Show y fl I 4 I P n n nCI CI rou FOI I Not In all his life has It boon hoen th the goo good fortune of oC I Ii i j 0 Governor Culler Cutler to do o so effective a service for or Utah as asI asis j I c is seen in his letters to a n number of oC Eastern newspapers I I l sentiment oC or the country countr touching c In iii which the gener general I con conditions In Utah Ulah has been In some measure set fet ct right It Itis Itt t fl is a wor work woric for which h the tie people people- of oC the state without I 1 I I i- i L i regard to CIce creed or party should thank him I IVi Vi t J. J It Is pretty clear nr from the fact act that the Tribune has Ir I given Iv il four columns of o editorial space to a reply th that t the tho 1 I governorS governor'S won work worl h hi recognized as likely ely to be effective I And that fact being conceded by hy ev even n the tho greatest f enemies of oC Utah h It remains only to note nule the facts to r which Governor Cutler In his letters has adverted the f evils v its against which he Inveighs an and the better con conditions 1 which really exist and which he he seeks to so s set ct before T the people of older ohler sections of or the Iho country countr as to accurate accurate- i 1 I ly h inform them The fhe East in a sense so nearly general as to approach 4 unanimity knows nothing of oC Utah except that It Is a 4 a Mormon state stale In the general view a non Mormon resident resl- resl dent here Is not thought of And the only thing they the have havo ave t been een taught b by the drEamers to believe of Mormons of IB R that ill all are polygamists To I that the Salt S Lake Lale Trib- Trib uno line has las sl skillfully added the Iho assurance that every Mormon Mor Mor- fj mon Is a n. law breaker and a traitor to the general government gov gov- eminent an er of or the public school system a defiler r 1 j of or r women a n tyrant t rant for or men and a destroyer of or political r Independence J. J We TC o who live here know Imo that this Is not a n. true picture of Utah Ulah In the letters Governor Cutler has sent to the theE E Eastern tern papers letters letters which wo we are arc glad to lo say havet haver have havo t r I ien n vcr very generally r printed and copied tho tho tho truth has hasI I 1 been given and anti It Is a L contrary statement True rue a majority or of the people of Ulah are arc affiliated i more more or less les closely with the Mormon church Tho They ma may broadly be called Mormons But out of oC the whole population IOPU- IOPU lation of if tho the state slate now approaching four tour hundred there are arc less leas than four hundred polygamists In this the tho capital city cI with a population of perhaps sixty five or sev seventy nty thousand there pro are IO lo less s than a hundred hundred hun hun- dred Bred ts Every one of these men took look their i plural wives prior to the issuance of ot tho the manifesto In 1890 and they have taken no other plural wives wl since e 1 that d date te No Xo man has since that time lime married In polygamy so far as proved etI facts can determine excepting two apostles of or the Mormon ormon church two men of the highest rUll ruling g body In that organization And they were ere I J. J both removed from their offices b by the Mormon ormon church j nn and are not now resl residents of or Utah That seems to any 1 I fair tall ju judge ge a n pretty prett conclusive proof that th the church was Ii 1 L 1 sincere re In Its promise e to stop tho the taking tal of or plural wives r V and o of Its ltd 4 good faith In the announced determination to toi i abandon polygamy i How However ver our Utah people who speak so angrily i f 71 against polygamy would mal make maize e a better showing here hero at I L t 7 I l h me inc If It the they proved more sincerity In their professions But Hul when they do 10 not hesitate to do business bu with polygamists i h t mists when they associate with them In public affairs 1 when thc they mIngle with with them readily in private ate matt matters rl t when they tit sit with them in public meetings tal take o counsel with them as to matters of or public Import with no tho 1 thought ht j I J 1 of or ostracism because of or the Jol polygamous relation when A they take tako children of polygamists for Cor wives and tho the sons ons J 4 of ot polygamists for fOl husbands the they should feel themi themselves them them- i i 3 selves estopped from Crom attacks on a system which is fast Cast rl d dying out and which In tho the nature of or things can not nott t exist beyond the tho present generation t r If lethe the Eastern people were informed of these things of o tho the perfect harmony In business and social and public pub Pub- u lie lic and private t matters here ere I. I In Utah between betwee the Iho lighters r rIt I i. i I WH r j I I j It l of Utah am and tho the or 01 the products of polygamy uc e o the people of or the Uw I East 1st would give gl less les clo enco to the thc loud noises of or the tho prot professional agitators I It Is good to have havo the rest ret of 01 the country hear something something some some- I thing favorable about Utah There Is plenty plent of ot good for thorn them to be a advised of oC The state Is growing crowing rapidly and andIn andIn andin In this growth tho thio Mormons Mormon aro are bearing their full rull share Tho They are arc as aR honest as are arc other men and ns os Industrious and ahIl as clean of oC life liCe Th They are arc as ns well educated and as capable In every o walk of oC life liCe They aro are as free tree Tho They are precisely like hike all other human burnett beings everywhere No o church not even en that to which they belong to which most of or them pa pay tithes at nt tho tim sIn sIn-Ide shrine of or which tile thc they worship pan can reduce them to slaver slavery The They vote oto as ns the they please the they speak as the they please the they act In lii all things as they I please lease I And as a result of or the tho Independence and tho industry and the he morality of our Utah p p ullie ople conditions df C CIr virtue virtue vir vir- tue in hi which Mormons and anel Gentiles share equally the state stale Is advancing ad splendidly And when whon the tIl disgruntled politicians of oC lh the ho Tom Torn Kearns school have havo learned their lesson and have ceased defaming their state stale abroad and have devoted themselves to advancing all it at homo home there will vill not be bo a n single le cloud In the sIc sky of ur Utah's glory Governor Cutlers Cutler's letters to the tho Eastern people have done dono much to hasten Iho ho dawn of that better tiny day |