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Show ELDER BEN RICH BREAKS LOOSE Blasphemes in Granite Slake Tabernacle, His Peroration Quick Transition Tran-sition From Profane to Devout. Thought No Reporter Was Present When Ho Undertook to Run a Bluff. "It's no use to fiffht Mormonlsni It v.lll grow and prosper It Will bo greater and stronger than ever before when tluj pcor, puny creature that dares to lift his hand against It is suffering In hell " Wanted It in Tribune So declared Ben E. Rich, president of the Southern stakes mission last nlfiht at the Granite itoki tabernacle, and to make his declaration more emphatic he added In the same breath: "You can mark that di vn and put It In The Tribune If you want to." Thought No Reporter Present Every man and woman In the audience looked around to see If The Tribune had a reporter present, but as he was sitting in an obscure ccrni-r of the room and taking tak-ing his notes In shorthand without ostentation os-tentation they concluded that The Tribune would know nothing about It and i . aved a long sigh of relief Profited by His Blunder. Elder Ben started out to be ver mild and Inoffensive In his fit st speech. He implored nld for the Southern stakes mission mis-sion In the name of Ood, for the love of humanity, many thousands of whom are illng without n knowledge of (he perfect ,. l of Joseph l- Smith. I. nt profiting l.y his blunder of the previous nilghl he did not threaten t Bend on another mis-sdon mis-sdon all who refused to contribute. Wanted Purse Strings Untied. After he had devOtSd half an hour to getting get-ting the audience, wheh: by the ,i . consisted con-sisted of less than thirty. Imludlng bubb-s In humor to untlo their purse BtlingB, Older glean recited some Interesting personal reminiscences of his wvrk tho South, und Pi. f Todd told the hearers that they would bu blessed by obulng Brother Kich's requests. Elder Rich Turns Loose. Then Elder Rich turned himself loose for five minutes. H started off by saying: "If on onfc'el from haSVOD should appear to me nji.l nay: Joseph K. (Smith was B prophet of God,' I would nay. Tell me something new.' " Anathema Upon Opponents. Then he delivered his anathema upon every parson who has the eourngo to oppose tho hlerarch and In conclusion established a new record for a quick transition from the profane to the devout Ills peroration ran like this: From Profane to Devout. 't the Mormons should retire to tho Arctic ocean I mean sh DUld they remove to the Arctic Arc-tic region! and camp upon a big cake of Ice no aooner would they bein to get it warm than some of these ilamnol scoundrels who Ore lighting the church would come along und want the i.e. May otod bleaa . brothers and sitters. In tho name of Jesus t."hrlst, un.en. " Called on to Subscilbe. That was all except the benediction and a final Invitation to walk up iui. subscribe to the fund for the Southern States mission house. |