| Show UTAH AND iTS PEOPLE THE 20 ame american rican review for tot may aft ay iy contains an article with the I 1 above title from the able pen of t hon geo Q cannon it is a defence of the body of religionists who i have settled this once desert waste wastes and a refutation of slanders which appear appeared eoin eoln in the march maych number d the review under the heading c the political attitude of the bla ila mons V 1 the article occupies sixteen pal pas of the magazine magazini and is in the i w known polished yet simple pleasant style of the cultured auti it presents the latter day their true light before the court couri cour j as a society of believers in the R as votaries vot aries of the fait falt faith falth h of th e jesus christ as practical pra ct I 1 ca lo 10 obey beill 4 the divine comma commands nd s a and nd alj alp ap holders and defenders defend e r 9 of e ic I 1 chastity honesty and truth the absence of personal itIc ua of is in striking contrast centrist to the bitter and malignant abuse that characterized the article it overturns and the evident sincerity and conviction of the writer are as marked as his hia knowledge of what he writes when compared with the ignorance of the subject displayed by his adversary the charge that brigham young nominated our delegate for the avowed purpose of thrusting polygamy down the throat of the government ern ment which manufactured by disreputable persons in this city has been frequently repeated by anti and mormons cormons Mor mons is effectually disposed of by the incontrovertible statement that before the time of mr cannons nomination and previous to delegate hoopers time a reputed practical polygamist had held the seat for this territory rry fry for ten years and that bric brigham Brig hala haia young hinis himself e if a polygamist had been gover governor r for I 5 eight years I 1 the overflow of our people into surrounding territories is explained and band accounted for and the clit charge irge of disloyalty is swept away it is also shown that instead of our leaders being of foreign birth as asserted twelve of the sixteen persons who compose compo sethe the two leading quorums quorum bof of the church are of new england t parentage two of virginia parent age ago agnand and only two were born out of the united states while one of T these two has been in this country about labout fifty years and the other about forty years the seven 4 I 1 presidents of seventies are all Arne arue americans ricans by birth of the twenty y two of stakes eighteen 0 oi 0 them are american bom born and two of the remaining four came to this country in their childhood and anc atha tha presiding bishopric is entirely composed of american born gentlemen I 1 it is further shown that several states and terri orles cries have a larger torn proportion to orlon orion it than h utah of foreign born kopul population i and two of such states were the t ll 11 previous abodes of the writer of the charge that utah is inhabited by a foreign population also that those of our people who are of foreign birth are generally conscientious god fear ing people having the courage to follow ther their conviction convictions ss industrious honest virtuous good citizens themselves and the element tj ti produce a race of faithful loyal freemen the unjust policy of encouraging land and sustaining federal officials who are re unfriendly to the mormons cormons Mor mons 11 1 and of dismissing those accused 0 of f friendliness to the masses of the people here is pointedly portray od the falsehood of the charge that education is neglected and opposed bereis berels clearly exposed the attempt to place on the mormon the jile stigma of the mountain alea alen meadows massacre is upset by a brief i statement of the facts and the I 1 avowal of the united states district t attorney at the trial of was convicted by a mormon jury for participation part ici nation hi in the erime crime the bere law abiding character of the people I 1 here there is established from the test I 1 jhony mony of chief justice white and the opposition of our creed to timur mur derk der ders falsehood ignorance and idbell rebel lionis shown by quotations from the revelations which are a law to the church I 1 the position of the saints on the plural marriage question Js Is denned and it is shown that they llave have not accepted and practised practiced that doctrine from but from religious motives which would have equal equally y prompted them to embrace celibacy if f it had been proven to their minds a divinely required condition the I 1 effects of outside pressure and proscription r ro 9 crip tion are presented in the clinging g together of the sainto iral irai consequence of such a ix course towards them on ou this thih point the writer says bor por one I 1 am content ia have this policy of proscription applied in butah so far as its effect upon the arising rising generation is concerned ewhen a line of demare demarc demarcation atio atlo n is po fo sharply drawn as it has been for wears years between those who profess a certain faith and those who do not land and young people are forced to elect ito to which class they will belong those who have pluck and the higher qualities well developed will cast their lots with their persecuted fiends friends and endure all ail the consequences which such a decision brings while the cowardly and tiie selfish may gravitate to the side which promises them ease and popularity I 1 history attests that ho people who are willing to ta die for their principles need fear the effect of violence and unjust treatment upon them if f their convictions are profound persecution solidifies them and evokes sympathy for their cause from rom those not of their faith their constancy yon son stancy excites admiration creates an interest in their doctrines and adds converts to their ranks this has always been the effect of persecution where it stopped short of extermination I 1 on the absurd and anti republican policy fley lately recommended towards ml utah ab he says the administration is urged to adopt a treatment which would be more in violation of the constitution and all republican principles of government than the acts themselves a against which the rigor of the law is in invoked ed freeborn free born men are to be deprived of all rights as citizens and to be governed as indians insane and minors and yet yut alt tat it is admitted that they are e lil lii ill in their daily lives peaceable 1 industrious usurious rious frugal and aud courteous an and that their system has in a decade waved some of its atrocities can prejudiced unreasoning bigotry be more stupid than this free fl ee and popular government is to be maintained by methods which would disgrace an autocracy church and state which are falsely said tobe united are to be divorced by the transfer of the people their improvements and varied industries the treasury and sources of revenue to a commission commissions whose members would hold office till lill they should be accused of being jaek jack mormons 1 the article closes with the following in g paragraph tested by any rules which prevail among enlightened peoples utah will not shrink from comparison with any part of the there republic bublic I 1 doubt if in any other part g there ere ero can be found so large a proportion who own their own homes the percentage of illiteracy is lower owe and taxation is lighter than in any af pf of the other to territories and than in many of the states the territory has no public debt the enterprise of her people is shown in the building of railroads the extension of telegraph lines and other progress to keep abreast of the age without the study and practice of co opera tion upon a grand scale with the poverty of her pioneers her lands could not have been settled and cultivated as they are all this has been accomplished not with the tile of cheering praise praises but in the midst of cruel and malig nant abuse Is there no credit due to a people whatever their faults may be who under such constant assaults and misrepresentations have accomplished so much in peopling the desert and filling the desolate valleys with peaceful homes and the hum of civilized industries people proscribed in their religion stint i ed in their rights assailed as if they were aliens allens lens do not usually display all their good qualities Uta utah lihas has been the cinderella of the family give her a fair opportunity and see if she will not at leist rank in all that hat is admirable and attract attractive ive ivd with her more favored sisters the whole article is well worthy of perusal and of thoughtful cons consideration de it has lias tho the merit of bel bei being ng the plain plains unexaggerated and unvarnished hed truth and it will recommend itself to every candid mind we do not care how much our faith 1 our people and our motives may be misrepresented as they always are when opposed so long as opportunity is given for reply and to contrast the facts against the fiction but while the public prints have been free to intentional malig C ners and persons entirely ignorant of our doctrines and doings they have been measurably closed against the defenders of our faith and thus the public have really beard heart but one bide side of a question which has engaged the attention of the government and the country for years we hall hail the publication of thew ther article in the morth north american review as a new departure in the discussion of the so called mormon problem and hope other standard magazines will be found willing to fado do likewise 21 the review is published by D appleton co new york can be had at jas awyers Dw and the may number contains several papers on subjects suba ec ts of interest and of moment among which is part seven of Char nays valuable work on the ruins euins of central america 4 four compa companies files of the fourth united states cavalry at fort riley biley kansas have been ordered to the ute country |
