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Show A LECTIRER ON TIIE WOllMOSS. The following, by a lecturer who has traveled extensively, is taken from tlic Boston Traveler: I Ece in one of the morniDg papers two articles relating to the .Mormons, which, to a person who has spent nearly a year in Utah for tho sole purpose oi' studying its social condition, religion and political character, is ludicrous in j the extreme. One article accuses Hon. Mr. Fitch of defending the Mormons. Now if to denounce the conupt and unprincipled cormorants who are annually an-nually sent to that liotany Bay of political po-litical bankrupts is a dcienee of Mor-monism, Mor-monism, perhaps a little more of the same sort would not be the worst evil that might happen. There have been a lew decent men sent to Utah from Washington, but to my certain knowledge knowl-edge more than one governor was a drunkard; one judge that docs not hesitate, in his bacchanalian revels in the liquor saloons of Salt Like city, to curse and openly denounce the people peo-ple over whom he exercises bis judicial functions, and is almost the coa-taut companion of gamblers and blacklegs. The history of the pat ten years in the appointment of olliccrs to Utah has been one of almost constant incompetency incompe-tency and corruption. One man in particular, who was sent to Utah, as chief justice, left his wife in IliiuoU and took with him a woman of the town, whom he introduced as his wife, and who would often tit beside his honor in open court. I have been accused of di fending the Mormons. .Now if to speak the elear unvarnished un-varnished truth, fearless of newspaper threats and personal unpopularity, if to denounce villainy and wickedness whether in a Morrnou or a government otiioial, if to give the facts as they actually ac-tually occurred, is a defence of Mor-monism, Mor-monism, then there is not a doubt of my guilt. Tom Fitch has done what Colfax and a host of other political men aDd ministers of the gospel have done when in Utah; praised the Mormons as the most quiet, law-abiding, industrious, prosperous and frugal people he hsid ever met. Fitch has gone further than these men dared to. He has exposed and denounced the harpies and unprincipled un-principled men sent from Washington to Utah, and who by word, tetter, action, and every possible means have sought to exasperate the Mormtas, and who by liilso reports have fooled tho American publio so that to-day, in my protession as a lecturer, the most novel and startling topic I can present to the public is life as it actually exists in Brigham Young's domains, a tiue and reliablo relation of facts. Tom Fitch dared speak the truth, hence the i criticism. Because these truths are : unpalatable to our prejudice, do the 1 American people want that eternally stereotyped rehash of abuse and mis representation respecting, a humhle, ignorant and fanatical people? Tom Fitch is a politician. I do not in all respects endorse him, but 1 honor a man that dares utter the truth when such utterences are unpopular. As a Christian people what can wc gain, or what check ei wc expect to give to fanaticism, by misrepresentations and abuse? F'alsehood is a boomerang that destroys its author. The Mormon heresy is not to be despised. de-spised. The most prosperous people on the American continent to-day, is in Utah, increasing by emigration tenfold ten-fold faster,and four times more rapidly by natural increase, than any community commu-nity on this continent. They number 15O.U00 souls; they fill the valleys south of Salt Lake City, four hundred miles, and north nearly two hundred miles. You find public worship every Sunday, and Sunday-schools even in the smallest small-est and most retired settlements; vineyards, vine-yards, orchards, fields of wheat, barley and grain, greet your eye at almost every mile of travel. I look upon that pcoplo as a nation of fanatics. So in New England, witches were condemned, con-demned, Quakers and Baptists expatriated ex-patriated and persecuted, and men aro to day living within hail of where X write this article who remember the day when a feeble, humble band of Christian men and women in Xcw I England were branded as fanatic, tool-. tool-. ish, nay, as absolutely licentious and ' wicked, by all orthodox denominations. Uut the Methodists, to-day the grand est branch of the Protestant Church iu America, wero then worse hated, more bitterly censured as fanatic, and more severely denounced as licentious, than wc denounce the Mormons today, llow much had that persecution to do with their present unexampled prosperity pros-perity ? Wc have predicted disintegration of the Mormons for thirty years, but they are stronger to-day than ever. Let the ratio of increase go on for the next thirty years as it has the past three decades, and tho Mormons in Utah will number a population of 2,000, OOU and a wealth greater than any State in America except New York. Tho railroad aids the Mormon church. Wc sent an army, and on that army tho Mormons grew rich Wo send thousands of miners to Utah, they toil, carouse and drink, hut the Mormons quietly cultivate the soil, sell their wheat, hordes and cattle; and quietly pocket the proceeds. Wo annex an-nex Utah lo Nevada, but forget that it is the old slory of Catch a Tartar: lor while Nevada is poor, weak and feeble, Utah in its prosperity can out- vote it two to one; and while Nevada ! is divided in political councils, the Mormons arc a silid unit. Annex Utah m Nevada and the Mormon carry the electoral vote, and control! every department of the entire State1 ana no power on earth can prevent it. Ln a daily paracraph I can sny hut little, but when nearly every article on the Mormons that goes the rounds of the pros is so inately stupid and mcn-, mcn-, dacioufly false 1 couid not resist the temptation to utter a few plain facts. |