The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-02
EDITORS GLANCE
AT SALT LAKE
Visit Lasts Only Six Hours. But They
See Many Points of Interest.
ENJOY FLOAT IN BRINY SEA
HEAR MUSIC AND SPEECHES AT
THE TABERNACLE.

l5TWAS a newspaper bunch, all right,
that struck Salt Lake City yes
terday afternoon and pulled out
at 100 o'clock last night. after sec
/ ing every available point of in
terest- Any one could have told
| that after hearing the rapid man
ner in which the 25O members of the
National Editorial association poured
/ out questions during their brief stay.
They We're here to see the latter-day
| Zion. ana Incidentally exercise their
Cse-for-news-instinct by learning all
a bout the past, present and prospects
of Salt Lake City and Utah President
John DymOnd was not with the party,
having CarTied at Portland.
The special train of nine coaches car
rying the editors and their wives ar
rived over the Oregon Short Line about
l:5O D. m. six hours Iate. The mem
! bers Of the party were met at Ogden by
David p Felt, president of the Utah
Press association
The hardness Of the special made. II
necessary for the newspaper writer's TO
foTegO the luncheon which had been
arranged at the Kenyon, and the Wis
/ itOrS We're taken at once 20 the lake.
Arriving there at 2:30 O'Clock the mem
| bers of the party. with scarcely an ex-
cepuon. proceeded to get Intimately
acquainted with the inland sea
And If words are to be taken literal
~ they found i'm the briny dip one of
the most enjoyab bic features Of their
entire trip of three weeks
This is the best yet" was the un-
challenged verdict
Their pleasure was. OF course. tiuEed
at times with sorrow as some salty
| splash found its way TO eye or mouth
But the visitors were there and all
/ regretted the necessity of taking the
/ p m train to Salt Lake About forty
/ OF the editors. many of them With
/ their wives, tarried i'm the lake until It
| was too late for them to catch the
o'clock train. consequently thex missed
/ the organ recital later i'm the afternoon.
Hear Music and Speeches.
The editors were taken at once from
/ the depot TO the tabernacle. where Or
ganlst J J Mcclellan gave "A special
/ recital, beginning at , D. IN. Following
| a forty-minute programme were
| speeches by William A. AShbrook of
| Johnston, O., corresponding secretary
! of the national association. APOSTLE
/ Charles w PenrOse l. = Stringer OF
| Illinois Democratic candidate for gov
ernor of Illinois in the recent election.
/ Apostle John Henry Smith and David
/ p. Felt.
! The addresses of the visitors reflect
: ed the pleasure which they felt as
! guests Of Salt Lake City The ad-
I dresses Of the church officials who
We're at least twice referred to as req
/ resentinS the state Of Utah. had for
4 their purpose the welcoming OF the us
| ltorS to the city and for their primary
purpose the enlightenment" of the
! knights of the Quill so that in the fu-
( ture they might know how to sling
! ink when settling the Mormon prob
/ lem
/ In case the writer's 1T least. those
! VINO grace the we page follow Ed
/ itor PenrOse's request. something like
( zOO papers. covering twice that number
I or counties in the east and south viii
ShOruN proclaim that there Is no no
/ lygamy practiced in Utah and that
where poiySamy is practiced in Utah
: It's deVOtees are a few OId-timerS who
! are living up TO the letter of their
/ promise to congress.
! During the course of his address
Apostle PenrOse greeted the editors as
| fellow members Of a great fraternity
| He was glad that they We're on the spot
/ 10 see for themselves and trusted that
/ they were not inclined to believe any
/ rumors that might reach their ears.
/ The speaker said he understood there
/ had been rumOrs of a diSSensiOn be
/ tween certain factions in Utah but
! he stated he did not give il credenCe
/ because 1t takes two sides to make a
1 fight and the church has no fight on
Denies Plural Marriages.
This dissension. which did not exist,
might have been caused by a certain
I ObJectiOna Bile feature" of the Mormon
! religion were il not for the fact that
those of our belief quietly and as
gracefully as possible have submitted
/ to the government requests"
What I say is true-it is a positive
/ fact that this feature has not been
practiced since 1890 when the promise
] was given to cease contracting plural
I marriages. To that much we pledged
! ourselves and no more
Editor PenrOse formally offered and
/ gave his word OF honor that what he
| had testified to was the truth. In con-
/ Guiding he expressed the hope that
( whatever the editors might write re-
garding Utah and Salt Lake would be
| in a spirit of fairness and based on in
1 formation which they had received
1 during their stay here.
L Z. Stringer paid a high tribute to
/ Utah. the state. and to the pioneers
I VINO had the haTdihOOd to settle in the
| once desert valley
Apostle John Henry Smith extended
| welcome to the .Latter-day Zion. He
! though that members of press assOcia-
/ tions were generally cOnversant with
| conditions throughout the United States
/ and therefore thought they could see
| and hear and examine local conditions
/ intelligentIy He asked the visitors TO
I remember that then fiag was Utah's
| flag and that Utahns were their friends
! Following the programme of music
/ and speaking at the tabernacle the
visiting editors were taken about the
! city in Seeing Salt Lake cars.
/ The trip was necessarily shortened
/ consuming about one hour. from un-
! til d. m. The National Editorial
/ special pulled out eastward over the
4 Rio Grande Western at 7:30 o'clock
/ last night.