Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1884-02-07
TOO FAR FROM TIL +
LOCALITY.

OF late years q sort of scribblina
epidemic has broken out among
magazine writer's relative to the
Mormon question. The latest arti.
Gle of any note is published in the
Nineteenth Century. and from the
pen of j. w. Barclay, an English
traveller. Mr.. BARCLAY writes with
the impressions of q man who had
spent . week or two in Salt Lake,
and gone away with the impression
that he has thoroughly mastered
the intricacies of the Utah problem.
While not writing exactly an apol-
ogy for the Mormons, he says much
in their favor which is far from be-
ing true. Some ofthese statements
.re curiosities.
''They are q temperate and in
dustrtous people. certainly, They
st9end to their affairs and let the
business of other people alone"
He probably judged Of their tenn
perance by an inspection of the
police Court records, When a
Gentle is half seas over he is grab
bed by the vilest police force in the
world and taken to the lookup.
there to be beaten and maltreated
by the most cowardly, ruffenly,
periured brutes that ever insulted
the sunlight. These same men will
take drunken Mormon and steer
him to his home, unless his case is
so open and notorious that failure
to arrest would cause newspaper
comment. The industry Of the
Mormons may best be seen in Joab
and San Pete counties where big
lazy men sit in their cabin doors
on hot Summers day, drinking
Vally Tan whisky and smoking
corn cob pipes, while they watch
four or five wives working in the
field. This Vally Tan whisky is a
vile compound invented by Brig
ham Young, and sold under the seal
Of the faith at an exorbitant price.
backed up by an edict of the church,
which made the misguided follow
ers of the Prophet think that it came
from the bonded ware house of the
Lord.
The statement that they mind their
own business is equally at variance
with the facts. Every Danish or
Scandinavian servant girl in Gen.
tile family it spy of the church ,on
the alert to report everything seen
and heard that may be useful to the
Council of Twelve. How does Mr..
Barclay reconcile the practice of
murder, castration and robbery of
Gentiles with the modern idea of
minding ones own business. If
Mr.. Barely lived in Salt Lake and
had his horses tongue cut out, and
his dog poisoned by his Mormon
neighbors, he might perhaps have
his ideas of the manner in which
these Mormons mind their own
business. entirely revolutionized.
He goes on to say:
"The Government of Utah by
Mormons might be accepted as a
pattern by many of the States; in
no State or Territory are taxes so
moderate: in none is morally and
self-denial SO steraly inculcated."
Moderate taxes. This express
sion would make the oldest Nor
mon laugh. Every Mormon is
taxed ten per cent a month on his
entire income and this tax is col
lected every thirty days with clock
like regularity. It is collected
under the cloak Of religion and
squandered under the same cloak.
Then comes the tax for the Temple
fund, levy of assessments to help
the church fight in Congress, and
we should not be much surprised
if portion of the money went to
employ outside writer's to misrep-
resent the condition of rottenness
enjoyed by this ulcer on the public
domain. A writer who can cram SO
many lies into few lines Of type
ought to command big pay.