Show OUR CHICAGO LETTERS state papers and public documents of all kinds are the materials from which history to is largely compiled but the historian is not entirely disregardful of the contemporary comment on the documents when the history of utah for 1889 comes to be written the historian cannot paw pass over the report of governor thomas for that year in many respects it to is a remarkable document but comment on it will be looked for in vain not an influential journal in the country has reviewed it in full the fact is it will not bear touching without re revealing vealin the flimsy material it to is composed of of and american journals are afraid that by handling it without gloves the cause of mormonism 1 would be helped let us try to anticipate a little of what the historian will find for 1889 ike he will find that utah has forty five incorporated cities and towns thirty four of which we are absolutely sol free from debt and seven of them with an indebtedness of less than 1000 each this fact win will not make a bad showing in history further on will be read 1113 since ince 1880 the foreign born population of utah has been increased by mormon immigration 11 1 here is something to mystify the historian were there no foreigners in utah in 1889 but mormon ones the governors words would lead one to think so but when we read about dago that shot the irishman and the irishman that shot the shyster lawyer and the prize fighting affrays and gambling brawls we will be perplexed for Mor mormon mow foreigners dont indulge in any of these amusements but perhaps bagos are not considered foreigners because columbus colmbus u discovered the country and the pope gave it to spain the governor wants the grazing lands entirely made over to a few cow barons what charming political economys econom forty years ago kansas was a desert as rauch much as parts of utah and if a few barons got it for pasture what a nice state of affairs we would have now I 1 forty five years ago it was said mid that an ear of corn or wheat could not be raised raided in all utah and if it were granted then to a baron or two there would be no flour in utah today to feed miners forty five years hence the recommendation of the governor in 1889 will be looked on as a mere dream or as an the prompting romp ting of one interested in end hind gr abling there is a great deal said about the mining interests of utah and of the recovered from the bowels of the earth the fact is utah mining is a myth it costs dollar for dollar to get the little gold and silver that is got out of the ground and as the governor says were the production of lead to become unprofitable nearly all the mining in the territory would cease P you you we see the mining interests of utah hang by a hair and the carpet bags know it that is why they are so desperate in trying to steal the property property perty of mormons cormons Mor mons P made by gro hard rd labor |