| Show HONOR 10 WHOM an eloquent plea lor jor the free coinage of silver fl fi OB do place on the editorial page of the plain dealer cleveland for sunday last it la in from the pen oi 01 ij E H whom low lew readers reader a will have trouble in identifying as an hou hoo li E Hol holden deris well known in this city ana territory as well as throughout the west went his paper Is beaded walks anu and talks about the no new westia and we quote a few paragraphs which we a e deserving of local perusal by reason of their appreciative references to utah pioneer lift I 1 have spent a month in utah idaho and other western states aber an absence of three years I 1 am able to note noie the effects of the panic and the condition of the people there it ia almost impossible tor for people eople of the east to understand the con condition gidon of the people in the new west went pioneer life always calls for the strong and the energetic and daring they are an expression of the survival of the fittest in this case those who had wings strong enough to fly over the mountains end and strong enough to endure the hardships have lived and made their homes there the pear peasant ant life of the new west these territories in the great basin beyond the mountains is in different vastly different 9 from anything that we know in the older states stales history some day will do justice to the mormons cormons Mor mons who ought homes in the ibe wit wil dei ness and who have made I 1 the desert to blossom as ai the rose who have done more than this who have made wheat fields to wave in the sunlight where once gray sage bruch grew before whether they went because of their religions or whether driven by an unseen power or whether they were made the forerunners of empires that are yoet et to be I 1 care not they deserve a all 1 I 1 cr credit dit for their energy to fo their fortitude and their courage they planted the territory and they have now made li a state fur better qualified to be a stale stae than auy any one of the now new states that has been admitted from the new northwest they went into a rainless country think of 1 it if you vou can they have provided farms that are surer of crops than any ol 01 the farms in the eastern states because they control the water and sunlight I 1 is that rich soil if irrigated i is as sure ot of a crop as the sunshine is to flow over it and their sunshine nun shine is from may till november but I 1 am wandering into generalities and I 1 intended to give a picture of the life as I 1 have seen ii ib in years gone by and ax as I 1 have seen een s it during the last month most of the people that went into these territories ent eni irom from the frontiers of the newer states the western and southern states stales or of ak were ere brought there by the mis min 1 marie of the mormon church from the poor and lowly of europe these people from our own sia sit es went out with ox teams oftentimes taking from six to eight month camping by the trail at night cooking their food in the rudest possible way in a kettle and a coffee pot sleeping the men upon the ground and the women in the wagons while their cattle their oxen or their horses grazed on the bunch grass at night how many of these trains I 1 have seen I 1 remember one year within six weeks to have counted from a place vi where here 1 I was located 1700 wagons I 1 have seen them by their camp campfires fires at night I 1 have seen them winding their slow trail along creeping as it were into a destiny which they hardly dreamed of yet all patient dusty and hopeful I 1 I 1 have followed them into the he different states and territories I 1 have seen them settle fettle upon the public domain and build first a house bouse from the poplar poles that they could gather from the streams shores or hillsides hill sides or dig a dugout into the bank and pu a roof over it or oat cut the turf and pile one piece upon another ur aunill ia the walls of the house were built 11 w without i a floor with only huoh buch a root roof as could be made of the long reeds or grasses gathered from the swales of a neighboring brook or river I 1 have seen the rude bunks for beds put one above another in these primitive houses and the table made by splitting a log and hewing one side aide and putting the he two halves together I 1 have seen the chairs in such houses bouses made from blocks of wood or a section of a slab and many manya a bench that has given me rest and hossli hospitality aliby in these cabins was wai but a slab with four logs legs put into it and many a woman have I 1 seen who was thankful for such a house and such accommodations who cheerfully ully put up with the privations because she hoped mohave to have a home and land and comfort in the future the house bouse built then the land must be cleared and broken and most of the land that thai is taken up in thal thai new west is covered with a low bush known as ai the sage brush it is about the color of a camel it is cold and gray and cheerless no animal but the jack jackrabbit rabbit lives in and around it but it always grows on fertile soil and is the garment that thai nature weaves to cover her nakedness in that great new west this sage brush must be torn out by the roots water must be bb brought on to the land by a ditch and then a crop too is sure to come if planted these are the conditions under which life has been started in that new country there are thousands of people today who have made but one step in advance of this primitive life As crops came to them and there was a market for what they produced reduced rod they have been able to build tetter better buildings and bring about them f selves more of the comforts of civilized life these people were helped by the mines anines the mines made a market for their produce their postles po aloes their wheat and whatever else they raised from their heir lands land if the mines were prosperous the farmers prospered and for years yeara the mines were prosperous and hence fience the product of the mine sold cold to the world brought back money which was distributed among the people for the products of their lands and their labor |
