| Show ANTI11011110NIS11ION7 j To the Editor Before you lay away the body of honorable Marcus E Jones of Sal take City I would like the privilege of t making a few appropriate remarks over the corpse I im not a Mormon a JackMormon or a jack ass I he been among the 1laron as It common everyday UnPretending Un-pretending American citizen possessing fair understanding welUdev eloped perceptive per-ceptive faculties as much Independence IB one person ought to have for the It decode try opportunities for ob ervlng the ormon have been as good a lh anrlge Till study of Mormonism and II results baa been rill beyond that given to the subject by 11 vast majority or the 10n110rmon residents 01 Utah In the last tell or fifteen ear Vital I 11m about to rl Is olunlary as bag been every word I have ever written concerning Utah and Its people 11 have never been hired to Iva lie or even paid to write me word I do not believe the Blur nons ever cared much for what I said In their behalf Why should they They look upon themselves us being wholly In the Lords hands When He riled up a friend for them that 0 Ills business not thelts As to tricks In securing statehood or tricks after statehood came to joint tho offices I want to nay this Even ifi all that the late Marcuu 1 June sold In the quotations which you have made from his tatter were strictly true what of IY Take polygamy poly-gamy first I he had placed In the hands of the President ot the Republic Proof that polygamous marriages are low being made In the Mormon Church In Utah that this fact IB I knout to lulled States olllcers of the law In I Hah and goes on unheeded by them I will guarantee that there would have been I oelllllol here In short order It he could do this why did he distress ilmself I he knew whereof he af Irmed and did not divulge biD proofs I bell he woo recrant to hill conscience Next take the trick of getting I control 1 fi trot t of the olllces the positions I F trust In banks etcthn control of the schools the control of the Slate Would not Mr Jones If he had been urmlltcd to five I nnd the people he repieeented wire very largely In the majority In the State lave alone the ale filing I ill Jones llllulllctory Lad turned Its output Into Utah In sufllclent quantity to far outnumber all others how many Mortnotin would lie have placed In Ills l bankssthools and political offices Holding rich feelings 0 he evidently dlI 1 towards the 10rmolll Jt la rate t7 say they would hake received no favain from him and his people Out as you have shown his charge Is not true There i nio good art soso peopli In the 11 < it limn Chttrch In nil < > thr churches ind I nutslde or all churches Among the nonMormons I fm Utah are enter fI kybgrmen P lining prosperous men who are em roylng Mormom dealing with 1111aw mons golngialon us the times nlow I KIII dolnir lo Ixlly itching against the lopl I who are In the majority ot to in me l n mu nlclpni irrntrB i who docs notknow that Inlr cn In Bait lAke City for Innoe the change Crom ormon 10 non I lormon control has bcen rxt ooonl beFit be-Fit t d In 1 many way nnd dlsostrbuv In five jenr there wni public work done that shown well but which ought to have been 25 years In the dulngl Many rlh men who did thin 1 had m thing > trf lone l and were simply drAw ing un the vubmtcrhcearf those iv ho had to tiny and he still III eking to get Il controlln hind Upon the government of this e fly Mormons and nonMor mon the Jiest all it wisest of a both have done the right thing have done their duty An 10 general n1rnl I c e 1111roy cnnnt that the Mormons arc not In every way the equals of those who denounce them Thy are or they are not the people Into whose hands the higher Iwer have given the work of restoring the Christianity ot the ancient type If In doing what they understand to ether e-ther duty in the premises they hold their own people to n high morality and mnke them Industrious and pros Porous where Is I the harm In that Even their mint stubborn opponent those who declare their BI stem a fraud and their founder an Impostor must give l the system credit for the actual 90041 It has accomplished To do nny 10 Is would be to throw off the cloak of rorc1 Christianity and exhibit n state or feeling quite unchrlalall and wholly unworthy nf people who claim 10 be followers of the meek and lowly Nallrene For my part I believe It to be the duty of the Mormon people to work determinedly to got the whole government govern-ment of the Btnte and UH cllles the 1fnogmnt of the public schools all Interests of the people Into the eOlllrol o the wl laet and best people or the State I do not believe that the Mor mono nre 0 narwmhled 00 hort sighted or so bigoted an to rohe That there are n good people but the I Iittcrday Saints 1 do not believe the better clans of non rormon In Utah have any fear that they are to be deprived of i olce In the mnnement of the public rmhoral III the government or the cities or of the State or Utah The law courts or the State l are almost wholly In the hlllll of lonMormon now and are likely 10 remain 8 for many years Am to the schools when Il member of the board ot education could declare III session that No damned Mormon hould be on he board If he could Pro vent III I Is high time that uh 1 disposition should be trodden under foot Am to the ells government when a conspiracy cal be made to mork 00 far its 10 keep the old ofnclaj week and weeks In office crowding town Ard out the appointees 01 MAYoI Clllrk It Is I time public opinion should stand tip If the figure may pass and declare 11 that the Augean stables of partlsin rule In the city should be cleaned out should be compelled even If the Mayor comple < to turn 01 the hose 0 the matrons of school for Incorrigible girls the Denver ohol Incorigible Ilrl five same recently did upon four cr feme number himof their wards If I hated the Mormons ns much n I late Marcus K Jones seems to have done as larcuI c Miss Webster of Provo 1 toenin 10 do no much am sundrY letter writers of Utah seem to do I wouldnt stay among them I would not force myself to chaw make I a the rag of acerbity I would not permit per-mit myself rg to rrow a wrinkled with dissatisfaction as r the Interior favors of a well built cabbage I would get cut I would go Knst nnd present proots of the bnlness of the Mormons and start a school for scandal I know the Mormons just n well ns Marcus did They have I powerful organization and they are going to oranlzton outward Whether it I In right 01 or wrong It has nt Its heard I man In whose hands I would trust myself aB soon as I would with nnv man I know today I he Ie I rticelved upright and honorable te Is I ns grandly In his deception as any man or inrtn and so long an his work returns benefits bene-fits for those ihck ran accept his faith ft pee no ron to growl against lilm Hut the late Marcus CHARLES was different CLUB I |
