New-York tribune., 1901-03-25
FACTS ABOUT HORIZONS.
| MRS. DARWIN r. JAMES ANSWERS SUSIE
YOUNG GATES's STATEMENTS.
To the Editor of The Tribune:

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: So many protests have come to concern
ing the statements made by Susie Young Gates in
an article published in The Tribune March Is.
that l forced a reply. In the first place.
David Evans not the father of the Evans bill;
he is not Mormon, and took part in framing
the bill The bill fathered by Abel John Evans,
a good Mormon, who would never have introduced
the bill If it had been Objectionable the Mormons.
III 1t were bluff, Susie Young Gates would
have believe would the Governor have said that
no official act of my life has been approached by
me with sense of responsibility so profound? No.
Governor Heber NJ. Wells had his to the
ground" and the indignation of loyal Americans
sounded the alarm. He reveals the occasion of his
fear when he says in his reasons for vetoing the
bill. Furthermore. have every reason to believe
its would he the signal for a general de-
mand upon the national Congress for a consttu-
tional amendment"
Concerning the loyalty of the Mormon people, we
well remember when. after the Mountain Meadow
massacre in 1851 the President of the United States
removed Brigham Young from being Governor Of
Utah. and appointed law abiding citizen of Geor-
gia named Cummings to that office. The Mormons
had to be coerced into loyalty by an army under
General Sydney Johnston They were loyal fast
enough when the guns We're pointed at them from
Fort Douglass! Susie Young Gates is proud of the
record of our brave boys of the Utah Battery at
Manila. She may know that nearly two-thirds
OF that battery were non-Mormons, and that that
per cent is immense in a State where the Mormons
claim to have from two-thrds three-fourths Of
the entire population I knew some of those brave
boys. and they would be indignant to be classed as
Mormons. In the great Mormon Tabernacle on
April 24 1898 Brigham Young jr.. brother of Susie
Young Gates. said: 'It is wrong for to send our
young to Cuba to fight In the present conflict
perish than volunteers from almost any other part
OF our country" Lastly, the statement that at
Provo, where Mrs. Gates she lives, she found
just two polygamous families out of a population
of Provo, she says. ut Is much easier TO
make ones observations of a community fit in with
ones prejudices and preconceptions," and she did
not probably wish to find larger number; for a
thinks the number Is nearer a hundred than two.
Mrs Gates admits that ''in the old days" only
about per cent of the Mormons poygamists:
this percentage would be large that among
the population Of Turkey to-day. Moreover. we
have In our land nineteenth century revelation
inculcatng polygamy by divine command!
Susie Young Gates Is Editor of "The Young
Ladies Journal" official organ OF the Young
Ladies Mutual Improvement Association (the Nor
mon Young Womcn's Christian Assocfation) In an
ment Association conference in Mammoth last year
she said: Girls. do not forget polygamy; you
cannot practice IL now. out keep II alive in your
hearts. Remember there four girls TO every
excess. We were deceived by the Mormons when
Statehood sought: let us not be deceived
again. but put end to the irrepressble conflict
which has been going on for~nearly half a century
amy. Let us have peace by compelling the dis
turbers OF peace to obey the common law Of all
Christendom Yours truly MARY F. JAMES
The Irterdcnomina tional Council OF Women for
Christian and Patriotic Service No i5s Fifth
ave. NewYork City.
March o.