Show MP A CONTRAST tho the sail F francisco goo alia bas got up on oil its car tho the editor ia is terribly exercised and excited Juit now about abou t tho the mormon problem which lie lias bas tried but cannot solve now tile alia alta is not to blame for its inability to attain so great an all end ciul other journalists journ journal alista aste iste besides the editor of the algaw full of zeal and with more ability havo have undertaken en the experiment of solving tile question and have given it up it is too grave gravo a matter for them to comprehend if they do not understand der stand it they never can solve it but the alto alta lias has dipped its pen in gall and resorted to vituperation and slander and applies the most dec degrading epithets to who live in utah and elsewhere the alia lias has a great deal of pharisaical aal and is ready to sling stones at its neighbors without stopping pin glorn fora mome moment ritto to inquire whether itself it elf is without sin that journal charges the imor mormon with being agnor ignorant aut immoral vicious and criminal it expects and hopes that congress will handle them without gloves now nor wo know something of the moral and intellectual status of the bay city and we think at least the 11 mormons cormons Mor mons of utah will corn com pare favorably with them or with those of other gentile cities cast or ov west of us there is an article published in the N NY sun which we have had on file for several weeks and ind which we now reproduce for the special edification of the writer in the alia alla true that journal may consider comparisons odious in this instance because the odds arc are against it but what 13 is true of the anti mormon element in utah is true of tho like clement element in other places those abo are not for us are against us for they c cannot be neutral on tho the subject tho the writer in the sun makes the following contrast between the mormon and ind gentile virtues and ind vices in ili salt lake city the proportion between mormons cormons Mor mons and gentiles is 72 to 25 in tho the city therease there ther eare arc 29 convicts all non in salt lake mke county tho the proportion is SO 80 to 20 and in the county prisons there convicts all non Mormon F for or the he post put five years all tho the county convicts have been non mormons cormons Mor mons except three in utah territory orv there arc ire according to the united states census and church statistical reports 83 mor mons molls to 17 non mormons cormons Mor mons in the utah penitentiary there were in 1881 62 prisoners only of whom were mormons cormons Mor mons and two of these were imprisoned for imitating abraham ham in their domestic practices so that tho the 17 per cent outsiders had 40 convicts in the penitentiary while tile 83 per cent cormons mormons Mor mons had but five tho the total number of utah lockups lock ups including the penitentiary ia is 14 T these ese aggregate inmates of these 12 not over 11 are mormon several of whom incarcerated by methodist judges for minor of fences and polygamy while it is notorious ot orious that if all the criminal class in in tho the 17 per cent non Monnon po population I were imprisoned more jails would g oo 00 a ne necessary cenary s of the saloon billiard bowling a alley fley and pool table keepers in utah not over a dozen doze 11 even profess to be 1131 cormons mormons Mor armons mons all the bi baguios bagnios and antl other disreputable concerns con cerna now in the territory are run fostered and sustained non cormons mormons Mor mons five per cent of the utah lawyers lawyer sare arc gentiles and 80 per cent of all the litigation is of outside growth and promotion of tho the azo cities towns villages and wards in utah over 00 have no gaudy sepulchre of departed virtue of of any sort for the very obvious reason that these two hundred and odd towns arc are almost exclusively occupied by cormons Mon Mor nong mons ninety five per cent of the mon live in their awn own houseton hou houses on their own land wl dell the they have bought from the united states government ern ment of the suicides in utah 00 90 per percent cent arc are non mormons cormons Mor mons and of tue the utah homicides and infanticides over so 60 per cent are perpetrated by the 17 per cent outsiders tile number of mormon 11 ormon men den having more than ono one wife may be estimated at from to 10 per cent of teetotal the total adult 1131 mormon ormon malo male population while for mormon a on t to practice Bec is a sin rarely heard of tho the states cast of tile missouri aliver produce over 20 di divorces to proportion to respective population salt it I lake ahe cit city equal in size to poughkeepsie elmira or oswego from jan ja n I to dec 1681 had 1020 arrests men 78 women boys 38 1020 mormon ll men and boys mormon Alor nion women agg non momon men bons mormon woi lien lk l to 1020 A number odthe of the 31 mormon ormont arrests were for chicken con cow and w water ater trespass and petty larceny the arrests of the non Mor mona were in most cases for prostitution gambling fornication indecency drunkenness unlawful rum selling assault and ba battery tte and sheeting af if the 75 per cent cent mormons cormons Mor mons were as lawless and corrupt as the 25 per cent non cormona Mor mona there would have been 2443 arrests made from their ranks daring curing the year 1881 instead of the comparatively trifling number U aber of as the records show and A inthe 25 per cent non cormons mormons Mor mons albro as law abiding and orderly as the 75 per cent mormons cormons Mor mons instead of the startling number of non mormon arrests during the year there would have been but 56 made now until the alta lias has contro vented ore or o ovo etnie nl bount it wall well weil to set a seal ml upon its ith lips and say nothing more about r Mormon iain nisin or the mor mons for that journal ia is cither either lamentably ament ably ignorant or wilfully malicious malici oua FRANK lmar s cinday magazine magazini for april is an attractive one the tile editor rev dr talmage Talina gc continues his papers people I have met there arc are other articles finely illustrated entitled A missionary explorer david living Z stoic reminiscences of an in ol 01 old d new A journey to the oldest city in the world the recent canonization of saints at rome etc etc in the department of fiction prudence prudenc winterburn and margarets Ei enemy lenly ar aro c continued a new serial by aco macdonald Wei weighed glied and wanting is commence commenced dand and there anre short stories sketches and essays by distinguished writers T the 11 e miscellany is aa as usual abundant n and instructive there arc are besides those interesting features editorial comments religious facts and fancier fancie the collection basket obituary notices cices tices etc etc so that as regards the variety and excellence of the contents the sunday 31 magazine may challenge comparison with the best of its contemporaries ries the price of a single number 13 is 25 cents the annual subscription postpaid address frank leslie 53 55 and 57 park place new york gity city new bonx GITY may well bo be called a social or a kind of pocket dictionary of the united S states t a tes american life with its glaring lights and its dark daric shades is focused in the hudson metropolis and statistics of gotham arc tire a sort of index t the state of or society throughout the country hence a few figures from froin latest lepor reports t will be augg suggestive estive during 1881 deaths occurred in new york city and births wore were reported for tho the education of cL children ildren some sonic was em expended while the drinking places of which thoro there are ire absorbed it is estimated tho tile enormous sum suin of coo 00 WO of tho the army of wine babbe s who cast their substance stance into tj this is pool were to tile alio combe tombs the amount expended in public amusement of all sorts amounted to in the police stations osa pcr sons asked for and were furnished w ith lodging Band outdoor poor were relieved in the police courts persons were arraigned crimes of violence v were ere c committed by persons charity sent to the almshouses alms housos hospitals nurseries schools and asylums by persons odthe of alie immense population of nearly a million and a half aro are females between the ages of 15 and ind 30 years of bhora aro are domestic help owr tanny ty second will be tho the anniversary of the tile death of Johann W goethe the greatest literary genius of germany it I is proposed to ob observe werve the day at tit weimar germany tho tile va vault ailt of the grand dukes in which the poet lies will be opened and wreaths placed on tile coffin |