Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-07-14
ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL
DAY At CHAUTAUQUA

program last night was a potpourr
of popular and classic music cleverly
mixed so as to provide entertainment
and delight for young and old, rich
and poor, educated and untaught
those who like high class music ant
those who feel sure that they dc
not, the hoi polloi and the Brahmins
of fine musical taste. And the won.
der. OF it is that the audacious mix.
ture succeeds. 1t actually accom-
plishes its impossible purpose!
The company produces its music
by two violins, flute and .picolo,
violincello, bass viol, bassoon, clari-
net, cymbalum, piano, beside the
group of instruments known as
traps" The cymbalum attracted a
good deal of attention. 1t is an
ancient national Hungarian stringed
instrument, and it's appearance in
the United States is altogether
unique 1t is built on a cross be-
tween the harp and a piano and is
played by two padded sticks as
though it were a dulcimer. The eff
! feet of the cymbalum in the ensem-
BILE is rather bizarre but it adds
greatly to the interest of the orches-
ira.
During the interval in the pro-
gram last night Rev. Arthur Metcalf,
of the local Congregational church,
presented the following resolutions
on the Mormon question, explaining
that this action ought properly to
have been taken at the great meet
ing Sunday evening after Senator
Cannon's speech. The resolutions
were unanimously adopted, and in
the name of 1914 Chautauqua copies
will be sent to President Wilson,
Senator Kenyon and Representative
Woods. The resolutions were adopt
ed with applause, and Webster City
is glad to go on record against the
political encroachments of the Nor
mon Hierarchy.
i RESOLUTION.
To the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives, in Congress Assembled:
Whereas, The Mormon church
continues to teach, and it's prophet
and priests continue to practice,
polygamy, in defiance of law and in
ungrateful violation of their pledge
made to this country;
Now, therefore, we, citizens of the
United States, in mass meeting as
sembled, do respectfully urge upon
the Congress the speedy adoption of
the pending resolution-introduce
in the House by Mr.. Gillett Of Mas
sachusetts, and in the Senate by Mr..
Weeks of Massachusetts-to amend
the federal constitution as follows:
ARTICLE XVIII.
Section /. Polygamy and poly
gamous cohabitation, shall not exist
within the United States or any
place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2. Congress shall have
power to enforce this article by ap-
propriate legislation"
RESOLUTION.
To the President of the United
States:
Whereas, The report of the United
States Senate Committee on privi-
leges and elections shows that the
Mormon Church dominates the State
of Utah and exercises an improper |
influence upon the civil affairs of
surrounding States;
And, whereas, The same report
shows that the Mormon church is
seeking to supplant the government
of the United States;
Now, therefore, we, as citizens of
the United States, do respectfully
urge upon the President that he do
not appoint to any federal position
any man, Mormon or non-Mormon,
who gives his political allegiance to
the Mormon church.