| Show THE REWARD wand WARD OF TELLING THE TRUTH SOME months since an english temperance advocate mr art T IV glover visited this city on his hol homeward neward journey from the british australasian colon colonies les lei he held heid a number of meetings ings in the salt lake theatre and created considerable interest in the cause of which he is a capable representative senta tive on the ath instant accord ing ing ins to the hast hastings gs observer the same gentleman tooka took a prominent part in a temperance gathering in the english 1 town of that name in the course of a clear n narrative arra tive of f his experiences duning during his recent extended trip be he spoke of h his as visit here and while expressing a wide difference between his own re religious ll 11 1 I us views and practices and those mo of the mor mons he gave that people credit for sound views on temperance sober habits industry aneather an and other dather good qualities for which they are noted in these respects he placed them ahead of christian communities generally ile he a also ISO gracefully acknowledged as any mail man of gentlemanly instincts would certain coar courtesies testes extended to him durin during his stay here by members of the C church ur h this truthful and well sustained stat statement weilt merit of facts seems to have burned like caustic into the puckered soul soui of a person aberson named J E R who claims to have paid a visit to utah probably lie he did and while here he evidently never removed his anti I 1 mormon goggles by which the very virtues of t the he latter day saints are twisted and contorted so as to become 1 in the eyes of men of 0 dwarfed mind and sympathies the most monstrous iniquities the saints and their reil rell religion goon both beyond his limited comprehension were not the only objective points of mr elsor as s impotent wrath but the splinters of his indignation were also aimed almed against the hapless mr glover here is how ho he talks mr tir mover and the writer are strangers strail ers to each other but I 1 trust he 11 is no stranger tithe to the lord jesus christ mr G beilig being a warin warm advocate of gos ros pel temperance appears strange lie tie shou should temperance d have been led to make such an unwitting apology to the fo followers lowers of t hat that gross impostor george 0 smith judging efrom the spirit dreison dir sir fison manifests be he and the lord jesus christ must be utter strangers and mr air glover having stated the tho truth about the mormons cormons Mor mons regarding their practical virtues commits the horrible enormity of making an ilau unwitting apology 1 to the f followers L rs ot geor george c smith th fie on mr flon fion for claiming to have sifted 11 mormonism to the bottom and then showing that lie he even know the name of its founder in answer to the tiery fison mr glover came out in another correspondence pon dence in which he re his bis first statements as will be seen by this pas passage I 1 1 I maintain these people are thrifty ty sober and industrious and that the desert iu in which they settled has liaa been t transformed rans formed comparatively speaking inta a garden in addition to temperance our politicians may learn much f from rodi tile thu mormon settlement to help them in their efforts to settle the great land question now agitating the country if mr glover continues to speak a good word regarding degardin the mormons cormons Mor mons by simply tolling tellia the truth about them he may calculate on bein being roundly abused on all sides for the truth on that subject is just the opposite of what is popularly wanted this reminds ds us of an incident that occurred about tw two years ago ta couple of highly educated gentlemen from canada were here oil on a visit they investigated the mormon question and were struck with admiration at the excellent condition of things glene giene generally rally raily in the community tiie the ideas of one of them thern especially reil rell well veil nigh reached a point bordering on enthusiasm in a conversation with us he held field atiat the reason wh why y so much anti antl I 1 mordou Mor moul I 1 prejudice existed was because the question had not been properly laid before the peo pie lie he thought that it if capable men were sent out to enlighten the public mind it would work wonders it was explained that the effort in that direction was wag active and continuous and the advocates of the truth were lar largely L ay r rewarded ewar ed for their trouble by b belag mo mobbed bb e dl kicked abused beat beaten e and some so z of them murdered lie ile still seemed to doubt we then asked him to prove the matter by per 1 sonai experience so he to give what public explanations he could when he should return home lickett he kept his word and sent us some journals containing his favorable comments on the marinous mormons Mor Mo rinous mons 11 shortly afterwards we received v u batch of papers containing articles that attacked him in the most mst vicious and malicious manner we have not heard from him since so we presume he gave up telling the truth about the mormons cormons Mor mons as an exceedingly up hill bill business doubtless there are scores of thousands of honorable men whose sympathies are with the latter day saints but behold this is a supple backed generation era tion |
