Show t lOES lihtIIESSJONS A ITW mputiis Inc Jcaiuin Miller the noted J ott paid a bncr visit to this city He has lately been giving publicity to his ill prewSoiis o Salt Lake through the columns 0 the New York Jmirjtcn ileMi One of Ins papers giving an account of his 1 trip over the D I G and It t u V to tug Int ha alreadi appeared in these columns He I a quaint prose writerH > mew Lai Irench iu stile his production prucion being cut up into unusually brief liaragreplis Here is his introduc tory flaslr I jou eater Sl Lake City by the Denver A Rio Gruxteyoaarecontinu lly remindeJ o th plains of rAm lrtls l and half expect every moment totee the nwtWe towers of mab Milans lans cathedral and the homeso cUlr Rrtbe o Napoisone Villagers in tin air from their marL C lofty For here in this inju tnom city ot hs Hum Miy years you Mw all that ma be seen If the mburlwof Milan lan The long long Imes of Loiiibanly popbr tress the laden Jlpr lden orehanl < tie coming ant going of laden wagons be patient people hording to their work from daylight to dark the dnst and the sweat of devoted husbandry Ilsbn the dairy ranches and the laden fruit r trees ten back of I all tbe everlast ing mountains of snow just like the mountain that rise beyond and about Uomo Surely it is dear old Milan The kindly heart of the poet leaps oat here and there with plea irg prominence mid perhaps this genial old gentleman feel a little twinge ofreMrseat having done ioJtustie to the ilormsii people li his play of the DUI IHJ being pl the author of thatunju ifiabledraraati produelion Wlien he cousin iu contact with the Saints a new S11nt light i ° seen to break iu upon him ana lie i exclaims You fill in love with the people Pple of Salt Lake as you approach Tho nearer you come to know them the beer YOU coats to lo > o them I Is the long haired man anti the bhort haired woman who wants to lecture on Mormons and Morniomsm that 1 dont know a single thing about this people or their wok who dont like 4 them L these santo people frt plant a tree one single tree among them alt where fhso people have planted thousands and tens of thousands thou-sands in the desert an J then the land may listen t them with a utile patience tience But until they ban at letgt 1 tried to make two Hades of grae grow where only one grow before boa bo-a bit patient with a people of whom they know nothing at all of whom they are actually Incapable of knowIng know-Ing anything at all Ab lUte had not RufTIcie utly ex pressed himself this direction he takes up the point again and portrays por-trays his disgust Ifor the Idlers mud sensationalist who w rite books and I deliver lectures about the Mormons Mor-mons Follow as up this Idea hi S3 St Let I couch go to work and work as hard a the Mormon work and they will hare but little time 10 med die in tiling that they know nothing about ali core but lOde abut except as a matter of profit Salt Lake City Is building I right along Taking a practical turn us he glances at Fort Douglas he exclaims i ex-claims Out yonder I a great for with a fall regiment In its barracks It it beautiful to look upon 1 adds to the ndscape The officer are manly flows tliy treat me with great cur IIY But I tell you tbey are Idler everyone in this great bceblt e of a n lion 1 I my let us bare a school therein there-in place of tins fort I would cost loin far less and we what good we could do with a school Or I the lovers lov-ers of brass bands and of lanterns still Insist oa Keeping their costly toyu by let them hut let us hare the school of mine also Mr Miller sUUs tint after he had publihcd the Danle In London Congress rent for him and required him t cay lo a committee what he I would do t suppress Momionl j His nnh wa Dont cive Ultra bullets give them books We make a further extract Having been told that tie titrets and walls and battlements tbat surround sur-round the od newspaper office and the Beehive and other of the old Brgham Buildings was to b torn down next year 1 went to the proprietor propri-etor to protest But these Mormons are an extremely I extreme-ly practical people The lan told mo that the six strong stone buildings non half up would qni o overwhelm him and the old houses walls towers and all would soon have to g Well what did you build them for in first the pLico Indians Xo no we never hid trouble with ally of lie Indians People say Brig ham Young wanted the wills t keep his wives at home but the truth i is the walls were built to get the stones oft the ground and then we needed walls I in the first place to keep cattle out j Pros practical candid and truthful was this ardent Mormon in his talk wilt me and I bought a f wof his books all printed on paper undo In Salt Lake I bought some paper of him half a dollars worth and I was compelled to cither get a cart or leave the half biggest behind The bhind paper on which 1 write this letter is part of It I liked this mans proud and honest way of speakingand dealing with me nnd as I stood there with uny bundles in mj ant I said Can you tell me in a few sentences what in the world you Mormons believe in besides polygamy s that I can write it down and send I to my friends The pertm addressed hauiicd the poet tie Artielcs of Faith over the name of Joseph Smith the Prophet inch ar appended to iht paper published la the Independent j |