, 1886-03-28
BISHOP FUTILE.
The Eminent Divine Discourses
EIoquentIy on "Mormonism."
And Also Gives His Audience
Recitations From Burns.


There was a large audience at the opera
house last evening to hear the eloquent
Bishop Tuttle, Of Utah, in his great lee
ture on "Mormonism. Rev. George G.
Rafter, of st. Marks Episcopal church,
introduced the orator of the evening, who
was received with a storm of applause.
The prelude and first subdivision Of the
lecture was devoted to a consideration of
the Mormon question in a general way,
after which Bishop futile entered into a
discussion Of the moral and Intellectual
standing of the Mormon men and women.
OF the Mormon women. the bishop did
not. and said he could not, speak in very
high terms so far as their intelligence was
concerned. As a class they were not in
telligent, not as intelligent as the men, in
tact; and not very much could be said for
item. The men we're divided into two
classes Those who were smart and intel
ligent were cranky, in fact cranks-and
right at hat point the speaker said he
wished to impress upon the miDds of his
audience hat there were a great many
very smart men who were cranks-cranks
in some respects at least, The kind al
luded 10 constituted one class OF the Nor
mon men, and the other class was the
ignorant men. The smart men are cranky
and those who were uncranky we're ignor.
ant. Among the Mormon men, however,
he had many friends, and be would be
dishonest did he not frankly state hat for
nineteen years be had been treated by
them in a kin l and courteous manner and
had endeavored to reciprocate.
How it was with the Mormon women he
could not speak so advisedly, for Mrs.
futile did not permit him to investigate
matters pertaining to them very much.
Laughter.
There was one thing, however, which
he desired to say of the Mormons as a
class-as a body of people. If you
mingle with them and converse with them
you get something in return for it which
you do not have. You have the bible
and know it, but if you mingle with them
you get not only their bible and their
book Of evangelism THAT is, you get the
thoughts, ideas aud doctrines their books
contain. Referring to the political phase
Of the Mormon question, the bishop as
serted that they were essentially destroyed.
They can not be otherwise. The great
thing with them is the church. The
state is swallowed up by the church, and
that being the case, the Mormons have
no use for a flag. They follow the leader
ship OF their prophets and leaders, and
those men have no use for any authorities
higher than the creeds and the tenets
that are read and proclaimed in the taber
nacle.
OF polygamy the speaker said that it
was not in reality one Of the doctrines
and beliefs of the Mormon church, al
though it is now believed in and upheld
by them as a class. Still there are but
few polygamists, comparatively speaking,
among the Mormons-probably not to
exceed one in seven. He did not, how
ever. believe in the individual tyrannical
exercise Of federal power in dealing with
the Mormon question, and it would be
better, if the laws are obeyed, to let the
Mormon problem be solved through
moral influences than in any other way.
The true remedy he believed, would be
to inspire an opposition to the Mormon
creeds and doctrines among the young
men of Utah, and eventually the power
of the church would be overthrow.
1t is impossible in a mere synopsisto do
justice to this most brilliant and eloquent
lecture, and although there was nothing
new suggested by the bishop in reference
to the solution of the Mormon problem,
yet the subject was so brilliantly handled
that it seemed new. At the conclusion
of the lecture upon Mormonism the
bishop most highly entertained the audi
ence for some time with a review Of the
life of Robert Burns the poet, and in so
doing quoted from or rather recited many
Of his tavorite poems. Burns he said
never began to write poetry until he fell
in love. and after he once fell in love he
was always in that condition, in love with
some woman, single OF married. and this
love of the fair sex was his inspiration
and what made of him the greatest poet
of his time.