Show FALSE REFLECTIONS A CORRESPONDENT of the Omaha Republican recently visited this city and was very kindl kindly received and courteously treated Many of the s thought him charming and he was invited to circles of a select character and made much of by hath both ladies and gentlemen noted for their culture and hospitality He stated i that he was writing up up the city I and was given information from various sources Mormon and Gentile that he might be properly posted and not make such an egregious well a-well a well goose of himself as so many traveling scribes do dowhen dowhen dowhen when attempting to explain Utah affairs The Republican of Sunday Sep Sep- September September September contained a long com com- communication communication communication from the charming gentleman and the ladies 11 U no nod doubt d be anxious to learn at at he has said about them Her Here It IS ie If she is a Gentile she has just a tint of the rose on her cheeks she is isI stylish very modest well educated I and simply 8 splendid company If she ie iea is a straight laced straight laced Mormon she is iA rather and in most cases has a a pale soggy appearing face and her words come sluggishly l lr r while her eyes look whether heavy heavy whether from work or Mormon piety its hard s to to say f r rover The Mormon girls who gushed T over over this admirer of their ir beauty and style sty Ie will no doubt be awfully pleased at his description of their attractions A pale soggy appear appear- appearance appearance appearance ance is exceedingly complimentary complimentary complimentary tary is i it t not And eyes heavy from froIn Mormon pity pi ty will wi no doubt doubt be enlivened and aud brightened brightened by this delicate delicate flattery So Ho much for the ladies As to the situation here it is thus referred to with equal fairness as the charms of the ladies Why do the Mormon leaders reI refuse refuse re- re refuse I fuse to make improvements The Theone one one general explanation is that they want to stop Gentile immigration to the city depreciate property in every way possible and in the pub pub pub- icly publicly prayerful hope that even the Gentiles already here will both eU out and clear out r f This is given to the public in fa face af the fact that all the public im imi rR i j in the city some V of-V of which are alluded te to further on inthe in the article have been made under I f P i Mormon direction and enterprise t All An the public improvements improvement ta in itt itt- 1 y f progress and projected have bee been started under tb the a same management He speaks of the dust in the city cit i and asks th Why dont don't they sprinkle Be Because Be Because i cause the Mormon city governments government t wont won't improve the primeval water waterworks water water- waterworks waterworks i works system so as to make ling sprinkling to any reasonable extent M ble T The unfairness and animus of these remarks in view of the efforts t i of the city government both to Increase In- In Inse se- se crease the water su supply and aDd to dl- dl dis i tribute tribute it to the best advantage are are- apparent apparent to all aU who understand th the z f fx fHe facts U osy He goes on to tell the po posits lU 7 r f x ai c falsehood that Whenever oer one sees a building buDding d- d improvement whether business or or- T 4 residence it can ninety-nine ninety in a hundred be set down as aa b be- be longing to a Gentile The ou on e f notable exception to this is the new r Temple now nearing completion 3 f This shows how much the du t correspondent depended on ll 1 ab leral a eral stuffing for or his Ms items and and- andi i how little he used his own eyes a abid dl reliable sources of information Mormon dwellings are referred to 0 in terms as complimentary and u ui f truthful 4 truthful as those about the persona 1 e appearance of f Mormon ladi i t W He HP says aava yB These time old-time homes of poly poly mists are nearly every one built unburned brick k and cobble sto ston plastered over They are den dens s of eaves caves and jand and have low windows about bout three feet sq square Ii are and with from ten to sixteen little panes of cheap cheap glass in them High m ally rude rudely y built of common stone the size of an egg and held together with mortar surround these houses as a well as those of the church hut but butare are fast crumbling to the ground Here Bere is a little more of the same sort ort of ot deliberate falsehood or or un un- un- un unpardonable unpardonable unpardonable pardonable error in a professional gatherer of information for the public As As the irresistible push of the Gentile genius continues to mani- mani manifest manifest mani-f mani fest itself here in Salt Lake City one does indeed find the quaint and modern jostling together at every turn rasa Pass along whatever Dees street you will and you find and fine bu business iness blocks going up six b ix and nine stories high while their heir walls rub against some little old story one oDE story frame store which a struggling Mormon tradesman built and with his own in hans hands in- in one Instance the Glory to God Grocery away away back at a time wl when n it was almost worth a Gentiles Gentile's s life to enter the town Within speaking distance of the worm-eaten worm and distressingly warped doors of the famous old tem tem- tempIe temple temple pIe you find a stylish store filled WIth the la latest st goods on which the da dashing hing Gentile proprietor makes a splendid profit About the same t t dl tance nce from th the Bee Hive where Brigham Young and his wives once lived and where but three of the surviving fifteen now new live is a very showy and mo- mo modern modern mo modem dern dem residence owned and occupied b a shrewd Gentile who has made O fl in real estate estare here within the pas past t three years y rs and ma made e it Dlo mostly out of the Mormons too nut not notwithstanding nut withstanding the fact that not one of them can sell a foot of their land without first consulting a dignitary of the church in order that the church may get its rake off The The time when it was worth a Gentiles Gentile's s life Ute to enter the town has never been since the town was built nearest stylish stores to the Te Temple which are filled with the latest t goods are not owned by dashing da GentIle proprietors but ju-e ju Mormon establishments Z Z C GM M t A being the largest and containing contain contain- containing ing Jug the most extensive ve stock of the latest t goods in all this mountain I region The story about sell land lag ing to t of the same class of fiction ao and is an untruth so bald and absurd that even this gullible gath gatherer r r of ofa U anti Mormon Mormon chestnuts might have had Bell sense enough to detect and refrain from repeating it Here Sere ban Is an insinuation which he to have nave had decency enough not to to have uttered seeing that its it is o only the vile suspicion of foul- foul ded libertines who delight in pouring such suggestions into the wide Ide ears of soft-headed soft travelers There is not a house of ill-fame ill in Inthe inthe the city but it is on many tt tongues That scores floores of women whom the Ed- Ed Edmunds Ed munds law Jaw made grass widows widows-to widows toj put It It- are mildly are leading lives of W disgrace there ere is a policeman in the I town I have failed to see him in my numerous walks Seeing that a DESERET NEWS re- re reporter reporter re reporter porter held some conversation in pre pre- presence presence pre presence sence of several policeman this person who never saw a policeman in the town his truthfulness is not of a startling nature nor an excessive excessive sive quantity One more quotAtion land and we will leave this charming correspondent and his abuse of Mormon hospitality to his own reflections upon the virtues of gratitude gratitude gratitude tude and the pleasures of self self-satis- self tion tion He says of the coming elec elec- election election lec- lec lection tion If the Mormons win then what will be the consequence to Salt Lake CIty Only another period of slight slight- slightly slightly slightly ly retarded growth in the present business center and one ot of the greatest counter moves of revenge upon the Mormons that perhaps was ever conceived in an American mu- mu municipality municipality mu municipality and it remains for the Republican of Omaha to make the first public first public mention of this great move Th- Th Union Pacific and Bur Bur- Burlington Burlington Burlington lington Missouri railroad com com- companies companies companies have just bought thou thou- thousands thousands thousands sands of acres of very valuable valuable valuable able property to the south south east southeast east of the city The purchase was wason wason wason on a semi-secret semi plan If the Mor Mor- Mormons Mormons Mormons mons gain the forthcoming city election and continue to refuse pledges of improvements th the Gen Gen- Gentile Gentile Gentile tile business element element will b be given busi business Ess property buildings and aU all 11 including such other inducements as will result in a universal and com com- complete com niete desertion of Salt Lake by bv this meaning element element meaning many mil mil- millions millions lions Hons of dollars dollars- thus completely turning the tables on the Mormons by depreciating their property fully half one half robbing them of thousands of their enterprising young business businessmen businessmen businessmen men and demoralizing them to the extent of bankruptcy 7 for the re- re revenue revenue re revenue venue which the church receives by continuing the imposition of entirely Inadequate public works i at exorbitant figures consid considering the service is the source of its financial life blood to-day to There N Now ow tremble in you your r boots ye property-owners property of Salt Lak Lake City Weep for the losses that are coming upon you But where are these thousands of ofa a acres res of valuable property in the I southeast of the city And how about the Gentile owners of ninety ninety nine nine out of every hundred ot of the building improvements w whether for busi business ness or residence What are they going to do about it No wonder the Republican is the first paper to publish this absurd and utterly groundless canard The ude must be one of the headed headed tenderfeet that was crammed by a Liberal ever yarn yarn- yarn spinner spinner in this city of Mor anti I mon romances When the poor thing comes to Utah again some of those soggy faced girls with their dull eyes j jand and piety will have to take him in hand and show him how stupid he is and what a guy his bis Gentile guides made of him when he was writing up the City of the Saints The Omaha Republican if it desires something fresh from Salt Lake should not send a scribe who is so fresh himself that he might be used at Garfield to make the waters of the lake suitable for drinking purposes es Good by Crease Cresse |