Show TELLING THE judge e Willi allis tell tells i what lie knows about utah mall we take the follow following it from a letter of judge R le K williams of this city written ly by him to the princeton ky kanner banner in reply re x ly to a paragraph published c by that paper ir er and lisben by the louisville Loins villo commercial the tile paragraph referred to reads tho tile princeton banner says that R K williams late chief justice kentucky is in utah has joined the mormon church and is practicing law with a mormon mornion partner to this the judge gives therol thoa following reply I have it ave never joined the mormon church but should not be ashamed of it if I had I am ani a member of no church and in all human probability never will be for I have a theology of my own that both agrees and mid disagrees with all churches I have a profound respect for all si sincere ficere and devout worshippers wor shippers and believe in the true principles olour of our federal constitution tie that none should be abridged whilst I do not subscribe to tile dogmas of any it is true that until the ath insl I I have had a mormon mornion partner in the practice of law for tho tile last three years and we have done a flattering and remunerative business but owing to his delicate delic ua health he lie lias has been compelled to withdraw irom active practice I I can however howe versay say for him that he lie is an honorable upright man mail good lawyer and a christian gentleman if tho the people cast knew this country and people as they are there would bo be many emigrants to it and hoping you will insert this I will make it a reply to many letters received some sonic tram from your county and the adjoining counties this country though considerably north of your place yet lias has a mi milder ilder climate having neither the extremes of heat beat nor cold but more regular no nights in which cover ng is not comfortable although tho the days day arc ire quite warm for three months in the year yet pleasant in ill he the shade it is very healthy and I am twenty five pounds heavier than when I left kentucky and icel feel twenty years younger its climate is not surpassed on tho the continent the valleys arc are exceedingly productive duc tive many farmers having raised from fifty to eighty bushels of wheat and barley per acre this year oats and rye accordingly it is not a good corn country the nights are too cool for it hay is a wonderful production here liere lucerne a variety af of the clover yielding from one to f four our crops of from front one to three tons per anee acre fruits F duits grow in great abundance there arc are many productive mining comps in ill the surrounding surrounding inc mountains and these furnish remunerative markets for all our products of farm garden orchards and bierds hence labor is far better awarded here than thau in kentucky property and life arc are as secure here as anywhere in your st society equally as good as in in any country of its age A larger perle ent of its population over ten years of age can read and write than in kentucky a larger per cent of its po it lation within school abeare age arc in in tali daiv iv at at the public schools bublic than hanin in your state it t can call seat a larger arger per cent of its population in its ts church edifices than there a larger arger per cent of its children attend sabbath school than with you and if you vou doubt these turn to the tables published by ille the congressional librarian in liis his abc american 71 aall almanac for 1881 and see these thin bilings verified in t is city ot something over inhabitants besides the several ward ech schools there is a cell central aral school house of a large dimensions and imposing ap appearing at which five hundred pupils raring s arc are being taught tau glit all these are public territorial and and city schools the methodists have both a church and school under their missionary direction the pres byte rians have a church church and school under their missionary patronage the episcopalians Episcopal ians have a church and a school the catholics have a church and the sisters of tile sacred heart have an academy four railroads terminate liere and this place has more miles of telephone than the whole of the first congressional district of kentucky including paducah with about double its population alie cormons mormons Mor mons do not wear horns as its many eastern people suppose but many any efthem of them are highly educated refined pleasant people and good neighbors they aro are somewhat tenacious of their religion and think it unbecoming in a stranger to settle among them and begin a social warfare among them and such they are apt to let severely alone socially and in every other way hence such persons find their trade and business as well ivell as their antez intercourse course confined to the gentiles and as the cormons mormons Mor mons throughout the territory have about four out of five the trade is i g not usually very heavy when confined to one fifth of the pl people P e but aj t they do not ask you to be of their faith before extending their social courtesies and patronage but they d ask that you respect their ri rights ats and feeling and this much alt aly people demand and are entitled to respectfully 11 K |