Show expressions FROM erom THE PEOPLE SOME solle SOUND IDEAS OX ON A TOPIC OF INTEREST SALT LAKE CITY april 1885 editor Deseret Je seret metes one of the main topics of interest during the past f few ev months has been the sudden disappearance ot certain persons from our city and the consequent assumption that they had taken t the thu e underground railway because of an impending action against them in the courts A great amount of anxiety has been becil manifested by the editors of anti antl monnon mormon papers to have these thes e persons come out from their hiding places and thus show their 1 1 I 1 manhood bravery courage fidelity to their thele religious principles ll 11 etc almost a hue and cly has been raised against some of the leaders of the church because they have deemed it wise to seclude themselves flom irom the public meetings and to travel less frequently upon our public highways and they have even been accuse accused d of deserting 9 their posts and principles by so doing these cog cOl comments comments ments seem to me to require consideration lelent sufficient to ascertain and announce to the public mind how hov much justice and fairness really exist in such clamor if any the wisest of kings once wrote the pru dentman fore seeth the evil and ana aideth himself but the sim cimpl pass oa on and are punished Duni i shed 11 was it any sacrifice of p principle rin ciple for bruce the great scottish chieftain to hide in the barn chere he learned his lesson from the spider and coming out from thence vanquished hin his foes was it lack of courage 1 that induced him to draw f from rom the public gaze for a season let ills lits hi life and victory answer wab was it sacrificing principle for wallace to retreat into the glens until he should regain his lost forces true he was betrayed by his supposed friends and slaughtered by the tyrants whom he had previously sent fleeing from the scottish bord hord rs budwash bul but was he a coward an inglat r ti a traitor to his cause did st full fuli faul ruil sacrifice principle or show cowardice by being iet yet let iet down in a basket so that he magit might escape his persecutors did he not go when his hid time riad had come and bravely face death at rome was it cowardice of jesus to slip out of the synagogue and entering among the multitude pass out unseen and leave the coasts cannot ev every e ry intelligent reader of history estory an and d biography see soe that such acts of seclusion were in accordance with that discretion which is the better part of valor and made necessary by the circumstances cum stances prevailing at the time As well might we ask asu why did not washington in ton walk out and say british soldiers soy soldiers diers here I 1 am I 1 am brave I 1 am not afraid shoot me when by proper to er precaution he could preserve his lite for the benefit of his people reckless conduct regardless of necessity or obligation I 1 ia no evidence of courage or love of principle in any person er darin daning daring a man to come oi out where gere we can hit him does not manifest greatness oil on our part when we number a thousand to one or we are armed while he be is not A man would not bu be deemed very sensible to place his knuckles where his antano antagonist could rap themas them as soon as they appeared in sight or to lift up his head when an assassin was ready with loaded musket to put a bullet ballet through it such seems to be te the situation in utah today to day and perhaps as long as the danger exists which has occasioned in roi sol some cases an apparent flight from former associations the I 1 greatest greatest wisdom domand and the truest courage to manifest will he in seclusion to await the issue and maintain in the privacy of the exile the love of those principles which may be more readily sacrificed by some who professing bravery by their bold appearance are when the crisis comes willing to suffer nothing to maintain them inviolate it sometimes requires more courage to seemingly angly forsake our friends than to face OT our foes and certainly more self seit abne gation PR PRUDENCE U dex DEN CE is IS THE THERE RE A SURPLUS OF WHEAT AT SALT LAKE CITY april 1885 it has almost become a rule with the majority of farmers to avoid avold planting those grains etc that have not sold readily at a fair price the preceding season while it may not be wise to entirely to abandon this practice still it is frequently 10 A STAKEN MISTAKEN POLICY to make it a rule ruie when a majority ty of farmers or kitchen ga gardners gardeners gard adners ners fall to plant any of those articles of which there may have been an excessive ard and add unprofitable tables supply auprly 1 during I u ring other seasons the natura natural result is a 3 scarcity and the few feis farseeing far seeing ones who plant what the others do not are likely to reap the benefit of consequent high prices for such soch products we believe that the acreage sown with wheat for this year is much less than before the abundance and low price prices of last tears years crop having this effect but it la Is not at all unlikely that those farmers who have planted but little may ruay regret it before next eail fall already there is isa a stiffening in the of wheat and a considerable has been shipped east although is enough now on an hand to furnish with breadstuff for meyeral years rears stress should not be placed on that fact as the whole would hardly suffice for ONE DAYS SUPPLY in the chicago market and a slight advance in price may speedily cause the exportation of all our surplus surplus a result which would undoubtedly be as speedily regretted the present warlike attitude of en eu rope evidences the probability that an advance in price of wheat may soon occur can the people of utah afford to let all nil arany of their ruglus surplus surrius g grain rain no go out of the territory T this Is Is a serious question and the latter day saints would do aci well weil to to regard it if our farmers and others who ar arc are holding 1 large arg quantities of wheat must sell ii it I 1 let iet et them wait a little longer ong ger ll 11 if possible a and nd not hurriedly d dispose of it at the first olidia oli eit dit rise ill in price especially if it has to be shipped elsewhere believing as the saints assuredly do that the clays days of war pestilence and ana famine are nigh there should be a united effort among them to retain a large quantity of the grain which god has baa so bounteously provided it requires no stretch of imagination to induce the belief that there is a divine P purpose in the present exceeding abundance of grain and we should give heed to taking proper care of it it is however unreasonable tor for us to expect farmers millers tithing stores merchants and relief societies to continue holding holdin all the surplus grain farmers must live as well as the rest of us and we ought not to blame them for trying bryin to sell their surplus hur tur plus pius it is generally generall considered quite right for them to kee keep several years su supply ply on hand for s seed e Z grain and house household 9 ol 01 use but is it not equally TILE THE DUTY OP OF EVERY LATTER latten DAY bai SAX gaist galst ST to do so if it each head of a family in utah would procure a sufficient supply of wheat to furnish his household iu in breadstuffs bread stuffs for on only three years we would hear bear no further cry t this 8 year at any rate about surplus the multitude of bins required for this purpose would soon absorb it Lookin looking gat at this in matter atter from a business bustness standpoint stand point the community would be financially benefited if all who can were to adopt the plan suggested and store a few years breadstuffs bread stuffs those who have to buy NY wheat heat or flour would thereby secure it now ata much much lower figure ligure than may be possible hereafter thus placing themselves and families in the enviable position that they need not fear hunger hungen if crops should fail fall and many of our farmers would be relieved from their present embarrass ments these thoughts we earnestly commend to the ge serious gerlous rious consideration of our people god alone knows how soon soona a bushel of wheat may be worth more than its weight in gold D M mcallister A retrospective GLAN CIru PLEASANT GROVE april loth 1885 editor deseret news while thi thinking laking upon the present condition of the latter day saints lately I 1 myrn my mind ind has reverted back to the TRIALS OF THE FORMER DAY saints when god called abraham he told him that his seed should be as numerous as the stars etc and that they should at one time dweir in a strange land and serve a strange strang c people who would afflict them four hundred years abrahams ham Iss son onIg isaac inherited the blessings and promises of his father and his san son jacob jacobin in turn became heir and he was greatly blessed of th the lord eLord hemar he married lour tour wives who bore him twelve sons who are tiie the heads of the twelve tribes of israel some very remarkable things are recorded about the sons of jacob the eleventh son when but a lad had dreams this was nothing unusual but he told his dreams to his older brothers and strange to say they were very much annoyed at them thein they seemed to fors badow that at some future time the other bro brothers therb would have to bow down to this lad still they were nothing but dreams the lad had bad other dreams which eua ena enraged ena end a his brethren still more and jacob r ci b I 1 their fattier became a little leal jeal lealous jealous ous also this jealousy and hatred increased in his ills brethren till they became desperate they feared that he would rule over them thein some day the boy was greatly in the minority ten 0 of f his hia brothers were mighty men two of them at one time had conquered a city and put the Inhabitant inhabitants sto to the sword but strange to say they were all AFRAID OF LITTLE JOSEPH because he had dreams ile he was an innocent youth yet in his teens and though nothing else was laid to ills charge he was called the dreamer in derision the hatred became so intense that his brethren conspired to take his life remarkable indeed that these mighty men could be wrought up to such a degree that they would want to destroy their little brother who had never done them the least harm I 1 They finally sold him to strangers and sent him to a foreign country as as a slave ile he was taken to egypt and arid sold to a nobleman whom he served faithfully but eventually be he was falsely accused of a high crime tried convicted and sent to prison to associate with thieves robbers and all kinds of bad characters though he ivas was as innocent as a lamb the lord had a watchcase watch care eare over him yet hs hd permitted him to remain IN PRISON more than two years he was eventually brought out tu to interpret the kin kings S dream dreams sin in which he manifested s uch such great reat wisdom superior to that of any man in egypt that he was made ruler over overall all ali the land under pharaba he lie stored up the corn in the time of plenty the famine came and eventually jacob and tind all his household came to egypt egypt for bread bowed to joseph and his reams were fulfilled verifying the saying of the poet god god goo moves in a in mysterious ister lous ious way ills his wonders to perform israel was settled in the land I 1 of goshen and fared well till josephs cleath death thel they were then put in bondage and the four 0 ur hundred years of evil treatment of his seed mentioned to Ab abraham commenced still they increased wonderfully and the egyptians became alarmed lest they would woul over run tun the country they increased their burdens and made them serve servo with rigor in order to check them stilt still they multiplier the people became terrified ter rifled and urged urge d the government to make laws to st stop OP their growth it became a 4 knotty question still something must be done clone tiis hiis great evil must be repressed the pressure was so great that the government actually passed a decree that tat all the male children of the hebrews should be put to death at birth and the tho mid midwives wives were made their executioners execution ers this law was A BILL OF ATTAINDER to all intents and purposes the little innocents atter alter the passa passage e of this act who dared clarea to be born we were r e condemner condemn condemned ea to death by law without a trial this law was not general plied to a small smail territory and only to a certain class of or people in this day it would be called special legislation what was the effect The little fellows came faster than ever they dodged dod 11 ed the executioners execution ers and hid tu themselves emsel ves all around the country it is said in the book of basher that I 1 the egyptians flowed plowed them up in the nelds holds the ings sings daughter went down to the river to bathe and saw a basket made of bull buil rushes on the vater water sue she drew it out and lo 10 one little fellow was in the basket her womanly curiosity was excited and she concluded to raise it as a pet As it was necessary to have llave a wet nurse tho alio boy being only three months mouths old shu site sent for alleg one and alid strange to say happened to employ the tiie c childs hild mother the child was named moses the egyptians were ignorant as asto to who these hebrew slaves were they looked upon them as an inferior class the descendants of some sheep herders gerders her ders who came into egypt in the time of the famine shepherds s were an abomination to the egyptians they considered themselves more refined and of a higher type moses was brought up in the kin kings kinis Is house and taught in all the learning of egypt and when lie he was forty years old he went out to see his kindred and saw sair an egypt egyptian uan dan smiting 11 a hebrew ile he looked around and seeing no one near he the egyptian and hid bid him in jn the sand and for this indiscretion ile he had to flee to a foreign country and jehile there to herd sheep forty years on the desert the egyptian egyptian whom moses slew was probably ya A taskmaster one of the lords a agents ants in carrying out his purposes there were yet forty of the four tour hundred years of evil treatment mentioned to abraham to come and moses was not justified in meddling with the pro gramme he should have left that kanj alone the lord would have disposed of him when ile he had done with him as he ild did with phara pharaoh oll these things are recorded in scripture P tire ana the apostle paul says ali ail 11 all ill seri serl scripture ture is given by inspiration of goda god and is profitable for doctrine hetler heller C kimball twenty seven years ago just after johnsons army came to utah while speaking of what the saints had bad just passed through prophesied that the time would come cone that god would play with this nation as h did with pharoah in egypt ANALOGOUS |