Show hiOu MOlT editor Trl tribune bune sir I 1 have read not only with interest but with disgust your article upon the way ira in chich those saints of the church of jesus christ treat those who have aponta tied from that church As a 0 fi diw ee thinker I 1 am opposed to no particular church or creed but judge every man according to his actions I 1 have a largo large acquaintance among the apostates 3 from that church and t tho he accounts that have been riven given me of mormon oppi easlon and aggression w would id fill a volume larger than tho the dock book ot of mormon A of mine living out at mist east bountiful tomo some short time ago had bad two mares pastured out in the benches and canyons one of them was waa shot and the other wile was poisoned at ono one time he was a faithful mormon but ultimately seceded from that church yet at the same time no other peo PI plea os cattle were injured pastured along with thorn them this undoubtedly poes goes to show he how W saintly are the people of 0 the mormon church another apostate from that ch church told m me that hla his experiences were s somewhat similar to what you have ome recently e recorded that his life was a perfect misery among those latter day saints after he be seceded receded from that church during the godbe and harrlson harrison movement such conduct as this perpetrated 1 under the name of religion Is A disgrace to that religion and a censure upon the civilization of the nineteenth century taking these theao things into consideration I 1 can come to no other conclusion than that this particular religion rell filon Is not a civilized creed and its believers are still in a state beato of 0 se ml barbarism yours respect respectfully full Y OBSERVER salt lit lake city oct 20 |