Show I 1 t A MALICIOUS mendacious IOUS LETTER lener the boston pout post of oct 0 him has a letter dated at this i 1 city and nd signah jck JC JOHN COD MILN probably it begins as follows I 1 tile mormon problem Is as u far as over from a aaion it la in true lite death ot f la kac t h bifid d md and the obituary 0 wah read it died ia d t from in natural caus buea clit band f mid vat tho leare oolf only contributed j to a longer existence than ORD it have otherwise ea enjoyed Joyed it 1 is 04 imlig vint vie we now only about Wio 0 husbands la in utah and that W abilo a tell tea years ws no uio the was waa many n IMS than U DOW ibo dam number of was vw I 1 in ID ext t x car 0 ot abo ap on dl had tawa a g bolner in on witt made this I 1 A buo cuo to atio I 1 izeare ot of the tha edmund bail abua u it ap that the le would it liaro ln been e lents whatever the foregoing simply limply establishes establish oa I 1 that the writer is fa willing to 0 o lay a predicate can on n malm lyus falsehood 0 la 1880 1860 tho the president of the mormon i church and tho the ying king ot of the mormon government gave the iha total number of cormons mormons in good standing r IV in utah at round numbers tho the 1 under eight years of 0 age f at it II there were iia as many more between fight eight anil and sixteen 0 it only lett left mormons cormons ot of possible marriageable age in tile tho territory tho the edmunds law was wag f passed in 1882 anil and under it the 1 registrars exploded excluded from rom 1000 il to 1000 from the voting list be baube 1 they were we it me see dy by the foregoing that bon tb eEdmunds law yas was passed wore more than one oae third ot of all the cormons mormons who were I 1 of 0 the ago to possibly contract rent alago were in polygamy it the writer titer does not know these facts t lie has no BO right to make statements ants like tho the above abom lor for they show bat too great a willingness on his part to establish his own theories tion evon at tho the ot of stating what is ia dot true alter after plenty more ot of such stuff the writer mates makes another 14 positive statement as aa follows it it to a curious commentary an 1 91 11 1 it iolj is tino etil ua truo the uie X 0 their belief in it U for the pu im cosat of being behig avny ru clied 1 ak and tile the we aej no ly bot waft ili ton for or their N lynnly licqua birr I 1 care IL a 9 baraw jaw about t 14 it I 1 jut because it to tile hie PO lot of I 1 allick lor for which wry cau can justify them f be as W tor a ill till wall i that statement vicula relegate tile tho vator to the realm by lunatics it tho the malico malice through it was waa not so BO t I 1 appa apparent rouL the writer understands I 1 that hail the mormons glien given up i polygamy they would bays land state i i load anil and absolute control hero here years iago ago lie he knows thoroughly gUy too loo that lot for years the gentiles have boon trying to make the country I 1 that polygamy to Is tho the lesser evil ol of mormonism that their subordination of tile the state to their church Is the tea lea j turo ture most meet drea dreadon dod it a feature so full j ot of menace that tho the nation rally na ell i ba llo lioa acm athla d j people note oto solidly Bol lilly as 93 directed with t out a break in their elal labh ranks tor for years bo be has heard the priesthood t insist upon udon their absolute absolu to anil and ON ino rt t right to rule in alt all thi figs temporal 4 1 I and spiritual yet he be writes ashe as he 6 i does knowing his falso false position lie i seeks to cover it up by another mis it as fol toua lottis I 1 As A for or themselves in conversation md end era area most unadvisedly in their e subtle print they liny tits hit genalee Gen Ulee almly F declair eel am that pully Is I 1 but IL a beall in ing enat tw far whit Co them sa is the alvir ot of the church 11 preponderance I 1 nee I 1 over civil law and its absolute of A tho the masem nias sc in jn ob lj rrt rt ibis means oira jiji in plain that the tha pasts phout 4 1 solves of liu ali the md em emoluments 6 abey aro in thi r the oti b left out in calil 1 how ow th t it would tie 1 fra arub or ily majority jollio ir or i i im but vie arll know albl it bioc dot concern the people a ol 01 ithe the country ot ill luge big no I 1 now or over has complained about I 1 the majority inal onty ruling bruun ruun litre here that la is 4 I 1 not and never has been the llie point la in question it Is id that the first hrc 21 i I 1 dency of the mortara mormon church name I 1 the men to bo be voted for anil and tile ike pro pla flo implicitly obey and the ulo la is so k binding that the legislature ot of the lie I 1 t territory dares not dot pass pan a bill until it has the approval of that same first Presidency and dares not refuse to pass any bill which that first preal I 1 dancy it to pass j 9 the city goern monts la in short the alio government to la a despotism dep liim us no abao I 1 lute 83 that ot of the shah of persia forja flint Is alint 1 of andia anil if the people ol of this thin country have no Colle concern cro ben such a system is betag being planted in those mountains then tico free government OR this continent Is simply imply a delusion awl adare the writer titter la is mean enough to churgo flint the of 0 is simply pimply tor for tho the lees fees that concerns the mar bills commissioners and prose buting attorney sworn officers iMre off i only ewe does he h mean that they aro the only ones interested in this matter la ia utah noil he objects to till the construction of 0 tile the law as mado made by the he courts here and by the supreme court ot of the united states which requires no nil reply he text neit tiya says then her L ly far y cont lereal ant nl old 1 4 men ma who ho married m women omen now DOW t M old u th emser barms guy law awaldt jt it wait vu ell acted them lor for cohabit 1 alou because they suit litell a the alj woman knain only lu in the K Js J duo of th air roll glow anuk add bauw beca they ibey visit ili by daylight la do anth euion I 1 lo 10 almly abo A Bo ranita bocca U bourek iti aion bo be we ar 1 I for iia tool id ori all m I 1 bot I 1 arn all to by li bd if 1 arhl lo 10 their i mul it Is II true they arrest those winni ahby can obtain evidence aga iut I 1 1 I out oat ot of ISOO tile Ollic thus far have been able to arrest still and 11 i about IOD this writer objects to the arrest ot of old men not one olle when orre tested anil and convicted lias has anything to do to escape punishment pun kliment except to IF pro lulao to bolted f arth rul pool obey the lite law lawa 0 As to tho the pim isi is i rit nt ot of old inonia men what hat would the skiple of boston eay nvere an all old man mail 17 ted tor far horse hom sl stealing ahng sad ind were ahto bd to plead tint that he ads ton toft oi old to throw a or of to lo is belil a branding i iron vint that therefore lio lie was innocent but bat that lie dould not give up dp ills his stolen he horses to es or cease to teach his hid wine badoa tho the scientific s e way to lo increase their hordi herds s this ariter further awo A very volume hat wely lutty bova 1 by authority of at the tha judiciary gi C D mudite to 0 of the unito banu SIR hoium ilot ul of bedora whom abundant k from both bithe hearing bearing uio at those to tra colvit at the lant dinst atlon of con contress cress alo cent bill against un the norman church jarw jar so harld bhavini tho the it wait the omm of the salt alt lelia 1 that it ft abrum bo be favorably faw rouilla ered lika nhia by tho N at of caudrec atso Nor cormons mons opposed art IL I 1 dolli ill abbl bbl wf no cordingly before we uw tho the ot of JAW by iy ay the an ani I tile liera hom was imado wry 11 aris auw uio statute hasu WM was always mad andi to aal by ft A forced wn con street I 1 on to 1 hie his anti and how liy by means or of Inc rillous lilt Goud gondles les invariably puo pull bilu acol A genull for instance Ini tanco who tied seduced but A iguls edster wo was livid oak to lo been bare violated tile law because hta his victim TU oot not his poly mid A ill mornion WM WAR led of illicit tell on 4 at von llon bemuse because he bo had ole house of at one boucot of his v lih whom he haa ceased to W have ban for tile purpose at 01 at ai mo 01 n R flick berels tharo it im an act ct by tho the i authorities owr the private leraz ot f bar mobs in ardor to obtain lairence lai dence uc of buelt cohabitation but when tits retaliate by auliff swatch on whereby they us in criminality the court coort tha prof auers tica tuo lloyde oot not violate a jaw which it WM was doi 00 enacted to anil me their aoe it Is true that a Geri gentilo tilo was tits dla missed as above e it Is arne olm that a mormon was waa dismissed a few daya lt later on precisely such a allowing for or a simple reason tito law was waa passed to punish polygamy and ltd its practice and nothing else the ho nu thor ther expecting that utah lial had the lie usual laws against common ninion co sexual crimes tito mon mart nora ore because CRU e the mormon statutes ing in them which treats of 0 ny sex einal bin except anpo as a crime the story about a mormon visiting a plural wife merely to see eee a stick eick child was not believed by tho the jury or court tor for perjury Is taught hero cicro as a duo art anil and to bin amo 0 admitted tile alio te it man mony y would havo have ended prosecution un der the law ia As to tho the last pero para graph in the foregoing the facts tire are these A mormon elder hired prostitutes to tea to open a house bouse of ill plied the hi means to pay liny the ilio rent and buy the furniture tur and offered the women woon weon on heavy bribes to involve certain and othor oilier decent citizens in the meshes ol of their note neta Us lie further lier employed the city police of 0 tills this city I 1 to orta tell within these bou cs after ac a certain r ertain time tho the women were sent pent sway and a few people but not one prominent citizen were arrested on warrants sworn out by the city police thugs alie court hold held t hat such men w were ere not entitled cutill eil to be believed under oath the grand grant jury indicted the lie elder tor for conspiracy tho the f facts 0 its wore were ully fully established on tile trial anil and jis he was waa most properly convicted again mormons cormons are ara only oaly corn coat isted OR on mormon testimony tho the sneers of 0 tho the writer and his about the ilio cour courts are all la in keep lic i ng with tho the CS cau useless eliM malice which his vi whole litile letter litter is 13 antu saturated rated no more pure courts exist on earth than these right here the as unit that the enforcement of 0 tho the laws culy tends to the lite more closely bind tho the mormon people together would ila ha just as a applicable to boston burglars as to utah polygamist litts the tha mormons cormons do its as they are arc told to by their chief prints priests and that is all there is to the busine businow bu sinew they will cling to their al slavery avery until ordered by their priesthood tj j give it up that nitin outs lile of 0 polygamy Is harmless as any other sect is simply tho the men dailous ila clous assertion of a 0 there Is no other seel sect in chich the priests dominate all political of officer ficeN nod and tho the whole people vote tor for them nis ilig final remedy Is to puniga female lawbreakers as well as is males which would be just and lio lie wants the olli air core cera at christlo garden to warn all immigrants of the ilio penalties of polygamy this last would bojuso be just as effectual feet oat its as it tv bo be to warn a all lp load of cattle en route to england that I 1 ac f they did not go TO ashore the last one of them would be butchered on their alrh ancial al the very dirtiest di inference of the whole letter is that the fihs gentiles nere here aro arc vi orling tor for personal gain that by they way may possess themselves of the fruits of mormon industry this Is alio moro contempt ampt ablo able find and base in i low of tho the fact no gentile lias bas ever sought to wrong a mormon gentiles have hare paid pahl mormons cormons hn libere here mormons cormons have paid gentiles dollars gentiles bave ha nevor asked aught of mormons cormons except that they oboy obey laws which they would have bays to obey in massachusetts anil and havo have noer never maile made a demand that it if granted would not lime benefited mormons cormons Mor mons financially far more than themselves arid and tho the writer of the letter to the poof foil knovis all these things anil and still lie ho lies and lies and aili lies |