| Show AN ANONYMOUS LETTER IETTER WRITER WHITER nine times out of ten the writer of a letter in which an attack is made who keeps his hig name a secret is a coward and as truthfulness and cowardice axe are incompatible statements made or information furnished by such a writer can never be relied upon hence the rule generally observed by well conducted newspapers to throw all such communications into the waste basket unnoticed but today the news will deviate from this rule by reproducing an anonymous letter which was this morning taken from the post postoffice office it is dated this city march 28 is addressed to the editor of the news sand and is as follows verbatim verba timet et literatim litera tim granting that all that you say in regard to dr iliff was wae true which it is not one assertion aster tion you make is a direct lie it is in regards to polygamy being a thing of the past in this state you lie every time you make assertion and it is this kleing position which the mormon church assumes that disgusts every thinking person tn in the whole state that know the true condition of affairs it is this living lie that brands yow your whole system asa as A falsehood which it hl ft where is your spirituality as a church you have none one has only to look at the young in men en and women of this city 10 lo legan of its moral state nowhere in the bro broad land to is morals at an lower ebb among the young people than in this state among your peculiar people I 1 thank god that the eyes of the eastern part of this U S are looking this way umar attention having been attracted hither by the words of warning sounded by such voices as dr and by a ucb such sheets as the kinsman the presbyterian organ of this state and I 1 am adding my humble assistance to the good cause of enlightening th the country now and then through the te medium of the press as to the asle practises practices and deceptions of of the followers of old joel joe smith v this letter is a fair and actual 11 aiu of the christian spirit and methods that characterize many of tike the active opponents of mormonism and chiefly for this reason space to is hom here given to it A simple perusal of it ft ought to cou convince vince even a person I 1 sympathies are opposed to the cause w ft assails that the writer is both vl clotta and untruthful and that all who afzul 7 ate with him in his antl anti crusading come under a like suspicion the more effectually the false a accrue ilk put forth by a christian of efthia stripe are refuted the more bitter aa persistent does helbe he become cOrne in reiterating them and the more anxious he te ig to light the fires of religious perse cu tion |
