| Show NOT noir WELL WELI we have bare received a copy of the th las hawaiian balian gazette of recent date dat which contains contain an n editorial headed thriving mormons cormons Mor mons it begins the of utah have made the largest and most successful experiments in agricultural ind in astry destry within the united states brigham young boang was waa one of tho the foremost organizers of the world he saw maw that land speculation must be prevented in order to secure general prosperity he be prevented it he allowed every man to own an aa much land as aa he could bould cultivate and no more recreated he created diversified industries he did the thinking for thousands thou stands of industrious but ignorant men A man succeeded only by honest work he destroyed deal royed the line between the rich and the poor referring to general industrial conditions in americo america in comparison with those in utah the gazette oes MC finues more remarkable still is the fant fact that the average net income of each mormon Is ia greater than the average grow gross income of the wage earners of the united stated por for some years a considerable percent age of the american farmers have been in sore distress ar ac the same time the mormon farmers have been well off and thriving the gentile farmer has been look looking to congress for aid and comfort the mormon mormon tanner farmer has been quietly s supporting up orting himself him Belf prom from the atlantic atlanta to the te pacific the land is covered witt with the debris of wrecked fortunes only utah la Is exempt and only the mormon settlements ett lemento AR an with most moat people who do not display calm judgment the hawaiian gazette ov erdoes the business in do dee mormon thrift and nol mor man misfortune in the industrial eire itie it Is true that the industrial Indu atria among toe the mormon people generally are superior to those of other parts of the but it to emphatically umair to the gentile farmer to cast upon him the irti reflection lection sought bought to be thrown by our honolulu the former farmer of tola thin country independent of bin religious opinions lona or assort aifons has bbb accomplished a work 0 01 wonderful magnitudes magnitude and he has attended to u his business le Is far fr arm m being a w rock wreck but because of religious association lutor mation and alma aims the farmers as a 0 community are lu in advance of the obber sea ana this without any upon too me energy integrity or industry of the be gentile far farmer farmere merl individually such as B the be hawaiian gazette fancies it is has ha discovered again the gazette la 18 unfair to prest in assuming anat chedid he did this or wat that and prevented the other thing asa As a leader of the people he be did bis big snare hire in attaining desirable deal rable r rc e suite but dad so no in expunction junction ex with wit b hij hl people without the be combined tUpp of the latter as aa body he be would have been powerless ht did hla his work rio not so aa an autocrat whom the tb people had to obey but as aa a leader whom ahorn be people loved and with whom they delighted to labor shoulder boulder to in perfect unison a leader whose whole genius they rec recognizer recognize whose i alire tion they hey had bad practical lotical knowledge 01 and full confluence in and alms almb and they were in perfect harmony with the cormons cormona were not governed by an inqui trial gampoy BB as the gazette at ak sorts berti but being taught correct principles they hey governed by intelligent and willing mitY to those the gazette also aleo refers to the mormon an a being of the lowest classes of 01 Buro europe peps which statement tat ement li in an error prom from the earliest earli eat organization of we the the mormon community had some om of we the best beat blood of america in its member membership abit and while MADY ol of teem were wele from among the poor people the lowest coweal classes either in 12 this country or sise where contributed practically noti nothing jing to that hat for honest poverty Is not bace base oeM the good results shown byrbe by the thriving cormons mormons are oot not the result of iadus trial deB neither bra are they pro deuced by people who are in 41 serfdom ignorance and crime at As to the lack of accurate information and judgment dis alb played by the gazette in discussing we the mormon people here to an extract from we he sanie article th ore ere to ia another revelation in the mormon development the financial records of their church show abow that it paid out and american were willing to corruptly receive over tor for preventing hostile legislation in congress Con greas this thin is ii discreditable to both mormon and gentile of course of course the transactions re berred to were not discreditable to both mormon and Gent gentile 19 1 for the potent reason that they were never made and of course coure ePt the records do not make the be showing claimed the gazette has very imperfect ideas of 0 mormon affairs afi alra anil and its if expression of many of theme is all the more inexcusable when the facts could have been learned right in the home of its ite publication from people whose residence its IB here and who have bare knowledge of existing conditions |
