Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-10
BIGoTRY RAMPANT.

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We find in the Christian Statesman
FOR November an article credited 70
George b. Swea2y, principal OIL Sals
Lake Collegiate Institute. The writer
sets forth what, from his point OIL
view. the "Christian Forces In Utah
must Combat"
.rhe gentleman relates that the
Church is stronger than ever; that It
has wealth, and controls some Oh tie
largest mercantile establishments
banks. newspapers, factories etc. tnat
II has absolute political power in ulah
and controls the politics of surronnuii's
states, and has an element TO pc scoli-
suited in national politics After nay
Il ing made these extravagant allegations,
the writer says of the Church;
at has It's young men and souIs
women banded together IN separate ",
carnations for study and training, ana
for aggressive missionary work. 1T has
more than eighteen hundred mission
nrias nrearhing It's doctrines today III
every civilized land on the globe u nus
a splendid Sunday school organ "a tioi',
In which the most modern anu nest '
methods that have been worked out by
ligious education everywhere are peihG
APPLIED. II has splendidly eauipped
schools and colleges in which in addl
ton to the ordinary class room SUD
iects, more than three thousand young
men and women are being taught MOT
mon theology ana IRE given normal
training for sunday school teaching, or
methods for missionary work, as y
REQUIRED part of tliescoursc for gradu-a
z alton"
Now, why should the Christian forces
in Utah consider themselves under
obligation TO combat these organizat-
lions for study and training this mis-
sionary work. these excellent Sunday
schools, these splendidly equipped
schools and colleges? Would IT be
any gain to the Christian forces IN
Utah ir they could overcome the
Church and annihilatn these splendid
educational institutional II the Chris
tan forces in Utah aim at the moral il
ana intellectual Improvement of the.
childrenao Of men, they should hail these
excellent schools and sunday
schools. and this force OF mis-
slonarles as their friends and allies
in the good work. But Mr.
sweazy must have forgotten the
-rebuke of the Master when the dssel-
Pies proposed to establish a monnpolS
3&of The Masters work.
3 However, he has a great deal 10
say about the religious beliefs of the
irYe !, ,,,;t, that the creed is
orthodox enough, but the creed IS nov.
.Mormonism," he says. Mornlolllslii
;s sonething entirely different. Po-
20 -. So, IN lie vinw the
4 lygamy, OF course y, ~ ii'9
Foundation stone, though INC 1li.iot'
existed long before plural marriage
,,,,. t,ougl,t of and exists now, long,
was t,os US "a t,,on tharsi
Y ate we .,,,s;,.,rs
are other doctrines when ne eoiis n'7i g
equally heteroaoN.
We can only say l il'tl wy - :
displays the usu'll te.5sei %
concerning Mormon uoo.'i',e' -
charaeterizes sectarial. s.uue't' 's'.a
critics they are as lBiio " 49,.
the subject as We're ti'e ~ =,
the first centuries OF OUT eih s'uo = w
Christian religion ana tor s'lll SIM iesl-
sons,
But the writer not only ooJects 70
LIE lhSoioss ~ 80 'Tft'fr,'5 -,
morality of its members. ftere IS t''e
astonishing statement he makes:
"Co outside OF Salt Lake City, which
is exceptional in that the malorllS "
the population Is mol 1Ttah i tnurns . and
sollls " , ~ ,as',,ts of their teachings.
Tor5,t Is by their fruits that we shall
know them. You VIII ma soeia y :. eot y
dltions such lnaL ! w. tbnu 4'a and I am
Z at.s'4 MAJ - Uni Could not imagine all that
7 would have you know. You will find
that the young people 40 roy es ~
understand soil,e ~ VA 80 y,,e regard as
illeta. s.sartioi rho happy innocent
Trusting hours of courtship and clean.
pure love, arc unknown
How does that strike the impartial
reader? IL Salt Lake, with its saloons
ana rod light glare so much better
morally. than the smaller towns O
Irtahp Is 1t not a fact that smaller
towns are comparatively free from tl1t
social evils? Is it not one of the black
est ,ihals ever uttered against the purf
ana intelligent boys and girls of Utah
whsn the writer says of them: rh'
.o,,nr neople do not even understand
some Of the social and moral stand
ards that we regard as most essential
And what must be thought OF the men
m, responsibility of n man who give
voice 10 the following about the youna