Show WEALTH OF biah UTAH WHO EARNS IT AND WHO OWNS IT certain self seif conceited individuals who reside for a few weeks in fn utah become wonderfully impressed with their own elear clear sightedness dilate on the glaring evils existing here and show their overweening intelligence by finding fault with and stating their ability to put every wrong thing right in a trifle less than no time among other things they occasionally make the discovery that some of our citizens are endowed with a little inore more of this worlds goods than some others this discovery being something so unexpected by them holding as they must do that all the people here ought to be similarly situated in point of wealth no matter whether bithey they have been one ten or eighteen years laboring and toiling hard to obtain iti it it is no wonder they feel they are entitled to considerable credit finding ia mares aels nests is is an easy job forborne people especially when they set about the re arch in utah yet this one is of such huge C dimensions they must needs have credit for the magnitude of 0 f the discovery that thai a man here since 47 wiio wilo has been industrious us careful economical and prudent should have a better housea nicer place and possess blittle nire niro more property thad thai than the man who came and settled here say twelve twelvemonths months ago eq equally ily liy poor or equally rich as the case may be must certainly be a matter of wonder to them it is no cause for astonishment ta 11 ashment ment that others who a few years I 1 ago agg I 1 had not two dimes to rub against each other should be accumulating wealth by the hundred thousand if they are not church leaders but for ineal men of prominence ence in the church to gathe gather r the elements of wealth around them thern must necessarily be an evidence that tiley they have not come by it rightfully Is not this a strange kind of a logic why do not these men men remain in poverty just to show that they are not capable of acquiring property by honest industry and righteous deal and that they have not sufficient c lent knowledge to take care of and economically use what they do earn should not a man prove ills his claims to be religious by his iii fhi ency in matters of dollars and cents how row can he serve god if he uses the gifts which god has bestowed upon him and care for those bounties of providence which are bestowed on all human kind if they will but take a course to receive them true the rain falls upon the just and the unjust but why do not the just sit by the he fireside in idleness id lenes and let the rain d do 6 9 good rood to the unjust alone taking no advantage of the blessing thus bestowed d it must be very criminal for a just j man manto to attempt the accumulation of wealth according to this logic industry may be approve approved dof of by god but man should not be industry ous lous in temporal matters or if he be he should bestow all his goods upon the un unrighteous bus in fact none but the wicked should posses any wealth anu and and it is a sure sign of a man who professes to be religious being a hypocrite if he is blessed with sufficient means to make himself myself and h his is family comfortable now absurd as all this maybe may be it is really the result of the reasoning applied in ln the case of same of our leading catiz citizens ens when the plo pio pioneers peers came here they could not well be poorer tian than they were they tiley went to work with an energy industry and perseverance unparalleled alle led which has been duly credited to them at times by some of our most bitter enemies the results of that course are apparent today to day god blessed their labors and the land for their sake and after years of toll toil many of them em have succeeded in rearing comfortable for table homes and as the territory is receiving accessions to its numbers by im immigration migration these wise aeres acres seem to think that the latest comers who were brought here by the freely extended help of those possessing means in in the them territory belonging to the church should be as rich as well weli felho to do and supplied with all the comforts of life equally with the oldest settlers who havet have toiled tolled and struggled and labored against poverty for years breaking a new country and such a country until they got their heads above water how is it in other states and territories where settlers come on their own resources and bring with them a certain amount of capital in cash stock or other property are all equally rich there bah bahl the thing is almost too contemptibly contempt ably ridiculous to notice were it not for the sequel which follows by way of a moral we have a class of men in this community who prey upon its very vitals and yet proclaim themselves the enemies of our faith and of the people of this territory they trade and deal and by keen peculation anthe necessities of those whom the they y can take ad vantage of by fat go gov contracts by charges where they sell and in some instances by illegal trading they ibey accumulate wealth faster than any other men in the territory because our leaders are energetic ener enen gretic in their efforts by counsel and advice to warn the people against being wronged in a public and wholesale manner mauner and by devising means to defeat the unscrupulous s designs of those harpies they seek to traduce in every possible way the names and characters of men in whom our confidence as a people is based by years of observation and experience the wealth of this territory has been created by its citizens under the blessing of god some of it passes into the hands of ihen men who in any other othe r community would be subjected to the visitation of a vigilance committee I 1 and much of it remains with a large section of our citizens who have age and experience peri ence enough in the ways of the world to keep aloof from the ch itches clutches of such characters we are becoming wealthy as a people in our own fashion by digging plowing planting andson and sowing harvesting and disposing of a part of our produce and we calculate to become rich as a whole there is no man who will take the counsel of our leaders in temporal as well as in spiritual matters but will become wealthy beyond question and in possession of a permanent prosperity which will steadily grow and increase much oi of the wealth of utah in the past has been carried out of the Verri tenni territory tory by those who had no interest identical with our people a condition of things which we trust will not continue a great while longer we do hope our people will increase sufficiently y fast in wisdom to control their own wealth and use and employ it to their own advantage ere they are much older |