author 11 am somewhat prepared to give attic count bount of things that I 1 eisaw 1 things as they 1 aught jor ought riot f to tobe e 3 the following dro are portions or of th the 0 1 I 1 1 I j 17 1 last chapter I 1 rn in my Y wanderings 1 aifong th mormon r orn n pe people ot 46 1 I may have been too much attracted by the poetry of 0 their primitive and pastoral ilfe life and too grateful for fon their hospitality to criticise criticism critic ise lse them verely severely sie bre why should I 1 f dont beav believe in ID their revelation and god fored forbid anat wat I 1 should be ba understood as attempting to justify polygamy la 14 pat finy Yell yeli gion glon nor poly polygamy garny my practice but for all ali that tint afi if I 1 knewt knewl li hat the press supposing it to tb notice this little book W would ouid abuse abusi e me yn mercifully and it the yorty parsa arbon arson power of all an the pulpits should c ome come down with it anathemas ana themas will say this in all my v I 1 boyages and travels about the world never before ped passed three months months ina in inn a community make more industrious upright honest in dealing among themselves and with others quiet inoffensive v loyal to government 1 temperate virtuous and land reli reil 1 lou iou than these mormons cormons Mor mons with all its and ab a religion thattil thaT thai wll wil will VIl produce results lieke like ilke these theca knust must have in it or of good abi something yes a great deal riest lest hij injustice should hould bo be done doue to the gentile population ot of the tho territory let 1171 if I 1 ba have ae not already done dono implication that this sma small smail 11 ll out ide ido element clement does not factly represent eastern civilization most of the iian non nabo I 1 have s styled gentiles in accod i ance with the general accept acceptation atiq of the term are bre tho thoo those 4 o who wh P ce aeme a for temporary purposes of bradin trading aj mining and other speculations the tye greater rheb wart waru of them are aro without V 1 i th 0 t 1 g fa mIlles families fund aud frequently tb they 6 a ao 0 from the lowest walks of ilfe life in his faie fate of bt mining camps bret harte harto hag has aptly tills class he can calu scarcely c bo be said to have exaggerated I 1 found founie thee there theo just suell men clin in the city clay of bait hait lau lak tiie gentile population is differ different thero there are two classes of 61 them meny one is of ladies ladles and awid gentl emedi emeri fitted to adorn society anywhere ra families milles who chiefly from considerations of pernu nent business bud ness t take ike up their residence in the territory there is A atiq another ther set pet of Gentiles in the same town who would like to introduce gambling houses drinking saloons ant ani and bro brothels oleis to civilize a tho the mor mons ons mrtha citha the respectable people first mentioned rarely have any difficulty with the dominant sect although they are more or less exclusive they frequently meet the mormon Nl ormon ladies and g gentlemen antle men mhd in society as do like ilke likewise wige wise the tile officers of camp douglas anti and their wives it may way be said with truth that if the gentile gentle inhabitants of utah were all mich as these there would woold be scarcely a word of complaint against the cormons mormons Mor Ifor mons mODS I 1 and no lio petitions to Con congress congles gres fo nor non r relief from the tyr tyranny anny ot or the church the thee the ze e petitions come mostly from disciples people peppie or of jio jip especial espedal standing in tibe tile the caim community inu ilits tilty and small smail politicians somo very worthy men are induced to sign them is undo undoubtedly true but the proportion is very small E every very year the petitions accumulate at washington and aud serve er 1 c dhe dha turn of some virtuous statesman in framing a bill of extermination termination 46 at present another effort 1 is being r made to induce congress to legislate so that the individual interests of these malcontents mar foisy be benne bene fitted their shafts are tire generally aimed almed at the target of flyg amy am about which most of the pe titio ners do n not t care care a straw A great many 0 of them would like ilke c to see real estate and other ke curit curi les ies depressed there are bears mears in in salt sait lake lakel as well as in wall wali street there are politicians there as well weli as in washington these would like to wrest political power from the cormons mormons to appropriate it themselves whatever grounds the non mor mons may have for complaint it cannot but seem yoa roa reasonable to any uli uil prejudiced unprejudiced mind that the investigation vesti gation asked for by the legislature should be had before any de decided elded eldea steps step are taken by congress especially if the constitution nas ius to be invaded to meet the supposed exigency of the case cage if ha as the they mormons cormons dior Alor Mons say a majority to one nia laws to operate against the small minority minot ity it would eem still more unjust if copare should pit put a 1 lay law v making and law i enforcing into the tho hands hailds of this small fi T io 10 be exercised against the great greal milo malo majority rity 1 I have llave heard the majority computed to bo be much larger than these gentlemen estimate it it is sup posed to be na amne lne ine to one oue they probably refer to the population of all ail falt fatt alt lake city it nv uld conic to tbt thi thih tbt 1 that one ong tenth of the population ik ott tbt h te territory and t that hat by no means 0 t miteb reputable composed of mei mi who have for nor tho the most part taken take up a 11 temporary residence there are arp to hold in subject subjection ibn the lives and property of the other nine of the men whose fathers and many of themselves ves took of this waste land when etwas it was mexican territory and with hardship tol toil I 1 and privation recial reclaimed med meo it fro from i a desert waste devel dovel developed opeO ats reso inces ces and made it suc sue such 1 a rich tich i addition t 19 the union we should ilot attempt to excuse ourselves for this gro gros groa injustice 1 by the plea piea that coults courts an 1 urles jurdes uries of Bror mormons cormons mons do not i for polygamy a crime we hold 1 in abhorrence while our courts it t home do punish bigamists biga mists let us acknowledge that they do not adequately 1 u atel alei s deal with g gambling ambling drunkenness n I 1 and prostitution crimes which the hold in abhorrence for they never fail to take lawe cog cognizant cognizance nizan ce of them remembering that we are not immaculate ourselves reflecting that if wo we were to undertake summarily to punish crini criminal inal immorality at home we should stir un riot ind and murder in our st P eli esp let us consider well before lauda violent and unconstitutional nica measures against the cormons mormons which would surely antagonize a ri people now thoroughly loyal to government would cheok check enterprise reduce the value of property and in a no sensa sense gense whatever could be productive of good y the treaty with mexico when the territory embracing utah was wa ceded to this Is country it was wag stipulated that as a soon a a portion of contained the requisite number of inhabitants sta states tes acs ics should be e corned and nd ib toa tio tuo union nion this bithis compact has been cir clr nned hied rit ut lit mith othor othar cloi f much smaller populations than Utah possesses we are keeping her out in the cold until polygamy is discarded notwithstanding her herper persistent kno knocking at our doors that is punishment enough utah can not stand there long with this heavy burden on her shoulders while all her neighboring sisters are welcomed into our fa family Y 4 i tn clin closing I 1 may venture to express the kope hope hope that some little instruction as well as amusement may have been derived from a perusal of these pages my bior mormon friends will say that than th ar kindness is ill III requited by adverse criticism of their doctrines and practices my diry gentile readers will say wy that I 1 have been so fascinated with the tho country and the people of utah that I 1 have given them unmerited praise both verdicts will be gratefully accepted as proofs of the impartiality claimed tor for the book the work is interspersed with mountain rambles rumbles adventures bear catamount gustau mustang r and in dian dlan stornes stories and though we do not endorse all that the author says the work will well repay perusal by all interested in n this mountain country |
