Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-15
THE MORMON INIQUIry.
The Fun E1tout act Kaown to tho Public
An Interview With One Who Knows,
Especial Telegram to the Globe,

The Fuil Extent e0t Kaown to tho Public
An Interview With One Who Knows,
Especial Telegram to the Globe.
CHICAGO, Nov. 14.-''So yau want to know
something about the Mornons, do you said Mr..
Rooert Jehnstone, New Yorker, who has been
a. Salt Lake, to q GLOBE re porter yesterday at
the Sherman house.
eyes. something news
''Wen, new or old, its pretty much
the same way in the east, for they
know very little about them. Still, nv obser-
vation teaches me that they are people without
shame or decency. They malicious, cum
ming and deeeitful. AS class they are igno-
rant, and of course intolerant. If you could at
tend single meeting at one of their tabernacles
you would be disguised. Even their houses of
worship are not free from the degrading infu-
ence to which l allude. This is one reason why
the eastern people can never get at the
real facts. If l were to repeat words that
have heard uttered with the calmest Indifference
in the pulpit of the Mormon church, you could
not print them IN your paper. If you were to
prinr the whole sermon such as / once heard
the issue would be condemned by the postal au-
thorities. In comment ng upon the introduce
ton of the 'Bustle,'' the sermon of one of these
apostles was sufficient to have shocked the in
mates of house OF bawds. He was
ssorry he said the Mormon mothers, wives
and daughters had seen fit to copy after the
lewd women of the east in using paper to make
their dresses stick out at the back. He did not
stop there, however, nor did he use the words
''lewd women.' The congregation listened
without blushing, and passed out without COM
neut. [ kept my sentiments to myself and
made other observations.
Tall me something more'' said the reporter
s'You see that / am at the disadvantage to
which all enemies of this rank eyll are put in
making an attack npon it. L dare not use their
own language, it is so foul and shameless. There
are few Mormons who believe in the religion
Some of these possess a trifing degree of refine
ment, but they are few indeed, and when they
become too well informed they become prose-
lytes, but the leaders of the church. who
are always rich snd powerful, manage to
prevent the growth of education by fighting
down the school system. The people about
Salt Lake possers some intelligence, but those
who comprise the population of the interior are
almost as ignorant as the cattle that feed on the
mountain sides. The men are general, con-
tented, but the women are detected, hopeless
ret.
''Do they ever speak OF their convictions to
gentile?''
s'Oh, yes; human nature is the same the world
over,eso where are they to look for
sympathy which they must have if they do not
tell their sorrows to some one whs disbelieves
in their pernicious system. During my stay at
Salt Lake made the acquaintance of Norman
who had eight wives and he took me to at least
three of his houses. One of the women was the
seventh wife. She told me that she tried to be
dutiful but that she had very strange feeling
toward her husband which was not the Isve she
had so often heard the gentiles speak of.