| Show becek ogean the TEE MORMONS A short timet time ago aga we noticed the this city of el M curtis curtla pi jha chicago inter ocean the stayed here a few days day long iong enough to obtain tio iio gome some me ai little iti e definite information concerning the mormons cormons Mor mons and their creed if he bad had been so flo disposed and long iong enough to be crammed i fall of non sense fenga end and stale rub rubbish bish biah a as hl Js ia proven by letter better to his hia paper which a pe pears arbin ansin in the daily of may if f he had no not nol given credence predence to those old hackneyed and widely published fabrications which are gravel gravely y told by wags and chronic liars alike to td the thie unwary tourist he would not have given them place in such a j burnal as the chicago chicag inter oater Ocean we Ww appends append a few of them ausubel as specimens agthe the houses of prostitution jn in utah are mostly populated as the gentiles ass assort rt by dissolute diss olata daugh terso of rth fth the e saints it is said thau that the resa or of the principal bagnio af salt balt lake city stated incourt pincourt in court under oath tr thau she bad turned htway way fifty young women of mormon pa parentage who applied f for fon or admission nil silon to her house ofsha of shama shame md within a single year jear the mormons cormons claim that the gwenthea ate nto carpet who ji verdome to plunder the people litt thi basc fins eins answer wen to this charge the he fact that casting but one the vote they pay phy t two wo the faxes falbee and aud in the city ofal laite imite ubey they ih p pay a one half the tave and cas east esst t 0 one n e fourth burc of bf the vote I 1 taho tho 61 church aroh arch ft isho tho jho moat abdol absolute ute and cruel despotism that exists sista this side bide f ss 11 ll fal lal tenpo temporal itil awid and spiritual dal ual 08 are selected bythe of bf jhk Ih Twelve aljo aijo apostles TZ lisa and whoever ibb thley nOmi minato nominate no natu the people elet woman suffrage pre prevail vaili valli here with morman a aneel ancel and every mormon woman vot ebna esaa the president delit of the church the palau of the tabernacle tellof her to every ballo ed number is 13 sou sor beside besida thin thid harriff df iier llen or mra min daft it naori jhb bocha books i woo ho e to tha morrn morin I 1 who anything but the ITI a straight ro V av ticket 21 rhe the system of oce ace which pre pro prevailed during g the time of brigham young by which he was lla ila jia bled bied toke tornow now what was going on in th the a b households 0 boe hse doe holds holda odthe of the people the very words ada they spoke and the every act they did la Is still stul kept hept up to a extents although dotso not nok BO strictly and it pertains to the spiritual condition almost entirely TI the vile falsehood concerning the bagi iloa which would not exist here ital at lb for the support given to them by Auth authority OZItY over which the mon mormons cormons Mor mons have no con control trolis trolls la the of the filthy minds from which mccurtis hir Mr Curtis obtained thein format formation formative lod iod Inc included laded in the above extracts not nok only is the story en ent untrue aa wo have previously demonstrated by pollo reports but bul no such statement was oyon oyen made in court either under oath or otherwise at a that alleged it Is not zot true trus ju in facts fact tact and the to co called court statement is a dirty jayen tion the not claim that tilt the P gentiles ea as a class aro are carpet who have havn come to plunder ahn h people this thia la is only charged of the al adventure adventurers ra who ralsa raise the disturbances manufacture such talle falle falsehoods hoods as those repeated by mr nir curtic and send bend them east and west bestas as well as an pour them theiu into the ears earb of gullible travelers and credulous n ipen iper corres correspondents corresponded ts mey may aro are officeholders office holders or offida seekers beeks rs hangers on and i sup porters porter and few it if any of the solid bu business ainess non rion cormona countenance either their measures or their methods yet every thing against their vil vii lain iain lannies la inies les leb they endeavor to td make applicable bleto to all the gentiles in th the territory when huch auch strict strictures ures urea are intended only for the scalawags scala wags and scoundrels who are plotting to steal tem n a territory and as to the taxes most of them pay no taxes at all as the lists show khow in bome instances be cause causo they have no stake in the county they aim to rule and in others because it 11 is deeded to 40 some one else as a safeguard safe guard against creditors that Is the class that the mormons Mor mons nV denounce as carpet who hava come to plunder the people 11 the talk about the despotism of the churon Is childish liberty is secured by its covenants discipline and spirit all thin thib things gs in it are required to be done by common consent all officials temporal and spiritual are not selected as described political meetings are held as in hil other parts of the country and what offices are left lett by chisso this so called republican government to the peo pie to fill are occupied by persons nominated in regular convention by delegates chosen in the political primaries tiie the absolutism an I 1 U uen so often mentioned exist only in irl the stories told boid to travelers an and d published for fer taets facts by the pulpit and the press I 1 mr burtia has been beeri betrayed I 1 in n to another error which la Is very easy of demonstration whilo while it would world be impossibly for him to cito cite anything in the way of proof t that hat the preal president dent denI of the church from tili the pulpit of tho the tabernacle tells mormon conly men or homem how we 2 are re able abie to quote thelah tho law jaw orl ori ri relation to the bailot ballot which is 13 so b s strongly protective of the al rights and lecresy of that it has hns been held up in pennsylvania and aud other states as Q model amodei worthy of imitation and adoption it isas is as follows I 1 the county court shall furnish sh tike the judges of Election elections ss jn in every a sufficient number of plain envelopes tor for election purposes i said envelopes shall bhail be uniform in Jn olor color and any m ark writing printing or any device upon thernia therlsa th enand nd no other oth 0 r hind used at any given election s severy every voter shall designate on a single ballot written or printed the name ame U of the person or pardons voted for with a pertinent ae assignation of the office to which ballot shall shail he be neatly folded and jand placed in one oile ol of the enve her hgr i provided forand for and to the pre eiding elding judge of ele eie election ulon flon who bhail shall in the presence of df the voter deposit it in the ballot box boz any mark whatever e ver ven being placed laced on such enve envelope lope lOpi the ballot shall be ba rejected reject id s now will mr ir curtis cartis please inform ines us how there can be anyiwo es to the Mormon who d does oes n not noh 0 t vote what ho he pleases to call the straight tickets ticket no jo earthly power can tell how the individual votes mpr his whole statements statement upon which his imaginary woe woos is predicated is baseless and will ho he have the grace or honesty to corree correct t this miss misstatement and that he be was misled and deceived by the plausible humbugs humburgs who stuffed him with anti antl mormon munchausen am then there la Is the story about sur veil vell lance ianca which he says bays is still kept up to a certain extent ss la is it possible that an n astute journalist journalists who hab hae traveled could believe such a yam unhak mahak as that about BrIgham Youn 9 learning otery overy A act lud and we toe to vory very 17 words spoken in every household of the people it la Is akin to the old fahle fahie gravely told by preachers and editors at one time that every letter llen ilen sent t from utah vish wab was opener and read by y brigham young it Is ia a libel on the intelligence of an infer incer ocean odean writer to think that he believed such stuff nna ana yet it is mo more redis discreditable to him if disbelieving the abi absurd gurd surd falsehood he 6 penned it for publication T the h e gentleman informs the public I 1 lc that the canites exist no longer because there la a no further use for them thus factly endorsing the blood and thunder rom romances ces which have been palmed upon the bublie upon lupon the statements of vagabonds of the hickman rickman 93 stripe tripe whose stories mr curtis admits even the gentiles have little faith falth ins in it appears jo 0 us that thai when endeavors endeavor ms to alil throw row now light U upon on a subject that he says has been more thoroughly discus discussed sed Bed chati any other ather the gentleman could laverre ha have verre rei fra trained ined from following in the wake odthe of the report reporters ars of I 1 lons ions ong ago who wrote up mormonism to bult suit the j cravings clavings cravi of anti Mormon readers yeb vet yet yel he mentions some truths and although careful to state that being brought up in the of Kirtlan Kirti kinti andi dj with an abiding hatred 11 of 99 mormon iam lam sn as and ani associated from youth with a paper papan which ihas haq led the skir its it ho hals hais Is willing to admit after a visit here that everything about Mormon ism iam is not vile and filthy and that everything opposed to it is not i WE worthy tl tyis of 0 credence 6 and reaped thre thare la good and bad oa on both sides ss and in regard to polygamy fily feiy he pays It strange as I 1 it t may appear the fe malt portion of the mormon church is more loyal to it ita doctrin doctrines sa than the members of the other sex eez everybody in salt laka biaka will tell y you yon oty oly that jew sew gentile or mormon the most propagandists arel are and there Is less apostasy apos am among ong them than among the men The hebetate he seste seare ettrula sty EtT nuge nuga statements but they are true 2 tha al armana ormana discussed the question more freely than I 1 supposed and defend the tha practice frac cs ardently am aa a baptist will denend defend ild tid the doctrine of immersion whon when mr I 1 curtis speaks frond from ob ibn lir ein cin and reliable data he avoids the error erron into wh aich eh he tails falls when n reiterating relle reile rating the idia idla far tar bf 1 persona interested la in defamation and rejoicing relo reio icing in deception the tue inter ocean has published many tb chiora inns unfavorable to the mormon people but has had the fairi nee nef to t insert some bome things on our side of the con controversy trover by por eor thib this reason we may hope that some notice may be made of the cle cie cit cles cies s in mr Curti sletter which we have bave pointed out land and that some day that paper will not be more moze ready to copy slanders against the latter day saints than to publish the truth troth concerning them when brought to ita notice at present perhaps the tha tide tlde of popular too strong for fiucci a journal to do anything but float with the stream |
