Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-05-16
MEAK|N FOR THE
BEEHIVE STATE.
Salt Lake City Man Tells Missouri
Newspaper Of utah's Ad.
yancement
PEOPLE ARE misunderstood.
Their Schools and Nusle--EStInctlon
OF Poypamy Plainly In Vew-A
New and Strong Life,

John T.. MoakIn, lecturer and drama
tic reader, II n guest for few days Of
Colonel l. NJ Pepper, CO West soyon-
teenth street Mr., Meakln lives In Salt
Lake CITY Utah, lie has been resi-
dent Of that state since 1860, lie says
Utah IL u much misunderstood state
"'fho whole state fad he, lB un.
folding bursting M IL were, with now
NE A moro Industrious people cannot
BE- found anywhere than In Utah, The
population " growing rapidly Many
new industries aud cntcrprisen are be.
INK launched, the beet sugar industry
N proying a blessing for The state,
There exists n healthy public school
sentiment from one end VI the state TO
the other This sentiment has round
substantial expression IN the orecllons
or school buildings Of the most highly
approved sanitary plans and Hrchilcc.
tufal Designs ana IN the payment ~
salaries sufficiently rcmunorNiye 20
secure teaching force ~ EXCEPTIONAL
spared, nor means Withheld which
would contribute 10 the proper oduoa.
ton Of the children, The school prop-
cry OF Salt Lake Clty II valued at
moro Than $4,000 Az tho city has u
school population of about 1900, II
may be noted that nearly 800 II stand
Ink ~ school investment for every
child " school age Utah N only three
rounds from the top OF the ladder IN IN
tellIgcnco and learning,
a GREAT MUSICAL CENTER,
1--WE are community OF singers,
1haYA "a In lhp uIuIp 4 nm ghpIYu
Each choir numbers from % TO 30 In
wards, The Tabernacle choir IN Salt
Lake CITY, numbers 500, We have a
fine symphony orchestra IN Salt Lake
which gives but four concerts year
and numbers but 10 men, but N IL u
fast growing factor In our music, More
good music can be heard FREQ IN salt
Lake than IN any other city IN Amorl-
ca, recltns being given almost daily
I'm tho tabernacle for travellers, tho
great choir singing three sundays IN
the month,
Tho question Of polygamy In Utah
II rlghtIng Itself In an honorable ana
humane way, Tho obligations the CONE
plIcations Of home affairs can only be
understood by people who think and
Investigate for themselves " there
were more OF the latter Utah's troubles
NnNlu NV llAhf llIlN' ~ wv N''ul
Of HE, The old order Of things ls
passing away, No class of people
could have rightod the mistakes OF the
past IN Il better and quicker way than
the Mormon people have done and are
doing Tho religious honesty OF the
people must be taken into consldora-
ton,
ROOFING OUT ToLYdAMY,
Tho lives Of the people Involved IN
this plural marriage system that pre-
vailed In Utah for well nigh two gene
oralons are for the most part fallen
into the scar and yellow leaf The few
others are well advanced IN middle life,
They form class rapidly hnstonlng 10
extinction ls II worth while to intor-
fcro with those who remain The
fountain Of the oyl II dried up-pmral
marriages are forever interdloted by
the state they have been discontinued
by official proclamation Of the church,
May not the streams which started
from that fountain, now dry, be allow
cd 90 lose themselves In the boundlcss
desert Of fast Fastening time without
| Interference ON the part OF the Chris
tian or other people Of this l0nd7
TN my estimation an attempt TO OBJ
lltornto tho p0lygamous relationship at
one stroke would be unreasonable, uns
American ana unmorclful A good man
cannot desert a good wife and their
children,"--k0nsas city star,