The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-09
Declares Government Should
RepresS Present-Day Tend
ency Toward Anarchy
and Social Unrest.
WARNS SAINTS AWAY
FROM HOTEL UTAH BAR
All Present Authorities of the
Church Sustained at Clos
ing of the Eighty-second
Conference.
TN CLOSING the eighty-secoud semi
annual conference Of tao Mormon
church Yesterday afternoon Presi-

TN CLOSING the eighty second semi
annual conference of tao Mormon
church Yesterday afternoon. Presi-
dent Joseph F. Smith denounced as
Infamous the combination of men into
mobs or mobocracy.' who because
they did not want TO work themselves
endcavored to stop men from working
who had but the sole idea Of support
ing themselves and families. He hoped
to see measures by the government to
stop and rcpress all such tendency to-
ward anarchy
He said that he had voted aud work
ed for dry Salt Lake and regretted
that the citizens had thought the otber
way He had done this as be would
have liked to have seen the Hotel Utah
in which the church was interested,
without a bar As those who patron.
lied the hotel must have the wet
goods, the bar was necessary. and he
did not want any Latter-day Saint TO
go away condemning the church be-
cause of the bar. The operating COM
pany ran the hotel, not the company
which had built it.
All this was following an admonltion
10 the saints TO strict adherence 10 the
law Of tithing He recited the heavy
expenses of the church in buying and
improving the property around tho
temple block and insisted that the step
had been n profitable one.
Orson Pratt Memorial.
The conference service in the taber
nace in the morning was III memeory
of Orson Pratt. sometimes termed
"Utah 5 first pioneer, and one Of the
early leaders. Orson Pratt stood high
IN h,o Io hy df scholar
ship, his research aud his writing, which
gave him Il foremost place in the HI
tory of the Mormon church.
a large portrait of Orson Pratt was
hung TO the right of the speakers and
his life and example were the subjects
of the discourses of Apostle Orson +.
Whitney, who was the speaker OF the
occasion.
A reunion of the Pratt family will
this afternoon at O'Clock. when ad
dresses will he delivered by President
Joseph +. Smith and Governor William
Spry The monument which was 10 have
been unveiled on September la. the hun
dredth anniversary of the birth or Tho
poet, philosopher and pioneer Is not yet
ready and the unveiling in the City cem-
ctery Will take place on July II next.
The services of Yesterday were part ot
the celebration as planned preliminary TO
the reunion today.
The songs at the service Yesterday
morning we're written by Parlev P Pratt.
brother OF Orson Pratt and also pio-
neer. The first OF these with which The
meeting was opened was An Angel from
on High This was followed by an IN
vocation by Charles \. Calls. president
OF the southern states mission.
4 uuartcttc comprising Lizzie z. Ed
ward Mrs Pearl Kimball Davis. Fred
Graham and Moronl Thomas sang the
beautiful hymn: AS the Dew from
i'eapo Apostle orson F. Whitney read
lengthy and scholarly paper. the best eX-
position of the life OF Orson Pratts lfe
Yet given To the public. Elder Whitney
had given the title 20 his paper as Or
son Pratt. Apostle Pioneer. PHILOSOPHER.
Scientist and Historian.
A Great Apostle.
He said in part:
"One hundred wears ago. in a humble
village of the Empire state. man VAS
born of whom Il was said. as he Law in
mis- casket al Salt Lake City on the sixth
OF October, 1881. that ne had travelled
more miles. preached more sermons,
studied and written more upon the COS
pei and upon science than any other man
in the church. That man was Orsop
Pratt and the speaker who eulogized him