The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-22
SAYS MORMONS
ENJOY LIBERTY
Have Greater Personal Free
dom than Many GentiIes,
Declares IverS0n.
CORRECT PRINCIPLES RULE
REFERS TO PIONEERS IN AD-
DRESS IN TABERNACLE.

That the members of the Mormon
church are not constrained by the rules
of the church and that they enjoy a
greater personal freedom than the major
ity of Gentiles was the statement of He
Der Iverson at the Tabernacle yesterday
afternoon. At the conference of Liberty
stake Bishop Iverson took as his subject
Liberty and gave at some length his
views of the difference between the lib
erty of Mormons and of Gentiles.
"A few years ago newspaper in this
city declared that Utah was gradually
seeing the light and that members of the
church were manifesting their liberty by
getting drunk and visiting questionable
places. If this is the kind of liberty we
are to get, then / say that / would rather
De laid In the ground than enjoy such
liberty
You hear of the bondage of the Nor
mons and hear US spoken of as a priest
ridden people whose lives and morals are
dangerous to the country at large. The
others eXult over conditions which AL
low them liberty We are nothing of
the kind. That newspaper article shows
the kind OF liberty we are Offered, that
is the kind of liberty these 'uplifters Of
American homes would offer you. If that
be liberty, then l thank God for slav-
cry.
Correct Principles.
Liberty is much misunderstood word
The secret of the unity and prosperity of
the church is, as the Prophet Joseph
Smith explained. that he taught correct
principles and they governed themselves
in accordance with these teachings. The
leaders of the church direct and guide
us, but they do not force the human
mind. Every intelligent man is respon-
sible for his own actions.
Men who are immoral in private life
cannot be moral in public life, and they
cannot give true liberty to the people they
no nIaAt
give correct principles and allow the 9TH
ers to follow these No freer man lives
today than the member of the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
When they say that the members of
the church are not patriotic they utter
falsehood. From my earliest infancy
L was taught at my mothers knee TO
respect the law of the land and to honor
and revere the flag and the glorious God
given constitution that We live UNDER
Work of the Pioneers.
Bishop Iverson began his address by re-
ferring to the coming Pioneer day and
its meaning.
Sixty years ago next Wednesday," he
said, the pioneers entered this valley for
the first time. Victims of religious per-
secutlOn and bigOtry. persecution by out
laws, when they first came to this conn
try the first thing they did was to thank
God for their deliverance and to unfurl
the glorious ensign of the country from
TIE HlSI6SI peak. Inc IflatS ana nard-
ships of these pioneers and the develop
ment they made in this country has never
been equaled in the world and 1 doubt not
never will be equaled again"
Apostle Heber J. Grant also spoke on
Humility and Charity
We cannot pass Judgment upon our
fellow men because we cannot pass iudg-
ment upon the circumstances surround
ing them of which we have no knoWl-
edge; we should first try to improve our
selves and then look to our neighbor,"
he said.
Hugh J. Cannon presided at the meet
ing OF the stake. Seymour p. Young also
made a short address on Sunday school
work.