The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-22
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the situation in Utah which did SER
vice for a certain class before the
changed conditions, should still be
swallowed by people in the east who
claim to be intelligent and are sup
posed to know something Of current
events. 1t is also lamentable that
persons protesting to be religious
should try to palm off as veritable
facts the kind of fiction dealt out at
a recent assembly in Pittsburg.
The Dispatch of that city devotes
considerable space TO particulars of
meeting in the First Presbyterian
Church, of the Woman's Executive
Committee of Home Missions. Among
the speakers was Mrs. w. r. Camp
bell, of Mendon, Utah. and her remarks
are given very fully, as follows:
During the past year." said Mrs.
Campbell, I'VE have had much to
cneer and encourage US, and at the
same time more to cause anxiety and
apprehension for the future welfare Of
our Christian work in Utah than at
any time for the past ten years. The
attendance upon our mission day
schools and Sabbath schools has in
! creased-in some places largely. There
mas also been a great Improvement in
/ the interest and attendance upon the
! regular preaching services in many
places; and in some fields there have
been hopeful and cheering revivals.
In our own little field in Mendon, we
nave had some hopeful conversions.
Were it not for the black over
| hanging cloud of Mormon statehood
our hearts would be full of hopeful
ness and assurance of immediate and
! great results, but statehood will for
the time being at least work great dis
aster to our cause in various ways.
First, the near approach of state
hood is making many people cautious
and fearful who have been brave and
| fearless in the past. During the last
few months many who have hitherto
sent their children to our schools, and
who have even themselves been in the
habit of attending our religious SER
vices, have been overtaken with a
strange feeling that they must with
draw from us now that statehood IS
assured. They seem to feel, even if
| they cannot tell exactly why, that it
will not be safe for them to ignore the
wishes of the Mormon priesthood
when once the new state is fully or
ganized.
''Second-Many of the non-Mormons
in our northern settlements are pre-
pairing to move out just as soon as
they can dispose of their property and
get away. The reason they give is
that there will be no freedom in Utah
under statehood; that it has been hard
enough to live there in the past under
persecution, when it was possible to
secure some redress from non-MormOn
lawmakers, governors and courts; and
that now when all the legislative,
executive and judicial officers will be
elected by Mormon votes, justice will
no longer be possible to those who
are out of harmony with the Mormon
church and its practices. If this feel
ing should be general throughout
Utah, as I doubt not that it is. since
I know it is in many places, our work
in the settlements will be deprived OF
a good portion of even the little local
sympathy and support which we have
enjoyed in the past.
''Third-Already the two state edu-
cational institutions have fallen into
the hands Of the Mormons. Governor
West, no doubt to secure for himself
political preferment in the new state,
has recognized the boards of trustees
of the Utah University and of the
Utah Agricultural College so as to
make the majority of the trustees of
both institutions either MormonS or
subservient tools of the Mormon
priesthood, notwithstanding the fact
that the latter institution is supported
by appropriations made by the ma
tional Congress, with the specific leg
islative provision that the school is to
be forever kept free from sectarian
control and influence.
This means that for the time be-
ing all state education will be essen
TALLY Mormon, as very soon all the
teachers in these institutions will be
Mormons without special regard to any
other qualifications.
Fourth-The woman suffrage clause
in the new constitution which has
Just been completed in Salt Lake city
will give Salt Lake city and Ogden,
as well as all the other towns of the
state, into the hands OF the Mormons,
so that for some time to come all the
public schools in Utah will be prac-
tically under Mormon control. This
will leave our Christian Mission
schools alone to advance the cause of
American as well as of Christian edu-
cation in Utah.
F'ifth-Polygamy which has never
been abandoned, nor even abated in
practice, notwithstanding all false re-
ports and pretensions, is today more
boldly and more boastfully practiced
in the small settlements than ever
since 1886, and because of this the
United States government and Chris
tan civilization are far less respected
by the Mormon people now than when
the anti-polygamy laws were thor
oughly executed. We are, therefore.
now deprived of the moral influence
OF righteous laws properly executed.
Slxth-Finally. and most important
OF all, we are beginning to feel that
the false reports that are coming east
through the political and subsidized
press are having the effect Of depriv-
ing us of much of the moral support
Che prayers of Christian men and
women of the church which we used
to have and to feel so much uplift |
from in our work
IF you believe, as is often now re-
ported, that Utah is practically Amer |
icanized and Christianized, of course |
you viii not feel that we need to be |
prayed for as much as you used to |
do, and this will be the greatest dis |
aSter of all.
THE missionaries of Utah VIII stay
there, and die at their posts, if need |
be, but L want to tell you that some
day the eyes of the people of this ma
ton will be opened.
THE Mormons do not have the bal
ance of power in six of our states for
nothing. They mean to hold and keep
the balance of power in our National
Congress and they mean to use that
power for their own ends in the fu-
ture as they have in the past"
Readers of The Herald will perhaps