Show unpalatable TRUTHS the following letter appears in tile the newyork sun ot of feb fib 0 0 it contains indisputable facts and figures which however will prove anything but palatable to rabid antl it Mor monn normon MORMON VIRTUES gr vices FIGURES exultingly ehni QUOTED BY MORMON to the editor of the sun SIR BIK in bait salt lake lahe city the pio pro portion between mormons cormons and gen tile tiles is 14 75 to toa aa in the city krisun there were ere 29 convicts all non mor mons mona in salt bait lake county the proportion Is EO 60 to 20 and in the county prison there were six convicts ali alj non norl mormons cormons for th the e past nac years sears all the county con victa have been non cormons mormons except three in utah territory are according to the united states slates ceneus and church statistical reports 63 mor wor maiato kioa to 17 non nou cormons mormons Mor mons in the utah penitentiary penitent lar y there were in issi 51 51 prisoners ariso nurs ners only five live or of whom were mormons cormons Mor mons and two of these thebe tilt tie hio were im for imitating abraham in their domestic practices bo so that the tho 17 per ier r cent outsiders had bad 46 convicts eurl cull vit yit in yail lail the t h 0 penitentiary while t theba the ba per cent mormons cormons had but five the total number ot of lock upa including the penitentiary is 14 thew these them aggregate agg jums jams iu matea matee teh tea of these not over 17 are mormons cormons Mor mons several of whom were incarcerated by methodist judges for minor off erces and polygamy while w hile hiie it is notorious that it if all sli 11 the criminal class in the 17 percent per lent cent lon ron mormon population were imprisoned more jails would be necessary sary of the saloon billiard bowling alley alleys and pool table keepers in utah not over a ooze doze dozen n even profess to le mormons cormons Mor mons all the bag bagnios baguios and other disreputable concerns now in the territory are run fostered anu and sustained barion ty non nou mormons cormons ninety eight per pet cent ot of tue tile gamblers in ulah bre aro non mormons cormons tive live per cent of the tile utah lawyers are kenslea gen Ken ulea and 80 ier per cent cf of a ail all li t the h e litigation is of outside growt growth h a and n d pre pro promotion motion I 1 of the cities towns villages and wards in utah over have no gaudy sepulchre of departed virtue of any sort eort for the very obvious re rea son tuat these two hundred and odd towns are almost exclusively occupy I 1 ed by mormons cormons Mor mons ninety kmety nive five percent per ier cent of the mor wor mons jive live in own houses houser on their own land which thy have bought from the knitel states government of the tile suicides in utah 80 90 odd per cent are nun non cormons mormons and of the utah homicides rad rud infanticides over SO 80 per cent are perpetrated by the 17 per cent outsiders the number of mormon men ha having V more than one wife may be estimated at from irom 7 to 10 per cent of the total adult mormon male population while for a mormon to practice Beecher ism isa is a sin rarely heard of the states east lor lof of the mis Mia missouri river produce over twenty divorces to one in proportion to reactive population city equal in size to poughkeepsie le almiras or oswego from jan I 1 to dec 8 1831 1331 had hai haa ioa 1010 arrests Men blen 43 33 S om eua aw mi a 88 sis WS imo mormon men aud and ani aul boja toj fId lej mormon women ioe ibe tt ti ica non nou mormon men loj boi bos bobski sKi c J I 1 hon non mor llor i oil oa women A number dumbek of tho the mormon arrests wei were ae for chicken cow and water trespass tres and petty pelly larceny the arrests arres to ot of the non uon mormons cormons were in meet moet cases casee for prostitution gambling fornication indecency drunkenness unlawful rum selling a sault an ani ani and 1 battery uni bai tery and shooting if the 75 pr cent mormons cormons were aa as lawless end aud corrupt as the 25 per cent non mormons cormons there would have been 2413 arrests made from their ranks during the year 1881 1381 instead of the comparatively trilling trifling number of as the records khow and if jf the 25 per cent non were as law abiding and orderly as the 75 per cent mormons cormons Mor mons instead of the startling bumler ol 01 non mormon arrests during the tho year there would have been but D D L NEW YORK feb peb 18 the curtis curlia manufacturing coln coin works worta at albion N Y yi burned |