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Show H they were being politic in their answer. Superintendent Young wrote further: " The Indians are universally fed and partially clad throughout the territory where settlements have been made according to the ability of the people, and very many children are taken into families and have all the usual facilities for education afforded other children." The Utah Act of 1852. How Indian children were taken into Mormon families and cared for may be further 1 understood from the Utah Act of 1852. Though the s* ct was a virtual legalization of slavery, Richard F. Burton who travelled in Utah at the time wrote in reference thereto: t " The Mormons treat their step- brethren with far more humanity th^ n^ o4Lb.^ jge^ 3tern^ iaenj they feed, clothe and lodge thera, and attach them/ by good work* to their intereet^. * \ . , 1 The City of Saints, p. 297. ,\ 2 • '\ Ibid. , i |
