The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-06-14
mn AND NoRHoNIsH.
n..,.o TuttIe's Address in
Di Denver.
,,rsBs OF MORMON STRENGTH
MINDED speech on Universally
A-f'I ~aiIrnod subj'et-His Elk
Derience in Utah

ofA ,HI Donrer made some remarks Oh
North D .siean church temperance move,
the An' If which he is the authorized
menu :, colorado. The services com,
assn. at 7 o'clock and were concluded
t lns q o'clock. The principal address
D IT, evening was by the Right Kew
u n. .Is s, futile D. D., bishop OF utan'
psasnoke on the subject OF Mormon n ~
wno .aS tbeMOrmOns. He spoke of the
lsn .a r Of which the present Mormon
m Ih mas composed. The Mormon
cbnrcb could hardly have continued IN
>, ;teuce so long and
xrpr Up IT'S STRENGTH so WE'LL
hoditnot been from the large acces-
,iops made to the church from Europe
and especially from England ana wales'
Tb.re are also quite number Oh Scos elc
MON and quite q number OF inc ieauel'
H. cburcb are Scotchmen. Ihelr re-
I liz rn instincts are appealed to BY. the
Itnrnon missionaries and also their
thrifty habits. Religious arguments ana
heir desire TO better their condition and
a .ncrr American dollars. brings
them IN America. As for the lrlshmen,
honor to the race be it said, no great
number of Irishmen can be found among
Bnt the immigration from England,
Scotland and Wales adds coal year by
wear TO the fire. If you could trust only
to the Younger Mormon people, that
church could. not maintain sucn
strength. The young men and young
women cannot so well be relied on, but
II is the older Mormons who are more
apt to be
UNsELFIsH, PRAYERFUL AND UNWoRLDLY
MINDED.
If you trust therefore, only to the new
generations Mormonlsm could not so
fouaish. but the new coal comes in, the
Neophytes, the fresh converts replenish
the fold.
l can't see that Mormonism is the less
strong now than it was eighteen years
ago. The strength of Mormonism is a
marvel When 1 first went to Utah
had an idea that Mormonism was des-
tined in time to be destroyed by its
own elements of weakness. But found
there was strength where did not ex-
pect to find it. Polygamy, l thought,
especially must be a weakness, and in
time it would fling the institution to its
death. When | considered polygamy,
degrading manhood as it does, cruelty
ing Womanhood as it does, l thought
it must stab Mormonism to It's death.
But there is a certain standpoint from
which MOrmOnism is strong The people
who are Mormons feel that
THEY ARE osTRACIzED,
they feel that when they become Nor
mons that they are thenceforth a pecu-
liar people and are yet to go through |
any struggle for their religion, even if it |
be against the United States govern
ment.
Polygamv is not so very common in |
Utah. There is not more than one Nor
mon out of five who is a polygamist. |
The polygamists are usually rich |
storekeepers and merchants or rich far
mers. How, then, can it be, you ask,
That polygamy is such a strength to the
Mormon system and that the system
has maintained and still maintains its
sIength since 1847, when it was
ioundedP l will tell you why polygamy
IS such strength. Do you not per
eelVe that even if man or a woman is
an earnest Mormon, but a polvgam1st.
that he or she might have
BROTHER, SISTER, NIECE Or AN AUNT
IN polygamy, and that he or she would
stand steadily up for pOlygamy because
they had relatives who were polvga-
Inc ties of kindred are very strong
ana II we were Mormons we s6onId he
very apt to do very much the same
ming Before | close let me saw few
WORDS. do not like to speak too much
OF myself. Still, l know papers nraise
themselves, and | think that Ills coming
:. pc recognized that there are two in.
ssttituuons, newspapers and missionaries.
1Hat nave the right to praise themselves
therefore, will tell you something
ABOUT MY WORK IN UTAH.
went there in 1867, preaching there
Two Sundays. Nothing had been done
mere to any extent by any Christian
DR.. Mcleod, Congregational minis
yer, had, it is true, started small SIM
"a! School. He had gathered few
beople together and had received heln /.
i NH some prominent Gentiles in Utah,
c -OluIlhg the Jews, for Jews are called
iILiiIiies khere. The early nti-Mormon
SSiail4aPltants had erected building in
'ai' Lake which was called
INDEPENDENCE HALL.
1 ! superintendent of Mr.. McLeod's
sunday school and one of his great
'elperS in the work was DR.. Robinson.
VI, Robinson had been dastardly
murdered about year before came
me- He was called out of his he'd
o 11lo uarK night on the pretense that some
ia EoI man needed surgical assistance.
# IVA Was shot dead and the perpetrators
u ,n to crime were never discovered.
,la M 1901 arrived in Salt Lake. have
lays believed that the church of
,b ritSt should recognize the powers
SaIt pc, so when L came tn
,sc..d Lake l ran up to the
Yo-u enclosure and rang Brigham
Ststals Dell. To be sure the United
iifaIS government had a Governor in
,bon1 ouC anyone who knows ANYTHING
~ the Territory in lS66-67. knows
'eally the very 1ouns was
fKoNr OF THE POWERS THAT BE.