| Show ONt ONE YEARS WORK A AMONG ONG MORMONS SIJ England Colporteur Makes Report Which is Sent to 0 the Deseret News TRIBUNE TRIUNE USES IT AS SPECIAL I One Oti More Case Cose Impost Imposition tion ton iou and nd Deception by I a Paper P pcr Void lold old Of Or Honor lonor Tho The Deseret News last lost night received through the tho malls lal an tin In article front from Ray Rov Ro Janice II I floss Hosa of ot 17 Lancaster street North Cambridge Massachusetts It deals with wih the tho report of ot tho the missionary travels in Utah anti and surrounding states of at Mr Ir George D I Peacock who ho by hy thu the way It will wil be bo seen neon has hns hin tho the usual lurid Imagination of ot his Ilk Ik IkA Associated A with wih the thu coming of lt the re report 10 rePort I port to tho the Deseret News In is II an ni Inter Interesting esting tact fact It I scorns scents that tho the Bait Sni I Lake 1110 Tribune also Ilso received u a I copy of tho the report in II tho the same samo mall mal mowing It appears prominently this ills Ils I played with wih Hashing headlines I nOl with lh n a Boston date clato line ln May IY 10 In Itt hue tho fIrst column fIrst page lunge If 0 of at the paper as u n Special to tu tho the Tribune carrying the tho that tho the Tribune with wih won WOI enterprise I ha furnishing nW at It gloat Burnt gloat expense which Its ls low lout mo tue not nol There wore vore other sPecials tram train parts part of ot tho the country which exhibited tho the sumo potty larceny lan ny proclivities The ho Boston 1 Special to the Tribune which conic came cameto to the Now News as cor correspondence follows George D I Jr who has ims boon boen laboring with wih success for tor nine nile years as asa al asa a colporteur of tho the American Tract so to society o clety cisty among tIle tho Mormons of Utah and auth adjacent status states bends bendl this the following In hat leport of ot his work during the past lUst year He lie le writes During the year 01 1 canvassed tho the counties of lIt Carbon Utah Summit and Weber In Inthe II the thie state tute of or Utah and allt tho the counting counties countus of ot Mount Mesa nod and II 1 In Colorado Colordo Title Thin Is Isa IsI isa a I large JutS Hold field In II extent of at terrItory for tor It Is li miles 1111 from fret Utah to Delta Dola Colo Cob und Ula 50 miles bites mie Rich Wei RIchfIeld Held fIeld feltl to Ogden I 1 haVe haVu traveled much up anti and down the thu valleys along ulong aIon the slopes elopes and Ild rang rung rangos os cut 01 over Oer lofty lofy summit and through nu on lH canyons to reach the tho towns villages farms anti and ranches ranchel scattered over the tho fielda field flold a distance of ot 0 miles by lJ railroad und and WO 10 OO miles Illes by horseback or with wih team tenni tRI and wagon 1101 has been bee I traveled In reaching reachinG the scattered corn com communities con s I have hao economized In thlu und anti Ulc traveled to covet cover as a much territory as us possible In the year Clr Hy fly using team and wagon or horse horseback horseback back in II pleasant weather 1 I canvassed ed edthe the communities thero there are arc no railroads or ai stage lutes lines Inos In making long Journeys as 1 tram train Ogden Ogdon Ogren to Grand Junction anti In winter weather 1 I traveled by railroad Ono One oftentimes travels a fl II hundred miles mies la In lathis Inthis this section of ot country without seeing feeing u a I town or even een u n cattle ranch I In La places where whore tho tito residents were went suspicious of at strangers of religious peddlers and 1111 gospel ospel It WIS was v is a n great grent advantage to the work to togo togo togo go about In a way I have often oten walked from tram town lown to town taking the tho Held fluid roads or OJ to tf ovoid avoId be hOt becoming coming coining too conspicuous to tho the suspicious claus cious prejudiced Mormons In can canvassing canvassing tho the beautiful valley valey of county count where are mo situated the towns of ot Charleston Midway and He lie Heber her ber I 1 did much of ot my toy work afoot The rho Iho majority of ot the people among amon nhom I nA en are nto Homan BOlum Catholics In II Colorado Colordo there thero Is a Jungle of or sectarianism be he besides sides pities the tho regular evangelical churches there thore are arc Christian Science Homan Cath Catti Catholics olics two or three tineo of ot Mormons and 1111 nut two classes of ot Holiness These various sects had their preach Neach preachers ers era mid and Ind In iii II tho tile Held neld In Ill vocation or occupation the people aro divided Into three principal classes 1 farmers millers anti and ald railroad ors The i Mormons R arc aro Invariably farm tint ors era el and 1 and claim tho supremacy an BI the pioneers and und colon colonizer IZ IZor er or ore of ot the arki 1111 West Vest The Homan Catholics comprise the principal population of the mining camp and anti railroad towns and constitute conlU tute the laboring labeling Clausen in mining and raIlroading enterprises es esA A few tew families are RIO found In lit 11 almost t all I communities of ot Mormon dom dOl dot they do not exercise n a nery aery ery strong Itron Influence for tor Christianity their thel established permanence In a tt I neighborhood Is IH always a n source of ot encouragement to the col colporteur r This Tho ho entire population of or the West Woot est IB in II III smith small I 1 al scattered In iii proportion to the thue grEat gnat extent ox tent of at tho the Held haiti 1011 for tor these In states are magnificent In size anc the distance between towns villages Is II sometimes great Brent About hout the only class of ut reading rOI mat matter mattOI mattei ter tei tOI In tho the fatally family of ot the Saint Is the News tho the organ of ot tho thin First of ot tho the Mormon Church awl and a n few Cew Mormon Church an IS a the thu Hook nU of Mor Mar Mormon Marmon mon Doctrine and Covenants of ot kent Client Price Irice Key Frey to Mormon Theolo 1 y ole etc So o little realization do elo the tho Mormons have hac of or good religious books so RO little do rio they Iho understand die tru truworth worth quality anti mont merit of or a it At ii volume that one ono must mint them Into the appreciation of ot our Christian literature I tle and Inc almost offer after It to them without cost coat before buforo they with will wi receive It IL Into their homes bounce Tho rho ho Mormons are uro so much afraid of ot being bell Influenced against their own re religion religion ligion that they tIle tho are suspIcious of ot pub pith publication that have haw not l ben beet n Indorsed or 01 Function by hy the tho FIrst Presidency IreI noy anti and tin the They have hae 1110 s severely ver ly opposed mo me 1 n i isome some places I was vae d In foin tOl towns during the year and Inel fitted fined Ine tot foi selling Christian tan literature lem tUI and the tle Di Ill n bit ble without a license My statistic for tor tho year are n 1 as follows I made ate visits In the Com fam families nun III of or Mormons and Catholics CR Of or theis were at nt Mormon r orman homes Special anti and religious conversation Alth Ith individuals ned Rn tam fam am 11 1 were ware held In 1650 1630 homes hOne I found rounel 0 families without lter ture lure aunt nd 3 tO 0 homes homed had not even ovon a A copy of at the Holy Scriptures I delivered 10 Jn at religIous F services and wait privileged to help organize Hv five Sunday schools choo and three young peoples soda tn ties I |
