The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-11-23
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MoRMoNs EXCITE DENVER.
Denounced In UNCONVENTIONAL Pull
nits-TeIler Defends Them.

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Now that PROSECUTING by the elders
of the Mormon church has become ac-
tive in Colorado, the denominatiohal
clergymen are up in arms and discuss
ing the tenets of Latter-day faith with
considerable vigor. on Sunday last
several of Denver's divines preached
on the subject. and several others sub
mitted to interviews on the question:
is Mormonism a Menace to the
State?"
The Denver News contains state
ments from Miss Fanny Woolley and
Miss Lucy Grant, who are now labor
ing as miss onaries in Denver as ven
as from Joseph A. McRae, president OF
the Colorado mission, another from
Senator Teller.
The young ladies mentioned have, &C
cording to their story, had pretty
hard row to hoe. Miss Woolley said:
Why, some of them treat us as Il
we were not Christians at all. Doors
are slammed in our faces and many
unkind things are said to us by people
who do not know anything about )ur
faith. They have strange ideas, we
find, about us, and often we will not
be allowed inside more than one Or
two houses in all our days work. We
do not go out like the elders without
script or purse. but have our own
room and enough money to supply All
our needs We are not dependent, and
do not ask for food and shelter bn5
that makes no difference, they VII
sometimes treat us in the most insult
ing manner"
In marked contrast to the utterauces
of the clergymen, Senator Teller paid
the Mormon people a compliment. rs
follows:
L have no fears of the Mormons
The newspapers and the railroads have
settled the Mormon question.
I'm the United States senate we have
no Mormon senators from Utah On
the CONTRARY, one of the Utah senators
is a Catholic. He was the last senator
elected from Utah.
There is no more danger from re-
ligious dictation from the Mormon
church than from any other church.
"All the churches aim to dictate to
their members as to politics. but no
great harm results as far as l can see.
L believe the practice of pOlygamy
is abandoned in Utah, and the people
are an enterprising, Industrious people,
VINO are advancing in education and in
fortune under good laws. They are
loyal to the government, as was shown
in the Spanish war, and although it has
been claimed in the east that the Nor
mons have gained political control of
Colorado, 1 have never noticed it to
be a fact"
B. B. Tyler, pastor of the South
Broadway Christian church, took up
the temporal side of Mormonism, par
ticularly as it related to their political
aspirations, and closed by saying:
"Tammany has suffered defeat. but
Tammany is neither dead nor dying.
Roberts failed to obtain his seat in the
house of representatives. but this is
not the end of Mormonism as a pOliti-
cal power. In the sta .es and territories
where it is putting in its best work
and having its greatest success, a small
number of men can hold in their hands
the balance of power. The time is not
far distant when in a half dozen states
the Mormons will be able to dictate the
election of United States senators. Do
YOU think they will not do so when
they can? Then you are not as smart
as 1 thought you were
Bruce Brown of the Central Christian
church thought there was little to be
gained in critfcising the Mormons, and
they could do little harm in Denver.