Show A MORMONS < VIEWS I Royal B Young Hears Kate Held h 1 SOHB OPPOSITE OPINIONS Kate Threatens to Brine Her Monster To Salt LakeHer Extreme Poverty The Kansas City Journal of the 5th contains the following articles Miss Kate Field lectured atMusic Hall under the management of the W C T U last evening to the largest audience at any of the places of amusement As the lady faced her listeners she must have noticed that there was a preponderance prepon-derance of men amohg them and that the general attitude was one of appreciation apprecia-tion In the middle of the lecture however how-ever some of the restless fraternity began be-gan to rustle out to the djsgust of the majority who like the speaker were annoyed by the ciatter Miss Field sen ibly stopped long enough to allow the rude portion of the audience to withdraw with-draw The lady who appeared for the first time as the exponent of Mormon evils in Kansas City is a slight stylish woman who dawned upon her audience in suitable evening dress with careful attention to such details as went to makeup make-up an agreeable presence She defined the Mormon monser to consist not only of polygamy but of treason She declared that the Mormon religion was from God down to the people peo-ple rather than from the people up to God She said that Mormon women would insist that they liked polygamy because their religion taught them to say so and that lies were considered not only legitimate legiti-mate but holy whentjdin teialfo the church She said that Mormon women were no different from other women and that their jealousies were just as row r ful only they were taught that their onlv chance of salvation was through their husbands She considered the Dttable indifference in the east underestimated underes-timated the power of theMormons and gave statistics to prove their increase in Idaho Montana Utah and Colorado She quoted language which went to show that politically the Mormon church was at waiwith the government and that there was rejoicing at Salt Lake over the assassinations of Presidents Lincoln sal Garfield The lecture while vehement and vigorous was interspersed terspersed with humorous sketches and anecdotes and in one instance the lecturer lec-turer brought down the house by singing sing-ing a Mormon hymn She gave a description des-cription of the allegory ofthe Endowment Endow-ment house and altogether gave her audience a great deal of information about something they barely knew existed ex-isted Miss Field was found after her lec tura and chatted a few minutes before returning to her hotel She said that audiences are very queer things to stand before and that In one town one may get applause while in another all the points will be missed She said she had recently begun to make notes as she traveled in order to remember experiences ex-periences odd as well as interesting as she had found her memory exceedingly tricky of late Wheis asked whether she Expected to take hVi Monster to Salt Lake City she said she certainly should deliver it there if the opportunity presented itself it-self and tl at she should be sure of an enthusiastic and appreciative audience On being told that it was rumored that as one of the richest women in America she would invest heavily here she said What If I was a rich woman I tell you I should live up to my reputation reputa-tion and shouldnt be living around this way lecturing I wish the rumor to be contradicted When asked why she objected to the idea she said First because it is a lie and I hate lies and then I am overrun over-run by begging letters From here Miss Meld goes to Fort Leavenworth where she will be the guest of the family of General McCook While Miss Kate Field was speaking of the Mormon Monster at Music Hall last evening she was doubtless unaware that among her auditors was the son of the greatest Mormon apostle Brigham Young It was Royal B Young 35 years old the possessor of fiftysix brothers and sisters three I wives and eight children After the 1 lecture a Journal reporter met the son 1 of the great Mormon and found him far from what is generally pictured as the ideal polygamist He is an entertaining enter-taining talker and his version of Mormon Mor-mon life is indeed an interesting recital re-cital Mr Young has been in the city for several days and is en route east having been released from the Utah Penitentiary February 10 Before he was forced to don the prison garb nine months ago for having plurality of wives he was the agent at Salt Lake City for a wellknown sewing machine and when he cast it aside he returned to the business and his pres ent trip is in connection with it In addition ad-dition to his prison sentence he was fined 750 but escaped the payment of this and was not required to serve his full time on account of the ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States which had a direct bearing on his case Mr Young is an outspoken polygamist polyga-mist and vigorously defends the doctrines of his father The conversation conversa-tion naturally turned upon the subject of Miss Fields lecture and the Mormon said There is this about her remarks re-marks A thread of truth runs through them which is safficieut to give an appearance ap-pearance of truth to all she says to those acquainted with only one side of the subject I have been reared in Mormonism and I must confess I have failed during the thirtyfive years I have lived m Utah to witness any of the horrors she depicts with such fervor Mormonism dont interest the people it is a worn out subject and were it not for a few soreheads who are at the bottom bot-tom of all the trouble people this far east would scarcely know of its existence ex-istence What difference is it to you how many wives I have or to me how many you may have I listened to Miss 1ielda words with considerable d gree of interest and laughed at some of her assertions because I knew their utter falsity BS the way I noticed that many left the hall while she was speaking and this I think shows the piiblfcis not interested in her talk Were the Mormons sHe known as well I as hers the better class would be disgusted dis-gusted with the governments crusade Mormons are not perfect nor are they infallible but we do claim that they are equal to the people of Kansas City or any other city Miss Field made several misstatements either intentionally or unintentionally but as she is a lady I will be charitable and take the latter view I do think that she has been wofully misled She came to Salt Lake City staved six weeks and associated only with the known enemies of the Church From the information she received from this source she condemns us Among other things Mis3 Field said that Colorado Republicans were buying up the votes of the Mormons who bad settled in that State That is untrue because every good Mormon is and must be a Democrat This is in his religion and part of my religion is to be a Democrat The laws that have been passed for the suppression of polygamy continued con-tinued Mr Young cannot and will not be enforced because they deprive a man of Godgiven rights Some of our people have been in polygamy for forty years and the law says ho shall not even visit his plural wives or children They may suppress the growth of polygamy but they cannot cast asunder sacred ties already formed If a Mormon visits a sick child a dead child ot a plural wife if he sits down to a meal with the latter it is made cohabitation by the laws and punished by imprisonment No i this is cruel pnd inhuman and as long as a spark of manhood icmains we will not cast off our offspring The government govern-ment may keep us m prison but they will accomplish rf thing I could have had myself released from prison by disowning dis-owning two of my three wives but do you think I would desert them and my children Not 10 per cent of the Mormon Mor-mon men of marriageable age are in polygamy but all who belong to the church must believe in it whether they practice it or not A Mormon may be a bachelor and yet a good Mormon Those in polygamy will not average more than two wives while the very highest number seven which is rare indeed in-deed All this talk about unhappy homes in Utah is bosh and domestic infelicity doesnot exist to a greater extent ex-tent there than it does in your own midst Then too it is an altogether mistaken idea that the wives live in one household I have traveled from one end of Utah to the other and I can truthfully say I never found an instance of this Our wives are just as happy as if they were unaware of each others existence When I was in prison my first wife used to come down to see me every few days One time when I passed hem with my striped suit and close cr jsned hair the children began to cry The officials were touched and when my wife went outside they offered my liberty if she would use her influence with me to get me to disown my other wives Her reply re-ply was this Is he would disown them I would disown himJI Mr Young said that Mormonism received re-ceived 10000 recruits a year from the working classes of this country and Europe Eu-rope and not from the slums as had been represented He said they were a happy and contented people and that 95 per cent of them owned their own homes He ascribed the trouble with the government to the actions of political politi-cal hacks for which he considered Utah the dumping ground In conclusion said The crusade against Mormon is cruel and inhuman unchristian and undemocratic and is breaking up happy homes and bringing harnships upon delicate women and children |