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Show 35 by the territorial government, and although it was heavily man by Mormons, it was not dedicated to protect the Mormon Church, as was the Nauvoo Legion. The new organization had the interests of the populace as a whole to serve, and it was now confronted--as was general throughout the United States during this period--with the problems of a growing urban and industrial society. Problems of this nature brought the National Guard on to administered ned Utah's domestic nor scene in several instances prior to 1916. In 1894 the Gover called out the National Guard to control the through Utah part of the "industrial as unemployed workers passing army" on its way to Washington, D. C. year the Ute and Navajo Indians moved off the reservations Moab causing concern to the cattlemen in that region and bringing a de mand that the National Guard investigate to determine if further action was Later in the same near In the year 1903 the activated to deal with the coal mine strikers who were required to protect the property of the Utah citizens. National Guard was protesting their working status in the Carbon County coal mines. Following these duty periods the Guard came into some problems of leadership and political interference which threatened its very existence and continuation. Within three weeks of its formation on March 26, 1894, the National called upon to demonstrate its effectiveness in support of the terri torial government. In the Spring of that year throughout the United States un Guard was employed workers, at the suggestion of Jacob Coxey of Ohio, formed into The militias had been essentially a had, for the most part, supplied their own weapons and uniforms, and were funded by the individual member and the state, but with the coming of the National Guard era after the 1890's things changed a great deal with the National government assuming a greater role. See the following for discussion of the title National Guard: C. Joseph Bernardo and Eugene H. Bacon, American Military Policy: and standards of the National Guard. local force. Its p. The militias Development Since 1775 (Harrisburg, Penn.: The Stackpole Co; , 1961), 247. The National Guard Association of the United States, tional Guard The Nation's Na (Buffalo, NQ Y. : Baker, Jones, Hausauer, Inc. 1954), p. 10. Russell F. Weigley, History of the United States Army, p. 282. House of Representatives Document, "The Federal Pay Bill for the National Guard, J If Jim Dan National Guard May 1, 1911, p. 17. Hill, The Minute Man (Harrisburg, Penno: A History of the Stackpole Coo, 1961), pp. 26-31. in Peace and War: The |
