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Show I MOULD EMULATE IMiViRlES Hew hi Ml ai Least Says So. ,Ex-Govei'nor (VlcConnelTs M View of Conditions in Idaho Discussed. I; : ; "Poker-Playing: Gentiles" Hot Nearly g! ? So Good as Pious Latter ly : ! Day Saints. I 1 Mormon crimes and conspiracies having Will como ,n for 11 sood deal of castlgatlon J if lately. It Is appropriate enough that tho 1 Mormon virtues, which arc many and I'brllllant, should tako their turn In scourg-4 scourg-4 Sing the lamentable vlco3 of tho ordinary 9 Gentile or "Christian" Inhabitant of the mountain States. These Mormon vlrtuos J i are now having their Innings beforo tho '3 Senate Elections coramittco In tho Smoot (J : case, 2 ! ! Ex-Gov McConnell of Idaho, a good J ; Presbyterian, testified Wodnosday that jj until tho Mormons In that Stato camo iri- '; to- moral and material competition with J them! tho Gontlo Inhabitants "wero most-fJ most-fJ !' engaged In the science of poker." The i Mormons were moral, peaceable, thrifty, ajv superior to all others as homo builders, rvsrever gambled and always tempnrate. i"jj)y"The avcrago Mormon Is a better man sKWjfhan tho avcrago Qontlle, and a better S legislator. said tho samo witness. This 4 J Is unfortunately too true. In tho whole rc-! rc-! glon whoro the Mormons abound. To go it from any Western mining town or larga V( commercial settlement, non-Mormon, to a mi Mormon agricultural community Is llko' f going from a "red-light" section Jji this I ' city to a New England villago where pub- 3 lie sentiment lakes Its moral key from a i theological seminary. ( Social Ice, Intemperance, gambling, 4 speculation and extravagance aro the or-? or-? ; dlnary fallings of our new communities. I But tho newost Mormon colony la a modol 't of industry, of frugality, of mutual holp-' holp-' w fulness, and, barring tho ono monstrous 1 i Institution of polygnm. of virtue. ') ' Gov. McConnell seems to think that tho f Idaho people have been shamed Into hard r work and ordinary good conduct by tho Mormons. This ncgatlvo Mormon evan-4 evan-4 pellsm wo could stand something of, oven ,' In tho East Let U3 lmltato tho Mormon ',r virtues for very shame's sake, and at tho 1 V same tlmo guard ourselves against any tenderness toward their twin relic of bor-,1 bor-,1 barlsm. |