Show mormonism as been by a Scotch scotchman nian I 1 wo we make maho the follo following whig extracts from a letter written by a shrewd and honest townsman who lias has been lesi lesi dent in utah to his friends at home ho he speaks with all the energy of a convalescent flom delusion and some of his statements of fact aie moie forcible and graphic than suits our columns we quote enough we trust to deter any victims of the wretched maimon imposture among the poor of dundee from quitting 41 their country for the alie sodom of the salt lake dundee scot advertiser march ad you ask me what cause I 1 had to leave utah and the alie mormons cormons Mor mons f faith 1 I will tell you I 1 had been led to believe that god had ordained that tho the it saints in ill utah being acing far away from the gentiles could in in peace work out the most sublime purposes pin pui poses which had for their object the calling together other of all the children of men to enjoy liberty and brotherly love or in other words to pr practice the religion of jesus christ this was my expectation it had been preached to us ud that tha in the land of the saints every saint wai a birther bi other and that the strong lather A I 1 lk ther of mind or body gave dicely of his strength to the work and helped hirn him to bear his buivens bui dens and did then utmost to help the faithful in every good thin thing but instead of this every advantage o is taken 0 the weakness of the weak how can I 1 got get the most I 1 ease ind and honor r out of otaie others s return returning inc c to acm them the least of bf toiler toil or belf acial dc nial ia i 9 tw t li 6 q question u c I 1 s t i 0 n 6 of f q question e s 0 n i in n U ata bahas I 1 ia s eleew elsewhere here I 1 had been fold by elders in dundee and so have you that when a mormon had got his Il endowments lie was a holy man because lie he had stood in holy places and headd the voice of god all doubts as to the truth of the faith would be removed adamen and men could not help but bagood be good and holy that had been endowed because all that could bo be given A abc the pre present sent time to man mail by the holy ghost was sure to be bestowed upon him in in the alic endowment rooms 11 Is it holiness to strip the simpleton of every barthin farthing of money moncy and clothes by telling him that doicy money is useless in zion and then to laugh at his simplicity which is often done Is it holiness to say that tho the end justifies the means and that the big men are tile the only judges of right and wrong as is al ways done Is it holy to have plenty and see BOO your brethren bordering on oil starvation and not help them on oil the hardhearted hard hearted plea pica that it is good to try their faith in this way as is sometimes done to have every one a spy upon another not for the purpose of preventing him from overreaching over reaching his br brother othor but that he mi might not dot breathe even von to a friend of his crushed hopes w which b climit might lit in time by accumulation get up such a revolution that thai would hurl the chiefs and prophets from their thrones and show the poor and honest fanatics how they have been imposed upon to break up letters at the post office so that they might know all your communications with the outer wo world ald and make it all but impossible to leave the territory if you were dissatisfied I 1 this they moreover manage by discountenancing the use of money and letting it be well ivell stood that it is at the risk of your life that you leave zion I 1 they counsel men to have no wealth iab but grain ind ind stock which are too bulky to leave with and to have no dealing with the alie gentiles for fear that they might get the means to leave before they got into their sworn meshes cs and to got get double aved so that they could not live in peace anywhere else Is it holy to louse the alio vanity of good looking danied women by telling them that they MOD belong to a higher tribe in the kin kingdom 0 doin of heaven than their husbands in ill order that endowed 11 elders ciders might get them to leave their families and enter their hares harems acl heie several instances were given 1 with names and details daniel II 11 wells stood up in salt lake city and delivered a harangue to the workmen on public which perhaps you may have read in ill the deseret news that the workmen got the best of pay that they got beef mutton poultry pork butter eggs flour clothes everything of the best d ii money I 1 while the poor hearers cm sing in ill their the abominable lie which was to go forth to be lead by the alie brethren and sisters allover all over the woi id wele fun fain to got get enough broad bread and molasses yet duist not speak for fear of it getting to the cars of ro rogues gues who live in luxury and would denounce them as grumblers grumbl ers and apostates in embryo JI 0 Hin honiball iball harns first counsellor told them that they might be glad of and water to dip it in but of course that would mgt be bo printed when the united states sold icis came to utah brother brigham sold them wood to put up p barracks and elje 5 some of odthe 1 b cn we autu putu p the building and his all but bilt damned the poor fellows who wanted to get tho the means to cover their shivering bodies from the cold and something thin to fill their hungry bellies with io 0 one exceedingly bold fellow coolly ic plied we only working up tip the stuff th that at you sold thern them one of our poor fic neighbors 0 without bread asked the loan of some heat prom from a big man called 11 haighton 10 t ohton who lot let him have it on oil condition that lie pay him nine bushels for the six which lie borrowed boi rowed of him lie he was to lequire the loan of it a very short time a few weeks at most and if the wheat was not of first class lie he was to require more if I 1 wished to buy a cow cov my employer having one to sell I 1 am allowed a bushel of wheat as two dollars well suppose I 1 want a cow and ask what is ia the value of your cow thirty five dallai collais s says my employer I 1 have say twenty bushels af wheat in his hands I 1 say lot let me ine have five dollars and the cow stop a little says my employer what is the pi ice of wheat in the city I 1 believe it is worth 15 76 or 80 cents alicie I 1 will allow city alices pi ices but no more so I 1 have to pay boic than forty bushels of wheat for my 35 33 dollar cow and that is utah brotherly love A young man mail in salt lake city was offered 25 a month from a Geil gentile tile merchant and being a very religious poison went to brigham to t got get counsel about it avig ham said you may work for me I 1 am as able to give 25 a month as he tile the young il man worked ed for brigham until ho he wished to go else then wont to brigham young for his money who gave him an order for 15 la a month at which the man mail de and said you promised me 25 you are mistaken my dear brother I 1 only sad said I 1 was as able as aa tho the gentile 6 to give ive 25 a I 1 month n anth I 1 did not t t say ay I 1 would give it this is a very vely aint bailit like action is it not Th ehigh ligh auchoi itice ed us 1 I it t was I 1 equi ed of ine iho to prepare to remove the IT 9 S sold icis as midnight assassins ln in a council in which biggham was wag present I 1 was by one who W waa also present that it was reported somo bl ethren were not willing 0 to go down and live in the cotton country countr y as they wished to stay whole they were brigham said if they dont go skin ali them e 11 skin them that is the way they enforce ik obedience some of the old mothers of israel are arc estic mely anxious S to got get married or by proxy to likely men one went to kimball and asked him to marry her she was not to ilia taste of couise so lie he told lier her to bu ba gone for an all old hags hag but should they bo be very importunate the lord reveals to the big men to counsel that is to command sowo deiy pious young man irlan to be a huab it and protect the ot om id lady and should lie not feel content it is fold him that hosea the prophet was ordered by the lord to marly many a worse one of your old acquaintances married a young mau and he poor fellow had an all old lady imposed upon him in this way by the bishop of farmington joseph W young brighams Brig hams nephew got a leather ieather bed to take across tile the plains for a woman on oil condition that sho would pay the freightage zi it was waa sometime before she was in ill a condition to pay it but when she called for it the woman there the rascal however saw it butyl need not cite instances ii ista nees of the aborn abominable iii I 1 and trickery of thu the main pal part t of those in power I 1 have mentioned a few that I 1 can call vouch fur for the of but sonic some others that I 1 know of would fill many sheets and harrow up the feelings fee linga of the most obtuse by their paiD painful itil und and shanie shameful ful character but it may be said that the bad actions of fallible men are arc no refutation of the sublime doctrines of mormonism no but i is s for the truth of its mysteries when we find that a prop prophet liet so called who tells his followers that lie is got god can enrich himself off the poor and honest laborer Liboi cr make them believe that good and evil can call change places because ho he says so that it is good to milk the gentiles and to slay men if lie he command it to be midnight assassins and plunderers to tell lies in order to convert men to his faith but such strong meat as lie calls it is not to be given to those who ai aio c considered to have stomachs too weak to dig digest 0 cst it when I 1 see sec nien men in authority act as I 1 have soon seen the authorities act in utah I 1 im thrown back on rea reason sori common sense and the good ald doctrines taught by the founder foli uder of chi iati anity viz do as you would be dono by forgive your enemies and pray for them that poi you antl and lovo loic one another I 1 have tried the practice of if 11 endowed 11 men by this touchstone stone and found them wanting by their ff fruit uit shall yo know them and tho fruit is this all those in authority are rich have the best looking wives and largest farms tho poor are at the mercy of the rich and dai daie e not nob complain mens wives are tto bo be consecrated and they have rio no power to leave zion men are not permit ted to discuss anything that the chiefa object to and no one is sure that his wife is ash c Ts 1 the at to T fourth page of sonic brother higher in au thol ity WIT ft their should know anything about then t 1 wt Alt I tacy Alicy tell the beadli tig and mens dells wives a arc re spies on oil th ahr jr husbands at the tithing office in ill salt alt lake city when such varieties as beef polk etc aio brought there thele is ia a crush by tile the poor workers on oil the public like tile alic a theater when a greit great star is to appear in iri fact a complete mob but the servants of the big mefi are delved first and it if there is not more than tha n they want tho the poor workers have to go without the apor are arc degraded 11 and add look like as many beggars in front of an all almshouse these are arc some of ther fruits of brotherly brot lierly love as tided in in utah I 1 must give you some pictures of th the effects cu of polygamy as we saw it president leonard of thea ath quorum of seventies residing in in farmington lias has tarco on one of f the them r in lives in ill a very good house the two others occupy a log hut in ill which man mail wo illen inc arid children pig together in one aioo loom ni i i A brother glover lias has three wives two of them scotch Scot cli and one aYan kec the ladies of this family abreo agree 0 very well the clatt lien sixteen in ill number lumber ranging ran 0 iii 0 from twenty y years of anc an ago 0 c down to one opy occupy en as 1 s their bedroom one odthe of alic judges judge 9 s by name grover also lesi ding dine in ill farmington Fai has at present fotta wives hannah arid and drosky two sisters also emma emilia and lizzy who are arc the last mariel fica ones tile the two sisters live lito in a fine binuso but bu be fare we went to live in farmington milia emma and li f azy lived in ill the housa which wo we owned grover ws was bull in bad bdour occasionally with the mentioned two wives he of ten tell wished for ion to their hut but but the ir obstinacy at times that lie ho lias has been known to beg and cry in vain for admittance but the hoods floods came and washed aw away ay the chin chimney incy arid and there was of course a litle in ill the mansion the chirr chimneys ineys fire arc built on oil the outside of the alic huts buts in utah the ladies had but an old cloth but the wind and etwas indeed a lucky flood for r the holy judge fico ingress ii gress and egress tit at the lum luin another anoche r saint had a moth crand cr er and daughter daug liter married to hirn him oboy had only one apartment arid and bed for tile the till tance cc in ill general denoral en oral the practice of a fearful ea affair for the poor women the husband hu 1 osband onla liis his own whims the women are less thal th at ayi servants scry ants and are aio afraid to have any opinion 0 pin on of their own for fear of in ill some cases their feel iiga aia ai a borne until they burst I 1 in inn a vehemence ce ter to behold at other times a dull listlessness and a wish for for death is the feeling of those choso who it jiava ave sonic some deg degree ace of refinement out combativeness I 1 must give you an idea of tile tho way tile wealthy saints do when they want art an addition to their r ll harems adms it is known know some timo time be boic it caravan comes in what time it llla may lib expected word is soon all over the country they hitch up their bi buggies ak acs ics take a few pies pot potatoes toes or in Y little thing that they know will be b grateful F to the palates of poor wretches who have been for months without apy anything thing tasty off chev go to mcm io saints n and select any lady or ladi ladies es who in may ay take their eye all are arc weary arid and feol t S ai 0 over th P plains I 1 agns they lloyc invite 1 ti ali hlll to ride d give lve thorn samo na dainty they may 11 lave live bi ought fought then kindly isk ask regarding nm tand their prospects invite them thein t enter eliter their fin family lily bhele they aie abc almost suro SUM to bu be married before ion long whether they seriously ilic incline lilic to it or not dot I 1 knew abille who vero blied to 1 io 10 0 bought in i k s way folta fea fol ta few pati tl toc a 1 nose V i liu hu are arc old or leavo few personal attraction 4 buell but ber a good stock toc k of clothes loabe S will vill sell a very very poor looking subject for they conic come in handy io to clothe the other wives lave have to w wait ait on the public square in tents sometimes for weeks unless they have I 1 relatives ela tives in ill the coull country like so many cattle waiting a buyer until same some one pick them up lip and marry them I 1 have seen the saints from the interior corning coming down like farmers going to a galket to buy a cow and returning with ill faired looking tizzies ies whom nobody else would have one I 1 remember returned with one a t dame who could only be understood by signs as they did not know a word of each others language this is certainly theland of liberty and brotherly love I 1 |