Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1919-09-26
MORMON LEGIONS
STRONG FOR PACT
UTAH, WHILE STRONGHOLD OF
sMooT,; STANDS BY LEAGUE
FOR PEACE.
CHURCH DECLARES FOR IT
Order Loving Sect In West Gives VIII
son Splendid Greeting-He Attacks
observation" Which He Says
Means Rejection.
(By Independent News Bureau.)

s"SSN'S 's~J~S'
(By Independent News Bureau)
Aboard President Wilson's Special
Train.-Right through the land Of the
Mormon on the eastward way Of his
speaking tour on behalf Of the League
of Nations, President Wilson proceed
ed, after he had left the Pacific coast,
and he found that the followers Of 10
seph Smith and Brigham Young were
just as heartily in favor Of the league
as had been any one else with whom
he came face to face during his jour
pey.
Ogden and Salt Lake City, in the
State of Utah, are towns which to a
large degree are dominated in busi-
ness as we'll as political way by the
adherents of the old faith that pre-
scribes many of the theories Of the
best manners Of living.
That the world knows the ancient
idea that Mormons were persons who
had large number of wives Is alto
gether wrong; there is no polygamy
here now, and one could not find a
cleaner, brighter community than the
capital city of Utah, nor Its near
b. metropolis.
League of Nations Popular.
Reed Smoot, one of the states Scna-
torial representatives at Washington,
is wonderfully popular man through
out Utah, but just as was the case In
California with Hiram Johnson, the
herO) the greater number Of citizens
are with him IN most Of his political
aspirations, but are against him In his
opposition to President Wilson's stand
on the league.
The more the President eXpounds
that great pact of peace the more gen.
uine Americans assert their independ-
ence from party politics and declare
themselves back of Mr.. Wilson for a
program which shall bring about per-
manent cessation from war, and which
shall allow our people to start out on
a greater than ever program of peace
production. Let's settle all this war
business and do something, say the
Mormons, and they have said so for
mally because recently the President
of the Mormon Church, Heber j. Grant,
pledged them all to the league.
1t was Mr.. Grant, fine-loOking
elder of the church, who sat beside the
President when he delivered his main
address in the Utah Tabernacle. 1t
was from the red velvet pulpit Of old
Joseph Smith himself that the Presi-
dent spoke, and it was to crowd of
more than 10000 that he addressed
his words on the league.
Attacks Reservation.
He. bitterly attacked one proposed
reservation which said that the Uni
ted States should not assume the obi
CATION of preserving the territorial or
political integrity Of any old country.
That, the President said, was repu-
diation of the whole covenant in which
we declared ourselves part when we
sent our men to Europe to fight against
the rule of autOcracy. 4
He went on Does the United States
want to say to the nations with whom
1t stood in this great struggle, 1--WE
have seen you through on the battle
field, but now we are done? Do we
want to say we are not going to stand
by you now that the fighting Is over?"
From the great audience in the tab
prnacle came loud choruses Of No I! No. !
Mr.. Wilson took Article TO- under
which his enemies have said the Uni
ted States might be called upon to
fight for nationalitieS far from us and
not known to us. He demanded to
know If there was fire in Utah would
the fire fighting forces of Arizona he
called upon 30 qiench it. There were
more cries |Of No. So he explained.
Iar nf i1..N Ion in
Europe would be asked to quench dis
turbances. The President pointed out
that under Article 10 nothing could be
done unless by a Luminous vote.
which included that of the United
States, and he added it is inconceiv-
able that the United States could be
drawn in except that the fire of the
war spread to the whole world, and
would we wait, then? There were more
choruses Of No from the immense
gathering.
Pro-Germans Oppose League.
Mr.. Wilson repeated the assertion
made in several previous addresses
that the greatest forces which now OPP
posed the league were the forces that
nHu nOpeu anu WoTheu loI fUci ihony
while we were at war, and he said
that all the serious interests openly
against the league were pro-German
interests. He hoped, he said, that
those senators who were opposing the
league would read the peace treaty
over again and reflect upon it most
seriously before they would deny II.
Before reaching Salt Lake City the
President had the experience of riding
close to several sizeable forest fires,
whic, were rather uncomfortably near
and then Of passing over the waters
Of the great Salt Lake. He and Mrs.
Wilson enjoyed the quaint old city I'M
mcnsely, and bcfor" her departnrt
looled over the sacred relies of Smith