The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-10-20
Rally at Home of Mrs. w. II.
Bennett Under Auspices of
WOman's American Club.
JOSEPH LIPPMAN AND
J. w. M'kINNEY SPEAKERS
Issues That Confront the Voters
of Salt Lake County Force
fully Set Forth.

Despite the inclement weather a
large crowd was present at an enthusi-
astic rally held Monday evening under
the auspices Of the Woman g American
| club at the residence of Mrs. W. II.
Bennett, 1175 Browning avenue. At
! torneys' Joseph Lippman and J. w. Nc
Kinney were the speakers OF the even
! ing and music for the occasion was fur
nished by the American Glee club, cone
! sisting of Mrs. Corinne Hammer, Mrs.
C. o. Rulon and Curtis Cohen, with
Miss Margery Mulvey as piano accom-.
PIANIST.
| The programme was carried out with
out hitch 1t was opened by the sing.
ing of America and then Mr.. Lippi
man delivered = brilliant address Ho
/ based his remarks on an editorial In the
| Monday evening issue of the Deseret
! News. in which that paper claimed that
! the Mormon church has always been
loyal to and loved the American flag.
After reading part of that editorial
Mr.. Lippman declared that the Mormon
church does not love the flag because il
does not love that for which the flag
stands-the laws OF the country.
Disloyal to the Flag.
The speaker then read from old court
records, and from the testimony OF
| prominent men, how the Mormon church
had been disloyal to the flag, calling
especial attention to such incidents as
the lowering of the flag. to half-mas!
on the courthouse on the Fourth OF
July, and the dragging of the star
spangled banner through the dust up
Main street. Mr., Lippman said that the
whole history Of, the Mormon church
proved that it did not love the flag.
Mr. Iippmsp rend a rrayer which Uaa
delivered by Wilford Woodruff at the
dedication OF the Mormon temple at st.
George in which the speaker asked that
the country might be eventually de-
stroyed If it would not repent and &c
cept the teachings of the Mormon
church. He also read from q sermon
delivered by Brigham Young IN the Salt
! Lake tabernacle, July Il, 1875 In which
the president Of the Mormon church
declared that they would pull the wool
over the eyes of The Gentiles and make
them swallow Mormonism. -polygamy
and all Mr.. Lippman said that If Jo-
seph f. Smith spoke his real sentiments
today he would tell the world Just that
same thing.
Mr.. Lippman emphatically impressed
upon all who were present that the
fight which is now being waged in this
city is not against the Mormon people
at large nor upon the Mormon religion,
but that it is simply against the leaders
or the church, who are constantly VIC
lating the laws.
At the conclusion of Mr. Lippman's S
discourse: the American Glee club sang
q campaign song TO the tune of and en-
titled. yankee Doodle Came 10
| Town. and Curtis Cohen sang another
self. J"
j. w. Mckinney s Address.
Attorney j. w Mckinney, candidate
| for the legislature on the American
! ticket, was introduced and delivered n
his remarks, Mr.. Mckinney, like Mr..
Lippman, laid especial stress on the
fact that the American party was not
| fighting the Mormon church. but
simply the lawbreakers at its head, Mr..
Mckinney said:
Some OF the Mormon people seem to
have received an impression from re-
cent political utterances from an idiotic
article IN the peseret News. and from
the uncomfortable fabrication OF the In
ter-Mountain Republican; that In the
event of the success OF the American
party at the. approaching election. the
Mormon people are TO be Disseminated
American citizens; that they are to bs
persecuted; that their property Is to be
confiscated, that they are - be driven
into exile. or 9TH 'lSe hon. >ly and un-
speakably treated.
Such a mlsconception OF the purpose OF
the American party is both funny and
astonishing. The idea is so grotesque and
preposterous that IL Is surprising that
any one should for moment entertain il;
and yet. some OF our Mormon friends ap
pear to be laborlng under real apprehen-
sion lest such dire results shall flow from
the victory of the American party.
While il seems an unnecessary aSsur-
ance. st!ll, | wish to say 10 all who have
received such a doleful and dreadful inn
preston concerning the purpose and in
tention OF the American party. that their
fears are as groundless as the frightful
dream OF little childd who has been en-
tertained by choice selection OF ghost
stories. The American party stands t9r
the very opposite of these things. JIG
would not do these things If it could. ami
1t could not do them II il would. and II
would be untrue to Itself and Its princi-
pies II II were not the FIRST to condemn
and denouncc such things.
TO the American partn, life. liberty and
property. and all the manifold rights con-
uCctcd herewith. are sacred; ana i WISH
I" say that would not be adyocating tna
cause of the American party II / thouSht
for a moment that IL was the lntenHon
Of that party to trample upon or Nlo!ate
tN- rights of any citizen or any class OF
where he has ever suffered any injustice
or persecution at the hands OF the amer
lean party let HIN stand forth and
will defend his rights 10 the very pest
Of my ability; and / have such faith anu
confidence IN the honesty ana purity OF
purpose OF the American party. that J
believe the entire membership OF that
party would instantly resent injustice 10
any citizen. no matter OF what raCe' lc-
ligion or condition.
DO not our Mormon friends understand
and realize that no American citizen can
bc deprived OF lifc or liberty or property.
nxccpt by due process of law? Do they
not understand that II necessary the
whole power OF the state may be brought