The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-18
SAYS UTAH IS CURSED
and BL|CHTED STATE
Fierce InYectiVe Hurled Against the Latter.da
Saints BY Bishop Fowler.
Nearer the Mouth of Hell than Any Other Place on Earth
DR.. King on Roberts Case.

and Sewer valleys. DR.. Tiff paid A high
tribute to the work being done by the
women in the irrepressible cOnaict
going on in Utah. He had seen the
monument to Lord Nelson in trafalgar
square; he mad seen the monument to
/ Napoleon in Paris: he had seen the
/ Bunker Hill monument; he had seen
, the Washington monument in the na-
| tons capital, but as for him he would
rather have part in the building of the
monument of character that the good
/ women were building than all the
| others; . monument that would live
long after the Others had crumbled into
dust.
Bishop Fowler's Address.
Bishop Fowler was introduced as one
who ought to know all about the Home
! Mission society. He said he did NOT
know why he should know all about it
unless some of the women knew all
| about II and had been talking. He was
IN Utah eighteen years ago when the
| work was beginning. He was in Salt
Lake thirty years ago. and in a loft
/ over livery stable offered the first
! prayer ever offered in Utah for the mis-
sionary societies of the Methodist
] church
! The women of the Home Missionary
society in Utah." said Dr. Fowler.
have right to demand a great deal
! OF the church in the work they are
| doing here They are fighting a sys-
| tenn that was founded upon a falsehOOd
and that is fOstered in vice: a system
| that must be overcome. In Illinois
/ MormOnism had the balance of power
! between the two political parties and
| they secured anything they wanted. No
| Otncer of the law could go into NauvOo
| for offenders against the law.
This continued until the outraged
people arose and committed that awful
murder by means of a mob. have been
in Wyoming and find the MOrmOns
spreading over that state; there are
many of them in New Mexico. and il
things keep on as they are now going,
there viii be before twenty-five years a
larger territory cursed and blighted
with MOrmOnism than was touched by
slavery before the war And unless the
churches put men, money and energy
into the field against this evil the COM
ing generations win have a problem on
their hands that they cannot easily
master"
Near the Mouth of Hell.
Continuing Bishop Fowler said: "The
hardest problem 10 De found anywhere
in the mission field is to be found right
here l believe that Utah is nearer
the mouth of hell than any other place
on the earth. I said that once before,
and I repeat il now; still there is a bet
ter outlook here now than I ever eX-
pected to see Taking into cOnsidera-
ton the conditions, there is no better
growth anywhere There are vigorous
MethOdiSts here who seem 10 be deter
mined to conquer or die. There should
be Gentle or Christian schools all over
the state; there should Be twenty hOspi-
Z I'll.
the church Of Christ should win over all
opposition.
4 am not a phOphet," continued the
speaker, but l passed that metal i'm
age up town of him who claimed To be
prophet, and l believe / am just as
much a prophet as he was. and I pro-
phesy now that we viii surely conquer
in this territory Ladies, 1 will tell you
a secret: the best powder, that viii
burn the quickest, and blow no the
hardest, is the work that is being done
right here in Utah"
Missions In Utah.
Bishop Fowler was several times ap-
plauded in the course Of his remarks.
When he closed Mrs. Potter introduced
to the audience the wives of Bishop
Fowler and DR.. King. VINO occupied
seats on the platform After this Mrs.
Potter addressed the meeting at some
length on the work that IS being done
by the society not only in Utah but all
over the country. In Utah missions
have been established at Ephraim. LO-
gan, MOrOni, Mt. Pleasant. Provo and
other points. and schools were being
started wherever possible. The rescue
work that is being done in the large
cities was explained and the difficulties
TO be overcome were set forth.
DIR n X Carroll Of New Work 6nliy-
cred an interesting lecture on Porto
Rico in the Tiff Methodist church last
evening. Last October Dr. Carroll was
appointed BY President Mckinley a
special commissioner TO visit Porto RIGA
and look into the conditions of the
island and her people. He went down
in October, and aside from the time
consumed in one trip TO Washington,
was on the island until April. His lee
ture was a plain recital Of some of his
experiences while there.
Talks of Porto Rico.
After describing the island, Dr. Car
roll said that he did not experience as
hot a night as last night during his
stay there; 80 degrees was as high as
the mercury goes, and there Is always
a cool breeze When it gets hot the
people go inland instead Of going out 10
sea. Coffee and sugar are the best
crops: the farming is very primitive.
very much as ii was on the island 300
years ago. He saw a fire alarm sent IN
al one place; the fire department came
out, but the first thing done was 10 line
the firemen up by the chief and call the
roll and mark those present and those
absent
There are no wharves anywhere on
the island. although the commerce IS
great, and the doctor went ashore on
the back of one Of the bOatmen- The
roads are horrible: when he Travelled
in the country he got out and walked
TO rest himself. and when he got rested
he got in and rode again Al some
seasons of the year oxen and horses
are actually drowned in the mud
There IS 10 race hatred there, ana
the cOlOred men are the best artisans
A committee Of eleven labor represent
atives called upon him; nine or JneIn
were cOlored men; they read, wrote ana
spoke well. There is bitter teeIing De
tween the natives and the SDanlafus
because of the abuses heaped upon the
people by the. men sent TO the Island
by the Spanish government
Americans Are Welcomed.
Americans. DR.. Carroll said, were
welcomed everywhere, and the people
were anxious TO secure American lnstl-
tutiOns, American laws, schools ana
ways OF doing business The people
are industrious, active and lntelASSnt-
Their besetting sin is gambling ne
was IN one city during a church festiNdl
and everybody seemed TO be gampilhS'