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Show , I ... ; , . v , i . k 1 1 . r ' l&r of Mormon Churcii Declares Present Prosper-f Prosper-f i ty Cannot Last; Conference Largely Attended, - , . . . - ..-. . - !- - ' PRESIDEKT SMITH'S HARD TIMES PROPHECY. I : .', .:; . ' '" -.-v.- r::-:!;-.-" - : , TVe may, expect at any time now to experience a period of hardship, . and financial -depression. It Is our duty to pay our tithing- and get out, of : debt to God and our fellow men while we are prosperous. President Jo- seph F, eniiUi In his opening- address to the seventy-third annual confer- . " ence. ' . ; ' . .; . t. :'- ; j "; -'':-.':.- . ' . . ' , ) Incomplete hecause of lack of opportunity opportu-nity to teach the mechanical arts. President Young reviewed the trials of the early leaders of the church, taking, ta-king, Joseph Smith as the ideal of a man, who stood for his convictions in spite of all persecution. He said that Joseph Smith went knowingly to martyrdom mar-tyrdom in the same manner that Jesus did. , The speaker , concluded , with an admonition ; to all to obey the counsel of their , prophet and leader. President Smith. j -. " - - President) Jesse M. Smith- of the Snowflake stake, the Arizona colony of the Mormons, made a brief address. He said: . - . , - "Come out to Arizona and you will see that our people have built up communities com-munities where spades grow bright and Idle words grow, dull; where jails are empty and barns are full." , Xanab President Talks. . :' ' . ' ' President E. D. Woolley of the Kanab stake made the next address. He is one of the two living cousins of Joseph Smith the founder of Mormonism. His settlement is only three miles from the . Arizona line, . and he declared that all the saloons in ths vicinity were just across the border. , n - -; -, ' "I have seen and heard many prophecies prophe-cies delivered by the prophet of the Lord in this Tabernacle and I have lived to see them verified," he declared. vThere has never been an approaching evil but what this people have had ample am-ple warning. If they will listen, to the voice of inspiration and prophecy." Prosperity. in Wyoming. r President ; Byron Sessions of the Big Horn stake, the Wyoming settlement, said his people .were prosperous. "None of them have mortgaged their farms," he declared, "because they haven't got a title , to them yet, and I .thank the Lord they haven't. . "The State officials love our people," he asserted, "because they know that when the authorities of the church take Before an audience of 12,000 persons gathered here from every part of Utah,' President Joseph F. Smith, at the opening of the seventy-third annual ' conference of " the Latter-Day Saints, gave a terse and forceful expression of his views on present-day conditions. " He declared that a time of financial depression ,was-j imminent; that ' the great need of education was more' manual . training; that, many members -of the learned professions were para-sites para-sites upon the body politic; that his people must, pay their tithing if they : V hoped to' be bjessed: that the enemies of the church were now in a period of most pernicious activity and were raging over false impressions. All ages and conditions were represented repre-sented in the immense gathering. Millionaires in silk hats and broad- f't), farmers from "Dixie" in coarse r jespun, old men and women who vre scarcely able to walk with the .aid of . a staff, youths whose faces shone with health and happiness, but . all turned reverent eyes to their leader, and there was not the slightest dis-' dis-' turbance during the two hours of the . -v , mornlnK session. . " - ; ::. .. . : Seventy-Third Annnai Gathering: I- . . ' v - The seventy-third annual conference. of the Latter-day Saints began -this morning withan unusually 'large attendance. at-tendance. From 9 o'clock the visitors poured into in-to the great Tabernacle in a steady stream and when a few minutes past 10 . o'clock the gathering was called to or- ! der, the . building was packed to the ' doors. President Joseph Smith opened the conference at 10:15 by a simple announcement an-nouncement of the hymn "Our God, We Raise to Thee.- Thanks for Thy Blessing Bless-ing Full which was sung by the full choir and congregation. ' v ; '' -W President David H. Cannon of the St. hold of a proposition it's bound to succeed.". suc-ceed.". I .. Prophet. Smith Pacetious. s-. President Smith read the customary announcements of lost purses, meetings to be held, persons wanted on important impor-tant business, etc., interspersing them with facetious comments that excited some merriment. The choir Bang "Hark, Hear the Trumpet." ; Elder C, W, Penrose offered the concluding 'prayer, and the vast congregation filed out. . -- The afternoon session opened at 2 o'clock.--' ; I ".-'' COKTERENCE VISITOBS ; ' s ' ( THR02TG THE CORRIBORS '. ' OP SALT XAKE HOTELS. .... - - i f ' '. Among . the people who arrived ' in Salt Lake today to attend the conference con-ference andj who are registered at the hotels are J, D. Kiilpack, Jr., a prominent promi-nent contractor and builder of Rex-burg, Rex-burg, Ida.; i J. S. ' Bailer, x Mayor of Marysvale; J. A. Mllvllle of the State Land Board; J. M. Jensen, president of the Sheepmen's 1 association of Brigham City, and wife: A.v W, Horti-leg, Horti-leg, president of ' the Emery county stake;-Reuben G. Miller, president of the Price stake: H. G. , Mathlas, a prominent merchant of Price, and wife; W. D., Livingston of Price, District Dis-trict Attorney for Manti; J. H. Pace, - George , stake - offered the opening ; prayer. . , ' ", -- President Smith's Speech. ; ? . ' In his opening address .President Smith thanked the Saints for so large an attendance. Continuing, he said: "1 desire to mention one of two subjects sub-jects which I deem Worthy the attention atten-tion of the brethren whoTshall speak by ' the Holy.Spirit. One of these is: - Prophesies Hard Times. V "In this time of prosperity it is highly high-ly proper for the Latter-day Saints to - get out of debt. ; Our experience in the days that have passed must have led I us to the conclusion that we have pe-! pe-! " riods of prosperity 'and hardship. . We t -may look at any time now for a period ,f depression.. And one of the best , ' tbi to pay our debts to our business absoclatef is first to pay your obligation .' to 'God. " V - ' :''V; "If you desire to be free men and free women, first pay your debts to God - and then pay your obligations to your 1 ' . fellow-men. ' ' - '.'Pay your tithlng and be, blessed; . that's Just what I mean. - - ; The Devil Hot Bead. . ! . . ; , '. There never was a time when it was ' so necessary as now for the Latter-day , Saints to live their religion and purge ! out from among them the wickedness and iniquity -in their midst, t See the . activity of the enemies .of our religion. - When the heathen rage and the wicked inveigh in Tain against the followers of this religion, you may set it down as a fact that the devil is not dead." ; Genteel .Professions Scored, v . Further, on in his address President ' Smith declared that one thing the Saints most needed was manual training train-ing for the boys, ; scoring - the genteel professors without mincing words: "The vast majority of these men," lie declared, "are worthless. They are 1 leeches upon the body politic - . "Some of us have an idea that it is degrading for our. daughters to learn how to keep house. They are now taught to play the piano and sing- and . spend their time i idle, useless pleasures pleas-ures in society. If I had millions of - money I would be aehamed of my children chil-dren If my boys did not know how to . handle a pitchfork and my daughters to cook. " .' - - . ' . ' , ' "We stuff the heads of our school - children with fables and fairy tales. Instead In-stead of teaching them useful Jabor." President Young's Experience. ' A Seymour - B. Youngs president of the seventies, bore testimony to the truth his religion, and then continued the ;ir.e of thcr Jeht followed by President h'.mith, regTetting the fact that the education edu-cation of the present day was too' much rf the head and too little of the hand. I ; praised the Sunday-schools for the t vr-p'lfne of their religious Instruction, : t tie school anl colleges were O. J. Harmon, Levi N. , Hammon, prominent citizen - of Price. who axe registered at the White house.' James G. Gwlnn, a larger merchant of St. Anthony, Ida.; Louis Anderson and wife of Mantls P. A Poulson, a stockman ofi Mantl; George P. Berter-sen. Berter-sen. a merchant of . Mt. Pleasant: Fred Ericksen, a stockman of Mt. Pleasant: A. Z. Larsen, a .stock-raiser .stock-raiser of EDhralm; John Johnson, a large farmer of Ephraim ae at the Cullen. ' - : ' ' ' G. T. Bean, a prominent attorney of Richfield: President Maiben of the Manti Temple, President Lewis Anderson Ander-son of the1 Manti stake.-' President Smart of the Heber : stake and his counselor, J.i P. Jensen and President Chlpman of ; American Fork also ar- rived this morning. . Conference Crowds on Cars. : The conference crowds have been so great and street car , traffic has been so largely Increased that the street car company was forced this morning to run the first open cars of the season on the lines carrying the heaviest traffic . , Reports From Railroads. ; The railroad officials estimate that in the neighborhood of 4500 , people , have arrived in Salt Lake ud to noon today, to-day, and predict that fully as many more will come in this afternoon and evening-. |