New-York tribune., 1901-03-21
TO OPPOSE MORMONS.
DR.. ELLIOTT SAYS WE ARE A BYWORD
TO OTHER COUNTRIES AS LONG
AS WE HAVE UTAH.

We are a byword other countries for sending
missionaries to foreign lands to elevate women
while We have Utah" said DR.. Sarah Elliott yes
terday at the annual meeting of the New fork
City branch of the Women's Baptist Home Mis-
sion Society held in the Madison Avenue Baptist
Church Dr. Elliott is a medical missionary in
Utah. and speaks from personal knowledge-of con-
dtions there. and her arraignment of the eS 8 was
listened to with many expressions Of surprise ana
horror.
The Mormons teach in their churches. she said
that women cannot rise from the grave until
called by their husbands and therefore, the wom-
an who is unmarried is lost. They believe in many
gods and teach that man may become god
through fatherhood: the greater number or chil-
dren he has. the higher rank.
DR.. Elliott referred to the lecture given a Few
DAYS ago by Mrs. s. V. Gates. the daughter of
Brigham Young. who is sent, she asserts, TO track
her and seek to overcome the effect of her ex-
posures OF Mormon life.
Mrs Gates avowed her belief in the theory of
plural marriages. said DIR. Elliott. 'and it is
fact that the younger women in Utah have de-
veloped into abnormal state that makes the
horror Of il powerless &c move them. IT is our
shame and deep disgrace that We have allowed
them 10 get used to il. IT is too late TO save the
present generation but the children must be res
cued. and only the proposed amendment TO the
constitution can do It. When Utah controls
thirteen States make no laws without her
consent and she is rapidly spreading her infu-
ence. Mormons have the control In two territories
and all the States surrounding Utah are influenced
by her She fears the amendment, and has sent
out two thousand missionaries to bring new voters
within her power. The Mormon church has just
bought in Wyoming enough land TO give homes 70
thirty thousand
point noted by DR.. Elliott that Mormonism
Is the only religion that gives irrigated farms to its
converts. "A new farm accompanies every new
wife she said
The speaker was in the House of Representa-
nves AT Washington when the petitions OF the
women against seating Roberts were brought in.
They reached from floor TO ceiling she said,
and in the face of such expression of public
sentiment the Representatives did not dare seat
q polygamist IN the House. II is in the power OF
the American TO abolish polygamy in the
United States, for they can do anything they reso-
lutely will 10 do
Beside the routine business the other features Of
The meeting wore DR.. Henry NJ Sanderss brief ad
dress and Miss Martha WettengePs singing of
trounods There Is a Green Hill Far Away.
A committee appointed TO arrange for all
Cay meeting and reception the Western dele
gates on their way 10 the convention of the Ma
Ional Baptist Home Mission Society, to be held at
Springfield, Mass, in May.
The entire board of officers was reelected, and
consists Of Mrs William NJ Isaacs. president: Mrs.
S. Macarthur, Mrs. II. 5. Day. Mrs. j. l..
campbell. Mrs. F. d. Simons and Mrs. Richard
Hartley. vice presidents: Mrs A. NJ Hyatt, corre
spending secretary; Miss NJ. +. Pettus, recording
secretary; Miss H. S. Littlefield, treasurer. and
Mrs. A. Carlo associate director.