Show ABOUT UTAH wt WE find the following in the syracuse N NY Y journal under the heading beading we have given above the journal cal calls lothe the writer an I 1 anti mormon we presume be would object to that we do not so regard him but that he Is a non mormon to is a fact that will probably give weight to his utterances among the readers of the syracuse journal to the journal in your paper of july 31 find an editorial on resources 1 which does not mistake or overstate the facts utah is undoubtedly a fine country prospectively its progress for thirty years has been under greab area difficulties and yet it has grown rapidly its prosperity is due to the quiet energy of the mormons cormons Mor mons A rew few about half a dozen rich mines have been worked but the strife always boiling inthe territory over social questions has made it an unattractive country for capitalists the mountains are full of wealth and the territory is full of mountains only let us get rid of the local row and the country will bound forward in its prosperity well why not get rid of the row the only obstacle nw now in the he way is the fact that the government sends here annually to be parceled out among officeholders and nd the good people of the fast east send annually to be used by the missionaries for the supposed purpose of converting the mormons cormons Mor mons but why convert them because they are polygamists polygamy has been dead in utah tor for years the young people so thoroughly outgrew it that the grey grev heads of the church declared last october that henceforth there should be no poly amic marriages among the mormons cormons Mor mons yet not one of the anti mormon missionaries ever converted a mormon the mormons cormons are a progressive people and progress has earned carried them away from polygamy they would have dropped it years before if they had not been so mercilessly abut abused ed on account of it when you talk about the curse and blight of mormonism you are but uttering the prejudices of anti mormons cormons you cannot yourself know anything about mormonism it is the most scriptural or biblical of all the sects it it is the broadest of the th sects its work for the dead includes all it sees perdition eternal for those only who having accepted the gospel of christ turn away from it even yours yourself elfair sir will find in the resurrection that some mormon relative has been baptized for you and thus obtained for you a grace you iou might otherwise never have known even the worst enemies of the mor mons in utah admit that a aide from polygamy they have been an exemplary people utah today stands ahead of all save three of the states in her educational average and that is due entirely to the earnestness of the mormons cormons in educating their children As to virtue you nev never r hear of mormon women among the brothels of utah and adultery is put down among them as an unpardonable sin that they are done with polygamy is just as certain as it is that it costs more to raise one family in utah now than it did to raise three thirty years ago utah ought to be a state but as long as mor mons mono are judged by the prejudices prejudice sot ot those who are ignorant in regard to them she has small chances to get in there is too much morey money for those interested in keeping her out in the territorial con the nation must therefore take the matter in hand the nation should say sav that it will no longer pay men in utah to keep a strife there b by work borkine against mormons cormons Mor mons let it do that and there will be no more trouble 1 I send you a copy of my iny publication on t utah from 47 to 70 1 1 I hope vou will read it carefully and join with me it in working to put an and to this unrighteous strife the nation cannot afford to be mean and you must be an american as lam CHARLEs chabla ELLIS SALT LAKE CITY august |