The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-02
MORMON PARTY
At HOME AGAIN
Return From Vermont Where the
Monument to Joseph Smith
Was Unveiled.
VISIT HISTORIC SCENES
REORGANIZED CHURCH NOW
OWNS THE FIRST TEMPLE.

President Joseph r. Smith and the Nor
mon church party which attended the
recent unwilling OF a monument to the
Prophet Joseph Smith near Sharon, Vt,
returned to Salt Lake yesterday over
the Oregon Short Line. They came di-
rect through from Chicago. All the
members of the party speak In praise
of the reception given them everywhere
they visited
The party left here on Dec. Is on a
special car, and made the entire trip
Sharon. where the monument was IN
yelled on Dec. %, the anniversary or the
prophets birth The monument is on q
low hill about three miles from Sharon,
on the exact spot where was situated the
house in which Joseph Smith was born.
The cottage in which the custodian or
the monument is to live is built around
the old Smith hearthstOne.
John Henry for Senator.
From Sharon the party went to Bos-
ton, where they visited with members
of the Mormon church organization IN
that city. Apostle John Henry Smith,
who accompanied the party, was the
recipient during his stay IN Boston of
4 boom for the United States senatorship
from Utah at the hands Of the Boston
Journal. 1t printed a picture of the apos-
tie, and referred to him as "one, who
may be the next senatorial candidate"
] I added that he scarcely looks half his
t'nearly fourscore years. statement
(which was probably comforting to Apos-
ftlC Smith. as he celebrated his fifty-sev-
enth birthday anniversary last Septem-
Der
The same paper naively informed its
readers that the Mormon party was IN
Boston after the dedicatOry exercises at
the memorial to Brigham Young at
Sharon, VT"
President on Race Suicide.
President JosAnb F Smith was inter
viewed in Boston on. race suicide" and
is quoted as saying:
do we sympathiZe with President
Roosevelt in his fight against race sui
eide? Why. young man, that is the very
thing we have been preaching against
since the origin of the church. Well, no.
I should hardly want to say he was imi-
Eating US in trying to build up the fam
lily. He is too original for that. The
gion. Look at these men (pointing 70 a
group of the gray-bearded elders whose
tremendous virility made them look more
like football players than Old mem. II, That at
don't look much like race suicide, do
thev?"
Visit Graves of Ancestors.
After leaving Boston, the Smith mem
bers of the party visited TOpsfield and
EoXfCrd, two Massachusetts towns, where
sleep the bones Of their ancestors, the
first of their branch of the Smith fam
Ely TO settle in America.
1t has been described in the press dis
patches how the party visited the scenes
of Joseph Smiths early life in western
New YOrk-his old home In Manchester
township; the woodland where he is pur
ported to have had his first vision. and
the Hill CumOrah. near Palmyra, n. Y,
" here he is supposed TO have found the
golden plates from which he translated
the Book of Mormon.
Reorganizers Have First Temple.
From New York The party went to
Kirkland. o., one of the first gather
ing places Of the prophets followers.
Here the first Mormon temple was built.
and it still stands; but. so far from be-
ing now in the possession of the church,
II is in the hands of the ReOrganiZed
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints. whose members claim to be the
Only true followers of Joseph Smith. They
use It for meeting house.
The temple fell into their hands after
the schism which occurred in the ranks
of the prophets followers at his death.
The faction which refused TO follow the
leadership Of Brigham Young as the
prophets successor organized a church
Of their own. known as the ''reorganized
church their leader then and now pc