Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-03-09

free from debt Titan has a greater per-
centase OF students attending school
ni,si better high schools than any other
rt0te. She has as few llllterates. pau-
pesr and nebriates AS any other state.
Utah stands third IN eduea ton, al
though The youngest state. Her ut,l-
versity and Agricultural colleuo ere
the hest, and her deaf ana dumb
school took the grand prize and gold
medal nj the Louisiana Purchase exa
pusitiens
eTupEErs' STANDING
Utah students stand higher morally
and intellectually IN tho eastern col
lcRcs than the students do from any
other church, sect. creed or state ia
the Union, There were IL Utah stu
dents III Harvard university last year,
ninV were MormonS and four were gpAA
tieS These students stood higher thar
those from amy other state, and ! be-.
love that four OF them held fellow.
ships that IL 10 cay that they stood
NO high In their classes that Harvard
university gave thom 5000 each per an
num 10 attend their Institution. Tho
same condition exists IN Yale, Column
bia college, George Washington uni~
yersiiy, Jefferson medical college and
the University OF Pennsylvania, ALSO
Ann Arbor. tho University Of Chicago,
the medical colleges OF Chicago, tho
Johns Hopkins and the college OF physi~
clans and surgeons at Baltimore. There
are now n Utah students In the Jeffcr~
son medical college and In the Unlver-
clSy of Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
| Three Of them are Jews, the remainder
are Mormons, Not one OF those Nor
mon students uses tobacco In any form,
drinks intoxicating liquors or carotlse4
at night. They stand higher. morally
and intellectually than those from any
other stale IN the Union.
II Mr. Fink's statement Is true, that
the followers Of Joseph Smith are lgno-
rant, drunkards thieves and ioa ters
how Is 1t that Utah students stand 80
| very high in the eastern colleges
The Y. NJ @. a. OF Salt Lake City
built structure In the heart OF the
| city costing over 100000 and this
building was paid tor the day It was
dedicated There are many Mormons
belonging to the Y Nj G, A. OF Salt
Lake city, and one Of them Is secre-
tary OF that institution, VIII Mr.. Fink
please explain. If the Mormons are
drunkards. traitors, thieves and vaga-
bonds, why they are allowed 10 be in
that institution and one OF them Sec
rotary?
MIR, Fink stated that The Mormon
Church and the leaders of the Mormon
Church ordered and planned the Noun
tain Meadow massacre and that lSO
| peaceful emigrants We're murdered and
plundered by the Mormons, This state
tnent is also being sold In tract by
the Presbyterian board OF home mis-
sions of Philadelphia.
BANCROFT QUOTED.
I'm regard to the Mountain Meadow
/ massacre, 1 will introduce 20 this audi
| ence as my first witness Mr.. Herbert
| Howe Bancroft, the historian Mr.
| Bancroft is considered By professors OF
| schools and colleges, ministers Of the
| gospel and thinkers as a No authOri-
| ty on any subject on which he writes
| On page III BanCr0ft's History of Utah
| Is the following concerning the Moun-
| tain Meadow massacre; 1T may he as
| well understood al thv outset that this
| horrible crime, so often and SO per-
sIstently charged upon the Mormon
| Church and its leaders, WAS the crime
| OF an individual. the crime or a fana-
| tic of the worst stamp. one who was
a member of the Mormon Church, but
OF whose int,ntions the Mormon Church
knew nothing, and whose bloody act
tie members of the Church, high and
| low, regard with as much adherence
as any out OF the Church. Indeed. the
| blow Tell upon the brotherhood with
| threshold force and damage There
was the cruelty of it. which wr1trI
| their hearts, there was the odiun at
/ tending Its performance in their midst.
| and there was the strength that ~ lent
/ their enemies further to malign and
| modest them. The Mornons denounced
| the Mountain Meadow massacre and
| every act connected there with, as earn
| estly and honestly as any in the out
| side world. This Is abundantly proved
and may be accepted as historical
| fact
MIR. Fink stated that the Mormcns
| were aliens. they were un-American,
| aef nf N
States. that they were working to
| overthrow this government; In other
| words, they were traitors and would
| not respect the flag.
II will briefly mention the Mormon
battalion of 500 soldiers who at tho re-
| quest OF Uncle Sam in 1913, after be-
ing driven from Nauvoo. III. and see-
ing the homes burned they had built,
left their wives and children, their
| fathers and mothers, 10 make their
way across the burning sands of what
was then the Great American desert to
| Utah, which WAS TO be their future
/ home. From this wandering band OF
| MOrmons, Uncle Sam secured 900 noble
| warriors; and In two weeks from the
time he called on them 500 as loyal SOL
| diers marched to the front as were ever
| recruited.
MORMON LOYALTY.
| I'm our late war with Spain, the
| Utah battery was engaged IN more bat"
| ties than any other company In the
| whole army. When the war in the
Philippines was practically over, and
the Utah Battery mustered out were
the people OF Utah traitors or disloyal
to the boys who fought for the iiag2
Spontaneous contributions rolled Into
salt Lake from all parts of the state,
from MormOns and Geutiles alike.
Give the boys Il hearty WELCOMED they
said. The Utah battery was met at
San Francisco. A Pullman train and
n dining car chartered. They had
glorious ride through the orange or
ChaTds OF California, through the giant
groves OF the cedar. pine and eucalyp-
tas over the snow-oapped sierras.
across the golden plains of Nevada,
down into the forttie, the beautiful and
the productive valley OF the Great Salt
| lake At Ogden they We're met by the
| governor OF Utah Ga Mormon), and
almost the entire population OF Ogden
! met them at the depot The city was
| decorated with flags and bunting, low
ing greetings and banquet were given
! them, From Ogden they were taken 10
Salt Lake City, That city also was
decorated with days. bunting and cleo
/ trio lights. Great triuinphal arches 100
feet wide were swung across the beau-
tiful streets. one great arch WAS COW
/ cred with tho names OF the battles tho
Utah battery was engaged in, Ser
vices were held in the Mormon taber-
nace The United States Military
| hnna and the Salt Lake city band fur