Show A STRANGERS STOBY STORY salt lake city cormons mormons Mor mons and 1 antiles Gentiles en tiles 91 the utah fr m t tie lian N V 1 H w i SAL SALU it LAKE like CITY april 29 there i is so much to be iid aid about this fascinating city that I 1 feet tho th biffl dence in corame commencing neing my correspondence pon dence nor after M 0 o short a 1 I residence should I 1 have fut felt ju justified ti in writing i biting had I 1 not been con coil ecilua of sing at tit any rate on cad vantage over all my gentile predecessors who have writt mi of this mecca of the west for it is roy my good fortune to be entertained as a guest in a mormon household and in this way to have had opportunities tuni ties for tile frank frankest cst conversation with many hor anions of the territory my candidly avowed anti antipathy y to polygamy makes no difference to thena them for they extend to me the same confidence that they would to any gentile who cared to know the real facts in the ordinary way I 1 begin by dc describing scribing the city itself rut but even then so s o subtle if is the charm of this place Olic in its general appearance thoroughly E english in its with ith almot t every house in it its blocks and every man inan in lit its streets invested with a i hi historic storie interest that ie is more neat neaily ly legendary than in any any other town of america with its shops kept by men whose names are as familiar in england as those of american statesmen it 4 quaint disregard of that fine appear appearance artee which your live towns 0 M o its extravagance in erects con condoned flonc 1 by ample shade ti tr cs its luica f gurgling along by I 1 the aw sidewalk ita its astonishing quiet the simple neighborly life of the c citizens all ali these ase and much more to which I 1 will give letter aletter later on OD combine to inac t salt lake city r ariha ib i b a mystery mystel that is in itself a charm I 1 am speak speaking i n of if course merely as a traveler and 1 1 ld in classifying the towns which I 1 have seen 1 would place the Morr non 1 zion in the same genus gentis as benares on the ganges and peor in sinde for it attracts the visitor by interests that are in great part antelle intellectual the mind and not the tile eye is is captivated it is a fascination of the imagination rather than of the senses for the capital of utah is not one of natures favorites she has hemmed it in with majestic mounta ioe but they areba are barren I 1 anti and PON 0 1401 6 ot a great lake but t its waters aters are bitter marah there is none oatlie tender grace of english landscape none of the fierce splendor of the tropics and yet in s spite te of nature the valley is iy already beautiful and in the years to come may be ben another palmyra or darlne by orontes As yet however it is the day dav of small thin things many of the houses are still of adobe obe ar and 1 l they overlook the tree trees planted to shade them wild flowers still grow alongside the track of the tram cars and wild birds perel ito whistle in the trees in the business thoroughfares but the future ia is full of promise for the prosperity of the city is ie based upon the most solid of all ail foundations agricultural wealth and inhabited by a people whose religion is work for it is a fact about mormonism which I 1 have n not 0 Y yet seen insisted upon that the first t duty it teaches and that it inculcates industry as ene one of the tile sup supreme fenie virtues the result is that there arc are no pauper cormons mormons Mor Alor mons for there arc are no idle one ones in tile daytime there arc are no loafers in the streets for every ninn man ia is afield or at his work and soon after 9 at night the whole city seems to be gone t to bed A few strangers of course are lin lian nging izina about the saloon doors but the tile J pervading stillness and aud the emptiness of the streets are dis spiriting piri ir itin ting t to row d vi tu and so the vo gentile entil idamis damns the place as being dull but the truth is that the cormons mormons Mor Aror mons are too busy bus during the day for idleness to ld find companionship panion ship at night and too sober in their pleasures for gaslight vices to attract them As a natural corollary to this life of hard work it follows that tho tile mormons cormons Mor mons are in a large measure indifferent to the affairs lairs aff of the world outside themselves minding their own business keeps heeps them from froin meddling with that of ot others liers the they are indeed taught this from the puk pulpit for it is the regular formula of tile tabernacle that tile people should just go about their daily work attend to that and leave everything else alone they are am never to forget that they arc are building up zion that their day is is coming in good time but that meanwhile they must work and never bother about what other people may be doing in this way salt lake city has bas become a city uty of two peoples and though mormon marmon and gentile may be stirred up together 0 sometimes they do not min mingle glean adv more than oil and water today to day this insulation of the Mo mons imons is especially ian ous the edmunds bill I 1 lias las m marked r them down as a proscribed neepie people and the law line lim inducted the tile whole community for a com common mon of onelee rense utah is u a proclaimed dietrict to lo use the anglo l drilli phrase for kmets of infanticide 41 fant icide aa aud owr eau 7 1 within it lu in thru at 0 14 d f tal a t d 9 7 aro are in the first instance by the equal pressure of the new law lair upon all sections of the church alike in in the next by the openly expressed exultation of the Gentiles they feel that they are under a common ban the tile children have rend read the bill or its purport explained od to them and it is ie well evell allione aanon the uren gentiles tiles how keen keell the griet was in every household when v hen the newa that the bill had pasca caf id i d reached utah still shed bitter hitter over the net act of congreso Con bohni gresi ei which tt anji breaks up hipp happy homes and robs them wid thui their children ortho of the protecting pre lence of a bubb hn bind md ind and fathel father y I 1 shail hat have much to say on oil this as its luct of the bill bil I 1 in ill another letter abild jt it must suffice for this that there lias has jlii probably bince herod 8 order darkened dank ened the mir nurseries acnes of jn don been an act act ot of that hr luts drung so many 11 innocent hearts i nud and trick tik kan so many loving 0 nyo o inin in on and it 14 is this ais cruelty to their W Cs and mid children that has stub barned the mormon men some da day perhaps if the commission forgets that every cry step it takes u is over tortured heart hearts the present assumption of clerence among the men may br ak alc awn and it v will ill cost the v cry dearly for never before in in ln was js a com coill mi diun eI 1 with ith uch a task at unco wico so dangerous 11 rous and I 1 sa ly it deliberately fo so f o danver owa you oil inay mi be of tins 9 bl blunter uter will not frighten the noi nor of ine forve nor force itself it i i a pity therefore ic that president pic Pros ident arthur ai thur appoint a commission of angels or 01 Pre president taylor loi have a revelation commanding obedience cc to ti the law for unac s one of the two happens I 1 do not lilye buelt elf ece u hov how the edmunds bill hill is is going to escape a di lemini leanna in bich baa ij di aster for foron one horn choin and for the other |