| Show editorials ulah UTAH AND ITS peaple A PAMPHLET with the alove title has been published in new kew york by a gentile who was formerly an official of the united states and who has lifts been jn in utah where he gained solid information about the territory and studied its people and affairs from an unbiased stand point he has collected statistics which speak volumes against the I 1 views on ou the mormon question and presents them with pointed arguments and logical deductions duct ions in a forcible and pungent manner unlike those recent romancers who in popular magazines have endeavored deavo red to misrepresent the people of this Terri torri territory torys the writer of this pamphlet does not picture utah be lore the advent r cf f the cormons mormons Mor mons as an earthly paradise only waiting occupants to enjoy its is rich and fertile valleys ready to blossom into anto fruit and flower he truthfully de valleys ready to blossom fruit and flower he truthfully de scribes it aa as a barren desert 11 peopled by gra a few naked indians making a meal from a pint of roasted crickets or dried grasshoppers on 4 dreary of alkaline plains tand and bage cage brush he paints the change to 94 blooming orchards with pleasant plea plen baut saut callages collages cot col lages und and comfor fontabla tabla homes and argues that the work performed conid not have been done by individual effort but bat the signal conquest over rug rugged ged nature was deflected through the unifying element of a religious faith ho he then takes up the tho character of joseph smith questions 41 whether a man wab was altogether a knave whose prophetic first a ac c knowl eged by his hia most immediate relatives and conf confesses eases that the stories told of the origin of mormonism by its opponents are equally miraculous as those related by the hants cants therne themselves elves olves ho he goes on to briefly brielly the persecutions in missouri and aud 1111 iiii illinois noie the building of nauvoo and the exodus and then describe described a mormon growth and its spread throughout the nations of both hernis hemisphere re he ramo camo to utah he bays says in 1879 and having seen in the tho east rho iho rhe the slow d disintegration of the christian faith lie he here gazed upon A society presenting features as strange arl ail as if r it had been the outgrowth of a different civilization one in which an effort had lad been mad made to unite feeling reason and activity and have them alike converge to constitute a religion which should present a co complete milete synthesis synthea ls of life a religion proceeding from the pro church accepting its fundamental dosmas admitting antho in tho the same came sense bense tto erl irl right of private judgment yet resulting iii ili in a locial system that rivaled in power in the tho development of social feeling and the toe curbing of that tice vice of pro Fro protestant t iam lam individualism the catholic chu church ach in its pai pal day a taa tae in a word bringing into harmonious accord those thota heretofore conflicting con nItting elements the individualism of tho protestant anc and ang I 1 tho the social unity of the catholic church he next touches on II 11 mormon lormon NL theocracy and exhibits the demo cratic side of mormonism speaks of th the tho semiannual semi annual conferences with the election reelection re ro of 0 church aers show a that the head dees not rau maue make keany kenny any prete pretensions to infallibility explains what ts is regarded aa as inspiration ratton ration a ninon ainoo 9 the saints and bays says the christian wrestling in prayer over a doubtful policy to pursue and taking his matured convictions as an answer thereto Is doing just jast what the mormon does and the cler cier clergyman who indulges in bar sar aba abi 10 references ton tol to dormon mormon faith falth in special revelations 11 or brigham youngs youns 11 Is but rc re mouthing the infidel argument which bears beara equally hard hara men min fecU on no other ground can the unity of mormon leaders bo be explain cd ed and the w wonderful ond erful success attending brigham youngs impressions was vas certainly not calculated to weaken faith alluding to the statement that the mormon leaders have established a land efland monopoly and to the false fahe statements about the disposition of public lands by the legislature he says bays we wc hear occasionally st ef the tha mormon lagle latu re passing certain Is ladd d laws in iha tha past in the interest of church agaran before tho the country was op opened on up roads vere were necea necessary sary through certain canyons in the mountainous country nud and in the absence of any united states survey laws were providing for such euch and ano ani roads without force save as they were subsequently adopted and approved by settlers wo vo must re member that it is 10 years that the nl at ot of salt lake city could pos ses eess res a title titie deed to his homestead and that in blew of the uncertainty as to title and the prevalence of 41 jumping lumping claims atlon action tion by tho tio tto legislature became a docial ne necessity essley in balt braf f land Is procured in utah joet just as it la is in any other territory and 05 pan par centon cent of population live in their own houses on their own land to which they hold bold deeds in their own names in refutation of the charge ot of mormon illiberality ho he cites the following every religion by mormon law air Is guaranteed the fullest protection and their tha church edifices exemption from taxation BrIg drig brigham hain young gave over one thousand dollars to the erection of non mormon churches in salt lake city ho he gave fire ilfe hundred dollars for this thia purpose to the catholics catholine Cat holice liberally to the episcopal chapel and a piece acce of ground to the jews for a cemetery when divines of reputation visit salt lake city they ard arc offered the pulpit of the tabe when dr newman sometimes known as the royal koyal visited utah 13 tah tab as a writer has newman sometimes known as the visited utah 13 tah tab as a writer has chaplain wittily remarked with 61 eix elx hebrew roots carefully committed to memory immediately on his bis arrival he donned hib bis intellectual l cost coat and tr trailing alling its skirts bea before ore the church challenged a discussion of bible polygamy tho the cormons mormons have since tince published this discus discussion pon without comment as a church document and now this bel bal gerent erent parson smarting under i defeat reals rents bim him himself alf elt on end flaps his ears care and joins his bray to the anti antt mor ifor mon chorus chores yet immediately on his presence re sence there being known brigham young duag courteously tendered to him the pulpit of the tabernacle for sunday service touching on the question ot of priesthood he shows that iu in the mormon church every intelligent man is a priest and liable at any moment to ba be called upon for fur missionary work jork rork and that at the meetings in the tabernacle on the sabbath sab Bab bath perhaps a merchant a it manufacturer or a slon blon aiman alman la Is called allied upon without previous ous oua notice to address the i congregation 11 he passes on to tho the material prosperity ot of utah gives some in interest teres t ing statistics and shows the financial condition of the territory without bonded bended beut debt and yet with light taxes tasea on fair valuations then follow some facts and figures which demonstrate the superiority of the tha mormon nover over the gentile genelle Gen tile tiie population on the score of morality and the keeping beeping fo the law some come of 0 I 1 which were quoted by president taylor tayloe in his ais als discourse course on sunday at the conference and will republish be published probably on saturday satur Batur day apri april operation cooperation co is next treated upon with its re results aults educational stat statistics Is are given showing that thus in the matter ol 01 education utah stands standa ahead of many old and wealthy state and ot the general average of the united states in very I respects namely the enrollment of her school population the percentage of their dally daily attendance at school and the amount per capita in property church and state are shown to be separate parate ee and distinct la in utah and the author passes to the subject of polygamy which be lie handles bandies without fear refu refuting ting many false notions respecting its practice showing that intelligent and cultured women in dorse doree the system and that utah la to the peer of any state in noble minded women and adds the following just tribute to the moral condition of the territory and to the character of our honored delegate here Is a territory having mone moro males than females yet public opinion freely accept accepting in polygamy as not only a divine institution but in its effects carrying with it its own justification yet ilvina as we do in respect to public morality in glass i houses ktistes a latter day saint whose honor and integrity it la Is impossible to doubt where he be Is known a man before whom the obscene jest or lascivious expression would instinctively dle die on one ones a lips and in whose face women intuitively discern purity parity of character george georga Q cannon hab hae offended our moral Benel bili our oar christian people stand eland aghast at his temerity in daring to claim a seat among amon gour our representatives at washington to nasir nasif as if their character would be corrupted by association with a man mau who has hedged around his sexual relations with all the sanctity religious can gl g tel vc vel 0 temporal 6 0 physiological and social reasons are given for plural marriage from the cf mormon Mc rmon standpoint the views of Fi several everal educated I 1 mormon ladies are cited in its support randsome and some bome of the comma objections to it are shown to apply with equal force to marriage apart from polygamy i the writer adda adds tuo the following concerning plural marriage aa as a religious principle it Is a relation entered into by matull consent and neither moral nor physical degradation has followed its thirty 3 years ears tria trial 1 it Is as much a tenet of faith as a baptism by immersion and held as a sac sae relation are we authorized to co neinda that it is in any way Tio tiola vlola lativa tita tiva of social duties or subversive of goldor good order i alvinia jhb supreme court a hard rub for its non nou eneo enee in ja attempting to draw a comparison between and wido widow burning in india which violate human righta rights and polygamy in utah which does nothing of the kind he argues that gra a decision of the supreme court la Is not accepted as a finality where a moral connection Is believed to have braen been outraged and declares that the cormons mormons shrink from a atlon tion that introduces the brothel with its iti id advance vance rance guard nils filla our papers with un mentionable advertisements and makes of every city a bink sink ot of iniquity A civilization liz itza liza tion atlon that converts women to pros titu tion faster than it does to christian life glis gils our ears with clerical scandals la and our tri trl criminal minal minai courts with christian default ere that elevates elev eley atea Restel bestel ilem liem into A social institution and leads leada to a prevalence of i and infanticide which if it its ex tent ten were known as only physicians know might well weli neti fill us with horror and dismay the conc concluding ludin iudin a portion of the pamphlet which contains forty eight pages summarizes many of the conclusions deduced from the preceding facts and arguments but hut we have I 1 no io further furt lier iier apace for quotations except for the follows ng which we commend comme n d to the CO 0 bi of the thoughtful everywhere we hat have e learned to tolerate the religious heretic here in law at least but not the social heretic and the tho ifo mormon r da on problem brings before us a test which will wui try our boasted liberality literality to the utmost when we as a people go 2000 milea to deny the right ct cl seif self government because the letter not the spirit ol 01 law permits it when we deprive citizens of the right night of frau fran chege for lor acts of which ch thosa in crested do not complain corm corn plain but In indorse dorse dorEe and which invokes yokes vokes no moral criminality when wo we do this to a people upon whose moral charter the only blot is in the non M mormon ormon portion we strike a blow at the A american merican idea of liberty and toe toleration ration that might well arouse thomaa thomas jefferson from Us his tomb the work is unique as well veil as in ter eating it bristles with good point poin tait talt and is a fair statement of the I 1 dM mormon ormon side aide of a public question by a gentile who has held a federal laderal office it should gain kain a wide circulation and will have the effect of correcting much prejudice and many incorrect notions about utah which have been formed I 1 through the misrepresentations ot of the designing utah and its people is a valuable pamphlet and its author ii i i deserving of great credit for ability displayed in the work as well as for his candor and courage in the defence of a maligned and unpopular community THE GOVERNORS IMMORAL TEST OATH A GENTLEMAN AN residing in this city considers that we did governor murray an injustice in vur artcle of april lith touching 0 upon the oath which tho the governor now requires all officers to take who apply to him for commis commission we would not intentionally do an anju injustice a tica to any one and would much rather have it in our power to speak favorably of the acts of the executive I 1 of this thia territory than find it necessary to complain of them if we say bay any auy thing of the official doings of the governor in the least unjust or incorrect boshall we shall be willing at any time to retract and bet set the gen tieman right before the public let us see if inthis instance we have erred or indulged in improper criticism governor murray requires officers applying for commissions to take the annexed oath a few words of which we put in italics because they contain the gist of the objection which we entertained and expressed or OF UTAH 1 Count yot yat ifa r I 1 do solemnly swear or affirm that I 1 am um not is biest or polygamist that I 1 am not a violator or the laws taws of tho the united states prohibiting biga bigamy myor or polygamy pow poa TOw amy that I 1 do 60 not live or cohabit with more than ow one worn woman in the marriage onnor doea does any relation exist between bet ivion mo zao and any woman which has baa been entered catered into or continued la in violat loa of tho the said saia laws jaws of tha the united states stated prohibiting bigamy or polygamy subscribed and sworn to before me this day flay or of AD iss ils i the gentleman who complained that wo we were unjust could not deny den that this ost oat oath h is required by the governor but claimed that the re qui rement 13 not new that ittai 16 wa riot not made since the passage of the E bill nor for conditions growing out of that measures to this thia w we reply that we have not claimed that tue the earth was either elther new new now or old oid framed in relation rel rei atlon to the edmunds bill or otherwise reference enee ence to the article in question will show that it Is stated that the oath was copied from the willets bill and has been in use here forfi ome omo time but the question of timo or of orli orl ori gin Is altogether extraneous wha what matters who originally concocted the thing or bow long it has been in we use the willets hulets bill Is not a law the objection is not to its age or its i author it Is to its 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