The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-12-17
TALKED MORMON|SM
TO BUSINESS MEN
Governor Cutters AppOintee to
Congress Forgot His Mis-
sion; Talked Religion.
JOHN HENRY SMITH
EXP0UNDS HIS VIEWS
ApOstIe Details How He Worked
the Trans-Mississippi COM
mercial Congress.

Secretary of State Elihu Root, Wnl-
liam Jennings Bryan and other Leading
men of the nation who attended the
recent session of the Transmississippl
| Commercial congress at Kansas. Clty,
| Mo. had the privilege of listening TO
APOSTLE Henry Smith, who headed the
| Utah delegation TO that congress pear
| his testimony to the truth or the ne"
and everlasting gospel OF hgi mi ny
ism as revealed by the prophet, Joseph
| Smith. o,o.o.
| were talking Of great commerclal ana
| business problems, the spokesman OF
tho Utah delegation, according 10 ms
own story related in The lapernaele
| Sunday Afternoon, seized the oPportuh'
ity TO expound to the assemoieIG no
| tables his peculiar views on rehglon.
He was appointed delegate to the
convention by Governor Cutler.
John Henry was one of the speakers
nj the Tabernacle yesterday. The occa,
sion was the quarterly conference or
the Ensign stake of Zion, ana was pre-
sided over by Stake President Richard
made by Apostle Rudger Clawsop and
Elder Junius f. Wells. The latter has
lust returned from Vermont, where Tor
n wear he has been engaged IN erecung
a monument to Joseph Smith at the
prophets birthplace.
John Henry Breaks Loose.
Apostle John Henry was the last
speaker. He referred to the tact that
he was delegate to the recent meet
ing of the TransmississiPpl congress
and that he had there borne his testl,
mony to the divinity of the MISSION and
work of the Latter-day Saints
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Christ of Latterday Saints was the
only religion which claimed the United
States as the place of It's nativity,
said the apostolic speaker. ~ pointed
out that the founder of the church,
under God was a son OF the SOIL and
that he believed in and advocated the
utmost liberty of conscience on the
part of the individual
Here Apostle Smith quoted from the
Book Of Mormon, as translated by Jo-
seph Smith. wherein the prophecy is
made that no king shall ever rule on
the American continent. He cited the
downfall of Don Pedro of Brazil and
the unsuccessful attempt of Napoleon
III to establish the Archduke Maxi
millian on a throne IN Mexico as n iul
iillment of the prophecy IN question
From this he branched of into a gen
eral dissertation to the effect that the
Mormon church believes in and per
mits individual liberty of the most ad-
vanced kind He also declared that
the Monroe doctrine was fulfi!lment
of "no king prophecy of Joseph
Smith, and sublimely ignored the fact
that the Monroe doctrine was promul-
gated before the Book of Mormon was |
given to the world
Apostle Clawson Tedious,
Apostle Rudger Clawson was the FIRST |
Is +Ia nff 10 h.
out doubt the most tiresome and ted |
ious speaker among the 26 ruling au-
thorities of the church, but yesterday |
he surprised everybody by speaking |
briefly He talked long enough, how |
ever. to let the traditional hostility of |
the Mormon church to organized labor |
creep out.
talk was that young Mormon men and |
women, in addition TO being taught |
sbook-learning, should be taught the |
domestic and mechanical arts. He re- |
lated at great detail an account of n |
dinner given in the Lion house last |
week by the pupils in the domestic |
science department at the Latter-day |
Saints University to President Joseph |
+. Smith, his counsellors and several of |
the apostles. Apostle Cawson had jot.
ted down the menu in his memorandum |
book, and read it TO the audience. 1t |
began with tomato soup and ended with
raisin pie.
"The table was waited upon by the
young ladies who cooked the dinner
said Apostle Clawson. smacking his lips, |
either in pleasant recollection of the |
eatables or of the appearance of the
young women. ''They were neatly at
tired, and ranged in age. ] should
Judge. from Is TO is years. didn t |
ask them how old they were.
After finishing his description of his
good dinner. Apostle Clawson empha-
sized the necessity of training young
men and young women to use their
hands. saying that knowledge of the
domestic and mechanical arts would |
prove especially valuable in the time
of strike.
You know we are living in an age
of labor unions he said, land when
men go on a strike people are often
ruined We should educate our young
people so that they will be independent
in case of strike. Men should be
able TO erect home for. themselves un-
der such circumstances
Junius F. Wells Heard.
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