| Show I Convert the Mormons and Not Misrepresent Them Some History and Personal Opinions by Wanda Ever since I came to Salt Lake It has been my desire to en-ge in an active research concerning their their pursuits and their The more I Recognize the results of those of struggle and painstaking If the more I wonder why people of including all o deem it worthy of making it regardless of their re-ous do not extend the honor to the Mormons for they have resent the glaring false- pods circulated about It short of marvelous when remember that in the face of atrocious all the libelous lt the cowardly continued with bulldog that now the outlook is lighter and more promising it has ever been re have found an article written in 1905 in the Out by Joseph F. entitled Truth About He refers to the Mormons as most persistently slandered and most under the He is marvelous to not that the can be lied about for I have been used to that all the days of my life but that the atrocious and often absurd calumnies manufactured concerning them can be so easily swallowed and assimilated by the and usually fair-minded American a people sprung for the most part from the sturdy Anglo-Saxon from the steady-going northern a people whose mission and destiny are to prevent put down exalt defend the stand by the and hold things wherever their pow- and influence That a nation formed from such elements be lashed periodically into a frenzy of hatred against a and well-meaning body of their fellow and this at the mere dictum or instigation of some ribald some characterless intent only upon feathering his foul or feeding fat his selfish regardless of or any other consideration this to me is a matter of At the time of the writing of this Commercialism was evidently the hobby of the would-be In defense of President Smith shall not deny that has a commercial or material I admit that to begin But I propose to show that this is not the only nor by any means the largest and most important feature of the And I shall further prove that from first has avowed and presented to the world this particular phase of its many-sided that it is no new due to a sudden change of some sinister purpose on the part of the present as some people pretend to All such allegations are the the flimsiest of susceptible of the easiest They have not even the merit of honest ignorance in their so far as the authors are They are grounded in sheer malice and Some of those who repeat may be but those who uttered them in the first and are still sending them forth and deceiving know full well that they sacred system of having in view the salvation of the bodies as well as the of can successfully accomplish its mission without being temporal as well as spiritual in It was the doctrine of Joseph the original reve-lator of that the spirit and the body constitute the soul of It has always been a cardinal teaching with the Latter-day that a religion which has not the power to save people temporally and make them prosperous and happy cannot be depended upon to save them to exalt them in the life to If the Mormons have introduced commercialism into the they no doubt saw the advantage of doing so and has it not been a good in the face of the abuse hurled at them by their It has in a great measure insured the protection of Mormons by the church from extreme poverty and Is this not better than to bring about the union of Church and In further this talk about a the the the widow and the in that a few men and their families may in and against the much humbug and ludicrous enough to be e were it not taken by the uninformed victims' not of the but of their and Everybody knows this to be Gentiles take no n the lurid and lugubrious-told by the Salt Lake The people are oppressed and a impecunious and A greater number them own their own and are freer from debt than is caso with any other v ly te United We have L- no no The comparatively few Ll people among us indi- gent because or unfortunate are well for by the through a priesthood perfectly organized and equipped for all conditions X and Everything jj within the church is done by corn- mon President Young's wise and able the savage tribes were won over and made colonies were sent out in all towns and villages laid out and peopled irrigation arid lands factories and mercantile and the whole land made to hum as a veritable hive of Brigham Young did not believe in all work and no While his tireless brain and potent hand were busy laying broad and deep foundations of Utah's prosperity and he also bore in mind the necessity for pure and wholesome amusement and As early as he built the Salt Lake as he had previously built the Social Hall and the our earliest homes of the and he exercised ceaseless over the morals and manners of those who frequented as or appeared as at these popular places of The erection of the Saltair Pavilion Utah's great bathing resort in after was simply a continuation of the policy inaugurated by President Young relative to public means of and it was undertaken in the same spirit that he and for the same purpose at which he true that Brigham Young laid and deep the foundation of Utah's prosperity and and the Mormon leaders of today are keeping up the work to the best of their The continued persecution of the we must by the ministers of the gospel have been the chief instigators and have spent their energies in unverified accusations with their oiled tongues and assumed psalm-singing have had but two avarice and These mercenary minds saw the wonderful monetary possibilities which loomed up before them like a bonanza to a gold and many pockets have been well lined with the yellow metal and many a ministerial personage must have shaken hands with himself at the success of his but business and then in addition to all just look at the honor and reverence that is extended to these wolves in sheep's of the other i with the Christian who love the sinners you con- l Rider the Mormons to be and through your deep you see that their religion i is wrong and that they hold no I chance of salvation why to them in loving do you not-go kindness and show them the of their short-sightedness telling them that through of some parts of the Holy they will be led to but through following the teachings of other parts' of your is a certain way of being saved and that they take awful chances in following in any other Convert the Mormons and not abuse and you will be doing your whole duty as Gentiles and Christian missionaries in |
