Show IIE tN RCH AMESFREACES I STOBMSTAETEES RESPONSIBLE FOE SOUTHEEN MOBBHTG Mob Violence t Mormon Missionaries Missionar-ies Incited By False Eeports Sent Out By the Utah ministers I I Elder Ben JE Rich president of the southern states mission is in Salt I Lake again direct from the scenes ot mobbing of Mormon elders The elder will pay a visit to Sannete Sevier and Utah counties and then go to his old home in Idaho returning here at conference con-ference time Referring to the recent iwobbings in the southern states Elder Rich ascribes a multiplicity of causes for the uprisings upris-ings The slanders about the revival of polygamy sent out from Utah says the elder are largely responsible for I the violence done to missionaries of the Mormon faith Elder Rich also I charges that Rev Dr Iliff and other Utah nreachers have helped to inflame in-flame Irea mindS of the ignorant and lawless southerners against the Mormon I Mor-mon proselyters According to Elder Rich the southern I south-ern people are generous and hospitable hospit-able and the more intelligent of the southerners are morf in sympathy with the mobs Elder Rich declares Where assaults have been led I against our elders the leaders have generally been preachers of socalled I Christian sects They are the ones who keep In touch with the antiMor mon sentiment in Utah they are the I ones who reflect it there Just now however even the people who have been arrayed against us are taking a sober second thought and conditions have cuieted down |