| Show interesting reminiscences THEBE la Is a charm in perusing an old volume of a newspaper that to the reflective tive mind is truly fascinating one is carried back to the past and feels himself actually conversing with or listening to the sages who are dead and gone sometimes he to is astonished at their w wisdom or at any rate im with their honest faith and simple innocence in perusing the pages of the first volume of the DESMET NEWS which begins with june 16 15 1850 and ends with august 19 1861 1851 one meets with many passages that today make interesting reading there is one in par nicular that is peculiarly appropriate to our time it is to be found in the issue of 0 january 11 1851 in view of the great hubbub raised at present about the fostering of home industries and the development of domestic resources this document has a peculiar significance it to is the message of governor brigham you young n g to the deseret legislature dated december 2 1850 it is one of the most complete state documents to be found in the annals of united states history in political wisdom it is incomparable it embraces every topic needful and relevant to a state government it dwells forcibly on industrial subjects an extract from the state paper aul wul 91 show best what it excels in as an well as aa demonstrate the superior wisdom and penetrative sagacity of the author here is au an extract relating to industries it is highly desirable that the capitalists of this state should introduce machinery for the manufacture of all kinds of machinery that will hereafter be required for factories etc stoves also and other articles of heavy importations should be manufactured by our own enterprise and industry incalculable benefits would result to this community if they would engage in almost every kind of manufacture not dot only iron but paper books woolen cloth leather crockery stone ware and sugar upon this ibis last named article i will an submit b wit a single estimate for your consideration not more than twenty thousand persons esons would use pounds allowing ng only one ounce a day aay to each person the expense of the transportation alone at the low rate of ten cents a pound would amount to a sum equal to construct the most extensive sugar facto lory and when considered in connection with ITI the superior quality of the beet beat and facility with ith which ch it can be raised in ab ax these ese aley valleys renders nd it a most suicidal policy for us to be dependent d ea adent upon other than our own resources for that article in the neighborhood of what has usually been termed little salt lake now iron Count your exploring party of last winter discovered inexhaustible beds of the very best of iron ore A settlement is now being made at that point there is no doubt but that the demand and price consequent upon the distance from any successful competition will prove sufficient inducement for the capitalists to invest their means in whatever will necessarily prove a safe investment and insure an abundant return any and all kinds of encouragement by throwing around them an energetic and sufficient government should unquestionably be given it is wisdom to let capital be associated socia ted in infant settlements bemuse because there is in a necessity for it for a time but to lay the foum foundation lation for mowed capital ests to monopolize against labor is no part of my policy politics or religion to encourage enterprise in constructing works of magnitude it may be grant privileges but they should be so guarded as to be made amenable to the power granting them at all times to prevent re teX granted the abuse of the powers gran granted or diverting them to any other object than the one designed read bead carefully the last sentences in the foregoing and compare the trusts privileges and labor troubles of today with what was anticipated and what should be guarded against as aa pictured in that message that the sugar project at that time was not a practical success is no reflection on its promoters heavy and cum brous machinery machla ery was imported from england at almost incalculable expense experts in sugar making bete were brought from france and germany but there were local circumstances and hindrances which they dij did comprehend and thus the solution of the sugar problem was delayed but the question is now solved and on the lines laid down by governor young and his followers in glancing further over the first volume of the NEWS there appears in th the issue of june 22 1850 an article reproduced from the little rock bock ark democrat Demoor cd the article to is a review of the situation in utah at the time it is interesting from a political and religious standpoint point to young utah as well as to old utah it will make instructive reading and to old and young to saint and sinner it will show under what circumstances and under what auspices our commonwealth common mon wealth was founded it will also show that the more conservative opinion of the time did not endorse the course of mobs and ruffians of malign ore era and slanderers slander ers a as s pursued towards the mormon aj fathers here is the article the history of these progressive times is ful of wonderland wonder sand many of the events border upon the miraculous amongst th the occurrence urr n i of the present age the M application of the mormons cormons to enter the union on as a state challenges in a 9 most striking manner the attention of this nation the history 0 of the career of this people arm from the period of their exodus from the states up to the present time savors about as strongly of the special intervention of providence in their behalf as the events of the times limes when the chosen servants of the lord led the israelites rael ra itna out of their bondage in egypt persecuted by all the sects in illinois and nd missouri their temples desecrated j by the assaults of mobs their holy of holies 01 I 1 polluted by the sacrilegious vio lence jence or of law defying rioters they shake the dust of a civil civilized land ira from their feet and flee away to the desert and the wilderness seeking among wild beasts and savages the security and peace in the practice of their religious rites which christendom denied them arriving in this far distant region they erected anew their altars and their temples and beneath the smiles of providence idenie their community rapidly inc increase roase in numbers until cities towns villages and hamlets bedeck the valley of the great basin and toe noise of a nation of workers engaged in all the arts arcs of peace is heard reverberating rever berating among the moun tain tops ps and through the valleys disturbing tu in the silence which since creation h had br blooded brooded ed over the entire domain unbroken save by the howl of a prairie w wolf olf and tho whoop ot the indian under the influence of the labor of the people gradually the solitary places are made glad and the wilderness blossoms as the rose when suddenly an empire destined to rival that which they have left behind them starts into existence on the shores of the pacific hedging them about with a cordon of communities and transferring by a miracle almost their ultima thule or lands end at once into a central locality interpreting this last manifestation fe to indicate that the true location of the new jerusalem of the latter day saints has been found they adopt a constitution ution and seek at the hands of congress ress admission aa admission mission into the union let them them come we say and let politicians patriots and prophet prop heti consult together in in the councils of the nation for the peoples good we have had patriots and politicians for our counselors in times CIL past ast but a delegation of prophets from salt lake might at this time prove 11 very seasonable the following extract from a letter of recent date from the mormon country shows that miracles are still being wrought in their land the crickets have not troubled us any this year hundreds and thousands of gulls made mad the their r ap appearance tle ar a n ce early in the f E pang and as soon as the e e crickets r appeared the prig su gulls is m made ade war on them and they have swept t them lean clean e no BO that there is scarce ar hoket to be found fouad in the valley we look upon this thia as one of the manifestations fe of the favor of the almighty for the mountaineer mountain eert say ay that they never found gulls here till the mormons cormons came m eca it was truly cheering to see the flock of these saviors extending several miles in ler gab come from the lake early in the morning and eating crickets all day then at sundown sun down form in a mass and wing their way to the lake for a nights night 19 rest one curiosity about them is that they dont don teat eat the crickets merely to live but after feeding themselves they would vomit them up and go to eating again and thus continue eating throughout the entire day it is a matter of astonishment to see how fast they will pick them up and a person could form but a poor estimate of the amount destroyed daily by these winged saviors suffice it to say that about three weeks after the gulls made their appearance scarce a bricke could be seen this is plainly a miracle in behalf of this people as the sending of the quails in the camp of the israelites and what makes it more manifest to is the fact that althou although gli in the surrounding valleys where there are no crops the gulls came by them to the farms and stayed there till they had cleared them off although men were at work around them at the time there has been no damage done by crickets this season this is an exact reprint of the artl article cle as reproduced from the little rook rock De democrat in the NEWS of june 22 1860 1850 |
