may escape those powerful temptations that are approaching. The cloud is gathering in blackness. You see what were the results in Kirtland of this spirit of speculation. Therefore, take warning. What did we come here for? We came to build up Zion, not to build up Babylon. The voice of the Almighty called us out from the midst of confusion, which is Babylon, to form a union and a lovely brotherhood, in which we should love one another as we love ourselves. When we depart from this purpose, the Spirit of God withdraws from us to the extent of that departure. But if we continue in the extent of than they ever have done. There to minister in His name. Divine lar prayer that I wish to refer you to a very singuwas offered, in former times by a very good man, although in one or two instances he plainly exhibited faults and weakHe was not like the Quaker of nesses. Yet, we are told, that he whom I heard when I was a boy. was a man after God's own heart. He had a dog which displeased God loved him, and he possessed him. Now, the Quakers do not bemany superior qualities-qualities lieve in killing anybody, not even a that I wish every Latter-day Saint serpent. This Quaker wished to possessed. But he fell, through stand by his principles, but he when we received the Gospel, there temptation, on two occasions. The wanted to get rid of this dog. So is a corresponding increase of light man to whom I refer was King he turned him out in the streets, and intelligence, and there is a David. He was but a boy when and called out so that everybody powerful preparation for that which God told the Prophet Samuel to could hear, "Mad dog; mad dog." is to come. And because of our anoint him king over Israel. Why The result was, the people stoned faithfulness and our adherence to should he be called a man after God's the dog to death. the covenants we have made, the own heart? That is a singular exfoundation upon which we stand pression for God to make in regard becomes like the pillars of heaven-to a man. Would not we all like to those covenants which we made immovable. witnessed. have Him make such a statement Now, you are a good people here. in regard to ourselves? If He would God loves you. He delights in your say to us that we were men after righteousness, and He would not His own heart, we should feel like to see the scenes enacted here rather pleased and encouraged, and that were in Kirkland. There is no think we were pretty good people. need of it. We hold in our own I speak of this wishing that each hands the power to preserve our of us might pattern after these exselves from those things that divid- traordinary qualities which David ed the Saints in Kirkland and over-possessed, because we shall have to threw one-half of the Twelve. The acquire them, and it is only through Lord does not wish that, at this late a spiritual education that we can day, these scenes should again be obtain such important qualities. David could not have acquired them, I believe, unless he had known something about the Gospel. I believe he understood the Gospel and had the Spirit of the Almighty, which enabled him to secure those qualities of which I wish to speak. One of these good qualities which David possessed was shown at the time when Saul was seeking his life. David had been anointed King of Israel, and Saul sought to keep him from that position. At this time I wish to refer to, Saul was asleep in a cave, with his men around him, they being asleep also. He was in David's power-he was David's deadly enemy, and had been seeking for some time to take away his life. There are but few men in this generation, or any other, who, had they been placed in such circumstances, would have had any hesitancy in removing the block in the way to such a position as that to which David had been The god of the world is the gold and the silver. The world worship this god. It is all-powerful to them, though they might not be willing to acknowledge it. Now, it is designed, in the providence of God, that the Latter-day Saints should show whether they have so far advanced in the knowledge, in the wisdom and in the power of God that they cannot be overcome by the god of the world. We must come to that point. We have also got to reach another standard, a higher plane: we have got to love God more than we love the world, more than we love gold or silver, and love our neighbor as ourselves. us. We are considerably advanced in the knowledge of the things of God, and are qualified to act in His behalf; yet we are not entirely out of the wilderness, if I may be permitted to use that expression. The time will come when we shall overcome the world and every tempta- appointed. But David would not tion that can be advanced to effect do it. There was King Saul, We are now advancing to that asleep, and there was David and point; but we have not yet reached his servant standing over him. His it. And now comes a time when servant said to him, "God hath dethe Latter-day Saints will probably livered thine enemy into thine hand be subjected to temptation greater this day: now, therefore, let me and more subtle than we ever again will experience, as a people. But let me tell you that after we have passed through the scenes that are now before us, the clouds will break; and as 'resident Woodruff has said. we will stand on a much higher plane of righteousness, of faith, power and influence than ever before. We will have the approval and blessings of the Almighty, and we will have influence with the world. They will respect us more وو There was something grand in this trait of character which David exhibited on that occasion as well as on many others. How do we feel under such circumstances? and how do we feel sometimes in regard to our friends and neighbors who hold the Holy Priesthood? Do we slander them, and call "Mad dog, mad dog," so that others will slander them also? Or do we seek to sustain them as our brethren? Do we try to ascertain their faults and weaknesses, or do we try to ascertain their good qualities? Do we regard as sacred that Priesthood and that authority which they hold, as David did in the case of Saul? Or is it otherwise with us? On one occasion David was tempted, and he called upon Joab, the commander of his forces, to number the children of Israel. This was contrary to the command of God. Joab, wicked though he was, did not feel disposed to carry out David's command, and he reasoned with David. But David insisted on it being done. So Joab numbered the people of Israel. David thus yielded to temptation, notwithstanding the nobility of character he had exhibited on former occasions. Well, the Lord was displeased with him, and He called His prophet and sent him to tell him that he might choose one of three things. The prophet therefore said to David, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days' pestilence in thy land?" He had to select one of these three afflictions. He would not select famine, because he had plenty of wealth, and he could escape the effects of famine, while the people would suffer. He would smite him, I pray thee, with the not choose the second one, bespear at once, even to the earth, cause it might seem as though, and I will not smite him the he being a fighting man and second time." But David said, generally successful in war, he "Destroy him not: for who can was trusting in the arm of stretch forth his hand against the Lord's anointed, and be guiltless?" Saul had been anointed of God. David held that anointing sacred. How is it with us? Here are brethren before and around us in this congregation who have received from God a holy, sacred Priesthood, flesh. So he said he would put himself in the hands of the Lord, and take the pestilence. The pestilence therefore commenced; "and there died of the people from Dan even to Beer-sheba seventy thous and men." In this David exhibited great nobility of character. When the angel of the Lord was about to smite the city of Jerusalem with the pestilence, David cried out unto the Lord and said, "Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house." There was an exhibition of one of the grandest traits in the human character. In connection with this, the prayer that David made, and to which I have made reference,shows his heart and the confidence which he had in God. I would that we could all feel to make such a prayer. "Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting." What a grand and beautiful prayer! Can we feel to make a prayer of that kind? I fear not. I am afraid some of us would hardly be willing to ask God to search our hearts to see if there was anything wrong in us. Yet we should be willing to make this prayer; and every one of you who is faithful and worthy of celestial glory will see the day when you can make this prayer. God bless you, brethren and sisters, and let us remember the things that have been talked about during this conference. Let us try to be a little better in the future than we have been in the past, and not let the gold and silver make us unwise and foolish. Amen. PAPACY. "immaculate conception" of the the miracle, praising God and Mary Then, who should have thought it? From heaven came the assistance needed. The Roman church was vindicated by no less a one than the Virgin herself. The great church fights not with mere theories but with revelations and miracles. Now, the Catholic Church had a proof for their new dogma. For had not Mary herself come direct from heaven to France in order to tell the world that she was "immaculate;" and who can now doubt? The visions were there, witnessed by thousands, the well which so miraculously sprung from the cave was there. What more could this sceptical world want? This water, although nothing but common drinking water-as has been proved by chemical analysishas the most wonderful healing power of any in the world. Hundreds have been miraculously cured thereby, and thousands upon thousands have derived benefit from it. A few instances are here given from Catholic sources: Louis Bouriette, in Lourdes, had been blind in one eye for twenty years. Νο doctor could heal him, a very common circumstance. As soon as he heard of the spring water he sent for some, and bebold! on its first application he was healed. Dr. Dozous testified to the truth of this miracle. It happened in this way: On the 11th February, 1858, three little girls went out from the small town of Lourdes in order to gather wood for fuel. Two of them were sisters. As they had to wade over a creek, Bernadette, a somewhat weak child of fourteen, was left a short distance behind, when she suddenly perceived a mild wind, and as she lifted her head she saw, to her great wonder, a glorious vision. A cave in the rock near by was filled with light the brilliancy of which made the walls of the cave shine, and in the middle of the light appeared the beautiful form of a woman, a virgin, at once indescribable, lovely and majestic. Her garments were like a a sun, her feet were bare and ornaLuther, having been once request-mented with roses. Her hands were ed to examine a theological candi- folded over her bosom, and she had date in order to ascertain whether a long, snow-white rosary, the beads he was qualified for the duties of a of which were connected with a preacher of the gospel, abruptly chain of gold. A gold cross formed asked the question: "What do you the ornament of the rosary. The know about the devil?" The ques- vision smiled to the child as only tion may seem absurd, but there is angels can smile. more wisdom in it than appears on From this time a secret power the surface, for he who does not led Bernadette to the cave; and no know thoroughly the evil in its ori- fewer than eighteen times appeared gin and consequences can certainly the beautiful lady and spoke to her. not apply the best remedies against Sometimes these visions were had in it. Perhaps this general principle the presence of 10,000 persons or is applicable in another instance? more; for the report soon went out "What do you know about the and attracted people from near and devil?" was Luther's question. far. And no wonder. On one oc"What do you know about pa- casion the apparition told Bernapacy?" is ours. dette that she wished to see many people come to this cave; on another, that a chapel should be built over it; people must repent and that sinners must be prayed for. And in order to leave a lasting monument of the visit to the earth, the heavenly visitant caused a spring to flow from out of the cave, the healing powers of which we shall presently learn to know. Nor was there a lacking in direct miracles. On one occasion as Bernadette was talking A lawyer in Paris, Heinrich Lasto the apparition, she lifted her sene, became blind in both eyes. hand and inadvertently held it in His friend, Minister President the flame of a burning candle. But Charles de Freycinet, advised him she was not hurt thereby. For a to try the water from Lourdes. quarter of an hour the flame did so, and to his great surprise as touched the hand and Bernadette soon as he had applied it his sight did not know it. This happened in was restored. We owe this lawyer the presence of thousands of per- a most able treatise on the miracles sons, all of whom acknowledged of Lourdes. Very few of our young people in Utah have any idea of the strength of that great church known as the Catholic, whose motto seems to be: Extra ecclesiam nulla salus (outside of the church no salvation). They do not realize how the most stupendous lie ever forged comes wonderfully near the truth; that the counterfeit is so skilfully wrought as to deceive, if it were possible, even the elect. But a knowledge of this is essential to the right understanding of the word of God, much of which in prophetical language refers exclusively to papacy. The following lines are therefore devoted to this subject. In the year 1854 the Roman Catholic Church added a new dogma to her already rich supply, that of the Jean Bouhohorts, a poor child of Lourdes, was dying. His limbs became cold and stiff, the light of the eyes had gone out. "He is dead," said the father, but the mother, with the power of despair, took the child and carried it to the cave. Here she immersed the body in the ice cold water, and there held it for a quarter of an hour. Then she went home and laid it in the cradle. Next day the child was well enough to go out to play. Hundreds saw this miracle. Maria Lanou-Domenge, a widow 80 years of age, suffered from lameness of the left side. She could not take a step without assistance. She sent for the wonderful water from Lourdes, and after having drank a glass of it she was perfectly healed. Her doctor saw it and was astonished. He These miracles were not confined to the Catholic world. A Protestantic free-thinker, Herr Max M-, was the director of a variety theatre. He had a boil on his right hand which no doctor could remove, and which threatened to render it impossible for him to handle his violin bow. His wife wanted him to drink a glass of this healing water. At first he only ridiculed the idea, but finally was prevailed up on to try it. After the first glass he exclaimed, pale and excited: "God, I am cured!" And so he was. In the year 1867 a dying lady was recalled to life in the little town of Maquens. Jews have also been benefited by the water, showing that the business of Lourdes is no fanatical party concern. "And is all this true?" the reader exclaims. Well, Catholic authors tell us of these and many other cases and offer 15,000 francs as a reward to anyone who can prove that there is one single falsehood in any of the statements made. After having done this they feel justified in exclaiming Digitus Dei est hic (here is the finger of God). The spring of Lourdes is still there. A magnificent church has been built over the spot. Thous ands of pilgrims come every year to worship Mary and to be healed by the water, which is likewise sent in bottles to all parts of the world. In Africa the negroes are being converted through it. In Asia wonders are performed thereby, as also in North and South America and Australia. Through this water the beneficent influence of heaven has been brought to bear upon all parts of the world. But then the miraculous water and the miracles? Well, I am always a little cautious in accepting stories of miracles. When in Bethlehem I was shown a limestone which through contact with Mary has received miraculous qualities, "giving milk," and I was told that thousands had been benefited thereby. Now I am informed that thousands are being benefited by this water. I do not know; I am in no position to judge about that. Still, it is possible that a spring has miraculously appeared in the cave, and that thousands have been benefited by it. There is no absolute need of denying this. On the contrary, the word of God explicitly states that the "son of perdition," or antichrist should perform all kinds of wonders. "He doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from Heaven on the earth in the sight of men and deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles, which he had power to do in the sight of the beast." Rev. 13: 13, 14. story of Lourdes that is very appar- with herself. An action so silly ent. The Pope in Rome needed our Catholic authors ascribe to the something to turn up in order to blessed mother of our Savior! Alprove the new dogma; and this he though I am no Catholic I could gets in the shape of a revelation of not force myself to believe that Mary the Virgin herself. But the Virgin would leave her present place in found none except a little child order to have a little game of this through which to communicate. kind in a cave anywhere in the This is odd, and awkward, too, to whole earth. the church. Not the Pope, not the cardinals, not the priests, not any of the numerous monks in the whole Catholic Church were worthy of a visitation of Mary. The Pope is, according to his own assertion, the viceroy of Christ, but the mother of Christ, when visiting this earth, ignored the fact altogether and lodged in a cave instead of in the Vatican, communicates with a child instead of with the head of the church. The Catholic authors wisely keep silent upon this point. It is true that we have testiThere must be something wrong monies in favor of these miracles; somewhere. but to my mind it is no fortunate Suppose that the Pope wanted circumstance that the principal to send to the king of Con- witnesses are priests, doctors and go, say, a load of rum or lawyers. In matters of this kind it some other article such as the Chris- is safer to form a judgment without tians use for missionary purposes. the aid of the representatives of Let us also suppose that a papal these professions--particularly the nuncio already stays with the king, priests. and that the one who comes with the message altogether ignores the first nuncio, and finds a nigger boy to introduce him to his dark majesty. What conclusion would be drawn from this transaction? Either that the first nuncio was a traitor, whom the Pope no longer trusted, or that the second was a humbug. So in the case under consideration. The Pope claims to be the ambassador of heaven; but a heavenly being, "God's mother," knows him not or does not take any notice of him. Poor Pope! He must have lost his standing in heaven. The What follows from all this? Let appearance of the Virgin in us hear what the priests say: "The an obscure cave in France, if to be wonders in Lourdes are a glorious credited at all, seems to prove that testimony of the truth and the his Holiness is a great humbug, and divinity of the Catholic Church." known as such in the heavenly "By them God has solemnly sanc- courts. If the Virgin had appeared tioned the worship of Mary." to the alleged head of the church, "Justified us, through our dear Lady that would have been a proof of the of Lourdes, the Catholic priesthood. divinity of that church; but the apTo these, not to a Methodist preach-pearance of the Virgin to a child, er, not to a Calvinist preacher, not not even to a priest, cannot be a to Lutheran superinten- proof in favor of the church or the dent, but to the priesthood priesthood. of the Catholic Church, the Added to this is the remarkable word was given: 'Go and tell the fact that the "appearance" in the priests. All the other priests have cave seems to have been no person, consequently no authority." "To-but only a personified idea. Bernagether with the priesthood, the detta asks her her name. She Primacy is also justified." And so smiles. Bernadetta repeats the is the dogma of his infallibility." question. Still no other answer Thus our Catholic authors go on than a smile. Again the question proving every one of their doctrines s repeated, and being hard pressed, by revelation from heaven and mir- the "appearance" finally says: "I acles. What can the other churches am the immaculate conception.' say? They can deny everything; She was not, as the priests but that would be to adopt very say, the Virgin Mary, but, on poor tactics, and the consequences her own words, nothing but would be miserable. The Catholic an abstract idea. There is someChurch, although fallen from the thing mysterious in this. It looks as LETTERS FROM "JUNIUS." pinnacle of political power, is yet in if it was a gotten up scheme, or its theology, in its organization and else the blessed virgin acts as if she spiritual influence strong and had forgotten her own name, and mighty beyond conception, mighty upon being pressed to give it sudin those who know not God nor the depths of Satan. a To an honest inquirer who cares nothing for the Pope nor for his Protestantic antagonist, but only for truth, there is an oddity about the Miracles, therefore, are dangerous arguments. They may prove the divinity of a message, as in the case of Moses, of Christ, of the Church; or they may prove the presence of the power of antichrist. The true distinction between the two classes of miracles the world is apt to overlook. The miracles which come from God are never performed for the sake of show, never "in the sight of men." They always aim at the glory of God and the salvation of souls. The miracles of antichrist are also real miracles, but they are performed "in the sight of the beast and in the sight of men." Their aim is show and the establishment of the power of the beast. All the miracles of the Catholic Church, when carefully examined, will be discovered to belong to this latter class; for the word of God must be found to be true in every particular. J. M. S. The Omaha bridge of the Union Pacific comprises eleven spans of 250 feet each, making it denly remembers the then much- 2750 feet long. The St. Louis bridge used words, "Immaculate concep- has only three spans, two of 502 feet tion" and employs them as a sub- each and one of 520 feet, making it stitute for her real name. At this 1524 feet in length. Its cost is said little innocent joke, however, she to have been over $9,000,000. The suddenly vanished as if not content | Omaha bridge cost $2,650,000. Well, we are in Omaha. Though nected with the original projection road ever published a diary or not, some three or more railways now of the road. There are Carver, I cannot say. If such were kept span the northern half of this con- Wilkes, Benton, Whitney, Burton, and published it would doubtless tinent, yet the city of Omaha must Plumbe and others. Though a high- make sensational reading. Though, for ever be associated with overland way of this kind was talked of as perhaps, it were better it be left travel. Take away Omaha and the far back as 1836, yet it was not until in obscurity. An unbroken record Union Pacific from the stories of after President Young and his peo- of five years of sin and crime would western travel and you take away ple demonstrated that not alone a not figure very morally as the bases all that is romantic, poetic and in- route over the plains but a residence of one of the greatest triumphs of teresting from the great plains and on them was practicable, that the modern engineering. the magnificent mountains. With United States government took any this route is associated the exodus of active measures to explore the the Latter-day Saints from the country. Fremont and others held Egypt of Illinois, the terrible rush that nothing civilized could exist of the California gold hunters, the beyond the valleys of the Missouri expedition of Fremont, and also River. that of Lewis and Clark. The history of Omaha as a town or city is said to begin in 1853. A party of explorers located at Kanesville across the river conceived the idea of investigating the country on the Nebraska side for a town site. They did, and Omaha was laid out. To one Jesse Lowe is attributed the privilege of naming the town. The first grave dug in Omaha is said to have been for an old squaw. Whether the enterprising founders really killed her to start a graveyard, or whether they bought her for the purpose history sayeth not. At all events the guide-books quote a stanza from one of Whittier's peglegged poems in commemoration of the occurrence: Behind the squaw's light birch canoe, Above old Indian graves. lin's tomb into a cowshed. At length we glide into the Platte Valley, and can indulge in reminiscences of olden times. We can sigh over the decadence of the bull-whacker and his loud-resounding whip and double-barreled oaths. The truth is that to the "Mor- We can mourn the decease of mons" may justly be attributed the the Red man and his co-existconstruction of the road. On their ent creature, the buffalo. In journey through the plains they fact, if one is so inclined he has a made close topographical observa-wide realm for sentiment, fancy and tions, and never for a moment enter-imagination, and if he takes the tained the idea of the impracticabil- trouble to acquaint himself with the ity of a Pacific railroad. In the history of his route, he will store at "memorials" of the Legislative As-inexhaustible fund of future anecsembly of both the State of Deseret dote and adventure. We glide into and of the Territory of Utah will North Platte, an apparently flourbe found many pertaining to the ishing town, constructed without Pacific road, and demonstrating to attempt at art, desigu or taste. Congress the possibility of accomp-Saloons and boarding houses seem lishing such a work. Even in the the main industry. No less than proceedings of the first Assembly half-a-dozen persons in white aprons meeting of the State of Deseret in and in short sleeves are ringing 1849 one such will be found. And monotonous bells, making a hideous again we find a memorial praying clatter and most infernal discord. I for a mail route from the Missouri am reminded of Lord Dunraven's River to Salt Lake City approved trip over the plains. His Lordship March 3, 1852, by the Governor and saw the country as ordinary travelLegislative Assembly of Utah.ers do, and as he relates his experiWe find again a "Memorial to Con-ence in graphic words, I will quote: gress for the construction of a mili- "Very curious are these small settary road from the mouth of the tlements, some of them consisting Platte or Nebraska River to Sacra- of only two or three adobe houses, mento, California," approved Jan- or of a few wooden shanties and a uary 21, 1853. We find again a "Me-punsping engine to supply water; morial to Congress in relation to others being large villages or smalĺ In Omaha in 1856 there was what the Pacific Railway," approved towns. They look as if Providence we would today call a real estate January 14, 1854. In this memorial had been carrying a box of toy boom. Owners of corner lots were Congress is twitted on its dilatori- houses, and had dropped the lid and contents on the atraid they could not ask enoughness in acting on a project which at spilt out the for their property, and to give with- this time admitted of no doubt. This earth. The houses have all come out hesitation the price asked for a memorial recommends the initial down right end uppermost, it is true, lot was almost to break a real estate point at Council Bluffs City, thence but otherwise they show no eviagent's heart. It is supposed that to the main Platte, thence to Box dence of design; they are scattered in those days real estate agents did Elder, Medicine Bow Butte, and about in every conceivable direction, have something which approximat- Bridger's Pass. The memorial dumped down anywhere, apparented to hearts. But booms like many shows that close study was given to ly without any particular motive or situated. being so other sublunary things pass away, this matter by the people of Utah. reason and in 1857 the Omaha land owner and that they desired a road. So, The chief peculiarity noticeable who the year preceding was ac- after all, it is to the much-reviled about these little settlements and counted a millionaire could not in "Mormon" we owe the Pacific rail their inhabitants is that on the ap1857 buy himself a plate of soup. road, to him we owe the gold of proach of a train everybody rushes California, and to him we owe the to the front of his house and rings reclamation of the sagebrush terri- an enormous bell. The Chinese do tory to fields of waving corn and the same on the occasion of eclipses golden wheat. No doubt but it and other natural phenomena in connection with the outside world. was owing to the repeated order to frighten away malignant The C. & N. W. was the first to importunings of citizens and spirits who cause them. But these reach the Missouri River. Its first representatives from Utah, that dwellers of the plain ring their bells Congress made its appropria- to induce travelers to come and look tion for the exploration of the Far at the inside of a cup of what is West in 1853, in order to ascertain called coffee for 10 cents." if it were really practicable to build a road to the Pacific. In 1854, $190,000 additional was appropriated for the same purpose. It was not until Nov. 5th, 1865, that ground was broken for the Union Pacific road. There was grading already done, but the official act occurred on this date. But strangest of all things in this strange age, one never hears the name of George Francis Train mentioned in connection with neither the road nor Omaha. The Pike's Peak gold excitement in 1859 once more resuscitated Omaha. Up to 1867 the stage coach and the river steamer were the only train arrived January 17, 1857. The great overland read was completed May 10, 1869, and the bridge at Omaha had its last piece of iron fastened in its place February 20, 1872. we We are on the Union Pacific at last. We are whirling away from Omaha and out into the great west. No more Indians, no more buffalos, no more prairie fires to alarm timid passengers. Here and there meet thrifty looking towns, and again we light on slovenly looking villages, with knots of persons unkempt, unwashed and uncombed. However, one cannot help thinking Whether any of the persons emover the names of those persons con-ployed in the construction of this for If you are in a mood for moralizing drop off at North Platte and remain a few days in the town and vicinity. Buffalo Bill's is not far from here. And perhaps you may meet "Cold Turkey Bill" and the "Pike" and several others distinguished characters of the plains. You may meet some surviving hero of the period when the roa i was being built. He can enliven you with many stories of white desperadoes and Indian scalpers. You will find an occasional trapper of the olden time, who will regale you with adventures by forest and "A few minutes later a circular and by the old Gentile here, that stream. You may alight on one of skirmish line of vapor columns "Mormonism" is to blame. Well, I those "frontier types" so enter- showed itself on all points of the can't help listening and asking mytaining to the New York statesman, compass. These columns moved self what causes this antagonism Theodore Roosevelt. Mr. Roose-athwart the sky, to meet each other, between "Mormons" with a religvelt, in his article" Frontier Types," with amazing rapidity. Half an ion, and Gentiles with no religion? pictures a companion thus: hour after their first appearance the The charges against the "Mor"He was a pleasant companion, sun was completely obscured, and mons" most frequently dinned in and useful assistant, being very hard- | behind the skirmishing clouds ap- one's ears are that the early settlers working, and possessing a temper peared darker and more formidable of Utah were disloyal to the Constithat was never ruffled by anything. masses of sulphuric aspect. From tution and government of the United He was also a good-looking fellow, the edges of the advance light- States; that they were opposed to with honest brown eyes; but he no ning played, just like the flashing of communication with the outside more knew the difference between muskefry that precedes the bursting world; and that they were absolutely right and wrong than did Adam of the battle tempest, when the red antagonistic to education in any before the fall. Had he been at all artillery shrouds the field in the form. These are charges that can conscious of his wickedness, or had lurid. majesty of its tremendous be very easily investigated. This is he possessed the least sense of shame, fire." This storm was witnessed the nineteenth century. This is the he would have been unbearable as near North Platte by one of our centennial year of our American a companion; but he was so perfect- Chicago men. Constitution. This is the age of. ly pleasant and easy, so good- We push on regardless of the steamboats, locomotives, parachutes humoredly tolerant of virtue in wondrous North Platte, and in less and other grand developments. This others, and he so wholly lacked even than 36 hours we arrive in Ogden is a practical age, an age of hard a glimmering suspicion that mur- from Omaha. Some passengers logic, sound reason and common der, theft and adultery were matters complain of being tired, but they sense, or, at least, we ought to expect of anything more than individual don't seem to realize that two de it to be such. Can't we afford to taste, that I actually grew to be cades ago the journey would have give "Mormon” or Methodist a fair rather fond of him. He never re- taken from six weeks to two months. trial? lated any of his past deeds of wick- However, we are in Ogden, the edness as matters either for boast-Jaffa to our Jerusalem. Of course fulness or regret; they were simply we can't help commenting on narrated incidentally in the course "Mormonism." We are not long of conversation." Let us take up the little volume entitled, "Acts, Resolutions and Memorials passed at the several annual sessions of the Legislative Asin town before we hear some assembly of the Territory of Utah," tounding tales about Utah. But it to which is prefixed, the Declaration is night, and refuge is found close to of Independence, "The Articles of the Union depot at Ogden for the the Confederation," the Ordinance night. of 1787, the Constitution of the United States, and amendments thereto, the naturalization laws, the Constitution of the Provisional JUNIUS. OGDEN, Utah, May, 1889. of the and "boom," of A meth Ogden, saying that some scheme Mr. Utah. and the Organic Act of Published by virtue of an act approved January 19, 1855. Section 13, Article 2, of the Constitution of the State of Deseret, reported March 18, 1849, says: "Each member of the Assembly shall take an oath or affirmation to support the Constitution of the United States, and of this State; and members shall and are hereby empowered to administer said oath or affirmation to each other." In page 109, we find: "A Resolution Concerning the Washington Monument," approved Feb. 12, 1851, "That the Governor is hereby authorized and requested to pro What an admirable piece of humanity this must have been. He would make a magnificent New York alderman or an edifying Chicago preacher. This was one of the "frontier civilization types" of which the Latter-day Saints had to contend with for a long time, and Everybody in Ogden is talk-State of Deseret, the Deseret laws, in a measure has yet to contend ing with. Mr. Roosevelt met with the influx of eastern tourists and many other interesting characters, capitalists. I was pleased to hear with men "who shoot off boot-heels that prosperity in Utah was assured. or tall hats occasionally, or make But booms in business are like some obnoxious butt dance by paroxysms in life, the subject is shooting round his feet." In fact weaker after than before. Mr. Roosevelt was shot at once odical railroad man told me that for no other reason than be-tourists were surprised at the busy cause he wore eye-glasses and side-life around the new Union Depot, whiskers. Here is another instruc- but he hinted that the collection tive amusement which he wit- of teams and men was greatest when nessed, and which he says was oc- an excursion train arrived. He also casioned by lightheartedness. He alluded to the alleged smelter in says: One evening a Cowboy spurred his horse up the steps of a rickety hotel piazza into the barroom, where he began firing at the clock, the decanters, etc., the bartender meanwhile taking one shot at him, which missed. When he had emptied his revolver he threw down a roll of banknotes on But booms, or corner lots, or the counter, to pay for the damage mines, are not my business, nor am that he had done, and galloped his I interested as to the number or the horse out through the door, disap- quality of tourists, visitors, or excurpearing in the darkness with loud sionists. I certainly would like to yells, to a rattling accompaniment of see new settlers in a new country, pistol shots interchanged between orderly, industrious persons. Not Proceedings of this character do himself and some passer-by, who adventurers who expect to make a not bear the ear-marks of disloyalty. apparently began firing out of pure fortune in a day either by fair If we take the trouble to read the desire to enter into the spirit of the means or foul. Not idiots and history of Utah, we will find that occasion-for it was the night of the slovens who expect to pick gold the United States flag was planted Fourth of July, and all the country dust from the rivulets which course by President Brigham Young, Orround about had come into town for through the streets of Salt Lake. I son Pratt and their followers on this am told that Utah mines are turn- very Territory in July, 1847, though a spree." This was certainly a glorious way ing out annually $10,000,000. Where the soil was virtually then within of celebrating the Fourthi, and must is the evidence? I can see nowhere the dominions of Mexico. And have been very entertaining to Mr. miner's hotel, nor a miner's resi- furthermore we must admit that Theodore Roosevelt. Or perhaps if dence worthy of a third-rate Illinois the venerable Wilford Woodyou sojourn here, you might ex- town. One hotel was pointed out ruff, now President of the Latperience one of these tremendous to me, a rather pretentious one, but ter-day Saints' Church in Utah, storms which one of our Chicago I understand if was built from stood beneath the shade of his flag, travelers recently experienced. I profits on whiskey. under whose beauteous folds he was think it was either Carter Harrison born, and consecrated himself to or John Finerty who says: his country, his flag, his religion, I am told on every hand, both by the man whom I met on the train cure a block of marble from the best specimens of stone that he shall be able to find in the State, for a contribution to the Washington Monument, now in progress of erection in Washington City; and also that he cause the same to be suitably sculptured, and forwarded to the Washington Monument Committee, as soon as practicable." |