. "Round the world." : Letters from Japan, China, India, and Egypt . ntin the civilized world. I told him I was about to go abroad, andas I expected frequently to be asked aboutUtah and the Mormons,I wished to take withme some more positive knowledge of thecommunity than I had been able to gatherfrem books or newspaper accounts. Heglanced at me rather sharply, surmisingperhaps that I was interviewing him asa newspaper correspondent, and said thathe was glad that the Pacific railroad hadopened Utah to intelligent travelers. Heand his people had been cruelly misrepre-sented, and he referred with
. "Round the world." : Letters from Japan, China, India, and Egypt . ntin the civilized world. I told him I was about to go abroad, andas I expected frequently to be asked aboutUtah and the Mormons,I wished to take withme some more positive knowledge of thecommunity than I had been able to gatherfrem books or newspaper accounts. Heglanced at me rather sharply, surmisingperhaps that I was interviewing him asa newspaper correspondent, and said thathe was glad that the Pacific railroad hadopened Utah to intelligent travelers. Heand his people had been cruelly misrepre-sented, and he referred with some bitter-ness to the speech of Senator Cragin of NewHampshire, which I had mentioned as mynative State, said it was a tissue of lies;but, he said, with a malicious twinkle inhis eyes, he is not re-elected to the remark surprised me, for I knew was re-elected last JUne, but I didnot undeceive him. All we ask is to belet alone. Congress had been very unfairin not admitting Utah as a State, and inlegislating against our institutions. There /. 19 is where the shoe pinches, thought I. Inanswer to my enquiry whether Utah as aState would be ^Republican or Democratic,he said, that depends upon which partydoes us justice. He spoke of the wonder-ful prospeiity of his people, driven intothe wilderness with nothing but theirstrong arms, they had in little morethan twenty years converted a Sahara-like desert into well cultivated farms,producing larger crops to the acrethan any eastern state. Neither Utah norSalt Lake City owed any public debt. Hereferred to the Cullom bill, passed at thelast session, making polygamy a crime, andproviding for the appointment of jurorswho shall all be Gentiles. I ventured toinquire whether he thought that law couldbe enforced. But he was too shrewd to becaught, and was non-committal on thatpoint. I complimented him on being theheart and brains of his community, and thato his good management they were indebtedfor their wonderful prosp
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