The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-07-18
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gives his Lpre5Si9LS IN manne
very much like unto what has beer
heard again and ag lin. His opinions
must in his own estimation bt
valuable, or he would certainly mol
write them; it would be an idle task
Tor him to say something qnd pro-
duce nothing, to distribute senti,
ments which went straight from
their source into empty space, to
announce impressions and create
bone. He says that previous to his
BOlning he had heard considerable
for and against the Mormon system
as practiced by the greater portion
sf this community, but as he ex-
PeCted TO visit Utah at the time, he
formed no opinion, wan ling an Op-
portunity of Judging for himself.
@iThis [ have done" he says, "pretty
thoroughly since my arrival, and l
Bm now firmly convinced that the
system as far as it relates to this
community is decidedly wrong, and
fraught with much danger to the
rising generation"
For one who had been here at
Iefsst three days, the correspondent
is certainly a genius in the matter
Of making profound discoveries,
and his conclusions must be
received as eminently proper
and exactly correct. If he could
haVe tarried but FIVE. or say ten
minutes longer the chances are that
ne would have written a book on
1hs subject and then baen alto
gether happy, no matter what the
PubliC thought about it.
During this extended visit the
writer was able to fish out more
news and get at a more stupendous
array Sf events illustrative of the
true iuwardne5s of the Mormon
question, than a committee Of inves-
sigati0n could have accomplished in
six months, and his conclusions are
80 apply and deity drawnI as wit
E8Js the following from the same
source;
JRCs Z d to this view, from Tie lsTga
humber If youog Mormon girls scarcely
cot OF their tetus, who nights patrol the
streets, rs common pr0stiiutes are in the
habit OF doing Ia ths larger cities Of the
Sistas. While converting WIN man
about the town few evenings since, 1
expressed surprise ST this alarming state
~ depravity, whso be said: 'My friend,
you count, and | will snow you some
ching" Idid so, and during the space
Of bali Sn hour, eighteen young girls,
mostly, should Judge, uader The age OF
seventeen, passed our observation point
With the brand Of sin IN their fair young
Eaoas.
This W Guild indicate thai during
Sac writer's prolonged stay he was
able to get thoroughly acquainted
With every family in the city, and
1ould tell Mormon girl "
81 sight; the fact that they had the
brand of sin on their fair young
faces" and that they numbered
eighteen in half an hour, coupled
With the additional fact that they
we're "dormons," settles the case
GOnctusiyely, and a system that
tEee is and fosters such terrible con-
1itions in life must go at once. 1t
IS rather a dreadful picture, sure
enough; and we hope the writer
was not attacked by nightmare that
evening in contemplation of it.
IL a complete case of anybody
ever writing himself down as ass
had been wanting prior to the pro-
luetiOn of that epistIe, it was cert
ainIy not wanting Immediately !
after. Just look at it: A man comes
here to see the place; he has heard
Mormonism spoken of pro and con;
all at once the inspiration rests
upon him that the whole thing is
wrong, and ne Is fortified
in this opinion by seeing | !
eighteen young girls, all Mormons,
given point within half
IN hour. There are no Gentle girls 1
in Salt Lake, so of course the cor ,
of that part of the conclu-
lions cannot be questioned. And
hen the girls had sin-stained faces
lust where theywere going to, where
hey came from or what business
hey were on is not SO clear, only I
he writer is sure they were street
walkers. They must have been, be- (
,ause they were young, because they a
yere numerous, because they were a
TsIking, because they had sin Turk '
yin their countenances, and lastly. L
ecause they were Mormons! as 2