| Show A SHARP CONTRAST A OPINION OF THE MORMONS AND FOES editor deseret news mews As a foreign enand enaud erand a non mormon mermon observer I 1 f eel feel impelled to enter on a very unwelcome tak there la Is a hue and cry east in press and platform against mormon polygamy Y while as mg tul Thi talmage taimage niage in a recent sermon shows it is practised practiced secretly by many in new york and other places now news for infidels infidel freelove free love spiritualist lecherous editors or speakers male or female to howl thus Is unutterably odious and disgusting to all decent and sincere people for judas iscariot to cry out against treachery or venality or the devil against sin would fould not be more impudent and hypocritical ank anover over 20 states visited we have not found as quiet orderly a city elty as salt lake the sabbath la Is better he etter observed saloons being closed all day at all times there are less leas drunken persons or brawls on the streets or open vice such as dance houses hou low theartres theatres the atres etc so cummon common in every little town along the railroad coming east pr west to utah nor non do beggars begg drs tramps tra I 1 m p s s gamblers and prostitutes crowd t the h e streets at atai atTi night ight as elsewhere the contrast con is very noticeable let us make a comparison As it would hardly be fair to compare this city with Jargo ones like new york or chicago we will take denver which claims to be the queen city of ot the th e west and ia Is likely a fair specimen of western cities moreover its press is gloud in denouncing mormonism DE denver as compared with salu sale lake take in all fairness and candor at the most calm caim and impartial estimate e has at lesat least a hundred times more vice drunkenness lewdness gambling debauchery marital or conjugal infelicity or infidelity thieving lying dishonesty in all kinds of dealings with 1001 kinds af pf fraud and trickery indescribable with hidden crimes yet yot fashionable by y extent and common occurrence oc cu arence viz footle foo too me shown by M medical edical men in their newspapers to be of alarming 1 and wide prevalence many street streets s are lined with dance houses brothel low variety theatres theartres the atres etc hotels and streets street sj thronged thron ged by lewd women for where the carcases are the there re will the eagles be gathered such numbers of them show the numbers of their patrons take one sen Aen sentence tence tenca from a long article ot the sarno nature in a local suburban paper caper the otty papers either elther wink at or condi condone one its vices denven denver might be roo roofed fed over and labeled a house of or prostitution that witness speak truly so of fits its thousand heil hell hello P et ete etc c speak of political polita ca I 1 and ltd ild civil off official lelal venality and corruption from lieu t governor legislators mayor officials through all classes of the community lechery venality a general risea risca rascality lity are unblushingly practised practiced indeed in a certain certa insen sense se fiah fashionable so that half decent people have ceased to mush hush or be ashamed f this Is a dik die dark dank picture but the a darker shade yet th thebon 1 christian churches churchea and people the worst shams of all A BI worthless lot as re rell reil religion ion lon any kind pagan j I 1 christian has not been dounda foun 1 t the th e world if the devil had haq beete bat 4 them his will and pleasure eC scarcely have been more fully ca i ed to it would boa be a libels ubel a glasa on the infamous dead to ine lne aen k 4 t sodom or babylon on the k banie eanie with denver lot was a j f t saint alongside some vener D Ds whose craft and policy akin to that of the ward poh tiei a and whose bearing is more guf huf fi the duif or jockey club than sacred desk of course then there doubtless somme borne noble except among clergy and laity but 4 tia i bear the same game probably V 1 whole aa ak koah noah did to the rest cf of people of df his times it is but fair to denver icka to testate state that the stamp il bi found in allseits all ali sects east was of lj flimsy in sy kind i ind fairly moral and r reh rep able but hollow shallow sha Joiy and gt a as s tosil to spiritual ritual power as a gat gal image church going seemed a kind of pastime A little 11 ture reading p a rapid 4 or essay on sciences science or some 1 y t subject tacked on tomm to a biba kii kit i called a text I 1 beehive be L elve eive homoeopathic tinge of go gon goa w preachers or speak eray P with a vast melange ot of ta X sin singing ing etc made up vj t was called a service 0 of o it pastor satan or the deity v ft ano no fellah can find out now while the writer is a believer in tho bible and the fashioned religion and mom eaches teaches so sa fast becoming obett in some sume parts of america would not fencer at or it or any true advocate of it ye does not wonder that Inger ingersoll Eoll egil i other advocates of a myri myriad adIM adie adle iro lin JEO play such havoc with thel i bones or dead limbs of a baa progeny clinging to the tree of cb i ti anity bearing falsely its WA woh name this is a great nation fa 11 more agreeable or obliging tosti amongst on the face of the eez eat 11 only ony wish there was morcom enlarge on some of the grata but it requires no prophets eft tit see that the people are drifty from the old mour mouy mooring ings to a the c t tino of france previous to the revolution A crisis cannot ie ix ahead those who sow the must reap the whirlwind atha free love easy divorce with i sequel of lax morals and the ta la ing up of the family are nethermost foundations of em SOB another bad omen is wordel women i being thrust or are forc maur maUi selves into unnatural positions platform pulpit ulm them but I 1 must stop this sla long letter by expressing the cp op that the project to elevate mor through the agency of the ars avs gentile christian christians met seems about as plausible as ast sst t s t vate in culture the negroes soul sending ft indians as ag mission amon among g them anti aim bosh finup CANT R alt lake city juno June |
