Show correspondence A FEW WORDS frodi knon A SALINA SAUNA sevier seyler co buah august ZO 1865 editor deseret news in your our last weeks issue I 1 was surprised prim to find an account ol 01 the gentiles expelling from their employ persona persons who claim to be mormons cormons Mor mons siy sly object in writing you this YI ip brief is to say that if the mormons cormons Mor mons in those parts were so vicious and illiberal as to expel the gentiles from their employ i loy thore would be a great number so go fl fasting stin and wishing for something to eat ever since my return to utah this being the second time I 1 have been in the employ of I 1 mormons cormons Mor mons I 1 and can bay say that better men and women cant be found outside ol 01 this territory to work for than this much muck despised and unjustly p persecuted er secured people I 1 have lived in utah for nearly five years of my life and have always found all the work I 1 could do from the mor molls and my treatment and pay have been good let me say frankly that if I 1 were under straitened circumstances I 1 would have more confidence in applying plying to a mormon tor for help heip than I 1 woula would to a utah gentile I 1 have seen gentiles who bave have been traveling in this country as well as those located here who have been out of money provisions and friends and who on staling stating their lamentable condition to the extremely good gentiles of the tile coun country and asking for help have been politely told to go to that benevolent timeworn time worn institution called 11 HELL E L L I 1 have found it very different with the mormons cormons Mor mons I 1 have seen them divide the last morsel in their house with their bitterest enemies the gentiles when they did not know where the next mouthful mouthy ul was to come f from rom not to paus pause when ewhen at my door A needy brother stands elands nor ask the cause that made him poor or why he help demands not to spurn spurn that brothers prayer for faults he once has known not to leave him in despair ft 0 and say you tramp in conclusion let me rae say to all the gentiles coming to utah and those located here that what causes so much gentile cavil towards the mormons cormons Mor mons is that the mormons cormons Mor mons treat the majority ot of them better than they merit A GENTILE PS now remember I 1 am not a mormon but rather a skeptic on religion but when I 1 see sec a good people asare the latter day saints persecuted beyond endurance with every tongue forked against thenn theno them and blowing from their yellow mouths vile scandals ot of all kinds I 1 cannot hold my peace A commercial street man wears the c champion belt for meanness just now his clerk is an expert penman and i was practicing his bis art in shading the letters on the addresses of some envelopes when the employer happening to overlook him said hir bir air daybook I 1 would not shade those letters in wastes the ink awfully boston jyun bulletin |