The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-24
OPPOSITION PRESS is
GIVEN RED-H0T BLAST
World at Large, He Declares, Is
Becoming ReconciIed to
Mormon Practices.

ndCis 'llstouISt sunday afternoon ana
denounced them from soda to hook. II
was evident that The Tribune was
troubling the mind of Elder Talmage
for, while his courage did not rise
high enough TO mention it by name,
he left his delighted hearers IN no doubt
as to who oud what he meant.
DR.. Tslmage S TRADE followed a some
what lengthy address by Elder Levi
Edgar Young, likewise University of
Utah man, on the subject of charity
fired most of his remarks directly at
the press tables, and occasionally shook
menacing fist in that direction. The
charity and brotherly love- part Of
the programme was entirely omitted by
DR.. Talmage. and he handled the words
''lie.' - Islander and persecution -
freely and without stint,
The occasion was the quarterly con
ference of the Ensign stake of Zion.
eral and stake authorities We're sus.
tanned according TO Hovle, was held
in the assembly hall, and the afternoon
session displaced the usual Sunday ser
vice ut 7he Tabernacle. Stake Presi-
dent Richard ". Young presided at both
sessions.
Mormonism Gospel of Peace
Dr. Tslmage was the last speaker at
the afternoon session. He began by as
serting that Mormonism was a gospel
Of peace, and then proceeded to tiaY
everybody who diSagrees with its doe
triues, newspapers in particular,
II was impressed at the morning
session., said the good doctor, with
the feeling that more splendidly or
ganized and magnifcently oflicered
Oh h, fthur,h Of Jasns 81
of Latter -dsy Saints is not 10 be found
on the face OF the earth. 1t is a
church adapted TO the times and es-
tahlished according to prediction. 1t is
holding cut the hand of fellowship 20
the world No mailed fist grasps a
sword. its weapons are weapons of
eternal truth. -
DR.. Talmage then told the audi.
ence that he had recently returned from
a somewhat extended trip to the East.
Il have been Impressed, he said,
with the remarkable change which has
come over the spirit of the nation S
dreams with regard 10 Mormonism and
tine Mormon people ] have had TO
come back to these valleys of the noun
tains and get hold Of some of the local
publications 10 learn what a wretchedly
bad people we are.
81 have heard elsewhere that we
are doing wonderful work in the world.
| testify TO YOU that the leading news
papers and periodicals of the East
have no room in their columns for
long g-exploded fables and tallacies about
TINS people If you shaking his fist
at the press table, care Joining in this
continual row in which vili1icatiop of
the Mormon people is kept up, you are
away behind the times. y
That Ministerial Controversy.
By this time DR.. Tsimage s audience
had begun to sit up and take notice.
He went on to predict the ultimate
triumph of "the truth and asserted
that the recent controversy here be-
tween the ministers and the Mormon
priesthood had not been noticed by any
paper in the East, evidently overlook
ing the fact that every Associated Press
paper in the United States printed Brig
ham H. Roberts S defense of unlawful
cchs sbitstion,
''yhe world is preparing itself 10
look with greater sincerity and with.
out colored glasses on what we claim,
asserted the speaker.
DR.. TaImage then reverted to the
subject Of persecution.
81 disapprove cf our speakers, par
ticuiarly our missionaries in the field,
devoting so much attention TO the per
secutions of the past. he asserted.
Oven have opposition enough, but tho
opposition Of today is of different
kind than the opposition of the past
Those who try TO use against us the
weapons Of three quarters of century
ago are behind the times.
Want Mormon Lecturers.
DR.. Talmaee declared that he had
visited several centers Of learning IN
the East recently. and that the heads
of such institutions had Xpressed 10
him desire to have lecturers sent
Fast 10 proclaim the doctrines of Nor
monism in order that they may be un-
derstood He himself, he said, had
been put through rj9id cross exam
nation by learned men. who, he found.
knew more about the doctrines oi MS
church than some Of the lax members
of the church.
'.They believe there is something in
Mormonism, he shouted "'The way is
being opened for the presentation of
this doctrine in the great universities
of the United States and of Europe.
We have often heard from this stand
that persecution would result IN good
10 THIS people, God forbid that we
should forget that persecution IN the
sense of having to go through Ut
again.
Here DR.. Talmsge threw IN another
prediction that the truths of Mormon,
ism, being mighty and eternal, would
prevail ultimately
Goes After the Enemies
81 tell YOU, be continued, that
the world is moi pleased with the
clamor which is being raised against
this people by men who, even in theu
methods of persecution, are fifty years
behind the times. We are|not suffering
from this clamor 7 have confidence and
faith in my nation, in its officers aud
in It's inspired constitution.
Then DIR. Talmage reached the sub
ject which was apparently near TO his
heart-the newspaper opposition TO the
hierarchy.
''I have confidence in the press OF
my nation he yelled II have great
respect for il. know there are/black
sheep in every flock. and there are some
very black newspapers. There is some