What necessity, then, have the Mormons for secret treaties With the Indians? None whatever. The Indians have learned by the last half-century's experience that every "treaty" made with them has only proved a fraud towards their ruin, while during the same period they have learned that the word of the Mormons, who never make treaties, can be relied upon. So if the Saints were now to begin making treaties, they would probably fall in the estimation of the Indians to the level of the American Government, and participate in the suspicion which the latter has so industriously worked to secure, and has so thoroughly secured. The other error commonly made as to the Indians is to underestimate their strength. Now the Navajoes alone could bring into the field 10,000 fighting men; and, besides these, there are (specially friendly to the Mormons) the Flatheads, the Shoshonees, the Blackfeet, the Bannocks, part of the Sioux, and a few Apaches, with, of course, the Utes of all kinds. The old instinct for the war-path is by no means dead, as the recent troubles in the south of Arizona give dismal proof; and a Mormon invitation would be quite sufficient to bring all "the Lamanites" together into the Wasatch Mountains. That any such idea is ever entertained by Mormons I heartily repudiate. But I think it worth while to point out, that--if the influence of the Mormons on the Indians is considered of sufficient importance to base the charge of treasonable alliance upon it--it is quite illogical to sneer at that influence as making no difference in the case of difficulties arising. But as a point of fact, the Mormons have no other secret in their relations with the red men than that they treat them with consideration, and make allowances for their ethical obliquities; and further, as a point of fact also, these same tribes, "the Lamanites" of the Book of Mormon, "the Lost Tribes," are in themselves so formidable that under white leadership they would make a very serious accession of strength to any public enemy that should be able to enlist them. CHAPTER X. REPRESENTATIVE AND UNREPRESENTATIVE MORMONISM. Mormonism and Mormonism--Salt Lake City not representative--The miracles of water--How settlements grow--The town of Logan: one of the Wonders of the West--The beauty of the valley--The rural simplicity of life--Absence of liquor and crime--A police force of one man--Temple mysteries--Illustrations of Mormon degradation--Their settlement of the "local option" question.