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Show If. contact with the white race. Unlike all previous intruders, the Mormons came to settle. Fleeing the persecution that had attended them in the civilized United States, because of their peculiar religion, under the leadership of Brigham Young, their president they ohoee an unchartered, almost unknown region beyond the authority of the United States where they could break ground, and build up their own political and religious institutions for themselves. On July S^ th, the first settle-the ment was made in/ Talley of Great Salt Lake. Fortunetsly they settled on the war grounds of the Snakes and Utafas, 1 that is, on neutral ground, and so they were not resisted. The Mormon Indian Policy. The Indian policy of the founders of Utah is summed up in a remark made by Brigham Young, " It is cheaper to feed the Indians than 2 to fight them." Hence, their intercourse was generally peaceable. They taught them how to till their lands; they assured them that they would suffer no wrong, but th « y also told them if they inflicted wrong, punishment 3 would follow. _ Littell, Living Age - 1255, p. 531. 2 Whitney, Orson F,, Popular History of Utah, p. 97. 3 Bancroft, H. H. , History of Utah, p. 472. |
