| Show n atlle efi J te nou Vou troubles bieg bleg in atah 1 0 t I 1 il it W r silt kli CITY june ath 1877 so far as we have lave been able to ascertain certain I 1 ane L reports ports that the mor mons mono a are re secretly drilling and that a geneat uprising against the United states Stales government iscon is contemplate template T fe afe a pure fiction this subject ha ilau diab gliden een the of much conversation 4 wherever we have been VL wyoming Vy oming utah and idaho ho therl theres Th ereIs Is a general feeling of that the correspondent of the N Y herald A should 7 seek to stir up the whole country against the mor mons glia fela this he is seconded by the balt bait lake a dional sheet its columns column s of late have vii vil of slander and grid mal ice it orten often has haa to retract some the thi ngit has haa published previously As is isgen generally edall y the case casch however however the sian blan slanderous derous articles get co copied P led while the ther r are seldom beldom seen sensation jab jal the absurd report sent forth by v tha bet her aad c 7 nr that attempt been made to ansas assas sinate gim yim him huh hub his own accounts of both of ibo iho alleged oed ged attempts wr are too hin hlo hio inand iud ind show that he mad made a ta them 0 16 olit of whole cloth the lesul jesuit t ol 01 ail ali all au these filan falsa aporta re during tue lue nast few wee weeks beeks 1183 has nas has been lo 10 unsettle b business ess to a considerable extent throughout the whole territory yand rand is working in the east a positive injury to the credit of utah merchants a au an army officer atta attached blied to oue ole of the united surveying expeditions in southern utah who came carrie 04 on from omaha aitu ua us and who has spent several years in and around and evidently knows what he is talking a about bouc I 1 said laid the reported drillen dr drilling illin of the mormons was a pure cunard canard but if ther there e was to be any fighting cabe he hoped hope d the mormons cormons would whip the trouble saia sala sala saia said sald he Is just here the mormons cormons came hamu first and occupied all the best land the credit of redeeming the soil sol soi and making isalt lake luske valley so prosperous belongs to them they have done all there ba 3 been doue done they are peaceable and industrious the gentiles came later and somo some some of them were mad because the mormons ead had got ahead of them they could not drive dreve them out for the mormons cormons were too many for them then they were angry b be e cause they have ally any of the public of offices flees they wanted to control the elections and run the machine but here unfortunately the Mort mormons outnumbered them ten toone to one and that t l work then theu they tried to stir up a feeling throughout the sta states tes against these geb 1 tiles tilea sal sai said sald dahe jle jie who are making all this trouble are the horbe homa border alia atia and cut throats who havey have been driven out of re respectable society in III other places place they go around with their belts full of pistols pistoia and k ivey ivea wearing slouched hats aud and with their pants in their boots armeil and equipped they are walk walking ing arsenals of or their morals morais the less said bald the better belter and yul sel et these are the men who are horrified because polygamy exists iu in utah ulah I 1 and mud they keep up the cry in order to stir up the country against the mormons cormons Mor mons in order that they may come in for the coffees and obtain of the rine line lands ladds 11 we nind find that this opinion ia generally shared by the respectable gentile thou though 0 b we have seen no walking arsenals yet mormonism as a religion our government has nothing to do with anymore any more than with diotes pi oies tant ism catholicism ST edenborg lanhum spiritualism or even thu the paganism of the chinese mormonism may and doubtless a will wili exist after polygamy ia Is dead the latter is peculiarly obnoxious to christians of every name and denomination and therefore these utah gentiles who are hungry fen fer office keep beep the subject continually stirred up the mormons cormons that we have conversed with are proud of ot their thein religion but none of them subject forward they admit that poly polygamy garny gainy is not so much practiced practised as id it was the respectable gentiles merchants and others are held in high esteem by the mormons cormons Mor mons they are good citizens and are made mado welcome to the country by the Mor mons this class of the population are especially indignant that the reee rece recent lit tit prejudicial reports should have kone gone abroad for this they blame son the herald and alad the baie gait lake Thy 1 reharB been militia drills ever since the territory bry bri was organized organised zed sed they have hava been feces necessary ary to keep the indians indiana in Iti cheek check and in some dis they have been kept up like the old fash fashioned I 1 dialed training das daa in connecticut but there has been nothing secret about them A young man a gentile elerk clerk in a gentile store who has been in the city nearly two years who is squarely opposed to mormonism bays says this recent excitement cit ement is all gotten up by the cc ring aided by stillson and the he bedont dont dono believe any one attempted to amas assassinate onate stillson and we found any one who does though weve asked many if these howlers bowlers could only get the government committed to send them troops they would be bb ed the mormons cormons would not object to the soldiers only they dont like the excuse that is being made to get them here in the present depressed state of business bud bui aness kness it would help heip them greatly to have several regiments regi ments menta of united states troops here itis it is well known that john army y was a godsend to them irr 1858 the mormons were then nearly perishing and anti the sol soi soldiers diero brought not toot only money in plenty but algo also niso als o an abundance of blankets and clothing they had plenty of flour and grain then as they haxo have now but there is no markentor mark market eltor ettor for their productions nor not for their mineral minerals how everall thia this may be there is ig ago alo no pros prot prospect hect that there will be any an y moret mores soldiers brought here hero gen crookham crook nas put a quietus on that he arrived here eveni evening Dg on the same with us the agitators an interview to day monday at the walker house chile they could not help but ar know bidge hidge that the people are quiet and pe pes pei ceable ceabie they launched out against the leaders according to them the leaders were devils who would not hesitate to plunge the whole country into war they say eay if the officers of the law should attempt to arrest brigham young there would be an immense popular uprising and the lives of the gentile gentiles would not be safe eafe in response to there la Is the faco face that president young has hag been arrested aud and has passed a night behind the bars in a penitentiary and there was no uprising A gentile said sald to ua us this afternoon why I 1 would like no b better job than to arrest brigham young he is 1 the easiest man in the territory to arrest artest and would make not the ti lightest resistance rests tap W gen crook evidently aly fieda bek sek 9 through the motives f teni tani dand as he refused lo 0 o accede tr their wishes he will doubtless I 1 become a A farget fa aget for their bj alice allce after hearing all they bad to say aay he told them plainly they were only injuring themselves them selves helves by thie course couise tj they had taken the th sensational reports that had been sent out only tended to keep beep capit aliste from investing in the territory 1 arri ami amr were a positive injury to busi busl business he said be he could see no pretext for bring bringing in g the united state troops here it iq h hope hupe 0 puit putt this thim decision of gen gott ccook crooks 8 I 1 will re toro tore confidence in business OL cli les ies alfs eles and that capital will continue to ia flow into the territory balt salt lmke lake City the mormon zion beautiful ia for flit aad bul but not the joy of the whole earth 10 we always remember with plea siire our brief visit here there but have not tim enow to write of ali all we saw paw and d heard and did we depart this afternoon with regret W bridgeport eVort conn standard rune june 13 |
