Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-08-18
FALSE WITNESS
FREELY BORNE.
Supposedly Holy Men Do Not Hes
tate to SIander and MaIIgO,
LASH THEMSELVES TO FURY
mormons are Pestiferoua Ants and
Utah a place OF Goddess Homes
Worse Than Heath cndom,

The Methodist ministers in Utah. ln
session this morning again regaled
themselves upon the alleged Iuhrmlties
of the Mormon people. They put them
through no culinary PROCESS, but. rs
listener said. cate them raw"
Bishop Fowler Engaged iu the diver
sion with more spirit than any of them.
and It was while the matter OF cstab.
fishing Methodist schools in Utah was
being discussed. that be- arose and with
much feeling proceeded 90 say.
III / had The means TO conduct the
work 80 Utah would put a mission
any @ school and a deac1ness On every
town in the state. We must redeem
Utah. ~ we can get these Mormon
children 90 think. we can blow the top
of their organization. We've got TO
stir up this ants nest, Kick he top on
and capture some of the ants before
they get housed again. An awful crime
has settled down upon this territory. Il
was conceived in sin. Everything that
Is pure has been taken out OF the word
Of God. The Holy Ghost M Utah is a
travesty. IL is "a hard place, aud
great abomination. ana going TO say
something that may supplies you
Il don't believe in p1IyEamy but
polygamy is the whitest bird lu The lu-
fernal nest An the other things are
$50 much blacker that pcIygamy almost
looks white
This good man then eesayed 20 a.
Illuminate the minds OF the attentive
hearers there assembled in regard 10
the methods Of pr0selytng by the Nor
mon Elders Said hf They get
most OF their converts from the lower
classes 30 England and Wales They
go TO the stables and the Kitchens. and
preach faith repentance baptism and
the laying on of hands They tell their
victims that the Church viii pay their
way 10 Utah and provide them with
a home when they get there And they
tell about the Prophet in the valley by
the Jordan.
Even now" continued p much pref
udiced prelate. "thc endowment house
contains stacks OF notes bold against
converts who have been brought 20
Utah and if the new Mormon walks 80
as not To- offend the ward spy or the
little Bishop The debt o. forgiven him.
but N DE kicks against the hierarchy
the money Is demanded along with
many other things
METHODIST SCHOOLS IN UTAH
A number ~ the m.f tt- Dis ussed
the situation regarding the Methodist
schools In Utah. some being heartily In
favor Of receiving q large appropriation
for that purpose.
Rev. Harvey said that II was a money
proposition and although he was IN IA
vor OF establishing the schools be did
not think it was practicable
HaN H4urfehHrr .f I'lrIWwn fhNmuhf
that the people generally recognized the
fact that thte Methodist schools We're
better than the public schools and the
parents would send their children 20
them. ergo. the next generation viii be
NethOdists instead 0f "MOrm0ns' Rev.
Jayne took hold of the perpleXing ques-
ton and made the suggestion that the
Methodist teacher would have more in-
huencp over the children than the
preacher would and De or she could
arrange for meetings and hold them
with more success than II there We're no
teacher In the community. Rev Price
interposed the information that where
Mormon parents sent their children
20 a Methodist school % simply meant
that the parents Were willing no run the
risk OF the chill's faith overcoming or
withstandluE the spiritual influence n
the Methodist. he further stated that
nearly every young Mormon who was
particularly bright and energetic. and
the most ingenious iu denounclng the
Christian seCts was educated at the
Methodist schools
Rev Henry said also that IN some
places the public schools were domn-
ated by the Mormon church.
Judge Boreman of ogden said that
the reason that the Methodist schools
were closed years ago IN Utah, was