Show SPEAKS rf S WELL Of OfT T THE t M M Mr Robert nobert K E J C Wilson a n gentle gentleman gentleman gentleman man who has spent some gome time tinte recently In Salt Lake Lako and who was Instrumental In In attracting eastern capital to Utah oil eli fields has hu just returned to his hili homo home In Houston Texas and gives tho the fol tol following following lowing Interview to the tho Chronicle Ills llis home paper Tho Time prIde 1 of Suit Salt Lake City In Is her herera crop era of ot children states Mr Robert 13 IL J C Wilson of or Houston who has hn re returned returned returned turned from a 11 six elx months visit I lt In the he theland theland land tInd of at Mormonism They are roundly developed children such an as anono allono ono one does not meet with elsewhere el The Tho streets are aro thronged with them then anti they are admired and petted One Ono in need Shads many helping hAnds Mr Wilson was seen by n a Chronicle reporter antI consented to give a ft 1 brief resume of ot his hl observations In the gar garden gardell den dell ellOt ot of Utah He has haR words of oC praise for tor need Smoot whom ho pronounces ono one of Natures noblemen Ho lie enthusiastically pays the highest tributes ot of characters i ct to the of at the tho Mormons of today The world has been ben misguided In Inthe Inthe the tho consideration of at these people It IL ILhas has hall looked at lit them from tram n a distance through a 1 lens that has hns magnified un tin unjustly justly ns os part of or the tho world once looked at slavery laver of at tho the south and was de lIe deceived They have hlo been maligned and their characters wrongfully tully traduced This Is the tribute Mr lr h Wilson pays to the Mormons of ot today lodo They are aro arean aronn arean an nn honest people who pay their heir love their thell neighbors lI and what they preach THE E PASSING OF OI Just as na slavery slaver passed from Croni the south BO so tins has polygamy panned pA from Utah It has hns not entirely vanished In practise lot but It Is forever dead as n it cult and forever torver tor er relinquished an as a 1 teaching of ot tho thin Mormon doctrine There are aro some HOme of tho the old time limo who still maintain their plural ural wives and thero Is no civil law hIV powerful enough to put them asunder er erTho Tho Time old limo lime t will argue They Thoy aro aromy my wives why should I cast eMt castany any an of at them oft off and K It I nm ant to retain any nn which should I keep In tIm th name nanie of humanity I will protect und multi provide for tor them then Tho The Mormon Church no loner lonzer teaches polygamy U Jt Is 18 no longer de do desired sired by It any more marc than the again desires slavery nut lint you will wll not find a true truo Mormon who will wll condemn tho tIde former CornIer practise o of or It any nn more mora than you ou will find a n true southerner who will wiil say RI Wo Se sinned when we held lick slaves shaves The young generations of tho the faith are particularly antagonistic to tho thu plural wife doctrine and In fact tact It huM hart raw few advocates advocated Those ThoMe old oh timers who have haro plural wives take on no more antI us as stated maintain those they have for tor humanitarian reasons There IH In an In element as IS hi i found In II nil all communities that under neath tho the cloak of at tho tIme church for the tIde perpetration perpetration of diabolism A limited class ela s sat ot of this sort Bort under the pretence of ot be believing behaving having lieving In polygamy have halo Indulged In licentiousness but hut they rue life quickly found out and shunned A Mormon girl It Is held In tho tile light of ot an In earthly saint Let n a stranger who vIdO Is 19 Inclined to be n a 1 masher enter tide the city und and attempt a flirtation Ho lie Homay may amy succeed with some Raine of at the tho Gentile maidens but It Ir he trIes lila Ills wiles on a n Mormon girl seine Homo onu ens OR who knows known her IH Is likely to touch him limo himon himon on the tho anti give 10 him hint this tip till She Is la n a Mormon That In III i equivalent to saying n 11 You ou arc are wasting your our time and making a fool tool of at yourself A A VILLAGE Ono Ond little I lingo nestling 1 at the I I I I II u foot root of a great granite mountain is II I It Itself Itself self n a 1 living tribute to tIme the character of at tho people It Ills is the tho town of Farm Farmington I ington the tho county seat of or Davis coun coup county ty I and It has hns a It population of This Is 18 ii Its It II boast It has within Its Us bounds no saloon billiard hal drug store doctor teeter or lawyer It 11 needs none of or ofA them I IA themA A has stood In its si sl sIc months with open lootS doom TUB DAYS OF OP POLYGAMY l When polygamy In flower It was not n t practised for tor the gratification of Immorality No one ono who has hils hitt asso nuo associated elated with tho the Mormons end given any Rny thought to their character can believe bellevo this A band of at the tide faith went to the thc vest vast o t desert de sert to build their thell temple They Thew fol Col followed followed lowed u IL I biblical Injunction of taking unto themselves more wl that they might Increase their population with greater grentel rapidity rapid It Polygamy was wan by byno b bno byno no means iv ii I fundamental principle of their faith any more than slavery waR sas a 1 principle of any nn religion taught In tho tide south Bouth They gave It up when It IL bo be Caine distasteful to their neighbor they the arc nrc now noli themselves hell glad of ox a aits Its lis eradication It Jt Is now a 1 dead Issue suc ns RN dead doad a n ono ns nR slavery and I nd thero there Is no more moro desire of ot Mormons Mormon to return to It than thero there is IR of or tho the south go 0 back to the tha days of or bondage lION HON SMOOT H OOT Thero Is III no tie name that stands higher with Uh the th Mormon people leOPle today thun that ot of Reed Deed Smoot Ho Is to his people the tho personification per of ot nil all that thatis thatIs is grand mentally and morally mouilly Ho Ito Is not n it polygamist never was never nover advocated It There IH Is not net a Il brighter mind In America nor a I man that Is his hili pew peed 1 In iii moral noral mom character Ho hns him ono one wife no un more nor 1101 hn lie over oer had or wanted t others Ho lie In lit traduced and maligned anti and Iho the humiliation ho Ida hns has beet been be subjected to at nt Washington Is nought but lut a I con can farce Tho The truth will ovill prevail and Reed Heed Smoot will rise above Ills his MORMON CHARACTERISTICS Ills His word Is iii ISM an na good as nil lila hili bond bondIs Is nowhere eo so far ns I know l no as ns up as IS with tho the Mormons ormon Any merchant or business man Illan of ot that see sec section lion tion requires no other e for credit than that of ot being a ma 1 good gool Mormon II Mr Wilson has hall reasons to know the tho truth of the tho above In Imi 11 dealing d with dozens of at Mormon men Inca where verbal erbal contracts only existed ho never found tOil one oue to deviate the tha slightest no IiO 10 matter how great gront hIs idie to have havo done so 80 may have hov been b n There lh ro are aro many practises os lu In 11 the private life of the tho Mormon that might bo be emulated Mr Wilson thinks by tho the rest vest of ot mankind with great grent pro profit fit Itt to tho the world The families of ot children are exceed exceedingly large and It Is not unusual to find 1111 n a dozen healthy young In 11 ono one tho the products of at polygamy pol polygamy amy Rany either One good old oh Mormon woman who passed to tho the great be he beyond heI yond ani whose funeral he ho attended was WaR borno orIO to her grave by eight of ot her 1 r rI sons us diR pallbearers They were sero great honest hone t faced boys and no more mora loving hands ever laid 1 ld tho the remains ot oG o a n mother to rest restA A custom that once on co strikes the tho stranger ns us n peculiar Is III I that of at paying tithes to the tho Church Every Evor Mormon RIVe gives of at his production It many be bc of ot tho time yield of or his hla form of ot his wane wage IO In a 1 fan fac factory tory or ot of tho the income of Ms his store Tho The children of at Young are Ire numerous are everywhere lenders leaders The rho name ot of Young stands highest In social and business circle Mr Ir Wil Wilson twit son met a 1 number of ot tho iio deceased loaders lenders sons miens anti and them thorn men ot of the highest attainments The Tho school system 8 t tn is of or tho highest order of ot perfection rt R number ot of names now In literary music mush and art clinICs circles havo hyo been produced by their schools In fact tho the pupils appear specially with active noH minds mImIc and endowed with marked artistic senses n |