The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-30
PRESIDENT ELIOT.
His Comparison Between the Mormon and
Puritan COlonists.

Puritan COlonists.
In an interview with a San Francisco
paper President Eliot commented on his
speech delivered in Salt Lake city as fol-
lows:
Mrs. Eliot and were guests Of the Mormon
BOARD OF education in Salt Lake city. After |
mad been about seven hours in the CITY | at
tended meeting in the temple and delivered
an address upon Religious Liberty before 900
people,
Il described the religious liberty given to all
denominations IN Massachusetts, and said that
these religious liberties should be just as pre-
clous ard as much respected IN other states and
territories as In Massachusetts.
The only comparison [ made between the
early Mormons and the Pilgrim Fathers was in
relation to the dauntless spirit displayed by the
latter in crossing The Atlantic to found COLONY
where their religious ordinances would be I'M
m Tested, and the hardships endured by the
Mormons IN crossing the plains for similar
purpose.
1T would be absurd to talk of religious lib
erty IN connection with the early settlement of
the Pilgrim Fathers, because religious liberty
was not permitted, and neither Quakers nor
BaptlSts were tolerated nor were allowed to re-
side IN the colony. would not have been per-
m1tted to exist in New England in those DAYS
because am Unitarian.
And do not see, continued President Eliot,
why religious liberty should be denied to the
Mormons. L understand that not ont. in eleven
was poiygam0us, and now they have not only
prohibited polysamy, but have made 1t a crime
believe that the Mormon church was sincere
in its abandonment of polygamy, and that it's
members vii make good citizens
Il contend, therefore. that the Mormons stand
in precisely the same position under the law as
those who worship according to any other faith.
The only article of their creed which constituted
violation of the law was the doctrine of polyg
amy ana as they have rea ounced it they should
be placed upon the same footing as the mem
bers OF any other denomination.
yvpr arN.n in fI1
Utah, and started enterprises which eastern
capital has since acquired and developed. They
are sober and Industrious and are anxious to
give their children the benefits of q higher edu-
cation
rs there Mormon colony at Harvard?n Dr.
Eliot was asked.
There are in the university, the law college
and in preparatory schools altogether ten
Mormon students, " was the re: ly.
They live together, but they are not colonists
in the sense of propagating Mormon doctrines
or endeayor'ng to secure proselytes. They are
good students, but DO not differ greatly from
other young men in their habits and customs.
The students have no religious observances al
the university"
Editor HEKALD-I notice that q Metho-
dist assistant preacher in this city rushes
into print to endorse the cheap abuse OF
President Eliot by your contemporary |
imagine If President Eliot mad not opened
his mouth at all. that assistant preacher
would have been just as ready to endorse
any abuse that may have been heaped upon
him. President Eliot is an lutheran, the
head of an Unitarian college, and his son
Samuel started the Unitarian church in
this city. There is an irrepressible con-
fiict between Unitarianism and Orthodox
and as Unitarianism is in the ascendoncy-
not as an organized force but as diffuse
power-the animus OF the aforesaid assist
ant preacher may well be understood.
Still, think, 1T Is not decent. Do you?
b. M. r.