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remains that no Mormon was allowed to have more than one helpmeet unless he could 

 prove that his means were amply sufficient for her support. Industry was the keystone 

 of Brigham Young's teachings, however otherwise mixed with fanaticism and superstition, 

 and the result has been that thousands of people, mostly poor, who settled in an un- 

 promising-looking country, have now homes and farms of their own, and that by sheer 

 hard work the desert has been made literally " to blossom as the rose/' 



Salt Lake City has been laid out with care, and the streets are wide and well kept; 

 while, excepting those of a small business centre, every house has a very large g-arden 

 attached. The days of the "avenging angels/' or Danites, is over, and every man's life 



A STREET IN SALT LAKE CITY. 



and property are nowadays safe there, although at one time many suspected or obnoxious 

 persons were, as our American cousins say, " found missing/' On one terrible occasion 

 the Mountain Meadow massacre a whole train of emigrants who, on their way to 

 California, had encamped near the city, were murdered by Indians, whom, there is 

 no doubt, the Mormons had incited to the deed. A dignitary of the Mormon Church, 

 Bishop Lee, suffered the death-penalty at the hands of the United States authorities 

 for his share in the transaction. The emigrants, then passing with their families 

 by the hundred, had, there is no doubt, much aggravated the Mormons by jeering and 

 mockery, and sometimes by purloining their cattle and goods. There has been for 

 many years a garrison of United States troops kept at Camp Douglas, a short distance 

 from Salt Lake City, for the protection of Gentiles,* and the regulation of affairs generally. 



* All in the territory, and there are now a large number of miners, who are not believers in the Mormon 

 faith, are considered outsiders and " Gentiles," 



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