Show HOW TWO DRU DRUMMER TALKED ABOUT UTAH IN WE think that the people of utah should be acquainted with their friends we are also of the opinion that th they e y ought to learn something occasionally bout their enel enci hies bies par particularly those who under the guise of friendship friend shW shu seel seek to do them injury all an open foe 1 is to be preferred to a secret enemy who is fair in our false and foul when away we therefore think th ink it if our duty to take off the mask from two individuals who last year visited utah and transacted considerable business busine ss here pretending to bo be fri 1 endl endi yand who after a riotous debauch avei over oven which wa will draw the curtain returned to the ille easland east and joined their voices to the lan ian landerous derous cry against the mormons cormons Mor mons 1 I 1 to make this matter plain we present the following which was vas wa taken staken at the time from the columns of the chicago tribune 4 A aparto party of commercial gentlemen gent leme n re repress es enting several of the largest wholesale cesale houses of chicago returned yesterday from utah where they have hive spent the summer and fall two of the garty party have made salt lake city their headquarters ead quarters for four or five years past coming comin in contact with them at af the tremont tremont house a reporter for THE kniff tribune une made some inquiries with regard to the strength and prospects of the mormon element said sald 11 1 1 1 aid ald one of the gentlemen we are willingto talk on condition that you will not use our names you will readily understand why we make this request as most of our customers are mormons cormons Mor mons my aly opinion said he as ille tile the others nodded assent is ig that polygamy ilas has a firmer hold upon the community than ever marriages are arc taking place daily and in great number but the fact is concealed f from rom tom the general public by the strict lecresy which characterizes the service all mormon marria marriages e arenow are now conducted you understand within the clocea closed do doors osof of the endowment house and none are admitted except such buchas ta know the password bassior A gentile might occasionally sio nairy nally slip in and see what was going oni on if it were the influences that ehlt are bein being brought to bear against the polygamists by the government the thel mormons formans Mor lor for mons feeling that they are being persecuted haye been gradually radu alIK perfecting their system and strengthening ening their they are bound to together met meu herns as a unit the idea that they are being persecuted only serres screed to band them together the strong language 91 used by the president ill in his message is only a quotation from the of oft t repeated speeches of gov murray who f fully ulis comprehends the situation the trie I 1 mormons cormons are the most fanatical people le living and they obey their church leaders leaders as a slave would obey his master the legislature which hasteen has been depended upon to correct the evils has a alara large ge mormon majority and the gentile members are so spiritless andin and inefficient emm efm that they are arc controlled altof alto i f sether by the majori majority or influenced by their constituencies which are always strongly mormon Is all this apparent on the surface of things I 1 I 1 the reporter asked N no 0 was the response you would faveto live there a long time tinie before you began to betat get at the bottom of thin thins things s the mormon understands particularly well weli how to keep hi shut and leaves all to the church NOW alid arnd then you yon can get him to talk taik about the principles ofhie of his falth faith ia actually going jon on Is entirely another matter the city of salt sait lake ikover run with eastern people who seem seeni to bo 0 studying the question for some purpose ose or other kate field and a number er of journalists are en engaged a upon the te subject one young mild man gas ras has written column after column for a leading 1 new reir leir york paper but as yet I 1 have not seen a line iino in n print I 1 think the information Is 18 going to be ba printed through out the country in several papers all nt once for some reason or other and the mo mormons cormons amons who know what Is being done are looking anxiously forthe for fon the same thing looks horrid to the sight at close range and it isa iss is a crying evil that ought to be rooted out yau the two drummers who talked in this wa va to the tribune T reporter were accost accosted edby bya a salt sait alt lake merc mere merchant llant ilant oi long standing f who was then in chiea chica 1 go with another commercial gentleman well known in this thief community cop coln muni munt ty and asked their reasons for thus ma dignia aligning the people liere here they acknowledged having the conversation with the reporter and promised t to 0 retract but all that appeared balway of correction was this brief paragraph tribune of thursday i appear 16 a r ed 4 an ad article P cju iR orting to be 0 an n inter luter atee atef view with wilh two commercial men whose headquarters are at salt lake the statements statement were in fact a conglomeration of hotel gossip overheard at I 1 different times bya hya by a reporter andenis and emanating I 1 from f rom tom several men the ille lani iani ian lan was the reporters those two drummers are arc now flow in lix utah one represents the clothing firm of H W king kill and co chicago and arid the other the shirt borse house bf ofa W E barlock burlock and aad co in the they will probably be in salt lake luka in a day or two and will most likely visit other towns in this territory ry we te are ra 0 of f the opinion loil that they will u noh not ot be re calved with pen arms by our oar merchants and that they hiex wilt biot suf sut nici fici focient ent arti to io g go qan oan on another iirth er tear either in this city or in chicago it if this notice is insufficient we wa are arg prepared to f furnish arnish their names with somo some 0 additional particulars and produce witnesses whose testimony cannot be bd impeached 11 |