Show DR DECOSTAS LECTURE l Speaks for Benefit of Keafns Orphanage SALT LAKE LIKE DAMASCUS Impressed With the Beauty of Our Surrounding CountryPredIcts a Grand Future for America Predominance Pre-dominance of AngloSaxon Blood a Fad He Denounces Poverty as an Unpardonable SiuHis Reason fcr Embracing the Catholic Faith Discusses Dis-cusses Polygamy S Polygmy 1 Dr B F DC CoVa the former noted Episcopalian divine but now member of the Catholic church lectured at the New Grand theater last night for tho benefit of Jvcnrnn St Anns orphanage orphan-age rhcl subject America was handled In an entertaining and Instructive In-structive manner but the attendance was far below what the ability oC the speaker and the dignity of the subject deserved Secretary of State Hammond Ham-mond Introduced Dr De Costa and referred re-ferred to the worthy object for which the lecture was given In beginning Dr DC Costa gave considerable attention atten-tion In a goodnatured way to the meager attendance but he lack l oC a better I house had a perceptible dampening dampen-ing effect on his delivery While the audience may he small he said the orphans will be cared for because they are Gods poor He then spoke of the scenery between Ogden and Salt Lake paying For beauty and splendor It equals that of ancient Damascus from which I have just returned Salt Lake he raid except MS o nationality resembled Damascus in mauy ways IL was the flower of the desert the result of freshwater fresh-water and one of the wonders of America IIo pjnvp an extended and Interesting historical review of America Ameri-ca and predicted for It a grand future by i the union of al interests after immigration should cease and the processes pro-cesses of digestion and assimilation would begin ENGLISH NOT NECESSARY He did not consider the English language necessarily the mouthpiece of the continent nor should we be dependent de-pendent upon English Ideas He gave credit to the worth of the Latin races and said the talk of the predominance of AngloSaxon blood was a mere fad as not over 10 per cent of tho Inhabitants In-habitants pf this country were of that lineage He denounced poverty an the unpardonable sin which was caused mostly by intemperance The prevalence preva-lence of divorces was also strongly denounced The native population of New England ho said Is falling off the people are childless Emer sons essays nnd Browning clubs do not form hardy men and women and the people arc changing S The future be said was filled with possibility that would be met In someway way through the providence of God by I ship education religion and good citizen S HIS PERSONALITY V Dr B F DC Costa te i a guest at the Kenyqn He is 0 most interesting man andhrs departure from the Protestant Episcopal church two years ago occasioned a profound sensation In religious circles Tn conversation yesterday yes-terday he said I have never bcci this far west before and find It intensely in-tensely Interesting i am on a lecturIng lectur-Ing tour and after leaving here am to deliver five lectures In San Francisco and will then go to Los Angeles 5 I embraced the Roman Catholic faith for the same reason that Cardinal Newman did because of a profound conviction that it was the only true church My mother was a Methodist and my father a Unlvcrsallst 1 was reared in the Methodist chilrch and graduated from Boston university But although I went into the Episcopal Episco-pal church and took orders there had there been some good Roman Catholic I friend close by to talk to me I should have entered the Catholic church as a young man DI De Costa stated his belief that there would be no national legIslation on the proposed antipolygamy amendment amend-ment to the Constitution this winter We have been told back East that the Mormons do not believe In polygamy polyg-amy he suid tn Mormon I met on the train told me they did But jlkely It was the Eastern Mormons who were referred to as opposed tool to-ol gam V Dr De Costa was welcomed by the Catholic clergy yesterday He leaves on this noons train for the west |