The Mormon Question in Utah
A SEEMINGLY thoughtful writer in the Salt Lake City Daily Tribune of November 5, does not present a very optimistic view of the Mormon question. He hangs but little hope on the political victories won by the Gentiles in Salt Lake City and Ogden. Utah is largely agricultural, and the Mormons own the land, and that without which the land would be worthless, the water. They look upon Gentiles something as the Crusaders looked upon the Mussulmen in the Holy Land, and are instructed to sell no land to Gentiles. Polygamy is believed in and practiced, as it ever has been, and the church is a political machine, the women working for Mormon principles as well as the men. The Mormons are continually recruited by immigrants from the lowest and most ignorant classes in Scandinavia and England.