Show NOTHING BUT ECHOES A for the press who recently spent the uston abton astonishing lehing period of thirty six hours in sal bait lake city and who thus became qualified to enlighten the whole world on the of thua ihus speaks of the people ot this territory the pitiful ignorance of a vast population except the designing leaders their superstitious awe end and respect for a peculiar religious belief aided by a tithing system that pours a vast corruption fund of a million ct ef dollars annually into loto its treasury 19 13 19 latho thea thoa ecret secret of its power now by what means did he gain this thia remarkable intelligence certainly not by personal conversation with the people who are scattered over a largo large extent of country he merely echoes the sounds ho he heard from others and they persons who are adepts at misrepresentation the tho fund of a ra million illion dollars an dually 1 ia one ona item out of a fundor fund rund of untruths un trutha truths that thal thom those individuals have on hand for the delectation of these egotists who think they can learn all about utah in a day and report it to the rest of mau mankind kind from notes of the 11 received from practiced def de famera amers feeling called upon to descant upon the iniquities supposed sed to exist here he says aj r ath therm there ero ere is scarcely an opportunity 0 PD or 6 unity in such an article artial e to glie give a hint of the enormity of the erime crime e committed against humanity and the laws of justice under the guise suise of the holiness of the lord system practiced in utah no 20 written or spoken testimony can cah equal eqbal the impressions pres press lons ions gained by one onti who knows how to see and hear heir in a few days sojourn in this city the zion of the tile latter day saints tho the howoy vay way 1 to eee tee and hear according to his own account of his visit is to spend stend the time in tha tho so clety of violent or opponents of the people to bo be described in partaking of such pabulum for the bady ani and mind aa gis they provide and to form conclusions concerning certain enormities enor mitis 11 without witnessing anything of tie vie tle kind imagined or haghig loe too slightest reason for dying to their existence we assert without fear of successful contradiction that not ono one of the people who pay thebe these hurried visits and then go back whence they came and add their ink drops to til the 0 biach black stream of calumny sent forth about the 9 r mormon 11 could truthfully state anything derogatory dero satory of the people here nor per calve rny Kny thing dia din erent in the composition ot be society clety in ut utah aili alix except that there thore la Is in it lesa less disorder less crime arnd arid less of all the evils of modern times to bo be teon teen therein than are to be found in any other place with a similar number of people but there are few travelers who see gee with their own eyes and hear with their ow own nears ears they are usually but feeble echoes of other peo pies ns or fabrications |