| Show AN ali EVED EX EDITORS Tows sATUR SATURDAY DAir TALK A friend friend who to la a very prominent man in public life remarked to me the other do day that one of the great questions which was forcing itself upon the attention tion of thinking men concerning the future of the republic to is the conflict of races in the south the white and colored elements ara are brought in close proximity to each other and with bild bad results in the northern states he be said there was a great influx of low foreign element which was having havinga inga a bad effect upon the character of the th population and was likely to con tribute to the degradation of the caucasian type he deplored the tendency there was in many quarters qu artere to look 11 with toleration and in some instances with encouragement upon miscegenation he had heard beard a prominent religious man advocate this plan of ef bringing about unity of the racer and he bad been inspired with horror at the thought the rapidity of increase of the lower ram races he viewed as something to be dreaded in the south the colored people were ing very rapidly and the admixture of the white blood with them was waa hybridizing hybrid izing the race and gradually destroying the higher type his remarks suggested many reflections and I 1 could not refrain from con tra tr asting otting our situation in utah with the situation of many of the other communities muni ties to which he alluded the people of utah are to be congratulated upon their position the purity of the caucasian race la Is more likely to be preserved in our territory than in many other portions of the united states in the first place there to is a well founded dislike to intermarriage inter marriage or intimate aeRo association clation with inferior races the were not more mor par titular in regard to keeping their descent pure than the people of utah ought tobe to be the experience of our missionaries has baa taught us that there to ie a great difference in blood and in races this has been proved by long years of experience there is ig no disputing the fact that there la Is a greater susceptibility to the truth among some races and families than there to among bothem in old times there was waa a chosen racie race for reasons which space will not permit to be enlarged upon here that race had bad greater promises made to it than were given to obber others and its members were careful to marry among themselves numerous instances might be cited from the bible to prove this through moses strict commands were given by the lord to his people forbidding the contracting of marriage with certain nations the great king So solomom lomov whose reign commenced so auspiciously brought woes boes upon himself ble bie house and his people and embittered the closing years of his bis life by violating these injunctions and ma marrying trying strange women 22 but long before the days of hosep the father of the faithful P as abraham to is called exhibited the importance which he attached to the forming of a correct marriage relation the greatest hopes which he entertained for the future prominence and glory of his ble posterity centered in isaac it would be a mis fortune then for lebac to marry into an n in inferior zarin r family fama r or race T to 0 prevent 40 t tale J 10 in and n IT to secure ep re a wife fortify to AO tie be thi the mo mother th er 0 of a posterity such aa abraham had bad reason to bet bel eve tu lord intended to give him he es genf his hia steward on a journey ot of hundreds of miles to select a wife for his son no doubt there were hundreds hundred per haps thousands of young bomeli bome among the peoples our surrounding surround roundIng ng abraham from akong among whop he be might have made a cladi a e of a W ale ir a for lease isaac but he bd bad higher bibber views than that fie looked to the fut future tire I 1 and desired mt big son on to ally himself as a husband WI jifca a woman vf the pure bloot blood this care resulted happily ne ke proved he to be a jewel of a woman the principle of which I 1 speak wat wa well illustrated in the lives of isaac and rebekah Bebe kahs Is win twin sons esau and jacob esau disregarding the family amily tradition and the wishes of his paren parents tb took as wives S women of influential families of the immediate neighborhood but they were of a lower race the effect upon his posterity wa wart marked his descendants were and they formed a strong warlike nat nation loi but they were far inferior to the nation which sprang from his brother who had made a long and ancl tedious journey back to his mothers gothere mo there kindred to form his alliances in marriage in our day there is a disposition among many young people to resent any interference on the part of parents witla with the selection of hur bus bands and wives for them they think it is their business and their business alone to choose their own partners for life while I 1 believe that much unhappiness has resulted IV in some instances from the unwise match of and JIM in other instances from interfering and thwarting affection there have been very many marriages which have been followed by misery and the wont of consequences because the advice or of parents and friends frienda had bad not been sought and followed young men and young women can not lose anat anything by conferring with their parents parente 01 this important subject the parent have had expert experience itice in life ans and in tha moat anost of instances they have profited by this experience if they ara faithful latter latte r rasy day saints they have at a deep interest 14 the alliances which their obil children drent make for upon these depends the future of their own posterity ayoung A young person therefore who imagines that a a rather father or mother has no right to a voice in such an important matter aft marriage makes a great blunder A reflecting farseeing far seeing father and mother must perceive and feel that in the interests of the future of their posterity it jig is of equally as great importance that their sons and should marry members of good families and good blood as that they themselves should do so looking to the future as the faithful members of our church must do they hope their names will be honorably perpetuated through their lineage and how can this be possibly done if the children enter into marriage contracts perhaps attracted by a face or som sud sudden U fancy utterly indifferent sis g to the dolid qualities or real worth of the parties with whom they link or the character oter of the family to which they belong under the teachings and institutions of bt our church t the he tendency wilt will be to jay aay majed more and more attention to this subject greater care will naturally to form correct certainly this is much needed for at the present time in abe he world the proper mating of the sexes to is almost entirely neglected owners of one fine stock horses cattle beep and poultry spare a no pains improve to their quail mee g they are watchful of their pedigree gree they see am that they are mated so se kt to produce the best results and if they th can obtain a strain of animal that will excel others they think themselves amply repaid for all 11 the rouble and money it has cost them As a people the latter day saints have the greA greatest interest in developing the breed of man in bringing into action his highest qualities and pow e erff this is one of the missions assigned to ual u and we cannot overestimate its importance in utah we have a good foundation to start on our people are not of mongrel breeds breads we have in our territory today more new england people and their descendants than can be found in any other community of our number outside of new england itself those who have come from other parts of the united states are their congeners conveners cong eners under these circumstances the people of utah are warranted in taking the tae most hopeful view of thelt their future with the facilities now possessed and the temperate and virtuous habits babits of the people crowned with the blessing of the lord there is no reason rby there should not be a very superior race brought up here strong stalwart and healthy physically and intellectually bright and progressive mentally prom from europe those who have been ere a are a from enar and ad scotland wales the north of ireland germany and switzerland and d from the three scandinavian nations t one there are no better elements to fie found anywhere out of which to borm form a great people school teachers who bo have taught schools in the tates east and west of jis us have freely aid id that they never in all their experience epoe found children who were brighter 9 ox more apt to learn than their pupils were in ID ulab our young men who have ve gone east to college have carried off 01 the first brat honors of their classes in most n oat instances and this has been ia BO marked that some of the au bori of the different colleges have supposed that these students dents were picked out because of their aptitude afe ufe at learning and have been surprised to learn that they were only an average of the young men of the territory the facilities for education which swe are now being multiplied in utah and which are beng beag made use of to the best beat advantage will in the course of A few years produce a very marked effect upon the rising generation the last census shows shown there was a email per cent of illiteracy among the people and that there are more alien who speak the english language in our territory than in thirty tw two of the stAte sand and two of the territories there aft r comparatively few of what are known as the inferior races rao in utah a smaller mailer proportion than in any other of the pacific and territories terrI teries for all told even if we include a indiana they only number 2006 gzorge Q CANNON |
