Show THE MORMONS AS VIEWED BY A GENTILE GENTILES THREE weeks ago Z a party of colora dans visited this city and among them were several eli editors tors torb who manifested conAld considerable erable interest in the cormons mormons Mor mons their creed condition and relations to other people on their return they deputed one of their number a gentleman who is 19 now not actively engaged for the press having embarked in a more lucrative branch of business to write something for the papers on the UN mormon question from an unbiased stand standpoint point tho the following article which appeared in the denver tribune of july rhth under several sensational headings he adial s was the result we reproduce I 1 it tas as a singularly straightforward and Re curate accurate account of the tiie situation na that it ft is perfectly correct bub hut tile the mistakes are remarkably felcon few considering that the writer is a stran stranger geraud gerand and an outsider and like all visitors to our cl city itys ityl was was approached i by persons who take delight in de deceiving trav elers elors that the able writer has baa to be accurate is evident to all who are acquainted with the facts his statement that A mormon lormon juries will acquit aitt their accused brethren every t time me is a big mis mistake take he was probably told that this was the case caso lut tut t he the court records all over the territory are proof positive to the tho contrary the mormon voting power in idaho and other outside places ia Is exaggerated and their are a few other slight inaccuracies but on the whole the writer has succeeded to a very unusual degree in arriving at just conclusions he has our thanks for his fairness and of course will bring down upon himself the impotent wrath of our malicious adversaries when the recent editorial edcur sion started to salt lake it was agreed that every member was waa determined ter mined in advance to make it warm for the af mormons cormons on his return the situation was entirely too anani unanimous to be interesting and your correspondent was selected to take the side of the mormons cormons and to see that the case was waa fairly presented to the people of colorado the journey over developed nothing but monotonous scenery and intensified prejudice against the saints are you ono one of the colorado editors asked a keen looking little man than of me in a streetcar street car on the day of our arrival in salt lake yes tea was the reply veil yell vell see here I 1 awant want to tell you something edging up closer anere he could almost whisper in my ear when hen you go back just give the tho mormons cormons h 1 1 in your paper 11 dont know about that thus far I 1 am favorably impressed their thrift and industry surprises me goh agod godl that is the trouble all you eastern editors allow yourselves to be captured by the saints they treat you white while you are on a visit t but just stay here five or six bix years Tears and be kicked like we have been and you would see the situation in a di merent different light veil veli vell well do I 1 understand you to deny that they are a wonderfully industrious set of people ID n their industry they are a foul and loathsome Joath some biot blot upon civilization lz iza tion atlon 1 what harm do they do you they are trying to break up my business and ruin me what is your business 11 1 I kee keep a salo balo saloon oti 1 at thi this stage of the conversation the time for me to alight from the car had come and I 1 gave the victim of mormon intolerance a sympathetic farewell bow meeting a liberal minded gentle man from washington city atone at one of the hotels I 1 drew him into conversation on the mormon question and found that he had some surprising views in the rotten and corrupt capital where I 1 live said he be nearly every fellow who can afford it keeps ee ps a 4 mistress besides his wife and a good many keep two or three mistresses distresses mi stresses that is ail all right it dont shock civilization at all but these same fellows and their kind come out to utah upon all sorts of adventures and find here a set of hardworking hard working religious fanatics who ask nothing but the privilege of worshipping wor shipping god according to the dictates of their ow own n conscience no matter h how ow a absurd b their ideas may be they have a aright right to enjoy them but these gentile scoundrels see a chance to invoke tho the prejudices of the ameri ameni can people s 0 to do it in order to run the mormons cormons out and get their property for nothing ill tell you there is 19 not a bigger bonanza in ill reig sight ht anywhere the immovable real estate of these singular fanatics js is worth many millions they will abandon it all before they will give giro up their religion to force this alter alternative nativo on them la the gentile issue of the hour and all the viel visitors tors tons who are not willing to believe all the extravagant gentile stories and are not ready to retail them bac back baek keast east are treated with scorn in fact you will find yourself so cornered that you will have to return and oud ilo lie about the cormons mormons in order to avoid the suspicion that you hanker banker to become a polygamist yourself after mingling with both mor mons and gentiles it is difficult to give an account of the situation that is not colored both sides assert so much and prove so little that the effort to get at the truth Is no small one to a man determined to be just it must be confessed that the appearances arm are with the mormons cormons Mor mons their thein highly cultivated farms which would do credit to any agricultural community on the face of the earth enchant the stranger and he asks aska himself if there must not be something good in a system that has hrs hub thiis hus literally made the desert blossom as s the rose AH ali iho the far oar farming nning is in their hands it is a brows that swe sweat atwith with honest toil toll thelam the gamblers the saloon keepers the pimps and the tho patrons of prostitutes the adventurers and slid speculators and drones may be fairly said to be all rill gentiles or opponents of the foul blotch on oil civilization civilisation about one fifth of the legitimate business men of the city and most of the mining investors are also gentiles but the gentile merchants are not rampant in their opposition to the cormons mormons Mor mons on the contrary they are called jack jaek cormons mormons Mor mons onsby by the politic political 41 bummers hummers and office holding clique and abd arn are charged with cowardice dowar dim and with toady ing to mormon customers the fact is ti that at in spite of their operation cooperation co store which ia Is a good thing to keep down prices the mor mons largely patronize and chiefly sustain the gentile merchants some of their fanatical leaders in slat that this is suicide but uch much narrow teaching bag baa but little effect but the gentile lawyers are ostra and persecuted nine tenths sf af the disputes among cormons mormons are settled by a church arbitration committee and this results in just nine rhine tenths less business for the disciples of Bla bia blackstone clotone fience hence the legal fraternity Is exceedingly anxious to wipe out gut the foul blotch the bloated priests of this shameful hanie hanle ful fui oligarchy serve berve those noble patriots the saloon keepers with equal cruelty they preach to their benighted followers that benzine is gentile poison and must be avoided the result of this tyranny is that but precious few mor mons ar are 0 drunkards and as the mormons cormons constitute four fifths of the population the whiskey business is not prosperous at present all the saloons are organized to resist the mormon temperance measures and in their efforts to crush erush out the loathsome practice of polygamy ys they expect the of 0 all our protestant catho gie tie lie and jewish churches in honest frankness it is its abrard to deny that the utah Gentiles who are filling this broad land with their lamentations over polygamy my and are posing before mankind as the struggling champions of christian virtue are on the whole a set of humbugs humburgs hum bugs indeed they admit with asly ably wink that they are not missionaries sion aries they are strictly y on the make and are not one whit superior morally to the pious pioneers who in the name of the lord made leadville what it Is indeed they are not so good for the leadville speculator speculators did not resort to laypo hypocritical cri eri pretenses end and did not seek to avail themselves of a national prejudice udice there ia is no objection to leiting letting the gentiles continue their fight but bu t it should be conducted in the open on its ita merits and not under the cloak of a virtuous combat with polygamy the gentiles desire above all things to get control of the politics of utah in order to do this they must get rid of the mormons cormons Mor mons who are as blanish as some of our own religious sects tho mormon leaders are keen politicians as well as expert theologians they have a soft thing and are making money they excite the envy rather than the disgust of the gentile shar sharpens pers the mormon apost apostles lei iel leg who rule role the church and manage ita millions of property do not have the religious look they are free in their sermons from tile the clerical whang they look like ilke thrifty and intelligent bankers and merchants and talk common cotmon sense from the pulpit in a business tone it is but fair to say that polygamy ia Is not inot the cornar stone stopp of mormonism the latter is a protestant re faith with a church organization which in wonderful perfection I 1 is only second to that of rome home me not one mormon in ten has over one wife the few having two wives are ire lre not the most devoted to the faith cut out all the polygamists and you would still have in utah a devoted church of over 8 souls ouis they all believe polygamy is divinely permitted but do not choose to enjoy it that they dont is the highest tribute to their virtue in deed virtue j Is ir i ablo from a people wh x cli i cj j ei is industry the gentiles in utah are not hopeful the supreme court and congress and the railroads are practically with the mormons cormons Mor mons among the leading gentiles predictions are freely made mada that a civil war will result from the refusal of congress to most p out polygamy they thes say that the mormon government of the territory exempts the nall rall railroads roads t non ron taxa taxation t on in exchange for fot pr prot i eption at washington all attempts to prosecute the cormons mormons for bigamy raus must fall fail fai fal to 4 com anything more than to bind the saints more closely together and to give a fey few scrubby government in e ut officials tho the national notoriety which w they seem to enave crave mormon juries will acquit their accused brethren every time A law that would select gentile junies juries would be unconstitutional and tyrannical but if this difficulty could ba be overcome convictions would be impossible for want of evidence the supreme court holds that a wife cannot testify against her hen husband and ope opp who was hired hh ed to do BO so had her lier evidence against her spouse ruled out f ali ail all fal we want says th the e baffled gentiles els eis ls a slight change in the law of evidence they want the fact that q a man belongs to the mormon phurah made prima acia proof that he is guilty of bigamy nut but the same gentiles who have 0 o cheek to ask for this monstrous isolation ol atlon of the constitution and of oni inon justice admit that atit kotono ono one leith laith mth of the mormon married men kave lave bemore semore more than one wife the ab edity of their proposition is plain were better betten to burn all the people people attah gentile and mormon at J intake te stake than to sacrifice our con donai donal safeguards safe guards no flight in the law of evidence will braide by the american people after studying utah carefully I 1 ft 0 prepared to answer some quests vs if asked when I 1 think mor will die out I 1 reply that it a decay when other religions do asked when I 1 think polygamy will jt e abandoned I 1 reply that irwill it will rase lase w m a practice r atice about the time timo ot houses hou of prostitution among us gerstam stamped d out if asked whether is a real religion or a sensual deim deare degre to have more than one wife thich makes men mormons cormons Mor mons I 1 reply twenty cases pon don in nineteen and sensuality in idly ally one ia Is the impelling motive the desire of poor people in europe if oget get homes or of their own induces gorl Hori to come to but does doi got make them mormons in the int place and aud does not keep them to the faith they pay their own ay iy 0 out x t h a d lelou to utah the mormons cormons ave captured idaho have a majority of the voters and will probably take in arizona they are coming to colorado in considerable numbers and calculate to secure toleration hereby here bere by holding bolding 0 the balance of power between our two parties this acht they bey will probably accomplish 1 IV matiie the way our gamblers and prostitute cu re toleration I 1 nhe the TA women in utah are devoted all stories to the contrary notwithstanding they say it gives every woman the glorious arl privilege of wifehood and maternity ty one social advantage mut but it is is that a young lady tho falls in love ia Is not compelled to 1 pe pine away when she hears that he is married the courtship goes right on the irksome thing abent polygamy to the women is hat that their austere religion compels them to dress plainly plaIn Jy many tf the girls have pretty and intelligent faces but their lack of fine I 1 cothes pate them at fit a great santago when compared to the romen lomen of denver lenver it is a fact that lormon girls hanker to marry gentile bia bla men but this is due to their dugon for dress rather than to their oe aeton eon con ton to polygamy the gentiles deluded themselves with the hope that female suffrage would enable tio tie mormon women to rebel against polygamy but the result has been shown that the ballot in n their hands thie thin g thip stronghold of the peculiar in it ution mormonism ts Is growing and the wealth of the church is rapidly increasing there is money in it and money hires brains the tithing which every mormon as to pay fone one tenth of all he makes is a severe strain on their fulth faith and sud may be the rook rock on which itee ithe e church will go to pieces it has dready already gready caused all the desertions that lave ave taken place some of the richet et merchants in salt lake could kt 4 stand the tar they became and are now highly re in the tho eyes of the gen mol fol having said this much in behalf ithe the other side sided I 1 now resign my ip Vp ointment as temporary te hat kat torney attorney for the 1 mormons Mor mons rit before 0 c closing losing I 1 feel reel bound to idelt that mormonism at salt lake I 1 a lucky thing for denver it will lot prevent our city from fruin getting le to trade of the mormons cormons if we treat len lem with even a pretense pre of fair tes ies buu but it will prevent salt lake bom tom becoming in g a successful commer rival gentiles are so ci 14 against the mormons cormons Mor mons and such a ner feeling exists between the two He de ments that the former will settle in when they really desire to loste in salt sait lake nake on the tho returning aln hin were several utah mine owners lining to denver to buy bay residences 4 their families ut JEL B L 0 hom mondays daily augat 8 10 FAREWELL MORROW morning elder john caien cannon on will leave this city on ray tay way vay to europe to fill a mission aich he has been appointed he is a 11 son of president george Q cannons and was for a long time con getel itel with the news 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