How Mormon "Converts" are Treated.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4286, 26 September 1882, Page 2

How Mormon "Converts" are Treated.

The Christchurch Star publishes the following letter from Salt Lake City. The writer requests that other journals in New Zealand will kindly copy it: —■

"Please to insert in those well-read columns of yours, for the benefit of those poor innocent people (called Mormons) who have been enticed into the Mormon Church by a lot of fellows, who hare been *sent'out to break up and destroy our once happy homes, where we once lived in har- ; mony one with another, now scattered to the four corners of the earth by theircursed doctrines. They preach anything but the truth, and will tell you that when you get here you will find a friend and 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 station by his relations, who took him in a buggy, and left his sheep to wander where they pleased without a shepherd. One of the party called on 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 bad no money to buy anything with. Yet, when iv New Zealand, he would sit down , at the same table and eat until he was filled. That is what I call dirty meanness. My New Zealand friends, do not 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 chil ■ dren to keep by her own industry. She went out to do a day's work, and all she was given 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 stay at home all winter enjoying his pipe and whisky

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 are told flows with milk and honey, and the streets with gold. I should say it flows with murderers 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."