| Show reports REPORTS eron eroe COLORADO j journalists ane kle hie denver deaver tribunes the tho denver inter ocean and Pome roys demo craft i representatives of which were ii with ith lih the colorado editorial party that that recently paid this city a visit IA havo have 0 each something to say on the fl mormon question mho tho incer enfer by A maurman kautman and tue tub remarks by the editor show that pr prejudice pj udice and personal opinion have gullied the writers pencils and that what was actually seen cuts but bat a emall amali figure in the impressions described for instance A kauf min man says whatever the mormon deop people 0 o may claim they cannot claim to bo be americana am in nationality natio nall nail they have not a thought or a feeling in common with amerl ameri cans it if he had consulted the census of 1880 he would have found that the chevery very largo large majority of the population hero are american born and und if he had conversed with the people he would have learned that nib nis notion in regard to their sentiments had no foundation in fact the latten iatter part of his a article bicle abounds with evidences of stupidity and tho tha closing paragraph is the essence of ailline mil mii line eib ciu iu in proof of tho the inferiority of tile tiie young people of and ot ol how little of americanism abounds in utah ho he tells tello a story of a little boy aged agod nive five yearb years who when the ex arrived ran into the hoube hoase exclaiming oh mother mothers there aro fifty americans americana just came to town on the denver this was related to rauf Kauf manbo manso he says by the boya mother who is not a ismor mormon conj 11 but a notorious fraud who gains a precarious living by writing lying romances against tile mon mor mons il thel the alleged remark of IR a year old gentile child is gravely repeated as proof bl bf the in lerlo lerio rity of the mormon youth anat should be enough to settle kaufmanis Kauf mauo manss manas a traveling correspondent the infer ocean roce editorial is a collection of erky jerky sentences designed tb fo tamae inaho mae inAko some parallel between mohammed nind and brigham young youngs rind and to show that colorado Is ia the kattie battlo flold floid where must mutt be fought the question whether or not the catho rocky mountain region ahall shall become the licensed homo home elead of polygamy As the attempt at ai the parallel is a failure alid no such buch question exists to fight on any baltie battle battie field the inter ocean editorial may be dismissed the tho denver denven tribune correspondent relates an interview that ho he had with president taylor which he evidently attempts from memory and own phraseology instead of the language of that gentleman we do not think he designed to misrepresent but having a vary limited understanding of the situation ho he haa naturally fallen into some errors in attempting to repeat vad conversation relating to it the torm term eeck of people i which he uses himself in rezard igard to the mor moab mons and in the mouth of president taylor taylors is one evidence evide nce ot of this tuia ho jero also attributes to president d u t bayjor remarks that ho he could ilot liot haye have made in regard to the commissioners milis loners ners As for example suppose that your people or those that arg are polygamists isis were all would the result bt be asked the writer at present I 1 do not desiro desire to go idao any dib dle discussion cassion on that question ido not desiro desire to mako make auy uny state meat on that iam lam am fully a aware waro of whit ygo yvo will do but it would not be polibia for us ua to make it known to the world you can rosha rosba how exor exon that if hueh buch a course is pursued pursue by bk the government or com commission assion mst mat stringent means will bo ken een til counteract the it would hrab hwo upon tipon our people and the coming election but I 1 am not noi particularly affail of that commis commission bion sion do ing fas fag ahk any dib dis franchising ot ats present roe foe 4 think thoy they are aro intelligent rne men and ind would bee see plainly tha that t it would fould V be impossible for them to carry it out and would be barren of good results nov now the reporter ought to have been aware that all polygamists in utah have been practically dis franchised that they did not vote at the last elections election and cannot vote at the coming election because they aro are not registered therefore the ques queE question tIon as aa given adlove and the reply are doth both inconsistent such remarks as president taylor made were no doubt in reference to the threatened disfranchisement of all mormons cormons Mor mons on account of their religions religious faith and not in regard to I 1 ready practical polygamists who have I 1 already been prevented from exercising the franchise those who are familiar with president taylor know that he be is ia not in the habit of making such remarks as aa are attributed u ted to him and will pu put t th them em do down wn to the well weil known ingenuity of the newspaper interviewer there are other inaccuracies of a similar nature but we believe they are unintentional the comments of the reporter reporters signed gla A bohemian fans ians indicate a desire to treat the matter fairly and he joins with others of the editorial pary in crediting the l with thrift industry temperance hospitality and a general strict observance of the sabbath Pomeroy ye democrat contains the discourse in full president george Q cannon on ane tho sunday bunday when the colorado excursion lats ista attended the tabernacle services and a and pretty accurate description de of what the writer saw and heard while in the territory it Is signed J K H and is the tallest fullest and best account of the trip wo we have seen the author took pains to gain all tho the information possible during his brief visit and has embodied it in plain terse and read rend readably ablo abio sentences in which he gives due credit to the majority of citizens for the work they have accomplished in redeeming thih once desert debert country As a sample sampie of thib this letter we clip the foli lowing the tho great trouble with the gentiles in utah la Is that the mormons cormons hold all the offices except federal appointments that thatis is what hurts politicians in utah there are at the present time cormons mormons la in bait sait lake city they number 2500 and the gentiles so eo it can be readily been seen why the genies do not hold office thele thene is ia a bitter fight going on between the peoples peopled party the mormons cormons Mor mons and the ged uen tile woe the city is ia under mormon rule and a more quiet orderly elty eity ity we were never in the mormons cormons Mor mons 3 as a class clam abhor saloons 11 houses of ill III mame fame gambling houses bouses eto etc but as this is a free country they could not be even kept out of zion the cormons mormons do the next best thing and regulate them it costs per month to sell whisky in salt lake there are but thirty saloons in the city and au ali but one are run by gentiles there are six houses of ill fame patronized ex ciu clu elusively by gentiles andon and only lyone iyono one ono mormon prostitute in ithe the C ity city the city ordinances are enforced to the letter the police are not uniformed nor do they wear their badges in eight you cannot tell when a cop is around but let a disturbance arise and they appear very quick as it if they sprung from the ground all AH places ot of business close at 8 and the saloons at 12 on bunday sunday no business houses aro are allowed open except drugstores drug stores the saloon sare closed and such a quiet place cannot bo be found anywhere else in america we did not see an intoxicated man during our stay of two baysin days in th the 0 cit city yand and we looked for them in placed where they are generally found the colorado editors were most of them pleasant gentlemen and the more of buch such men visit our territory dind rind tell what they see in their own way without suffering themselves to bo be crammed with rubbish by the local enemies of the people the better it will be for utah and those in other places who are looking for re liable information |
