Show WHOM TO PATRONIZE SALT LAKE CITY march lu 16 1880 1886 editor deseret news in the DESERET NEWS ot of ma march rell 13 1886 1 read a communication from A friend to utah on patronizing our friends which exactly corresponds with my views on that subject and I 1 wish that he had gone further farther and shown that those who profess to be saints not only make the enemies of the latter day saints rich and thereby enable them to tight light against zion and the well being of her people hut but also enable the regenerators of utah to gratify their hellish desires appetites and lusts which fact is plainly manifest in the number ot of houses of ill III fame gambling lamb ling houses whisky shop at aliard billiard saloons and ana street wal walkers kerg things that were not known in this fairland lair i land until the carpetbag carpet bag official and their hangers on came herewith here with their pollution then began the spread of their deleterious influences and as they increase in numbers and wealth so do their concomitant com bitant evils grow spread and fester in our midst I 1 have seen the time when there was not is a whisky shop billiard saloon gambling house house of ill fame faine or streetwalker street walker in salt lake city nor in any town or viha village ge it in L utah from one end ena to the oth other er nor won would id you hear the name of god taken in vain which is now heard at almost every ste step in the business portion of salt L lake L city and other towns and villages where the regenerators most abound Is any one responsible lor for this state of things I 1 think so and I 1 undertake to say that every man and woman professing bessin to be a latter day saint will have i a portion of the responsibility to bear in proportion to the aid and succor in dollars and cents and other su port given to the enemies of gotas gods church and kingdom whether they be lawyers doctors merchants hotel keepers livery stable keepers or any one else no matter what their calling profession or occupation so long as they are not cot the friends of the people and who are our friends jesus says that those who are not of us are against us but says one mr so and so is a very nice man he do anything against us so he says but does he do anything for us is the question for the answer I 1 will refer you back a few years when a petition was circulated among the business men gentiles of this city asking congress to withhold violent anti mormon legislation and send a commission here to investigate the charges made against this people peddle how feany i any of all the gentiles that have been made rich and fat out of I 1 he hard earnings of the people signed that petition just three all of them thein wagon and machine dealers and one of them afterwards withdrew his name from the petition although he still carries on an extensive business in wagons carriages etc on main street within a stones throw of the temple block and throughout the territory his elspat at rons being mostly cormons mormons Mor Alor mons 11 thus you see the friends of the people among the nou non mormon business men of the city were reduced to two and one of them has left the country count rv it if a few carru corrupt t scoundrels attack a peaceable and law aw abiding community with deadly weapons and inimical legislation and others of the community who pretend to be our friends will not raise their hands or voices in protection or defense of us how 9 etter better are they than those making tho the assault to my mind not any what did we gather to these mountain vales for to build up and foster corruption or to build up and foster the good I 1 think the latter then let us be consistent with our profession and build up and encourage home manufactures and industries that our boys and girls may be brought up to habits of industry honesty a and nd sobriety and learn to be self sustaining ana and let us not be found associating wit with h building up or patronizing our enemies tile the enemies of gods people and kingdom and all that is good then our names will not be found on the valley I louse house register the proprietor sits orr juries and convicts our brethren for obeying the laws of god and striving to overcome e evil nor on ai any ny hotel register the proprietor of which visits houses of ill III tame fame or fights fil lits against the interests of the community if we are always found on the side of right and strive to accomplish the object lor for which we have been gathered from the nations of the earth then our names will be found on the lambs book of life and if not there our names may be found enrolled on oil the list with some of the federal officials lawyers preachers hotel keepers I 1 merchants and others of the scribes and ahari sees ONE wiio KNOWS |