| Show A CANDID BOSTONIAN THE special correspondent of the boston post IT 24 P who recently visited this thia city has a very interesting and mainly accurate letter in that journal JoUrnals from which we make a few extracts he commences by describing the city commenting upon the large proportion of mor mans who own the houses the they y live jive in id then gives due credit to prest brigham young for the work he ie performed in directing affairs so AS to bring about the great prosper ity ot at the people and describes the tabernacle assembly hall and temple tempie but erroneously erroneous Jy at states stales a te s that the maimona Mo imona claim that tho bithe the completion of this temple wiil will mark marh the coming of christ when he will make his permanent abode among hla his latter day saints in the new zion of bait sait lake city ty this mistake occurred no doubt through hearing something concerning ng the events expected in connect uon on with the temple to ba built in Zion which will be established when khe the saints return to the place appointed in jackson county missouri aud and bome some polish remarks which follow in regard to the postponement pon ement of the completion of thia this temple are based upon thib thia misconception he goes on to describe the people and makes the annexed remarks bithe the population of bait balt eke lake city is made up of two distinct classes mormons cormons and gentiles in general eneval the nard bard working sober bober in cItI citizens are Mor mormons cormons mons the baloon saloon keeper proprietor Band I 1 the ur tar western hotel keeper according to his hl own declaration has not gone west for his health gamblers bawdy house bouse keepers and the general floating populace are gentiles the cormons mormons are nu cally caily and politically in the cen deney dency bait salt lake city Is large opulent and free from debt the control of its local affairs and the handling of its municipal funds would be a choice for these hungry gentiles hence their opposition to Mormonism the mormons cormons are ard democrats to a man and hence the freedom with which these republican gentiles can get the ear of the executive at washington when they appeal for the enforcement of the obnoxious and unconstitutional Ed edmunds mundel act or petition against the admission of utah into the union the fact ia is polygamy is ia not the rule but the exception in utah the gentiles as aa a class here care little loz toz polygamy but they do da care to disfranchise mormons cormons Mor mon mons monh selza helza the local offices and make biake utah a republican state 71 7 1 for this outspoken statement H M P may expect to encounter a storm of indignation and a torrent of df invective from the anti antl mor mon won element it Is top 0 true to agree with their digestion he next touches as follows on the tho belle harris case oase rhe the various crusades started against 3 by the gentiles havo have all been inaugurated for the avowed purpose of shaking os off the shackles of the mormon women but it appears that these women prener prefer to wear shackles 1 I they are aie even willing to budner budder martyrdom for the sake of wearing mormon chains chaine A notable case is that of the famous beila behle harris now lying in prison for contempt of court when a charge of bigamy was preferred against the mormon to whom this young woman is said to have been sealed belle harris his r re buted second wife was 3 brought be for the grand jury as a witness in the case and required to answer ans the following interrogatories fano falo re you a I 1 hauled mauled woman and if so when were you married and to whom to each and all of these questions sho bhe replied it ls is is 19 none of your business you yon have no right hight to pry into my family affairs judge twiss then proceeded to commit her tojan to jail jall for contempt of court belle harris was sent to jail some bome months ago she still stil lies there a weak boffen biver siver woman sick bick for she Is said bald to be in a consumption while applies tion after application for a writ of habeas corpus has been refused and for what simply bebau because bhe refused to divulge her family affairs to an audience of 24 men possibly such an act of legal cruelty could be perpetrated in the east I 1 doubt it however but bah then you are not endeavoring deavor deavo ring ing to enforce the edmunds act there the belle bella harris case however will do some good gentile papers in various parts of the territory and in the neighboring states and terni terri torlea recognize the injustice attend ing her imprisonment and a strong public sentiment is being created in gentile communities in favor of this abused woman the eyes of the inhabitants of the city of culshaw will open widean wide at the subjoined sub bub joined contrast between the supposed centre of abominations and t the he r refined and moral huba hub huu but it 16 is too true to dispute it require requires 3 but a short time for the stranger to see how favorably t he the morals of this wicked mormon city compares with those of other west err em yea and of eastern cities A few days ago I 1 was wasl talking with a young mans man a resident of this city not nol a mormon but the son odmor of mormon parents and married to a young woman who is ia a firm believer not only in mormonism but also in polygamy he had just returned from the east cast and had spen spent t one or two days in boston H hie fhe e re cited to me his bis experience in that city he had walked down one of the principal malls on boston common on a runday i evening evenings and in the course of that short walk was accosted by at least a dozen women of the town he had never mut mot with such an experience before it was so totally different from lite iffe in bait balg lake city and he returned return ed home almost convinced that it was his hla duty to join the mormon church young mau man who belongs to one of bf the first families in utah and la Is a partner in a mercantile house doing a business of nearly half a million yearly is liberally educated and has trained for a number cf years in gentile society after making allsion to some bome local celebrities and predicting the gradual extinction of polygamy while won mon mormonism Mormon monism fam ibm will spread he says the great majority of fair mir minded people who have spent any considerable time in salt lake city and who have taken the trouble to look at both sides of the question come coma to the conclusion that mormonism Is not halfss halt hait so black asit as it ia painted fainted and that polygamy li is but buy a abort distance dla dib tance from its grave A few da dab daa s ago I 1 met mrs helen hunt jack son 11 H the famous autho authoress rees reza and she told me that tha tho results of her studies of at mormonism coincided nearly with mine she drew a graphic picture of mormon salt sait lake city without haupers paupers pau pera pers without millionaires lion iton aires alres and above all with little a crime and vice and as an alu offset denver danver with its ita tabors tabora and chat fees tees its haupers paupers pau pers and its slums much to the advantage of the former neither boston nor denver will like these it Is evident that H M P is one of the few traveling correspondents who looks at things as aa they are and does not yield up his judgment to the deceptions of thosa who tale taie delight in leading tourists astray on tho the simor aimor mormon question |
