Show conference MINUTES A continuation of mondays services the beginning of president Smoot ff sermon appeared in mondays issue we do not patronize them we send our wool down east paying the freight there and then paying the freight back for them as rhoody douds that have been manufactured there let us not go to our enemies and buy our which we can buy of our brethren we have asked babylon to come and dwell with us and their linens and their silks and their gatans satans we are feeding and patronizing them we are putting aniie in their hands with which to our own throats they have already secured two olour principal cities and want provo they want the whole territory ogden today to day lias a little experience peri ence of taxation under liberal rule their taxes have been multiplied by five thoele tooele was the same after alie liberals had reigned there for four yeara the paper of alie county was worth ten cents on the dollar latter day saints take heed see alio aro your friends I 1 feel interested in zion I 1 trust we will live so that we may receive the protecting care of our god the Hark listen to the aher sound for volunteers APOSTLE HEBER J GRANT was speaker he felt pleased to see so many saints present he thought the change of holding conference from saturday until monday had been an improvement this is noticeable noti cable especially in ogden and provo I 1 have given very little attention to public speaking when I 1 was called to be president over the stake of zion I 1 biad never spoken over ten minutes at one time in my life I 1 overheard one of the bretl iren making a remark ahat if it was feces atry to have a boy imported from salt lake to preside over them they might have sent someone to say the least who could preach at least ten minutes there ws one man alio with the complaint that he thought a certain i rathor should be tried for his fellowship e he had insulted my degnit di gnit I 1 replied that I 1 would get even with liim hy going down to this brothers house the next time 1 biad business in that direction and eat five or six of his meals that is the way I 1 would get even with him I 1 time to waste in looking after my dignity I 1 have dignity enough to let it apok after itself we have been lold something here this morning about patronizing home manufactories manu factories thia ia all for men like brother smoot to talk like this but if some of our brethren who wear broadcloth suits were to talk to us we would not think much of it it would father is always willing to bestow wealth upon the latter day saints if they are able to take care of it I 1 wish every man had a carriage to ride in I 1 would like to see every old and young man in the church wealthy if he knew how to take proper care of it it seems to me that at present in salt lake city the trial of wealth is one of the greatest that can possibly exist the man who makes fifty dollars per month can better pay his tithing of five dollars than can the man who makes five hundred or a thousand dollars per month pay a tithing of fifty or a hundred dollars looks big aud it is hard to part with it for tithing the question is sometimes asked how it is that gentiles will succeed in business when you the mormon who runs a business birst hag his tithing to pay which alie gentile does not have to pay then he has his donations to pay and so the gentile has from ten to twenty per cent alie advantage of the latter day saint now when yon go and patronize a gentile instead of conr mormon brother you are strengthening your enemy and taking from your brother the power to pay a just tithing and his donations brother grant related a number of anecdotes illustrative of his position on this question and closed by urging alie saints to let liberals and gentile dealers alone and to patronize their breth orn the choir sang an anthem benediction was pronounced by bishop nephi packard conference services were continued at 2 yesterday afternoon after the usual opening exercises the stake cedik read the statistical report of utah stake of zion for the fiscal year ending january 31 1890 the names of alie home missionaries for the ensuing year were read by the clerk saints they were sustained by the APOSTLE GRANT was pleased to see that the to the people to attend the meeting this afternoon had been accepted tho latter day saints mix up religion politics and business together my sermon this morning was somewhat of a mixture I 1 believe that when I 1 sat down I 1 was speaking of liberal misrule in thoele tooele county when the liberals tonic phiroz phi roo i there were 2000 in tho treasury when they went out thoele tooele county waa in debt they had abent all of the income and biad issued alie county warrants several timea after they were to he burned ons of alie tax supposed col electors lectors collected some taxes on transient sheep herda which never found its way into alie county treasury when the liberals gained thoele tooele county there was registration law and the liberals came in and voted early and often according to the advice of alie governor oatlie territory after a registration been passed the peoples party completely snowed the liberals under it was by fraud eliat the liberals gained thoele tooele county it was by fraud that they gained ogden and it was by fraad that they gained salt lake city what is the true status of ogden why the moral atmosphere became so filthy that decent people would almost choke to death it became so bad that the united states officials had to aena up there and purify the atmosphere a I 1 will promise you this that whenever the peoples party have the reins of government it will not be necessary for the united states officials to the atmosphere I 1 will give the alt lake officials credit for starting out better than did the odan officials the marshal who is an ogden bov li w in very fairly and I 1 hope he will keep it no I 1 can give a man credit when he le perves it be he mormon jew or gentile the supreme court of the united states have deeded that men cannot be punished for religious belief but men are nevertheless punished up in idaho for their religious beliefs these things are harl for the latter day saints to bear but for all this we have joy in our hearts every one of these trials but strengthens our faith these trials have been promised the people and if had no como about u we and not been driven from city to city if e had not been driven frodi state to atile would joseph have her u dulye tl when joseppi that tho united states ri up against this 1 people i ti he wn d tn scorn a that the united states arat goy emment of freedom should rise up against us as a people we are tol that we were driven from our homes on account of our misdeeds and not on act count of our religions beliefs hut to when we pickup the papers ve bee aay the united states vs the church of jesus christ of latter day saints prophecies has come true but we know that wo anre engaged in the work of go d and no amount of political chicanery can change our knowl knowli i the first great commandment camman dment of god was to go forth and multiply arid re plen tish the earth how are the world ta day obeying this merit theiarn drying ap th fountains 61 life alio nun nu n 0 this tue greatest nation on eartle are violating the god when we men are growing corrupt arid wl Ungto prostitute their own wives for ends then is this nation it is reported that the old door keeper in the house of representatives when geo Q cannon waa expelled from that house said that one or two men who did not have illicit relations with other than their own wives had been expelled from alie house compare the number of children of the latter day saints with the number of children in the world and a very great difference will be seer those who have received the gospel believe that is but one way to reach the celestial glory of alie kingdom of god and that is by keeping the commandments bi gud the horld deneve mat n agnail out in jesus ha will be saved the upon the mabbet in the highest glory U 13 surprising to me that men in this kiad of doctrine yet it ia not more surprising than that they should believe in a god without a parts and passions and ehst he is seated the top of a topless throne A man who has alie assurance in ills own heat eliat he is honest truthful and sincere feels at peace with himself but the man who is not dionest li onest truthful a d cincere ain cere keowns that he is treading on dangerous ground I 1 would sooner keep the commandments of god and be by the whole world than to follow the ways of the world and fain their good will and pleasure of at peace wah yourself there is nu power in hell or on earth that can prevent you and I 1 irom reaching that heaven except our own selves if you 0 o bour duty you are like a cork youl cocq to the top there may have been some men who have been on a mission out of spite but if thai man fulfills his duty he is bound to come to the top the man alio has him sent cannot always hold his hand over him and keep him down and just as soon as he takes his hand away up ho comes but woe unto the man who would send a brother on a mission out of spite it L but a matter of time until he will loode the spirit of his priesthood brother grant here road section of alie of covenants the charges that are made against the authorities of this church that they are is false as hell the charges made that this people have no minds of their own is false I 1 want to ask you if a people v ho have no minda of their own alethe class of people who would suffer themselves to be driven from iono state to adof and out of the united states for htiu dake of principle it is like a jury who are divided eleven against one we are alie one and the eleven are howling against us but in this case there are about five hundred jurors and four hundred and ninety nine are against the one because the one wont in he has own this people today to day would reject the six brightest men of tho twelve apostles in one hour if they were to preach anything else than the principles of the gospel and yet wo are a poor down trodden people no man can lead the latter day saints except by the light and inspiration of god and no man will receive that light unless he is living up to his privileges may god bless you all amen president A 0 smoot thought that the saints had had a feast of fat things and he trussed that the people would live up to what they had heard I 1 teal that all has been said that needs to be said I 1 regret very much that wo have not been able to seat the people and I 1 trust that before the next quarterly conference our tabernacle will be completed that we may have more room the choir sang an anthem and benediction edic tion was pronounced by elder kari G maeser |