| Show IN THE TIIE MORMON settlements iff charitable people who feell the and house the homeless less regardless of creed to tile N Y world SALT LAKE CITY juno june 22 fa who are those children said I 1 to my lost at Monro cs pointing to two ragged little shoeless waifs waife that were standing in his yard and evidently waiting to be taken notice of instead of replying my host turned towards them well jimmy said he lie what is it toda today to da day y 1 the wistful eyes looking out fr from 0 1 u under lider the tattered broad brimmed hats brightened into intelligence another chicken for mother said both together promptly and then aa if suddenly overtaken by a sense of their audacity the forlorn little lads dropped their eyes and stood there holding each others handras picturesque and pathetic a pair as any beggar children in in italy in the full sunlight but half shaded by the immense brims of those wonderfully ancient hats the urchins were irresistibly artistic and if met with anywhere in the riviera would have been sure of that small change chango tribute which the romantic tourist pays with such pleasant punctuality to the picturesque poverty arty of southern childhood but this was in utah and my host best looked at them from under his tilted straw bat they stood in front of him as still as sculptors models but the fingers and toes kept exchanging like signals of nervous distress all right go and get one suddenly said my host take the young rooster that was blind on one eye ho he had to shout the last instructions in a rapid crescendo as tho the youngsters had serui sprung ag off together at the word go like twin shafts from the double bows of the slant mant cherian archers three minutes later and acost scrawling scra heralded the approach of the captors and the captive tho the young rooster though blind of one eye saw quite enouf enough I 1 of the situation to make him apprehensive but the younger urchin had him tight under ter III liis arm and still under the exciting influences of the chase and capture the boys stood once more before my my host with panting bodies flushed check diecks and tufts of of yellow jials sprouting out through crevices of those wondrous id hats which had evidently just seen service in the recent conflict and the young rooster as if before the final court of appeal scrawled ked cd as if it machinery ha had d got loose inside him and he stop it hows your uma vi to k mother ashes wrate craw ia tv w u if tv k and ashes vj iv k nothing to eat all yesterday tak w L go on home then and awa away down tho the middle of the road scud ded the little fellows in a confusion of dust and who are those children I 1 asked again thinking I 1 had bad chanced on that unknown thing a pauper mormon oh said my host hes a bad lot an outsider who came in here as a loafer deserted his wife ashes very ill and pretty nigh starving aye she would starve too if her boys oy 8 there come round regular ar begging of us but loafers know know very well that those cormons mormons Mor mons wont let anybody go buti hungry gry and they act as if they knew it too in other settlements there arc are exactly such similar cases but I 1 would draw the attention of your readers I 1 wish I 1 could draw the attention of tho the whole nation to it to the following notice which stands to this day with all the force of a regular bylaw by lay law in these mormon settlements NOTICE TO ALL if there are any persona persons in this city who are destitute of food let them be who they may if they will let their wants be known to me privately or otherwise I 1 will eee see that they are furnished with food and lodging until the they can provide for themselves the bishops of every ward are to see that there are no persons going hungry EDWARD HUNTER presiding dint bishop now it may bo be mere sentiment on my part but I 1 confess that that notice to all antho in the simplicity of its wordings in the nobility of its mi spirit rit reads to me very beautifully its tenderness would have won the great poet heart of longfellow and what a contrast to turn from this text of a universal charity that is na no respecter of persons to the infinite meanness of those who can write as in the salt lake T tribune of the whole community of mor mons as the villainous spawn of polygamy I 1 does it not seem astonishing and lamentable too that for all these years such men should have been permitted to hold undisputed the ear of the nation that the mor imor mons should not have told the world the truth that so generous a people as the americans should not have insisted on li cering the other othe raide side thata press BO so searching as american journalism should not have exposed this contemptible local frand yet if looked into from blend the scenes the explanation is not after all so de deeply e 1 hidden in the first place tely the only gentile paper here is in the hands of an unscrupulous clique who run ruu it on and ani mormon principles with the avowed expectation 0 of wrecking the present prosperity of the territory in the next place the local correspondent of the assoria associated ted press is as unfit for the place as a colorado beetle would I 1 be to report upon a potato crop not from lug his want of I 1 intelligence I 1 irence but simply from hig his strong anti mormon 0 1 1 R prejudice r e J d 1 C F in the third place s sectarianism e q ta d a t i isn i i is s rampant 11 here 0 re and tho 1 I reptiles ep tiles of religion 1 as one of the largest of caris fians calls the mean sectarians sect arians are perpetually at their work of ambit bering class against class these dethree three agencies being simultaneously ta bously and industriously in operation er era tion explain a great deal of that in misunderstanding sunder standing which today to day holds the sympathy of the american nation aloof from these hard tolling table and honest beartel hearted pioneers tho the same distorted version version of facts goes aitor day throughout the year to a hundred different lerent diff towns at once and tho the public finding identical opinions echoed in in so many places naturally accepts the them in i as any rational and ani sensible sen sible individual would as a unanimous judgment but once let him L know now that A B 0 and all the rest of the alphabet are one and the same identical person and that this person is is grossly ignorant and grossly an he lie immediately appreciates at their truo true worth the statements which he finds so singularly corroborated the statement of ane one man repeated a n hundred times is a very dif different kind of authority from the concordant statements ot of a hundred dif different men and I 1 can honestly assure all those who read these letters that in all salt lake city and therefore in all the valleys leys of utah there are arci barely a dozen intelligent 1 gentiles who could bo be fou found nd to calumniate a people among whom they sec see such honesty in everyday every day business such ceaseless industry such conscientious piety and such a universal charity all of them no doubt have just as sincere an aversion to polygamy as I 1 have but very few of them I 1 find arc are so bascas base as tu to deny the mormons cormons Mor mons those virtues which are everywhere and every day 0 so o conspicuous many gentiles here are on the best terms with the mormons cormons Mor mons and I 1 have 9 aen spoken with so called apostates who retain the utmost respect in many ways for the believers in the faith which they have themselves rejected preeminent in their admiration is always the charity of the mor mons it is a 1 recognized law among tho the cormons mormons Mor mons that no tramp shall pass by one of their settlements hungry if it is at nightfall he is to be housed towards the indians their policy is one of enlightened and christian humanity fer for their own people their charity commences from the first E emigrated mi to this country by the volun volu n tary donations which maintain the perpetual emigration fund he lie is is on oil arrival met with immediate care and being passed on to his location finds as I 1 have described in a previous letter a system of J mutual mutu kindliness prevailing which starts him in life if sick he is cared for all this is fact I 1 have read it in no books heard beard I 1 it from no hoodwinking elders my informants are lads just arrived in salt lake city within an hour or two of their arrival in fact young men just settling down in the their ir log hut in rural settlements grown men now themselves engaged in the neighborly duty of assisting newcomers this has been one result of my thou thousand saud miles of traveling I 1 have bave met and talked to those men germans ashers in their own homes here in utah and I 1 have positively assured myself of the fact I 1 state that charity unquestioning simple hearted charity is one of the tho secrets of the strength of this wonderful fabric of Morn mormonism the mormons cormons Mor mons are more nearly than any other community in the world on oil such a scale one family every man knows all the rest of his neighbors with an intimacy and a neighborly interest that is the result of reciprocal reci r good services in the past rf this 1 I 1 is is s their bond of union the fenes fencing round that hundred acre lot was put up by the neighbors in combination the lot was plowed sown and reaped by operation cooperation co when they meet together at the end of the year is it any wonder that they meet almost as brothers in india there is the village community have bave you read maines fascinating book which moves though in in another arc are on oil the same plane as the ai mormon mornion settlement system there to touch one mans crop is to inflame the whole clan croe wit with the sense of a common injury hero here it is much the same sam c and as it is between the diffie different rent individuals in a settlement so it is between the dif different settlements ts in the territory A brutal act like that eviction of the mormon postmaster at park city the other day disturbs the whole of Morn mormonism with ap art of impending violence A A libel directed at a man or woman in salt lake city makes a hundred thousand personal enemies in utah now with what petard will you hoist such a rock induce these mormons cormons Mor mons to hate one another if for or all the world like christians as georgo george eliot sai said and they can be snapped as easily as the philosopher s faggots maggots were once they were unbundled but in tho the meantime e abuse of in individuals divi duals or I 1 persecution of a class simply cements the whole body t together 0 moro more firmly than ever mu charity is one of the bonds of lM mormon ormon union it is the sed secret ret of that oneness which makes some people yelp so lao |
