The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-09
.DEN0UNCE PLAN
TO GRAB RESERVE
American Party Women Hold Mass
Meeting and Pass Resolutions.
CALL ON ROOSEVELT TO ACT
SEEK TO GET GENTILES ON UIN-
TAI TRACT.

Yesterday afternoon at a mass meet
ing of women called by the Women :
Auxiliary Of the American party, reso-
lutions denouncing the Wasatch stake
presidency and the governing body of
the Mormon church for the attitude of
both on the Uintah reservation open
ing were adopted. This resolution was
unanimously adopted after several
speeches from women who attended the
meeting.
The meeting was held in the old First
Presbyterian church, Second South and
Second East streets. IL was devoted
entirely 10 the Uintah reservation, save
toward it's end when a communication
on the Mormon question from the east
was received and attended to.
In the absence Of the president Mrs
Thomas y. Pitt Mrs A V. TAYLOR
was elected chairman of the meeting.
The reading of the report of the com
mittee chosen at the last meeting to
look into the Uintah matter and adopt
resolutions was the first thing of i'm
portance to come up. Mrs Robert
Thompson, Mrs. William S2nderson and
Mrs Lee Chamberlain constituted this
committee and the resolutions which
they offered were unanimously adopted
after several warm speeches.
Text of Resolutions.
These resolutions are:
We. loyal American citizens of Utah.
do hereby enter our earnest, emphatic
and solemn protest against the land
frauds announced by the hierarchy of
the Mormon church the opening of
the Uintah Indian reservation Utah, soon
to be had.
We call the attention of the president
OF the United States and of the secre-
tary of the interior to the same. as set
forth in the letter of the first presidency
of the Wasatch stake. and made an an
mex to this protest. In that letter this
hierarchical quorum claims to have ia
cilitles for selecting the choice land. and
connections with the land office which
will insure the obtaining of these lands
by those getting in touch with that first
presidency
We protest against this fraud. and de-
nOunce il as a clear violation of law and
encroachment upon the rights of other
American citizens We call uDOn the
president to order an investigation of
this impudent claim and fraud, and to
remove from office any official found
to be- in collision with this or any quo
rum of the Mormon hierarchy for this
purpose We ask of the secretary of the
interior that the investigation be impair
ual. searching and conclusive.
We call upon Senators SmOot and Suth-
erland and Representative Howell, as
servants of the people. to denounce this
fraud contemplated by the law-defying
hierarchs, TO bring the case to the at
teution of the proper authorities. and with
their utmost power and zeal urge an in
vestigation which shall allow no guilty
man to escape.
We call upon the patriotic law-abiding
people of the whole country to join US
In denouncing this latest hierarchic fraud
and outrage, and ask them to impOrtune
their senators and representatives to de-
mand a square deal for all intending
claimants in the opening of the lands OF
the Uintah reservation Utah
We also call upon the masses of the
Mormon people to assert their LOYALTY
To the laws. and to reDrdiate with en-
Dhasis this new scheme of the hierarchy
to entargle them in law-defying plot
and fraud against the statutes of their
country. and against an equal opportunity
FOR every eligible citizen in obtaining a
rightful claim upon proper and legal
division of these lands