The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-07-18
Over Thousand Persons Leave
Quarterly Conference of
Pioneer Stake.
ELDERS SERMONS FAIL
AS MAGNETS TO HOLD
Joseph J. Cannon Declares In
dians Are Becoming White
and DelightsOme People.

Four thousand people were seated IN
the auditorium OF the tabernacle at the
opening Of the quarterly conference OF
Pioneer stake, Sunday afternoon at
o'clock. Thirty minutes later fully one
thousand OF that number, unable longer
to endure the oppressive heat, had walked
out, leaving the balance to sweiter
through two hours OF dry Mormon ser
mons. The speakers we're Elder Joseph
j. Cannon and Elder Seymour B- young
Elder Joseph ]. Cannon. the first speak
er. devoted the greater part OF ms nouT
talk in an attempt TO prove that Ihe
descendants of Laman, the American IN
dians. were coming into their own, ano
that the, prophecy made by the osa rpopne,
Joseph Smith that they would become Il
white and delightsome people was
rapidly being fulfilled.
Elder Cannon stated that he had re,
Gently returned from an eight months
soiourn In Central and South America.
He said that while there he FOUND many
things that strengthened his faith IN the
great latter-day work.
'In Colombia | found great many oi
the Indians mixed with the white people.
those that came in with the Spanlards
at the time Of the conquest, ne Shlu;
Indians | know them to be the descend
ants OF that little band OF people VINO
left Jerusalem about six hundred years
before the birth OF the Savior.
No Peonage in Colomp1a'
There Is no system OF peonage in Co
lonbia in Mexico. The people are cA-
ceedlngly brave in time Of war, "hlch oc-
ours too frequently in that country,
found men among them who were prac-
tlcally pure blood Indians. who were per
fectly white. as white as any OF the
Caucasian race. This seems TO me TO be
a fulhllment of the prophecy that they
would eventually become white and
delichtsome people
Of
we feel that the prophecy is long way
from fulillment even though lives OF
righteousness should be led by that
people In Colombia was told that the
highest degrees in the universities were
being attained by the pure blood descend
ants of Lamar.
Inclined to Be Catholics.
"At the present time they are, like
most Ignorant people, inclined to be Cath
olics. At the present time the Cathollc
church known as the mother church,
seems to have the strongest hold on the
government and the affairs OF state. And
this fact is responsible for immortality
among The people Seyenty-hve per per cen, en-
OF wedlock. This condition Is due TO high
fees charged by the priests for perform
ing marriage ceremonies To oe married
there costs from $50 TO $50 gold. In most
cases the couples who unable to pay
the priests for marrying them live to-
gether as though regularly married. rear
children. and are true ana loyal 10 their
families.
81 believe that elders will he sent some
time TO preach this people the principles
OF ;he everlasting gospel and TO acquaint
them with the fact that they belong to
the house OF Israel, through the losns Of
lehi."
Church Founded on Miracle.
Seymour B. Young devoted about an
hours time 10 reviewing the history OF
the church, relating events with which
every Mormon boy girl years of age
is familiar He further said that the
Mormons were believers in miracles; that
a miracle was the very foundation Of
the church. The appearance OF the Father
and the Son to Joseph Smith. he said,
was a miracle of the highest order He
Then went on 10 say that throughout
the history OF the church the people had
been treated to many supernatural evil
dcnces OF Gods watchful care He cited
as an example OF miraculous irterposition
the saving OF the crops OF the Mormons
from crjckets by flock OF sea gulls from
The West in 1915