A WARNING AGAINST MORMONS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3511, 9 October 1882, Page 4

A WARNING AGAINST MORMONS.

The Christchurch Star publishes the following communication, which it had received from Salt Lake City:— TO THE EDITOR OP THE STAR. Dear Editor. —Please to insert this in those well-read columns of yom's, for the benefit of those poor innocent people (called Mormons) who have been enticed into the Mormon Church by a lot of fellows who have been sent out to break up and destroy our once happy homes, where we once lived in harmony one with another, cow scattered to the four corners of the earth by their Cursed doctrines. They preach anything but the truth. They will tell you that when you get here you will find a friend and a brother, and some one who will take you in and feed you. An elder returned home a short time ago, with a few converts. He ■was met at the stations by his relatives, who took him off in a buggy, and left his sheep to wander where they pleased without a shepherd. One of the party called upon him a few nights later, while he was at supper. The mean hound turned his back on him, when he knew he was hungry, and had no money to buy anything with. Yet, -when in New Zealand, he would sit down at the same party's table, and eat until he ■was filled. That is what I called dirty meanness. My New Zaaland friends, don't be in too big a rush to get here. Think twice before you act. You will get plenty of work, but no pay. A lady came here a short time ago, ■with three or four small children to keep by her own industry. She went out to do a day's work, and all she received was a piece of 'rusty ' old bacon, which was not fit for a pig. She had to take that or nothing. Polygamy beats all I have seen yet. A man with three or four wives will sifc at home all winter, enjoying his pipe and whiskey, while the women go out to work from morning till night, up to their knees in snow, at all kinds of work. He who contradicts the same is a liar. This is the place which —-we were told—flows with milk and honey, and the streets are paved with gold. I should say it flows with murderous and wicked people ; and the streets are paved with lies and filth. Friends in New Zealand take warning from an old fool and stay where you are. Miserable.