The Detroit times., 1911-05-05
WOMEN CONDEMN
BRIGHAM YOUNG
Call Him Traitor and Oppose Placing
of His Picture on Utah's
Silver Service.

NEW YORK. May 5.-The action
OF Secretary OF the Navy Meyer IN
again ruling that the navy depart
ment has no authority TO censor in
scriptions on silver services present
ed 10 naval vessels by individual
states has disappointed patriotic or
CARNATIONS In all parts OF the United
States.
While all New York club women
\ are not willing to join a twentieth
century tea party" as was recently
suggested at a Staten Island meet
ing, and throw overheard from the
battleship Utah the $4,000 silver SER
vice presented TO the vessel by the
State after which the vessel is named,
they are quite unanimous In agreeing
that President Taft should not allow
the acceptance OF the gift. The last
stand against such acceptance has
= Just been taken by committee OF
Presbyterians from Utah and other
states, who have taken the matter up
!. with the president and have asked
I him TO order the navy department to
refuse the gift.
The sentiment of the women OF the
country may be judged from the fol-
lowing replies by New York club wo-
men to this question:
Should the United States Navy
Department permit on the battleship
= Utah the use OF the silver service
presented to that ship by the State
of Utah and bearing the pictures of
Brigham Young and the Mormon
Temple7"
No Honors for a Traitor.
Mrs. William Gerry Slade, who is
connected with a score OF clubs and
societies, including the Daughters OF
the Seventeenth Century, Founders
and f,attiots', Navy League of the
United States, Colonial Chapter. d.
A. r., and other equally well-known
organizations, gave this opinion
Like every other true woman in the
United States, think II will be
disgrace to our government and to
the Navy Department should the pic
lures OF Brigham Young and the Nor
mon Temple, be placed upon any sill
yer service that is TO be used by our
navy on one OF it's battleships. /
consider Brigham Young not only a
traitor but an adulterer, and not In
any way a representative OF our ma
II
ism, truth, honor. progress or all that
goes to make up true man.
Mrs. Clarence r. Beebe, president
of the Young Women's Christian As
ISOLATION OF New York: Speaking for
myself, and unofficially, ] will say
that / do not approve of the United
States Navy Departments acknow-
ledement OF Brigham Young and the
NJ l. ell fna
TO be used on the battleship Utah. Ii
is not customary TO SO immortalize a
traitor and man who defied his
'countrys laws. ] consider the very
idea a disgrace to this noble ship OF
our navy"
Dstrimentai' 20 Home ideals.
Mrs. Silas p. Leveridge. chairman
of the Local School Board of District
4 No. 4, Manhattan, and member OF
the Woman's Democratic City Fed
GRAFTON. Political Study, Municipal
Art, City Mothers and New Workers
clubs, said: The question OF Nor.
monism has not touched us very ser
Iously in New York, and but little at
tention has been given to II by the
average New York woman. Woman
must needs stand for the sanctity and
the ideals of home, and put forth the
greatest energy to preserve them.
For this reason it is unwise to per-
nit any false ideals. no matter how
seemingly successful they might be
carried out in spots, TO assume the
position of accepted and granted con-
dItjons. While, owing to circum-
stances and development, Mormonisni
may have been satisfactorily meeting
the wishes and inclinations of
small, portion of the large population