The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1905-01-14
BILE change in his opinion.

able change in his opinion.
The Journal makes the deduction
that 'his story illustrates very nicely
the ignorance of people outside OF
Utah as to the Mormons and Mormon
ism" and this may be true, yet in
telligent people truly ignorant OF any
subject do not presume to have such
strong opinions or beliefs as does Mr..
Miller. That gentleman's expressed
beliefs do not in any sense represent
the true view the intelligent fastener
takes of Utah and her people. This
old story about fasteners believ-
ing Mormons have horns and a
tail, etc, story which 1t seems many
Mormons like to repeat, is as thread
bare and is as unjustitiable misrepresen-
tation Of the truth as is the greater
portion of The Tribune's slush. And
it is this misrepresentation that Gre
atest in the time 1t takes to read II
a false impression that years OF patient
effort on the part of honest people
will hardly remove. The Eastern peo-
pie today know very little of Utah,
Mormons or Mormonism little that
is either good or bad. The few thous-
and missionaries sent from here each
year easily get lost in the 10000, 900 OF
people in these y. S., so much so in
fact that one is almost an unheard
of thing IN any given section. The
literature that is written about this
people is bought by few of the re-
other people the contents furnish
food for conversation just as long as it
is fresh. That there is deep seated
hatred in the East against Utah, the
MormonS and Mormonism Is not true.
The whole eastern people despite their
ignorance of all things in Utah, and
the whole west for that matter, have
polygamy identified with Utah and this
is as abhorrent to them that they do
not readily welcome Utahns, but even
this does not stir up haired except in
circles which should be frcest from it.
Instead of Mormonism being a subject
of conversation at each meal in the
Eastern home it is the rare thing ii IL
is ever mentioned. The writer lived
in the east, north and south before
coming to Utah and being in the news
paper business since the years of I'M
Outstanding would probably be as
familiar with general sentiment as the
average runner. We make these as
sertions without fear of successful
contradiction.
The people of the East and Utah
should understand each other better.
The anti-Mormon people in Utah If
they must fight, should conduct their
fight more honorably. The Fasteners
are continually given wrong impress
sion Of the situation here and some
missionaries, ordinary men who spend
two years in localities under adverse
conditions, return and give a wrong
impression of the eastern people.
This is unfortunate for both and more
for Utah, which suffers most The
Mormon people should be less eager
to accept adverse reports Of the east
and the east should be more tolerant
and less credulous. If one half the
money and energy spent in the anti.
Mormon fight in Utah were spent in
the dissemination of information about
Utah thai is truly good, truly advant:
ageous to them and the State, Utah
would in few years be so overwhelm-
ingly populated that the Mormon,
Presbyterian, Catholic and all other
religious questions would settle into
insigniiicance. Utah would then
take her place where she belongs.