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Show Aiiiiirr umi. Wr find thu following In the Syracuse! Syra-cuse! K, V., Journal unJer tho beading wu have given above. The .uuninf calls tho writer au "anll."Mormon." We preiiimo hu would object to that. We do not iu rrgar 1 him, hut that ho la a lion-". Mormon" ti a fact that will robably glvn weight la hb utterances among tbo readers or Ibe Syracuse uuJvtcff: "Tu Ibo Jommit -In your pser or July 31, IWM.I find sn editorial uu'l lab's HesdUri, wbleb does uot mistake or overstate the races. Utah b undoubtedly a fine country prosjieetlvely. Its progress prog-ress fur thirty years has been un ler great ellmt'iillies and yet It has grown npldly. Its prosperity la duo to lha quiet energy uf tho Mormons. A few about half a doxan rlih ruliiea have been worked. Hut tho strife always lull ing In the Tcrrttiryorer social questions has made It an unattractive country rur capitalists. Tho Mountains ara bill of weatlliatid lha Territory Is full cr mountains. moun-tains. Only let us get rid ot lha local ruw and lha country will buund rurward In lie priMqierlty. "Well, why not get rid or the 'rowf The only obstacluniw In thowayiatbo roil tbat tho gut eminent sends f 173,000 hero annually lu bo parcclod aut among otTlcsholtlon, and the gtssl ponplo of the r-aetsend iai,(KK) annually to bo used by tba mlssiunarlea for the BllpMnd pur(ose of conecrtlng the Mormons, Hut why eoovert them? Hecause they are jlygainlsta? I'ulygatny has lieen dead In Utah tor years. Thb young people so thoroughly ouigiew It that tho gree heads or tho Church dlared last OcluU r tbat henceforth there should bo tin ( jKityaamlo marriages among the Mormons. W not ouu of lha anil-Mormon anil-Mormon missionaries etir rouvortod a Mormon. Tha Muriuons uro a prugros-alve prugros-alve peoplo ami rogress has cnrrIM llietil avtay from lolygamy. They wuuld haei druppetl It years bofuro H tlu-y lia.1 nut been ao mercilessly abusctl on sccuuht or il "When you talk about the curse and blight or MDimonlsm' you aro but uttering utter-ing the prejudices ot autl-Mcrmona. You ennr.t vouraclr know anything about Moruioiilsui. It Is the most ecrlturat or Inblloal e,f all lha seels. It Is tha broalcat nf tba sects. Its work for the ilea 1 Includes all, It sees l-erdition etrrnsl fur tbuse only whu, having aorepte.1 lha tlosptl or Christ, lurnaaay from It, l'.te'ii yourself, air, will find 'In Iberesurreetlou' that some Mormon rtlatlte baa trn baptbo-l for jou and thus obtained for youagraco you might o'herwlsa never bare known. "Keen lha worst enemlca or tha Mormons Mor-mons In Ulsh admit tbat, asltlo from lulygamy, tDev bava been an eeemplsry people Utah today atanda ahead or all save th reo of tbo Htales lu hcreducAtlonal aterage, andlhatb duo entirely lo tho earnestness c.r tba Aforinonslueduiat-Ing Aforinonslueduiat-Ing tbelr ohltdren. As to virtue, you noeer hear or Mormon woinvu among the brolheb or Utah, and adultery b put down among them as auunpardonsl b In, That they are tlilns with pulygamy la Just as ccrlalu aa II la that It costs uioro lo raNe one family In Utah now tlian It lit) lo raiso thrta thirty yrara ago, Utah ought to ba a htalo. Hut aa long as Mormons Mor-mons aro Judged by the pre Jndlces or ttioita evho aro Ignorant In regard to them ah bus small chauiea to get In, Ttieru Is too much Inolicy, fir Ihoso Inbiresletl III kceplngber out, In tho territorial consideration. con-sideration. 1 ho nation tuuat Ibcrctbro like tho matter In hand. The nation should say that It will no longer jay uieu hi Uuh lo keep a strlfa there by working against the Mormoua. I,ot Itdolbataud there will ba no mora Iruublo, "I sndyou acopy ot my publication ou 'UUh from'i; lu'W I hope jouwlll rtssul It eauefully, and Jolu wllh me In wotklug to put an rndtiilhli unrighteous strife. Ibo mtlun cannot allord to ba moan, and yuu must be au Aluorloau, as Iain" Cn amis IXi.l.. Sil.T I.Aka (irr, August IJ.itJl. |