New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-16
WOMEN OPPOSE SHOOT.
Cannot Find His Polygamous Wife,
bat VIII Fight Him.

The woman's Board OF Home Missions OF the
Presbyterian Church hello an earnest meeting yes
terdsy forenoon IN the Presbyterian Building at
which the agitation against tie seating OF Reed
smoot from Utah. IN the United States Senate
received CHIEF attention The dangers resulting
from spread ~ Mormonisrn and the need OF ex-
tending the system OF parochial Gentle schools in
Utah were urged upon an audience OF about sew
euty-hve women. A strenuous effort is 20 be made
when Congress Convenes 10 unseat Reed Sunoot, the
Mormon Senator. the woman's Christian Teuper-
ance Union and the Interdenominationsl Council
o. Women cooperating IN a campaign TO this end
II r. expected that many public meetings will
be held 10 arouse sentiment on what is
felt by the women 20 be a question Of vital i'm
portance 20 Christianity and the republic
y IND II hard 10 believe that the Kingdom OF
God VIII ever come" said Mrs j. r. Pingree the
corresponding secretary when think OF the doc
unes that are taught by the Mormons and re-
feet that there 1900 Mormon missionaries
scattered through the Eastern States alone There
hundreds Of hamlets in Utah where the gospel
~ Christ IS prea ched. Mormonisrn is in the
air. Gentle parents say. This IS dreadful place
20 bring up children in What need TO do is
20 plant parochisi schools. Florence Crittenden
missions almost. needed There are remote
villages in Utah where the inhabitants think there
Is no President except the Mormon elder
POLITICAL ORGANIZATION
"one can never talk OF Mormonism as purely a
religious organization" observed Mrs. D. F. Wade.
II
a political organization. There is nothing quite
BIKE Il. except Mahometanism Women as a
rule. DO not NEEDLE much with politics. but I was
born In State where the franchise exercised by
women and there r. no form Of politics that comes
along that do not feel a right TO NEEDLE with
] should like 20 see women NEEDLE more with the
question % Mormonism"
Mormonsm," SAID Mrs. Darwin r. James the
president as the latest up-to-date work OF Satan
There Is no religion IN Mormonisn. according 10
RIM -s ff~g,~ l.
scheme for the aggrandizement Of the royal fam
iy. The Mormon elders teach that America is
Zion the Promised Land: that the saints are
gathering here. The Canadian Steamship Company
has yearly contract TO bring Mormon converts
over Some very able men there are IN their
hierarchy but they placed where the public
cannot sec them. A friend OF mine. Gentle rode
uirty-four miles through a Mormon settlement
before he came 20 a house where he dared TO ask
Tor bowl OF bread and milk such was the dirt.
The people are ignorant, and they are kept ig-
hofant The political power OF the Mormon Church
4h the west and az Washington is astounding We
mus hsht the political power that has its grip
on Washington.
AGENTS OF MoRMoNs
The Mormons have agents at the railway sta
uon ane IN their Tabernacle to meet tourists and
give them Ideas favorable 20 the Mormon side.
Light thousand dollars has been appropriated in
sat Lake City FOR the expenses OF meeting and
entertaining tourists in the current year Even
men Ike President Eliot OF Harvard and Moody
te evangelist have been deceived Ky them. The
Nhflstans are trying 20 get money enough 10
employ q man 10 meet tourists and counteract the
lies q the Normons
II has been said that the Morrnons have made
ne desert 10 blossom like rose. They haven't
begun 70 make 4 bloom the way the Gentiles have
mace Southern California bloom
Oentles resident IN Utah live under a system
OF espionage A very fine protest against the seat
1ng q smoot IN the Senate coming from the
great elfhcglty n getting to sign H. one man
- ~ e s-sheo y sad bis signature cost him 5000
ueE won't stand by their convictions
not be berss co'iig oaInpalgn aEainst smoot vii
ms footsteps well and cannot find his polvg-
tressonsp ~ 80 IL OF ls Ieay % an oreanizatlon
oath which he must take. which pledges him TO
society Vsre 70 60 through Nex-York State teach
State would be aroused?'
DoWIEITEs AND MoRMoNs.
I resd that Dowfe is going 10 convert the Nor
mons Is there any truth in that2" asked a woman
In front seat
The &ormons are recruited from other sects;
They would die out II they were not fed with new
Diooo replied Mrs. James
Is. Is DoS1eism very much better than Mormon
lts anything bat true" paTrie6 Mrs. James
~. MSshlneton Is full OF Mormons." Continued
The country in two aud now they are going 10
l.sn. ~ Arizona and NeW-MeNico. They have
planted coloHsts there When these Territories are
more en,.ors s' ,e f5 Ih1t Mi give them
~. q taeni Mormon youth are in az the educa-
Michigan last June three prizes were Won by
il Is proposed 10 present two sets OF petitions
sgainst Smoot 20 the Senate-one 20 be signed BIZ
ne Officers 81 societies and Organizations tie other
clubwomen throughout the United States in the
is,s EN- enc ms month typewritten circular
.ns.n 20 use their influence and 70 make small