| Show ELI PERKINS TO THE GENTILES AT SALT loke LAKE NEW york july 1941 to the gentiles at salt zake lake frank leslie theodore tilton general crook sidney i dillon and lastly and leastle the writer of letter have visited your beautiful city during the past spring I 1 have ibave talked with all these gentlemen since their return and they pronounce salt lake the most beautiful spot in the world this may seem extravagant praise but it Is not people ride a hundred miles in europe to visit interlaken Inter laken and geneva andlee and see bee the enow snow capped alps the view from interlaken Inter laken will not compare with the view from salt La kefor the sno snow w capped wasatch es are more beautiful than the alps and gr alider allder than the mer de glace again travellers trav ellers ride hundreds of miles to bathe in the hot suli sull sulphur ibur L springs at Wels Weis baden until wels we baden has become the mecca of ali hii european invalids now do you know that your hot sulphur baths are far superior to the hot baths at Wels Weis baden I 1 have tested the Wels baden waters frequently quent ly your waters will one day be e as famous as they sire are again a whole continent goes to seabright brighton and L long ng branch to bathe in the sea NOW now what sea is more invigorating than the balt salt waters of salt lake again travelers trav eleis endure hardships to td see the yosemite Is not your american fork catton cation ag beautiful but as beautiful as is your lovely lake as grand as are your wasatch mountains as sublime as ia is the rocky scenery that hedges the sides of american fork canlon cannon as invigorating and health giving as are your rivera of hot sulphur water there is still one more attraction which like a loadstone draws every american english or foreign tourist to salt lake with all these things I 1 say there is one thing in salt lake more attractive to the tourist than all others it is this and this alone iaione with all your beautiful scenery which drives the cosmopolite tourist to your city what is this thing you od ask it is the curious quaint strange wonderful church take away brigham young the temple the mormon religion and with ail all your beautiful beau ti ful fui scenery and spring ug not one tourist would step off at ogden to visit your city for I 1 say bay the one motive of tourists 19 to see the temple I 1 to see brigham young and to see L the he every day life of a wonderful and curious in a word salt balf lake with its beautiful snowcapped snow capped wahsatch Wah Wa satch heatch mountains bending over it as mont blanc bends over geneva with its hot sulphur water like wel Weis baden with its salt sell seil sea bathing like long branch with its scenery aa as grand as the yosemite with all these things salt lake I 1 say would not be the curious interesting and world renowned sait bait lake that it is is now without the mormon church salt lake without the mormons cormons would be like egypt without the P pyramids acids like jerusalem without the holy sepulchre it would be like mecca without the tomb of mohammed rome borne without st str pe tera and the vatican venice without the doges boges palace balace and Bena benares the city of buddha without the gorgeous taj and rock hewn temples of the mogul kings salt lake without brigham young and the temple would be like jike mount vernon with washington gone and the redheaded red headed editor of the lying like a lizard ward in the old sarcophagus the tho property owner in salt balt lake who would kill the one institution dybich has made this city famous throughout the world would be a shortsighted man indeed such a man if he lived in pisa would hew down the leaning tower if it he lived in niagara village ho he would petition congress to remove the falls if he lived in rome borne he would tear down the coliseum bill I 1 ill III the pope and burn up the vat lean and if be lived in iii moscow ho hg would destroy that thab outgrowth of heathen the kremith and empty the hotels of theold the slavonic n id capital y such a property owner irhe jived lived in Ober magan magal would discontinue the passion pay play pak which draws its thousands of df spectators up int inta 5 that tbt alpine height ti to see gee a religious ritual not so curious and interesting ng aa as the everyday every day service jn in the mormon temple such a property owner it he 60 kept an ah hotel near cear mammoth cave would petition congress to remove the excavation over lito ohio or if he lived in boston would give kive bunker Bu riker hill monument to the hotel keepers in lif saratoga how many tourists would trouble themselves ves veA to visit salt lake were there no such things agthe as the tho great temple the famed lion llon nomo house the co oo operative cooperative stores the curious mormon ritual and brigham young whose name ja tas las well weli known as the name cf grant or buddha or king william or mohammed throughout the world let me illustrate one day when I 1 took the cars at ogden for your lovely city I 1 count ed eighteen australians on the brain train in fact the central Paci pacific nir fir palace halace cars empty themselves into sa sait salt it lake when I 1 asked tourists what prompted them to td visit your good city they ney all sald bald I 1 aby why to see bee brigham young and the mor Mat mons mong of course what else elte should we go there therel aorl for we heard about the cormons all our ilves Haven fc the books newspapers and magazines been 15 een full of ham bam young for years weh ver would give more to see him than thun ady auy any mi man in the ewo world rid these tourists tourist lad had heard Artemus NVard lecture iu in london and they were very cariou to see eee brigham 3 the the temple Temp leand and thelton thellon the lion llon house housed 1 when t L told them about t the hot 1 sulphur springs and the beautiful snow capped Wast cb they said they had uever never heard or orthene them on the same samo train there we aereal real eral so 0 about twenty timid pik pit passengers who wanted to visit salt balt lake laie but were afraid tood bood to oui ori account of rumored disturbances which they ull uti unfortunately read about in the salt lake but the loadstone I 1 bas bay ay that drew them all down from frond ogden was wag brigham young and tri the e curious mermon mermen institutions not one went down tb see the mountains not one went down to see the beautiful jake lake not one went down to bathe in id the healthful hot sulphur not one cent went vent dowil to eat those splendid walker house meals the bej bed between new york and san francisco furnished finished by major erb ere bu but athey they all went tobee to eee seo brigham you sou young i and the mormon it to sa say thet if Brig brigham harn hain young and t church had not rint been in bait balt lake late not onel one of these tourists would have bave rone gone there to tile tiie gentiles of salt ake athey they thes tf fill their hotel elswith hot swA touristy tourist I 1 is ham young and the church just where they are kill kil them and salt lako luke will wilf be no better than pr jor sherman bherman sherl nan iti it ia Is the that make salt silt lake attractive their irrigation patriarchal cli cil church gov government rement their s sweet cottage homes hombs and their green nielda in the or of a browned and san nan sandy dy desert deerr take away brigham young anid annd and arid the mormon church and ogden wiil will absorb salt lakeland lake ald and aid these tourists would stop where they could look at the snow anuw capped wasatch mountains tai tat na at a distance explore Weber eanon canon bathe id th the tho clearwaters olear clear waters of salt lake and wad take thee tb train down to the hut hot sulphur springs u now gentlemen sidney dillon told me yesterday yester jeater day dax that passenger receipts at salt lake had bad fallen failen os off soook per month r W what hat bat for I 1 asked because said baid mr dillon the gentiles are shortsighted short sighted their newspaper the is vulgar sno ano bullof offensive slang it re viles vlies gentlemen and ladles ladies it makes passengers believe salt lake is a dangerous place to take women and children to so tourists slide by they sometimes stop at ogden de n PIC pick k upa up a war talking paper and a d then go on again leaving salt sait lake late in the lurch did you tell them so in salt lake I 1 asked iches yes I 1 told them the same thing thins I 1 told them that if trev they would buy the libelous war raising mischief making gentile newspaper and make a clean honest refined sheet that it would make a difference of twenty five per cent in the business of the city and what did they say to that ob oh the gentile sheet came out in a rude editorial joist as it a always ways does illustrating the very thing I 1 was saying and called mr gould and dud myself shallow churls and c wiseacres wise acres and the great farseeing railroad king showed his contempt by talking about ogden tha inthe the fact is said another railroad man present presents sidney dillon and jay gould could discriminate on freights over the union pacific to day in a manner to kill every gentile trader in salt lake and it is only their respect for B brigham ecung bishop sharp and t the he mor mons generally that keeps them from doi dol doingt doin ooin ngit gt and thee these are the kind mild of influential gentleman t hat that the salt lake is driving out of or driving against salt lake frank leslie saw the same thing and aud speaks of it in his illustrated newspaper last week general crook said baid to me the gentile newspaper makes an ass of its editor and fools of the gentiles who are short sighted enough to read lead it and believe its absurd rail ings what would be the effect if brigham young should move down into arizona laske cc why 0 11 said th the general it would kill salt lak lake e it would dry ui and blow away it would be like corinne brigham young and the mormons make the city the gentiles there them are ae non producers they aw are all speculators the cormons mormons ara are th the c bone and sinew ff the gentiles were wise they see bee what it is that makes salt lake and see what would kill I 1 aitto 11 pow vow now my gentile friends in salt Lak lake emy my advice to you is to keep but out of politics keep out of all quarrels and if you doit dort like brigham young why let him alone invite tourists to come to your beautiful city and make your weak for a cen een cent t editor atop writing about Mormon up ishigo and insurrections and stop abusing journalists and railroad rall tail road men who refuse to be bej made foos fools and tools of df if it odo mormons cormons should come into linto tho gentile city of our schenectady and try to bulldoze gen Ged gentiles tiles if these mormons cormons should bublich a newspaper and call our gentile sentile ministers and bishops frauds our dur gentile children apos tates tales call our gentile rel rei religion i g pl 0 us shamelessness and our gentile p prayers n blasphemous I 1 know what our 1000 ge gentiles n tiles would do we would hang that meddling editor lamppost and the leaders of these meddling mormon mornion car would have bave ave to move on or mind their own business especially ally if our gentiles had moved twice and gone a thousand mile miles sinto luto into au an unexplored wilderness and built a city to get away from them I 1 the peaceful presence of such euch 61 slandering ande r ing editors and aud the persons of dozens of f mischief mak ing gentiles in salt lake luke surround sur roun ded by 1800 and slandered Ian lan dered mormons cormons make me believe bellve that there la Is Eo something better than Christ christian laii in the mormon religion indeed if t thou thought blit 0 that I 1 could persuade brother bangham to re his bia little looseness in regard so the wife business so that I 1 would not have to buy six or eight ilk silk lik instead of one if I 1 could persuade him to become christian enough 11 to kill seventeen of his hia wives and give all their jewelry and s six im buttoned gloves to the remaining eighteenth why I 1 think I 1 mind living in sait bait lake lako myself lus lub its only the wife business thi at I 1 act to and I 1 see a remedy for that yes stes my gentile friends I 1 know a way to kill polygamy in a year howzw how 1 you ask the remedy my gentile brother is not war or insurrection it is not shooting and stabbing nor malice and slander nor what is it then you ask it ia harpers bazar gentlemen silk dresses and twenty five dollar bonne bonnets will kill polygamy not rifles and shot guns guna and mischief making newspapers newspaper imagine my gentile friends an brother mormon with a dozen wives imagine brother brigham counting his wives ana then buying eighteen paris parts bonnets at twenty five dollars each think of the prophet buying eighteen pairs of shoes at ten dollars each just juet picture brother brigham counting out his money to pay for eighteen silk blik dresses at each at a pop like ilke us poor gentiles in new york imagine the prophet counting his wives and then going out and buying eighteen gold watches watcher and chains stem winders too just picture to ld yourselves poor wife scourged brother brigham picking ou eighteen pairs of striped stockings at 3 a pair and then picture him turning around to mayor little and hyrum clawson to request a slight loan of to buy eighteen camel hair erawls at each think klink of it gentlemen and then if you still want vaut vant to kill brother brigham if you yon still thirst for human gore if you still demand a sacrifice pae sab t why place e a d keg of powder under the he chair of the redheaded fanatic close to his brains and then while all ail the thy people shout sic ad astral let left him float away to the stars stare then brother gentilee Gen Gent lloa finish your dreadful work by going out and hanging a harpers bazar in every window in bait salt lake and mark the prophecy of ell eli every man with over one wife in the city of zion will have to fly to stgeorge or ogden or go into bankrupt bankruptcy ey I 1 close with the hope that heaven will always protect the redheaded editor of the from his friend ELI perkins sa salt laae lake herald |
