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receives directions from headquarters, and everything goes 

 according to his will. In this way, you will see that these 

 people, although they may be ignorant, although they may be 

 brought in by ship-loads, and distributed among those settle- 

 ments, are set to the work they can do the best. The whole 

 thing is organized, and when you go up and down through the 

 Territory, see what they have done, see the amount of labor 

 that they have thrown away, in one sense, in building those 

 great forts to protect themselves and their cattle from the 

 Indians, the roads they have made, the canals they have dug, — 

 why, there are four hundred thousand rods of these canals, 

 besides those minute canals or ditches that lead the waters to 

 every field ; really the work they have done is astounding, — 

 when you look at all this, you see that nothing but persistent 

 industry, under a most perfect organization, could have accom- 

 plished what has been accomplished in that Territory in the 

 time they have been there. I don't believe the world can show 

 another example to match it. That is an important lesson in 

 regard to what can be done by cooperation. If we could have 

 something that acts spontaneously from the people ; if we could 

 have that people or any other work together for the common 

 good, one hour's labor would be worth what two are now. 

 Besides, when you find a people organized like that, they have 

 no time for mischief. Everybody works. "When you go away 

 from Salt Lake City down into the Territory, you cannot find 

 any tobacco nor liquor. They do not believe in either. 

 When you take a people like that, temperate, working all the 

 time, and saving, and all working under an organization, you 

 see wonderful results. Poor as they were when they began, and 

 bringing in multitudes of poor people all the time, they are 

 still a comparatively rich people. 



The most perfect cooperation is to be found in this water 

 system. The people live in villages. And here is another 

 wise thing. They do not make a farm here, and put a house 

 on the corner of that, and then another farm there, and put a 

 house on the corner of that, and so on ; but they put their houses 

 pretty near together. And then their farms are not large ; 

 they cannot have large farms on this system. There can be no 

 skinning, where you have to irrigate every foot of land you 

 cultivate. It is condensed husbandry. Here we get another 



