| Show A WORD VORD WITH OCR UR VISITORS GEORGE 1 PHIPPS who do pris to a ov ay the in fifteen minutes the Tuille Taille ries rles in ten and the most famous works of the 8 sculptors culp tors and painters art at a single glance is outdone completely by some of the G A R visitors to salt lake they have scarcely set foot in the city before they are able to stand up in a motley crowd and enlighten the people who have lived here for a third of a century upon t the he condition of affairs existing and the manner in which the mormon problem can be solved without delay they doubtless consider themselves qualified to tell their neighbors at home all about utah though they have only seen a corner of it and have never looked inside a mormon house or attempted to inquire laio into the mormon side aide of the question the information that such people will carry away with them will be of the kind att has been supplied to gullible trailers trawlers trav lers Mers for many years men without scruple and without honor make it a business to repeat disgusting scandals that have no foundation in tact and to exaggerate some trifling occurrence into the most astounding of horrors persons who come here easier eager to learn something monstrous gulp down these stories with avidity and when they hear officials who on ought ht to be reliable repeat stories that appear to corroborate the others they take it for granted that they have obtained a valuable insight into mormon affairs and so con sider themselves henceforth be nee forth authorities on subjects of which they know worse than nothing because they have been stuffed full oL falsehood the folly of thus laying themselves open to deception is bad enough common sense should teach them that to listen to ones enemy is not the proper way to learn of ones true character and that when there is so a hostility between see sec eions ot of ft community the very worst way in the world to find out the truth about either class clans sa Is to depend upon the accusations of the opposite i te faction but when individuals who 1 0 have scarcely had bad time to turn themselves round in the city get up in a public assembly and air their ignorance and dis display play their par partisanship tisa iship and abuse tile the community forming eight tenths of tile the population and that upon absurd and baseless a stories the truth of they cannot determine they simply make asses of themselves and show their unfitness for res respectable actable and intelligent society there there are no doubt a great many worth worthy and admirable people in the ranks of our visitors ladies and gentlemen whom it would be a pleasure to meet and converse with and who might learn many things thino fro from nithe the old settlers here that would be both interesting and profitable to them some of tat that class have been induced to speak at the place specially fitted up op as a libel hall ball for this occasion and have behaved like genuine soldiers and decent men but others othern have exhibited their lack of good manners innate vulgarity and want of those qualities that indicate the brave de jender lende of his country and expose beneath the surface of the G A B R clothing the miserable counterfeit of the brave warrior the make up of the shoddy apology for a man A little modesty is as bee becoming oming to the milita military ryas as to any other profession and whether those who wear its garb are genuine veterans or persons playing at army tactics that quality would adorn them with much greater lustre than the medals or insignia that they sport with so much pride it a bod body Y of mormons cormons Mor mons were to march into a city where these persons persona I reside and talk as some of these perfect strangers i have talked about the people here ws we are inclined to believe that they would meet with ta ra far different reception from that which has greated those ill III mannered blatherskites blather who have abused and mall maligned ned and threatened the people of utah As for the local liars who have a purpose in view in reeling off the falsehoods which they a are re accustomed cus tomed to tell their d dirty d doings 0 ings are expected as a matter of course it is in their regular line out of the abundance of their black hearts their mouths speak political and personal motives of edthe the most grovelling gro velling kind are at the back of their utterances it does not hurt them to lie and the objects of their mendacity have become accustomed to letting them empty themselves without an any show of resentment some of of the G A it people who have listened to them nave have expressed fears for their personal safety they need be under no apprehension it those vituperative malig ners had not been f fully ally as sureh by experience that the mor mons endure abuse without retaliation they would not have ventured to aisy pisy the brave and act the braggart akile abusing a people who could if they choose make short work of the whole nefarious outfit we suggest to sensible visitors the propriety of taking with a grain ot salt t the he tidbits of scandal and hunches of anti mormon gossip dealt out to them by a few men who are plotting to obtain political coat control r ol 01 over the vast wajo majority rity we advise those who desire information concerning the mormons cormons Mor mons to seek for it among the mormons cormons Mor mons themselves and we think that if they use a little reflection and observation they will peFe perceive eive the fact that the mormons cormons Mor mons are quietly pursuing an even course minding their own business building up the country which they have won by hard bud labor from the deserts desert and bearing in silence the ribald abuse and glaring falsehood of some of the vilest adventurers who ever cursed a new country and lusted for the property and places acquired by honest indue industry try and permanent residence the works of the mormons cormons Mor mons speak for their character and conduct the words of their malig ners are enough to show to the discerning dia cerula what kind of beings they are and the objects shirald abey t y have in view investigation should be made into both sides of any important question before deciding and visitors who talk against the should at least learn something reliable about them before opening their mouths in public |
