Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-08-21
So Says Pastor Whose DiurnaI
And Nocturnal LOCquaCity
Never Ceases.
THE DIFFERENT EXPERIMENTS
one should BE. lie says. The Naming
OF Incnt,-iiNc Knockers TO Fol-
low Mormon Elders over Country.

I'.t n. D.. 'itIIDieuI li Logan Ice
/ tured last evening Boo the FIRST Presby-
terrain church on "The solution Of the
Mromon Question" before the Teach
b sis association now .u annual conveu-
lion boo this city The speaker. ln OPEN
ms. said that as 90 being a renegade.
bee felt obliged TO state that his father
and mother were renegades ln the same
sense, in that they abandoned the
church and faith OF their fathers Boo
the early sixties 10 embrace Mormon
ism and cast their lot with the latter
day Saints He said that u his youth
he had tried IN every way 20 find an
excuse for remaining in the Mormon
Church which his parents had eubrdc-
ed; but he could not, and had in .onse-
Quence left Il.
MANY DIFFICULTIES.
Mr. Clemensou said there are many
difficulties Involved in the solution OF
the problem, the greatest being that IL
is religious problem. as the Consti-
tuition accords 20 every citizen the right
,o worship according 20 the dictates OF
his own conscience Another obstacle
Is that an attempts az solution are met
with resistance from @ vigilaut foe. al
ways wide awake and ready to repei
attack 0r fortify itself against IWerfer.
ence And here the speaker said be
used the word zoe in the same sense
hat one political party uses 10 iu refer
ring 90 the opposite party a third dif-
dculty is the characteristic desire on
The part OF the American people for fair
play. and not 90 allow any ones right
to De imposed upon Moreover. the pe0-
pie of this country are not Wen inform-
I'd as 90 actual conditions in this sec
ton.
SEES PROGRESS
However. the speaker held ,ha. great
progress had been made iu face Of an
opposition he said the establishment
o, the Christian mission school in this
territory was the entering wedge which.
by the intrinsic excellence of It's system
ot instruction compelled a correspond
ING Improvement and raising OF stand
ards ON the part Of the Mormon schools
until today Titan has the American
public school thoroughly engraited up
ON It's educational system Mr. Glenn.
euson said he could we'll remember
when there was uo Christian church
Boo Utah. when anyone wanting 90 90 -
church must attend some Mormon
Church meetin ghouse Now there are
~ Presbyterian churches 900 the state,
10 say nothing OF the churches OF 9TH
er denominations
WANTS MORE LIGHT.
The speaker wanted light turned In
ON the situation that the public 40 large
might know just how things were here
He described a funeral ne attended OF
a man who was only recently prOmi-
nent in the affairs Of this state. and
said that on either side OF the caskes
were four chairs Boo which were seated
the mans eight wives. while A. children
were lined up I'm front, and al the rear
were some 200 descendants The lee
turer also told OF his recent visit TO the
Hill Cumorah four miles from Palmy-
IA. y. Y. he found the people there
persistent in calling II Mormon HILL
and when he tried % Instruct them that
"Cumorah' was the proper term, he
found them entirely obduratc Mr.
Clemenson hired a conveyance 20 take
him up 90 the hill which he described
as a "hogback' with a clump OF trees
ON top he climbed the ridge and sat
Own 20 think but the driver ~ the rig
was evidently Goo a hurry TO get back,
and interrupted his reveries
Mr. Clemenson found the man ignor.
ant of the narrative OF the finding ~
the plates. and their final recovery by
the angels after Joseph Smith had
translated them But the man finally
said he believed h. had heard Of the
angels and that they took back with
them the hole from which the plates
had been dug as well as the plates
themselves.
DOESN'T LIKE PEET
The speaker paid his respects 20 V.
: Poet. who he described as going
about Offering 81 900 90 anyone who
would show that there had been a poly
eamous marriage since The manifesto.
when the man had no bank account.
and claimed that President Smith had
called the blum himself In deposiug two
apostles for plural marriage since the
manifesto. Re also claimed that the
Of a Utah stake had told him
that he had. from motives OF conscience /
and because De considered % his duty,
taken a plural wife and one az his
iNNINNfINNIN |'HN NNAIf AHiN 0ANtf' N.''.H-f
Here were four cases Tor Nj Peet 20 I
consider But the lecturer hcli ,hat .
things were moving. even in this lircc- .
lion far even the Deseret News. he .
said. denied plural marriage. and Nov .
mons ail over ihe country were deny .
.ng &c. -
DIFFERENT ENPEDIENTS
The different eN1edionts and methods
'or the solution uf the s0-UslIe1 Mormon
question were discussed hy thG speaker. .
He said one OF the means proposed WAS
.o eVpsN fhe people from The United .
states. ana drive them over into NcNi. /.
.o. This Do said would not DO an all.
ana would be- Cd confession of weakness
ln tho Hart 90 Uncle sam In dr. ing
he Mormon people over into iha ierrl-
ory ~ weaker nation Tor treatment
here Then besides the M1rmons tal
BE- much ulht n This country as dry-
inc else Then commercial them
bad been proposed. bat This wouldn't
40. as they bad already oommcrDIanztd
themselves. and were driving others
,ut n has also been proposed Oh ir-
reduce national politics into this state
% such am extent ar Ca divide the Nor ]
non people among themselves But /
his. Del predicted would end iu failure. /
fct another device Is legislation. AS
v.denced by the action ~ Tho New
'ork legislature last winter which .
asssd joint resolution calling on tho
fhCr states fo. cooperation iu sccur-
lg o. constitutional amendment pro- I
ibifiuc Y1lygamy in the United states
me Iowa legislature Immediately T
dopte1 "a symps tlctic resolution and
hc New Jersey ana other state loeis-
lures UlI handle the matter the come
rs winter
WOULD NAME KNOCKERS.